Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Idea

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    I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)

  • Smart Words

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    The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.  Here are 2004’s winners.IntaxicationEuphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.ReintarnationComing back to life as…

  • Anger

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    When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.Thomas Jefferson

  • Pop culture flash

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    Bizarre, bizarre, bizarre Flash video chock-full with pop culture references. (Who has time to make this stuff?)Only a little less bizzare: M. B. Saulnier points us to 3-minute world travelogues, starring a pair of fingers and a lot of paper.Still less bizarre, but cool – dancing Flash-dude movie.Futurist Poetry (thanks to Geoff Ross)I always like…

  • Ridicule

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    Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832

  • Inspiration

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    You can’t wait for inspiration.  You have to go after it with a club.Jack London (1876 – 1916)

  • Family

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    After I said, “I love you, and there isn’t anything you can do about it,” my friend Denise said that her daughter had this bracelet that she was wearing that said, “FAMILY” on it.  When Denise asked what that meant, her daughter told her that it was like one of those WWJD bracelets, except that…