Author: Dr Wingnut
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Desire
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.Epicurus
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Belief
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.e e cummings
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Truly, an historic day cometh…
In a few short days, an African American man will move from his private residence into a much larger and infinitely more expensive one owned not by him but by the taxpayers. A vast lawn, a perimeter fence and many well trained security specialists will insulate him from the rest of us but the mere…
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Creators admit UNIX, C Hoax
In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate prank kept alive for over 20 years. Speaking at the recent UnixWorld Software Development Forum, Thompson revealed the following:“In 1969, AT&T had just…
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Rogue lumberjacks
We arrived this morning at the Minnesota Department of Education to find that over the weekend that rogue lumberjacks had invaded the building and had clearcut the four trees in the atrium. One of the things that made working here even remotely tolerable was the distraction of the atrium (Notice the lovely blue and purple…