Year: 2020

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General

Cottage Industry

12/04/2020 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Cottage Industry
The $400 clue in the category, “The Second Millennium” on Jeopardy! yesterday, 2020-12-03, was: “Before the Industrial Revolution, people worked from home in what’s called this kind of house industry.” The COVID-19 pandemic is really making WFH […]
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General

Forever

12/04/2020 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Forever
Jill and I realized last night that being married forever isn’t as long now as it used to be. We both found this quite amusing.
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Humor

Right on George Clooney

12/03/2020 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Right on George Clooney
Now it looks like George is thinking about his legacy, because he’s already got his three-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander, getting in on the action. “They both have learned to play pranks, which is good […]
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Quotations

Ingenuity

11/20/2020 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Ingenuity
The thing about human ingenuity is that when there is a sharp need for something, it tends to crystalize in discovery.Irving Finkel, Assyriologist, Nova S47 E11: A to Z the First Alphabet
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Quotations

Best advice Warren Buffett ever got

11/19/2020 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Best advice Warren Buffett ever got
“He said, ‘Warren, you can always tell someone to go to hell tomorrow.’ It was such an easy way of putting it. You haven’t missed the opportunity. Just forget about it for a day. If […]