Dr Wingnut

Year: 2006

  • Lawyer Season

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    Dick Cheney has declared open season on lawyers.  You can get your permit, unlike Dick who apparently doesn’t need one.  Get your Cheney swag from Deadeye Dick Cheney’s Gun Club!via email from Duane McDowell, Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:51:25 -0800

  • Oracle acquires Sleepycat

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    This could be bad.  Oracles acquisition of Sleepycat’s Berkeley DB, which is the back end for the Subversion software version control system, as well as other open source products could mean the end to whole classes of open source software unless Oracle treads lightly.I hope that Oracle doesn’t kill this goose.

  • Ouch

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    I went to the doctor for my yearly physical.  She starts with certain basics.“How much do you weigh?” she asks.“115,” I say.The nurse puts me on the scale.  It turns out my weight is 140.“Your height?”“5 foot 8,” I say.The nurse checks and sees that I only measure 5′ 5″.She then takes my blood pressure…

  • So wrong

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    If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.Abraham Lincoln

  • Wisdom

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    The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.Chinese Proverb

  • An Old Farmer’s Advice

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    Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.Words that soak into your ears are whispered…not yelled.Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight.Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.Do not…

  • Destiny

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    No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.  Destiny is made known silently.Agnes de Mille