Dr Wingnut

Day: October 1, 2006

  • The Boy’s of October

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    The baseball gods have definitely been smiling on the Minnesota Twins this year.  From twelve eleven and one-half games back early in the season they won a Central Division championship today.  All of this in a nail biting finish where we were rooting for Joe Mauer to clinch the batting title for the American League…

  • Tools

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    All human beings hold to the tools of their own destruction.Barbara Gordon author of “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can” [1979]

  • Tools

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    Man is a tool-using animal.  Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.Thomas Carlyle

  • Building a house

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    A young family moved into a house next door to a vacant lot.One day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot.The young family’s 6-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and started talking with the workers.  She hung around and eventually…