Dr Wingnut

Category: General

  • Business travel

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    Sunday and yesterday, I experienced the wonder, beauty and glamour that is business travel by air.  I went to Atlanta on Sunday with three of my former confederates to see if someone was interested in buying the company was my former employer.I had forgotten the endless sitting waiting for a plane and the inhumanity of…

  • Date Night

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    Jill and I went out for Thai food at Tum Rup Thai in Uptown; followed by a really neat salon concert, Zo performed by Paul Cantrell, a composer, amateur pianist, and software developer I came in contact with through the Ruby Users Group.  He played some beautiful short classical pieces by Chopin, Brahms, and Bach;…

  • The customer comes second

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    Finally someone in the hostpitality business who gets it.  I bet he doesn’t expect his employees to work seventy to eighty hours a week.Meyer’s business model intentionally inverst classic capitalist priorities.  He believes that you must first meet the needs of the employees, then guests, followed by the community, suppliers and finally investors, in that…

  • Personal Best Tetris Scores

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    I’m not really a gamer, but I do like to play Tetris on the Nintendo Gameboy.  Here are my personal best scores:OnLevelHighScoreDrops Total 2001/07/16 21:457067,20053667,736 2002/01/20 17:438075,60039676,019 2003/07/27 23:068073,00022073,220 2004/06/06 9084,00027684,276 2004/10/14 07:479084,00027984,279 2005/11/27 21:209084,00033784,337 I think I’m due for a new high score here sometime soon, but it becomes increasingly difficult.

  • How nice of you to notice

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    The Johnson & Johnson companies have finally noticed that not everyone is beige.  I wonder where they were in the 1960’s?This advertisement and coupon showed up in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune sometime this summer, but it got set aside and I had forgotten to put it up for comment.

  • I Had a Dream

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    I had a dream that I was in a burning house and the fire was spreading rapidly.George W. was there.W said, “I’ll send people in to save you!”I said, “But you started the fire!”W: “It was for your own good.”Me: “Huh??”W: “I did it for you.  It is part of My Global Initiative against Fire…

  • The Street Where You Live

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    The book, “The Street Where You Live: A Guide to the Place Names of St. Paul,” a listing of Saint Paul, Minnesota street names and the history behind them by Donald L. Empson is being reissued and updated with names of parks and other things.  In the Pioneer Press today they profiled the street where…