Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • New Term

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    In the last couple of days I heard a term during a Tour de France interview with a rider that I had never heard before, “road furniture,” referring to medians, roundabouts, and other obstacles in the road.It’s a great term, and I can’t believe that I’d never heard it before.

  • Opinion

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    I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I’ve noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.Bethania McKenstry

  • Fate

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    We should manage our fortunes as we do our health — enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  • The five stages of grief:

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    DenialAngerBargainingDepressionAcceptance

  • iPhone

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    I updated my iPhone to version 2.0 of the software without any difficulty.  The phone went through a power cycle while it was connected to the mini, but other than that it went rather well.I thought it might brick itself for a while there, but it all turned out OK.I had gone out to Dinner…

  • Reach

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    Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.Edward R. Murrow

  • Failure

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    Baseball teaches us, or has taught most of us, how to deal with failure.  We learn at a very young age that failure is the norm in baseball and … errors [are] part of the game, part of its rigorous truth.Francis T. Vincent, Jr.