The Loop

FOR i=1:buy_gun
{
The week starts on Friday with the 3 wise men meeting. The next 2 hours are filled with an incessant droning noise which is interrupted by spots of abstract math. More like mild chicken pox. After some vigorous nodding and numerous attempts, the wise men and the underling arrive at what looks like a “To do” list for the next one week or so. The underling is repeatedly told that such a list eliminates confusion (In other words, to remind them of what exactly their roles are in the project, so that they don’t get caught out in the next meeting and avoid coming up with pearls like “Which data? Oh THAT data, oh yes I thought you meant the OTHER data”)

With the underling’s life force a flowing puree, he walks back home looking like dried panda. One of the wise men would obviously have had a new idea and emailed the underling (only!) that he would strongly suggest trying them out. This is by Saturday. As “cc” are not important in his life, the other wise men wouldn’t have been aware of it. Of course this completely bollockses the “To do” list agreed by the others the previous day. Meanwhile, the underling works through the nights and sometimes day to meet the project targets.

I say,” sometimes day” because a fine research lab has meetings. The better the lab the more meetings they must have had to get there. It could be the weekly journal session where random co-workers present a brilliantly irrelevant topic. And then there is the odd visiting scientist who ends up on campus largely due to faulty Sat-nav. Now it is only inevitable that he presents his current paper to an audience of underlings and their minders.

Due to the fast and racy life, it’s a Friday before i can blink. The same things go into an infinite FOR loop (of course, this doesn’t apply to the times when one meeting lasts till the next).
}
END loop;