Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Dara Puspita

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    Last Friday, on The world, Host Marco Werman told us about 1960’s surf music from Indonesia: the all-girl garage band Dara Puspita (Flower Girls) may be the rockingest garage band you’ve never heard of.I found one of their albums on Amazon, and numerous references to them searching on Google.

  • Serendipity

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    One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.Alexander Fleming

  • Cheeseburger Chill

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    Jamba Juice is fighting back against McDonald’s getting into the all-fruit smoothie market.  Watch the video and get a $1 off coupon at cheeseburgerchill.com.  It’s very funny.

  • There’s always a newer model

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    Look in the mirror, and don’t be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.Stephen Jay Gould

  • Yet here we are

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    The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.Richard Dawkins

  • First Telephone Directory

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    The first Telephone Directory, for New Haven, Connecticut produced in 1878 was sold at auction at Christies in New York for $170,500.00.  Watch an IEEE.TV piece here.I have a copy of the Hibbing Minnesota phone book from the 1950’s that I’ll sell for half of that!

  • Progression

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    Because of the nature of Moore’s law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.John Carmack