Author: Dr Wingnut

  • The nun and the cabbie

    A cabbie picks up a Nun.  She gets into the cab, and the cab driver won’t stop staring at her.She asks him why he is staring.He replies: “I have a question to ask you, but I don’t want to offend you.”She answers, “My son, you cannot offend me.  When you’re as old as I am…

  • Moderation

    Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo.Bernard Baruch

  • Self

    Self-knowledge and self-improvement are very difficult for most people.  It usually needs great courage and long struggle.Abraham Maslow

  • Grace

    Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come.  “Tis grace that hath brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home.”John Newton

  • Accidents

    The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident.  That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals.  We cause accidents.Nathaniel Borenstein

  • How will you die?

    According to this diagram in the August 2006 issue of National Geographic there is a one in one (100%) chance that you will die.  Along with that revelation, it shows in a beautifully rendered diagram — that I think Edward Tufte would approve — your other mortality choice chances.

  • Infections

    After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many.Glenn Turner