Dr Wingnut

Month: November 2008

  • Ain’t that the truth

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    Every day takes figurin’ out all over again how to fuckin’ live.Calamity Jane, Deadwood, Season 3, Episode 1

  • Election choices

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    Okay, let’s work this out logically without a lot of emotion.If you vote for Obama….You get this…..But if you vote for McCain….You get this…I don’t know about you guys, but looking at this in a logical manner, McCain appears to be the better candidate.via email from D. Kimball Lord, Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:28:18 -0700

  • Freedom

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    Freedom doesn’t mean just going to the mall.Andrew Bacevich, Bob Edwards Show, 6 November, 2008

  • Puritanism

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    Puritanism – The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.H. L. Mencken

  • Now we know why

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    Cigarette warning labels not only do not deter smoking but actually encourage smokers to light up.  The reason?  The nucleus accumbens, or the “craving spot” in the brain, is stimulated by the sight of the warning.Time, 3 November, 2008; Page 8; Discussing the book “Buy•ology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy,” by Martin LindstromAnd…

  • Simplicity

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    For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.H. L. Mencken

  • Making progress

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    In reading a post at Dr. Dobbs CodeTalk it mentioned that FORTRAN started with a character set of only 48 Characters.  And included a link to the Programmers Reference Manual for FORTRAN on the IBM 704 machine dated October 15, 1956.  In reading through the document it becomes apparent how far we’ve come… certainly nowhere…