Dr Wingnut

Year: 2005

  • Hitting Retirement

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    As we all know, when we hit retirement age we come face to face with the fact that it may be time to relocate.  The big question is: where to?  Here are some tips.You can live in Phoenix, Arizona where…..You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.You can open and drive…

  • Way to go!

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    Chief Jay Lord, Capt. Daniel LaMontagne, Lt. Laurance Anderson, Lt. Brian Kent and firefighters Dennis Gillick and Steven Jautaikis, all of the Hampton Falls [New Hampshire] Fire Department, received a Class 2 Medal of Valor for their work on Aug. 20, 2004, at the Wakeda Campground.New Hampshire Union Leader

  • Faith

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    The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.Henry David Thoreau

  • Fun Stuff

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    The 2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest shows awful first linesThe power of simplicity: how Stonehenge could have been built by *one man*Google logo maker – LogogleInteresting tool – convert any unitsEver wonder who does the voiceovers during movie trailers?Well, maybe it’s fun *now*, years later: top 10 dotcom flops.Very cool Adidas commercialBrian freeze and “The Final…

  • More Intelligent Design Proof

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    Origin of the Novel Species Noodleous doubleous: Evidence for Intelligent DesignPenne Rigate will spontaneously insert itself into Rigatoni (order pasta) under liquid to gas transition conditions of H2O to create the previously unobserved species Noodleous doubleous.  The estimated probability of this spontaneous generation event is too low to be explained by thermodynamics and therefore apparently…

  • Corporations: “Not so nice citizens”

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    My friend Bruce keeps harping about how evil the Walton empire (Wal*Mart, Sams Club) is and how it’s much better to shop at Costco based on an article he read in one of the Twin-Cities free weekly newspapers.  Now I’m not saying that he’s wrong, but I read a couple of things this week:Meet the…

  • Debbie Does Salad

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    Harper’s Magazine has a very amusing article in the October issue, “Debbie Does Salad: The Food Network at the frontiers of pornography” by Frederick Kaufman; that compares the way the food channel treats their visuals to those in porn movies — and how similar they are.  Well worth the read.