Monday, May 24, 2010

A story problem...

How long should it take two engineers with three degrees and every known power tool Dewalt has made to assemble this playset?

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Answer: we have no idea.

3 comments:

Bob said...

9 children? John, are you adding day care to your other enterprises?
If you run short of help, I could volunteer my 2 engineering degrees and a vauge recollection of assembling a lesser set about 20 years ago!

Anonymous said...

Come on! A Kit? Real engineers don't need no stinking kit! Do like we did and figure out how to do it all from scratch!. Then again, the oldest kid headed to college this year and the playset still lacks a roof...

John Phipps said...

Bob:

Good dig - but that is just the ad photo, of course. Notice how they scale the children down to make 9 fit.

Trust me, there isn't that much room.

Still we're now up to step 28, and have only had to redo 17 steps.