Author: Dr Wingnut
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Murphy's Technology Laws
You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.An…
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Musical chairs
Here's a little something I found in the newpaper this morning that I thought would start your week off right (?)…Stephen Spielberg was discussing his new project, an epic on classical music composers, with Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Steven Segal and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Spielberg strongly desired the box office "oomph" of these superstars, so he…
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My Special List
I have a list of folks I know…all written in a book,And every now and then..I go and take a look.That is when I realizethese names… they are a part,not of the book they're written in…but taken from the heart.For each Name stands for someone…who has crossed my path sometime,and in that meeting they have…
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NATIONAL FRIENDSHIP WEEK
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming…
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Nerds
This truck driver hauling a tractor-trailer load of computers stops for a beer. As he approaches the bar he sees a big sign on the door saying "NERDS NOT ALLOWED-ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!"He goes in and sits down. The bartender comes over to him, sniffs, says he smells kind of nerdy, asks him what…
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New (sensitive) error codes
Sony has announced its own computer operating system now available on its hot new portable PC called the Vaio. Instead of producing the cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft's Windows 95, 3.1, and DOS operating systems, Sony's chairman Asai Tawara said, "We intend to capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on…
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New Bumper Stickers
All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.OK, so what's the speed of dark?Support bacteria – they're the only culture some people have.Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.Ambition is a poor excuse for…