Dr Wingnut

Year: 2009

  • Grab a Coke and a Smile

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    Saturday morning I put some Diet Coke into the fridge for my wife.  I’ve been participating in the Coke Rewards loyalty program for some time, but the code in this box was quite a surprise… I thought, that code, “porn5hwv7hfk,” can’t possibly be correct, but it took it as you can see from the screenshot…

  • Hmmmm…

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    In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance.  With people, variance is everything.Jack WelchAm I the only one who’s worked in an environment where they’ve tried to stamp out the variance in people also?

  • Health

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    I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best.  My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.Ernest Hemingway

  • Cards

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    Life’s not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.Jack London

  • National Pi Day

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    One fun way to memorize the first few digits is to use sentence mnemonics for pi — phrases in which the number of letters of each successive word corresponds to a digit of pi.  Here are some well-known pi mnemonics:“Wow! I made a great discovery!” (3.14159…)“Can I have a small container of coffee?” (3.1415926…)“How I…

  • Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall

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    I saw this late one night on KTCA when they were playing shorts and have been looking for it on DVD for quite some time.  It’s the perfect job networking film, and won the Academy Award for short live action film in 1988.

  • How we got here

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    Modest incompetence simply won’t do; it’s mindboggling screw-ups that are required.Warren Buffet