Dr Wingnut

Month: April 2012

  • Color e-paper

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    The News Briefs section of IEEE Computer, April 2008, page 20, said that we would have color e-paper in three or four years.Has that happened?  Nope, color e-paper readers were shown at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2011, so they were off by a little time, but the reviews (PC Magazine) weren’t too…

  • Self-worth

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    Never be bullied into silence.  Never allow yourself to be made a victim.  Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.Harvey Fierstein

  • Desperation

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    Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything.  Period.  If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.Jim Carrey

  • Prisoners

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    Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past.  They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.Carlos Santana

  • Hope

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    Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.Francis Bacon

  • Conversation

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    The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.Samuel Johnson

  • Stunned

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    With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.Georg C. Lichtenberg