Dr Wingnut

Month: December 2012

  • Only major blunders

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    A clever man commits no minor blunders.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Festivus

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    Happy Festivus everyone!  Did you air your grievances with your family today?  There was no way that was happening for me this year.

  • Broken fIlter

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    Friday night, 21-Dec-2012, I got mail in my work email box from some Area Wildlife Supervisor in northern Minnesota letting everyone know that the USPS had setup a PO Box for condolences for the families and friends of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre; and included a poem written by his sister.  As tragic as this…

  • Well the end of the world was a bust

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    I was hoping that at least something would happen this time, but I guess the Mayan’s calendar ending on 21-December-2012 is just the same problem as the Clipper development language that only recognized dates until 31-December-2999 (God help us if those systems are still running then).  I’m sure that the *nix date has some finite…

  • The end of the world

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    I watched a show on the History channel, Monday, 21 January, 2008 that said that the Mayans and others had predicted that today, Friday, 21 December, 2012 would be the day that there was a cosmic alignment that would flip the magnetic pole and start a cataclysm that might wipe out civilization as we know…

  • Justice

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    Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.Blaise Pascal

  • Advice

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    Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.Samuel T. Coleridge