Dr Wingnut

Month: August 2010

  • Take that Bender

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    The robot is going to lose.  Not by much.  But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.Adam Smith

  • Belief

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    A belief may be larger than a fact.Vannevar Bush

  • Signal:Noise

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    While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.Lee Gomes

  • Roy’s Cuddling Index

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    Here is the best way to remember what the dew point means; use Roy’s Cuddling Index:Favorable 50’sSultry 60’sStifling 70’sUnbearable 80’sMeteorologist Roy Finden on Almanac, 9 July, 2010

  • Minneapolis

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    I went out with some guys (Darrell, Dave N. and Josh R.) for wings at Runyons, to see the movie The Other Guys, then we decided to go for ice cream.While standing in line we spotted this guy holding a chisel and maul getting a cone with his girl.  What kind of date was that…

  • Running Times

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    My cousin John’s step daughter, Shalane Flanagan (Bronze Medal, Beijing 2008, 1000m), is on the cover of the September 2010 Running TImes.  Now if I can just find a copy of it on the newsstand.via email from Alan Lord, Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:01:45 -0700

  • The future is now

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    Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations.  The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically.  Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.Alvin Toffler