Month: March 2005

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Quotations

Success

03/07/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Success
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere.  Self-pity gets you nowhere.  One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — […]
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General

PDAers from hell

03/07/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on PDAers from hell
Few things in the world spread as much misery as a happy, smiling, well-adjusted pair of newly minted lovebirds.  Wherever you go — shopping malls, restaurants, target ranges — you’re likely to run into this […]
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Quotations

Idea

03/06/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Idea
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)
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Humor

Smart Words

03/06/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Smart Words
The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.  Here are 2004’s winners.IntaxicationEuphoria at […]
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Quotations

Anger

03/05/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Anger
When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.Thomas Jefferson
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Waste Time

Pop culture flash

03/04/2005 Dr Wingnut 1
Bizarre, bizarre, bizarre Flash video chock-full with pop culture references. (Who has time to make this stuff?)Only a little less bizzare: M. B. Saulnier points us to 3-minute world travelogues, starring a pair of fingers […]
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Quotations

Ridicule

03/04/2005 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Ridicule
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832