Last 10 percent

September 7, 2016
Augstine'sAugstine's Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Hidden worlds of national parks:
https://artsandculture.withgoogle.com/en-us/
 

No more plane crashes

September 6, 2016

Augstine's Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Moving balls:
http://www.haneke.net/
 

Highly successful businesses

September 5, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XIII: There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Website info:
http://builtwith.com/
 

Cinderella off the team

September 4, 2016
Cinderella thrown off the basketball team because she ran away from the ball.

Website 4 the day:
Hamster butts:
https://twitter.com/9GAG/status/767036031975694336
 

Cost of bad products

September 2, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XII: It costs a lot to build bad products.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Hot glue hacks:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IahCw6plBhs
 

Rotating Earth faster

September 1, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XI: If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
See pages Google cached:
http://cachedview.com/
 

Fight winners

August 31, 2016
Augstine's Law Number X: Bulls do not win bullfights; people do. People do not win people fights; lawyers do.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Free USGS Quads:
http://www.natgeomaps.com/trail-maps/pdf-quads
 

Acronyms and abbreviations

August 31, 2016
Augstine's Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound...Q.E.D.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Alzheimer's checklist:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3714806/Will-Alzheimer-s-Answer-questions-Checklist-shows-symptoms-disease-memory-loss.html
 

Unsuccessful four years

August 30, 2016
Augstine's Law Number VIII: The most unsuccessful four years in the education of a cost-estimator is fifth grade arithmetic.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Office workout:
http://darebee.com/workouts/office-workout.html
 

Increasing overhead

August 29, 2016
Augstine's Law Number VII: Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Free Microsoft Expression Design:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36180
 

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