No Love For The Love Boat?

Well, friends, time marches on and in case you needed proof, here's one for all the boomers: The Love Boat is being ripped up for scrap.  Yep, the Pacific Princess, home to Captain Stubing and Gopher and the rest of the Love Boat gang is officially decommissioned.  The ship could host about 600 passengers and that's just too tiny by today's standards, with cruise ships that host 3000 people.  

Of course, the Love Boat never caught fire while on a cruise, never had all it's toilets fail at once, and never capsized while full of passengers.  Both those sort of metrics are just so....yesterday. 

Design By Committee

I recently rediscovered this brilliant cartoon that crystallizes what's wrong with creating things by committee.   There's certainly a place for collaboration and it's often touted as the only way to success, but there are innumerable examples of how a committee screwed up a project.   

I'm sure everyone can come up with examples of committee decision-making run amok.  Click the image to make it larger.