Dr Wingnut

Month: September 2004

  • What they said at the Olympics

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    Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators during the [2004] Summer Olympics that they would like to take back:Weightlifting commentator: “This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria.  I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.”Dressage commentator: “This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal…

  • Luxury

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    Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty.  It is not.  It is the opposite of vulgarity.Coco Chanel

  • How times change

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    I just picked up the September issue of Sys Admin (the journal for UNIX and Linux system administrators), and right there on the cover is an article titled, “Using LSD to Sync a Solaris Environment.”  I’m old enough to remember when that acronym (LSD) didn’t mean LDAP Software Distribution, it meant lysergic acid diethylamide (AKA…

  • Utility

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    Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent.  Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.Thomas Edison

  • Forever

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    Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.Marcus Fabius Quintilian

  • Great things

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    Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.Vincent Van Gogh

  • Wisdom

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    Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.Theodore Roosevelt