Author: Dr Wingnut
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Failure
Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn’t. Failure is part of what makes us human.Amber Deckers
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Longing
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”John Greenleaf Whittier
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Democracy and Money
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.P. J. O’Rourke
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Old Age, I decided, is a gift.
I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometime s despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my mirror (who…
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Eight years ago
You might remember when this accident happened… March 5, 2000. Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 from Vegas overshot the runway at Burbank . The plane crashed through the airport fence, careened across the street and ended up with a collapsed landing gear, right next to a gas station. But that’s not the amazing part — Look…
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Got Kleenex?
A couple of weeks ago, I went to the server room to find our network support guy, Gerhard, to talk about upgrading our SharePoint 2003 servers to MOSS 2007 and I found the following jury-rigged tissue dispenser. I guess it’s better than having a box on the desk covered with binders and cables that hides…
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A Little Bit of Knowledge
Yesterday, I listened to episode #293 of This American Life, “A Little Bit of Knowledge”, they talked about mistaken beliefs that exist in childhood and somehow escape into adulthood. The first part show is really amusing. However, they of course didn’t interview Mrs. Wingnut, who even until we started living together, when she was in…