Month: February 2005

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Humor

Husbands

02/24/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Husbands
He didn’t like the casseroleAnd he didn’t like my cake.My biscuits were too hardNot like his mother used to make.I didn’t perk the coffee right,He didn’t like the stew,I didn’t mend his socksLike his mother […]
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Quotations

Be yourself

02/23/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Be yourself
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.Dr. Seuss
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General

Maine Egg

02/23/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Maine Egg
Some family history…Uncle Myron Lord, Phyllis’s (Dr. Wingnut’s Great Aunt) brother had a cold storage space in Portland on Commercial Street where he stored and distributed fresh apples from his orchards in Parsonsfield, Maine to […]
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Quotations

Action

02/22/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Action
We have too many high-sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams (1744-1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
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Humor

Happy Valentines Day

02/22/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Happy Valentines Day
These are entries to a Washington Post competition asking for a rhyme with the most romantic first line, but the least romantic second line:Love may be beautiful, love may be blissBut I only slept with […]
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Computer

BitTorrent under fire

02/21/2005 Dr Wingnut 1
In the 14 February 2005 issue of Time in an article about Bram Cohen and the technology he invented BitTorrent that is used to speed distribution of data between all the users who are trying […]
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Quotations

State of the nation

02/21/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on State of the nation
We are rapidly becoming a land of hypochondriacs, from the ulcer-and-martini executives in the big city to the patent medicine patrons in the sulfur-and-molasses belt.Vincent Askey