I was looking at our Chancellor's State of the University Address which he delivered on the 6th of September as part of a project I'm working on about open source and open standards at this particular public institution. He told a great joke, you can figure out who I identify with:

A man in a hot-air balloon realized that he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. "Excuse me," he shouted. "Can you help? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The woman looked up and replied: "You are in a hot-air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You are between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."

"You must be an engineer," said the balloonist.

"I am," replied the woman. "How did you know?"

"Well," said the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information - and the fact is, I am still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help so far."

"Well," said the woman, "you must be an administrator."

"I am," said the balloonist. "How did you know?"

"Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep. And you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is that you are in exactly the same place you were before we met - but, now, somehow, it's my fault."