On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:03:24 -0700, charlieb
wrote:

But Joe Tracy makes furniture for a living so I suspect the 1,100 hours
were “billable hours”, not elapsed time. Can you imagine going to work
five days a week, eight hours a day, working on one set of pieces - and
do that for over six months - and at the end of six months have five
coherent pieces?

Yeah, but when people quote numbers like that I always think they are
including an awful lot of standing round scratching one's butt, err, I
mean "thinking", talking to the neighbor who walked by, taunting
spiders with a piece of scrap, etc, etc.... Just because you went
into the shop at 1 and came out at 5 doesn't mean you actually did 4
hours of work. He's probably got 5 hours of adding up all his minutes
and making them all nice in a spreadsheet factored in there too.


-Leuf