Dr Wingnut

Month: March 2007

  • Individuality

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    Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Ever wonder

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    Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?Why women can’t put on mascara with their mouth closed?Why don’t you ever see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery”?Why is “abbreviated” such a long word?Why is it that doctors call what they do “practice”?Why is it that to stop Windows 98, you have to click on…

  • New High Tetris Score

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    OnLevelHighScoreDrops Total2007/03/08 22:509084,00032084,320My second highest score after these scores.  That took a while… guess I gotta work on being more agressive in dropping those blocks.

  • Principle

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    In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.Thomas Jefferson

  • Bad Oops’s

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    Collection of memorable mishaps!via email from Duane McDowell, Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:59:56 -080

  • Forecasting

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    There are only three basic forecasting methods: magic, hope, and mathematics.  All three generate similar forecasts, which are basically wrong.  Some are more wrong than others, but only mathematically based forecasts are suited to computerization.  That doesn’t make them any better than forecasts produced in other ways, only more defensible.McGrath, J. 1991.  Forecasting add-ins: garbage…

  • Inventions

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    Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.Henry David Thoreau