Dr Wingnut

Month: October 2011

  • Blizzard

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    Today is the 20th anniversary of the Halloween Blizzard of 1991.  Daniel and I went to the grocery store in the late morning and had lunch at Godfather’s Pizza.  When we left, it had started to sleet.  By 17:00 light snow was falling.  Had to shovel the walk several times for the trick or treaters. …

  • Attention

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    Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.  In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.W. H. Auden

  • TV

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    Well after the Cardinals pulled out a victory in extra innings last night against the Texas Rangers we’ll have a game seven in the World Series today; that means that the new series, Grimm on NBC, that I’ve been waiting for will have to go onto the DVR for viewing at a later time.  A…

  • Heresy

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    All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.Henry David Thoreau

  • Humorist

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    A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.Don Herold

  • Microsoft Access – Fail

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    The OS can’t kill a running process, so it tells you to reboot your computer.  This seems to have been added to Office 2010, because I haven’t seen it before then.  An epic fail!Just so I can find it again, the dialog has a title of, “Microsoft Office Program Recovery,” and error message of, “We…

  • Laughter

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    If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation it would be the ability of each individual to learn to laugh at himself.Charles Schulz