Dr Wingnut

Year: 2006

  • Casting light on dark spaces

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    Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.Justice Louis Brandeis

  • Academy Award Performance by a Testifying Policeman

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    If you ever testify in court, you might wish you could have been as sharp as this policeman.He was being cross-examined by a defense attorney during a felony trial.  The lawyer was trying to undermine the policeman’s credibility….Q: “Officer — did you see my client fleeing the scene?”A: “No sir. But I subsequently observed a…

  • Admitting your mistakes

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    No matter how far you’ve gone down the wrong road, turn back.Turkish proverb

  • Fun Stuff

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    Funny Wes Anderson Amex commercialBetty Boop cartoons62 optical illusionsRandom company-name generatorStacked-can artUnusually good origamiReal-life Super Mario Bros re-enactmentSuper Mario Brothers audio pageTV in JapanTotal geek humor… Web browsers personifiedGood Experience Newsletter

  • Growth

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    A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

  • Man’s best friend

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    Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.Doug Larson

  • Why

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    I’ve noticed an increasing number of employers who post jobs to publicly available web sites before they have fully vetted their internal candidates; why would anyone do this?  It used to be that you would look at your internal candidates before you would begin an external search that resulted in an avalanche of resumes.In the…