Dr Wingnut

Month: June 2009

  • Negative thinking

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    If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.Isaac B. Singer

  • Duration

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    Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.Douglas Coupland

  • Road ID

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    When Jill and I rode the Tour of Lakes ride on Saturday, 6 June, 2009, I picked up a flyer for a thing called Road ID which is a cuff you can wear on your wrist or ankle when you are riding or running that has your contact information so that emergency personnel can get…

  • Trudging the Road

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    Thanks to all of you who have helped me down the road.And thanks also to all the folks who called and sent emails.

  • Optimization

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    We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.Donald Knuth

  • Progress

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    The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • Holy email

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    One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the rascally behavior that was going on.  So he called one of his angels and sent the angel to Earth for a time.When he returned, he told God, “Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not.”God thought…