Dr Wingnut

Year: 2004

  • Work advice

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    There are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.Indira Gandhi

  • Sounds like a drunk to me

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    A guy is walking along when suddenly he got his foot caught in the railroad tracks.  He tried to get it out but it was really stuck.  He heard a noise and turned around to see a train coming.He panicked and started to pray, “God, please get my foot out of these tracks and I’ll…

  • Qualities

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    Six essential qualities that are the key to success: sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.William Menninger

  • Data-transfer rates just keep getting faster

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    A recent Internet2 experiment by scientists at the California Institute of Technology and CERN transferred data at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second — the first test to break the 100-petabit meter per second mark.  The team hopes to have greater speeds in place by 2007, when CERN’s Large Hadron Collider goes online. More…What’s…

  • Old age

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    An old farmer in Kansas had owned a large farm with a nice pond in the back 40.  It was fixed up nice: picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and some apple and peach trees.One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond and look it over, as he hadn’t been there for a…

  • Discovery

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    Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.Albert von Szent-Gyorgy

  • Motto of Lake Wobegon

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    We are what we are.Garrison Keillor