Dr Wingnut

Month: February 2011

  • Goals

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    There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.Walt Whitman

  • Big Chemical Grows Up

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    In the past, the big concern for companies on the environment was just to avoid risk.  The difference is now they can look at nature as the source of business values.Glenn Prickett, The Nature Conservancy’s Chief External-affairs Officer, Time, 21 February, 2011

  • Bread Recipes

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    These recipes are from an extension class I took during High School during the mid-1970’s.  They are easy to follow and produce serviceable products.  I don’t remember the name of the nice women who taught the class, but I’ve been using these recipes ever since and would like to thank her.Grandmother’s White Bread1 envelope dry…

  • Waste Time

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    Why Charlie Brooker won’t switch to a Mac (funny Windows rant)Why Chicago should celebrate losing the Olympic bidIn Liberia, this daily newspaper goes up on a blackboardFrom Zina Saunders, another hydrant portraitChristoph Niemann’s brilliant depiction of his “complicated” sleep:Nicely packaged, handpicked garbage off of NYC streetsNYC fire hydrants with lots of personality, drawn by cartoonist…

  • Leaders

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    Leaders are made, they are not born.  They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.Vince Lombardi

  • Attitude

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    Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.Thomas Jefferson

  • Happiness

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    The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don’t understand; no wonder they come to grief.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe