Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Living

    Not what we would, but what we must, makes up the sum of living.Richard Henry Stoddard

  • AMA

    The American Medical Association has weighed in on Obama’s new health care package.  The Allergists were in favor of scratching it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves.  The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.Meanwhile, Obstetricians felt certain…

  • Music

    Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve

  • Luck

    Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.R. E. Shay

  • Color e-paper

    The News Briefs section of IEEE Computer, April 2008, page 20, said that we would have color e-paper in three or four years.Has that happened?  Nope, color e-paper readers were shown at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2011, so they were off by a little time, but the reviews (PC Magazine) weren’t too…

  • Self-worth

    Never be bullied into silence.  Never allow yourself to be made a victim.  Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.Harvey Fierstein

  • Desperation

    Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything.  Period.  If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.Jim Carrey