Author: Dr Wingnut
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Golden Rules for Living
If you open it, close it.If you turn it on, turn it off.If you unlock it, lock it up.If you break it, admit it.If you can’t fix it, call in someone who can.If you borrow it, return it.If you value it, take care of it.If you make a mess, clean it up.If you move it,…
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One bitten twice shy?
The following item appeared in my email this morning in the InformationWeek Daily email broadcast:"If I go out now and hit a ball off of the fairway in any fashion or form, I will not go after it." Roy Williamson, who was bitten twice by a rattlesnake when he tried to retrieve his ball from…
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Five Nines
The original Bell Telephone system was required to provide 99.999% (or five nines of) relability. This level of reliablilty equals 5 minutes of downtime per year. In contrast to 97% reliability which is equivalent to 263 hours of downtime per year.
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Redneck Neighbor
In case you’re wondering, this Web page is about my next-door neighbors. Since my neighbors have been driving me crazy and no amount of civilized reasoning and/or negotiations have worked – I have decided to dedicate a small corner of cyber-space to them.My family and friends are constantly asking me to tell them the “latest”…
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A message from the great beyond
A couple from Minneapolis decided to go to Florida for a long weekend to thaw out during one particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the very same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years ago.Because both had jobs, they found it difficult coordinating their travel schedules. It was decided that the husband…
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I’ve been Googled!
Sometime between Tuesday, 11 November, 2003 10:12:40 -500 UTC and Monday, 17 November, 2003 14:14:19 -500 UTC Google found this site and added it to the search database. The site originally went up 30-31 October, 2003; so the indexing engine did a pretty good job of finding a brand new site with no external links…