Nerd Wisdom

Was discussing a matter at work today involving old business processes that continue long after their use, to a large extent because people forgot why a process was put in place to begin with. Part of the reason our precious Bonfire fell so many years ago. I told a little tale about a princess that had a favorite flower in the palace garden, and her father had someone stand guard over it day and night. A couple of hundred years later it took a lot of research to figure out why there had to be a guard on a specific piece of empty dirty all the time.
Really, quite a timeless tale. I lifted it straight out of an episode of Babylon 5. Wasn't going to claim that as my own and that's the first and only place I've heard it told. Good going, Joe.