Author: Dr Wingnut
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You know you are a true New Englander when:
“Vacation” means going South past New York City for the weekend.You measure distance in hours.You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again.You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.You see…
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Jeff Foxworthy on New England
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in New England.If you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Mt. Washington is the coldest spot…
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Information week item
Comcast Plans VoIP Service For Its 40 Million SubscribersPowerful telephone companies are serving notice on the cable-TV industry that its stranglehold over television programming will be coming to an end. In response, Comcast plans to counterattack using VoIP, and its strength in broadband cable is expected to serve the cable TV company well.Information WeekThat’s all…
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Potter Potter Potter Potter
Potter Potter Potter Potter…Bizarre lip-syncing Converting the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequenceWhoa… dude. (Large collection of art and animation.)Top ten Atom Films of 2004 Old government and school films! Dating, hygiene, etc. (See “Most Viewed Films” on the right side.)Quick ice fishing clip A fan created his own movie trailer for…
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Let’s take this offline
Take this discussion offline: Usually, this expression means, “Let’s not waste time on this while we’re all together at this meeting.” Instead, everyone in the meeting gets CC’d on an E-mail to kick around the topic. So taking a discussion offline almost inevitably means taking a discussion that wasn’t online, and putting it online.InformationWeek, “Between…
