Dr Wingnut

Month: June 2008

  • Waste time

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    Oldie but goodie – “George Lucas in Love”Recap of Charlie Todd’s Camera Flash ExperimentEditing “Garfield” comic strips yields interesting resultsRecaptioning a familiar interfaceThe “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marksRead more fiction and poetry at work… in PowerPointPhoto montage to “We Didn’t Start the Fire”The Simpsons as Star WarsFun rap video from way back in ’94The geek…

  • There are lessons to be learned from difficult situations.

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    Cherrie always tells me, “There are lessons to be learned from difficult situations.”  So, As I wait for her arrival call from Customs at Boston Logan, I made a list.The Lessons I have learned from my challenge:(Some were total surprises, even to me)Vacuuming requires the movement of furniture (who knew?)After doing the laundry, the bed…

  • Gay Pride Weekend

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    My son arrived home from Purdue yesterday and told me about this T-Shirt site, Threadless T-Shirts, and as I was perusing the site I came across a couple of designs that I thought would be good to post for this weekend’s Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis.  Enjoy!Making MythologyGay Pride

  • Price of Gas in France

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    A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre.After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings, and made it safely to his van.However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas.When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an…

  • Daniel came to visit

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    Jill took this picture of the boys who were geeking together when Daniel came to visit for a week.  The picture isn’t the greatest quality since she took it with my iPhone, and it doesn’t have a flash.

  • Lots of Insidious Stupid Parentheses

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    Jocelyn Paine posted an entry on the Dr. Dobbs Code Talk Blog called, ((What ((is) with (all)) of (the) ()s?) Hmmm?).  I recall fondly the end of my Artificial Intelligence class in graduate school where Dr. Bonnie Bennett did utter the phrase, “Recursion is how God thinks.”  That may well be, but LISP is a…

  • Optical illusion

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    When you look at this picture close up, you see Albert Einstein, but if you stand about fifteen feet away, the picture will become Marilyn Monroe. via email from Bob Rosen, Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:55:20 -0700