Dr Wingnut

Year: 2007

  • Can you answer the twenty-four questions?

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    This test does not measure your intelligence, your fluency with words, and certainly not your mathematical skills.  It will however, give you some gauge of your mental flexibility and creativity.   In the three years since this test was developed (1994?), we’ve found few people who could solve more than half the 24 questions on…

  • 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