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This month's joke: Laws to Run a Lab By

In order to keep a lab (such as the Ronald B. Gilmore XRF Lab) running smoothly, one must be in harmony with many fundamental, natural laws. These laws have been compiled in the following list, and may prove useful to other endeavors...

The Law of Expectations

Negative expectations yield negative results; positive expectations yield negative results.

Boldrick's Law of Cunning Plans

Every person has a cunning plan that will not work.

The Law of Problem Solving

Inside of every large problem there is a small problem waiting to get out.

The 90-90 Rule of Scheduling

The first 90 percent of a task consumes 90 percent of the time; the remaining 10 percent consumes the other 90 percent.

The Law of Inertia

Given sufficient time, what you put off doing today will eventually get forgotten.

The Law of Inevitability

Any time things appear to be getting better, you have overlooked something.

The Law of Perfection

There is never time to do anything right, but always time to do it over again.

The Law of Solutions

The chief cause of today's problems was yesterday's solutions.

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