Dr Wingnut

Day: February 14, 2004

  • Getting the most from your IT department

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    When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and children’s art.  We don’t have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.Don’t write anything down.  Ever.  We…

  • Wrong Solution

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    Advertisement from PCWeek, Page E/1, June 5, 1995

  • Proust

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    Proust describes rounding a bend in the road: he sees a stand of trees he’s seen before, but whether he first saw them in a dream or in the distant real past, he can’t say.  "I watched the trees gradually recede, waving their despairing arms, seeming to say to me: ‘What you fail to learn…

  • Crocodiles love dogs

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    A dog barks nearby.  "Crocodiles love dogs," [Mark] Read [Biologist, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service] tells me.  "To crocs their barking is like the jingle of an ice-cream truck to a child."Smithsonian, page 92, November 2001