This booklet is for people who go to meetings-lots of meetings. Many of those meetings are useless and waste time.This booklet provides advice on eliminating those useless meetings and changing what is left from useless meetings to useful meetings.

Two 6th-grade boys play a game of basketball. The game is a terrible mismatch. The victor is unable to come to terms with the outcome for 40 years.

Jacob sits stunned in the woods next to his house. A schoolteacher turned guerrilla warfare recruiter explains to him that he just shot dead ten soldiers of an invading army. Jacob is now a hero, but he has also become something else, something he despises - a killer.

A man wakes with a clear mind. Something is wrong in his home. A conversation with his son reveals that a period of time doesn't exist in his mind. This isn't Rip Van Winkle or some fable. It is, however, dementia disappearing from one person's mind.

The government has abandoned the dangerous zones. The Interstate routes pass through those dangerous zones. The only entrance is through one of the islands on the interstate.

In the future, all motor vehicles drive themselves. You summon one, it comes to you, and you ride. Yawn. A few people want to have some fun. The people administering the system learn that they system worked to well to do anything.

Each day Nicholas Furr goes to the library. He reads, but that is not why he spends his day in the library. Instead, he uses the little pencils next to the card catalog computer; he uses paper from the trash can, and he uses the Internet computers to write one hour each day.

A boy doesn't like his grandfather. That isn't the way it is supposed to be as a boy is supposed to cherish his grandfather. Sometimes it takes a little time.

A plague has hit the world. The healthy flee the cities to try to survive in the countryside. The old and dying are doomed to stay behind.

The key witness to a triple murder sits on a curb with filth running under his feet. He will testify only if a police detective agrees to enter the sewer and help someone.

A fundamental task of ours is to test or experiment with our equipment...so began a report I wrote. We were struggling to build systems. Analysis showed that our basic problem was how we tested systems and reported the results. This booklet records time-honored fundamentals of testing and reporting on tests.

A writer has his first novel published, but $10 a month won't pay the bills. An uncle has an idea for an new strategy.