Dr Wingnut

Month: October 2007

  • Define rigorous

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    via email from someone, I found this on a backup CD and the file was dated 30 Jan 2001

  • So that’s what marketing is…

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    …the insane popularity of products such as the iPod and the iPhone has weakened Apple’s reality distortion field (in other words, marketing)…Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Gear for Geeks; Wednesday, October 17, 2007

  • Tetris

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    OnLevelHighScoreDrops Total2007/10/18 08:459084,00039984,399Another inexplicable score.  See my other high scores.

  • Money

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    The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.Katharine Whitehorn

  • Just one word: Plastics

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    We never were told by Mr. McGuire in The Graduate just what we were facing with his one word future, but now fourty years later, we have a little better idea…In 1968, at the dawn of the modern environmental movement, the editor of Modern Plastics argued that his industry had been unfairly vilified.  Plastic was…

  • Hope

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    True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.Walter Anderson, American painter

  • Bad boys

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    Little boys, the thinking went, were naturally indisposed to bathing.  Bath toys not only made hygiene boyishly fun; they helped overcome the naughty urges that bathing tended to arouse: “The baby will not spend much time handling his genitals if he has other interesting things to do,” one government-issue child-care manual advised in 1942.  “See…