Dr Wingnut

Year: 2009

  • ZENN

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    The day before yesterday, on my way home from work, I saw this funny looking car turn from Marshall Avenue onto southbound Fairview Avenue.  I didn’t look like a model I had seen before, and I ended up right behind it just before it turned off onto one of the Mac/Groveland neighborhood streets.  It turned…

  • Happy Anniversary Mrs. Wingnut

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    Who would have thought on that hot, hot day; that we’d still be together after twenty-one years.“Not I,” said the fly.Hope there are many more to come.

  • Time

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    The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.Bertrand Russell

  • Success

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    Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.Albert Einstein

  • Earnestness

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    Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.P. J. O’Rourke

  • CFL Bulbs

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    Unhappy with the color of Compact Fluorescent Lamps?  When you are purchasing bulbs look at the Color Temperature (measured in Kelvins [K], the higher the number the cooler, “bluer”, the light is).  A Sylvania Soft White Bulb has a rating of 2850K.  Newer bulbs are starting to get warmer colors.BulbKLifetimeCostLemnis’ Pharox LED300025 Years$50Earthmate’s Super Mini-Size…

  • I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!

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    Just like in the movie, Network, where Peter Finch as Howard Beale yells into the camera, “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”; some people in IT are feeling the same sentiment.Infoworld is starting the Slow IT Movement with the slogan, “Do less with less”They even have a ten…