Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Pain

    The only way out is through.The only way to heal the pain is to embrace the pain.Fritz Perls

  • IT Support Haiku Contest

    Thanks to everyone who submitted such great poetic masterpieces this past week.  Here’s the top entry, by Thaddeus Melvin Jacobs.  Perhaps it’s the poem’s sonorous pathos or its inverted syllable count for lines two and three that caught our attention.No Antelope lopeNo Buffalo roamIn cubicle farm my homeSubmit your own Haiku and review all the…

  • Doubt

    Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.Voltaire (1694 – 1778)

  • Peace

    Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, and quietly building new structures.John F. Kennedy

  • Mixed nuts

    Bizarre experiment with mixed nuts, run by nutsThe adventures of Chad, the guy who was so into Super Monkey Ball that he decided to live in a ball (bizarre video game commercials)Absolutely bizarre music mixes. (Thanks to Third Coast Festival)  Check out #3 (I’ve Got You) and #13 (Bier Bier Bier Downtown).And this, uhhhh,… I…

  • Bye bye Carly

    In consumer PCs, HP is still getting punished by Dell, which just reported record numbers.Time, 21 February 2005, Pg. 36The consumer PC’s at HP were not Carly’s problem, they sucked way before she took the reins at HP.  They don’t work very well, they break more than comparable business PCs and they cost a fortune…

  • By the numbers

    59% Proportion of 10th-graders in 1990 who said they expected to graduate from a four-year college.80% Proportion of 10th-graders in 2002 who said they expected to graduate from a four-year college, attributed to increased encouragement from teachers.Time, 21 February 2005, Pg. 19That increase in the number of kids who think that they will graduate from…