Dr Wingnut

Month: January 2009

  • Today

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    I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.Henry Moore

  • Creators admit UNIX, C Hoax

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    In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate prank kept alive for over 20 years.  Speaking at the recent UnixWorld Software Development Forum, Thompson revealed the following:“In 1969, AT&T had just…

  • Rogue lumberjacks

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    We arrived this morning at the Minnesota Department of Education to find that over the weekend that rogue lumberjacks had invaded the building and had clearcut the four trees in the atrium.  One of the things that made working here even remotely tolerable was the distraction of the atrium (Notice the lovely blue and purple…

  • Weakness

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    You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish.  And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?Robert Louis Stevenson

  • If Men Cleaned

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    via email from unknown, 7-Oct-2002

  • How does this happen

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    Today I was watching a piece on PBS about all the film people who fled the Nazis and how their contributions really changed Hollywood.  A thought came to me, what would the world be like today, if instead of Hitler coming to power in Germany, if his character came to power in America?  I wonder…

  • Education

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    There are two educations.  One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.John Adams