Dr Wingnut

Month: January 2012

  • Radial or Radio?

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    There’s a bad case of misunderstanding around my office lately where people keep calling radio buttons; radial buttons.  Use this simple picture guide to keep track of which item has buttons and which does not.RadioRadio: Has buttons?  Yes, a radio has radio buttons.Radial tireRadial: Has buttons?  No!  A radial tire does not have radial buttons.

  • Honesty

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    Every word she writes is a lie, including “and” and “the”. Mary McCarthy, referring to nemesis Lillian Hellman

  • Charm

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    You are like the smell of drainsin a restaurant where pâté maisonis a slab of cold meatloafdamp and woolly.You lack charmPoet James Schuyler

  • Buffalo Chicken Dip

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    Ingredients 1 – 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened½ cup blue cheese salad dressing¾ cup Frank’s Redhot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce1 cup crumbled blue cheese2 – 12½ ounce cans Swanson White Premium Chunk Chicken Breast in Water, drained Method Heat oven to 350F.  Place cream cheese into deep baking dish.  Stir until smooth.Mix in salad…

  • Retribution

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    In time you’ll drop dead, and I’ll come to your funeral in a red dress. Cher, in “Moonstruck”

  • Find documents that contain a text string

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    I needed to find the string “set-aside” in all the old PowerPoint presentations that I had to find a chart that I knew existed.  I had our current resident expert, Eric FJ, help me find the incantation I was looking for.  Starting from my current base directory where the tree of documents existed:grep -R ‘set-aside’…

  • Fame

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    She might have meant something once, but I don’t know many people my age who care.Lily Allen, referring to Madonna