Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Insanity MATHster
A reclusive genius, Dr. Grigori Perelman, famously solved one of the world's most complicated math problems, the one-hundred-year-old Poincaré conjecture, and is now refusing to accept a $1 million prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute for doing so!
The 44 year old man apparently prefers to live in St. Petersburg,
HA!
According to neighbors:
"He always wears the same tatty coat and trousers. He never cuts his nails or beard. When he walks he simply stares at the ground, rather than looking from side to side."
"I was once in his flat and I was astounded. He only has a table, a stool and a bed with a dirty mattress which was left by previous owners — alcoholics who sold the flat to him."
However, there's no denying this man is an effing genius! Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture in 2002, and it took YEARS for experts to confirm he was correct!!
When reporters attempted to contact him, he responded, "You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms."
We are officially in love with this guy.
Damn the man, you do what you want, Grigori!!
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Friday, 18 June 2010
WALK RIGHT!
WALK RIGHT!
1984, New York, New York
In December of 1984, Joseph Virgil Skaggs (a.k.a. Joey Skaggs), had had enough of the outrageous behavior exhibited by inconsiderate, unconscious, hostile pedestrians in New York City. Skaggs formed WALK RIGHT! -- an ad hoc group of vigilante sidewalk etiquette enforcers who patrolled the streets to make New York a better place to live and walk. This Fascist group, dressed in all black with WALK RIGHT! sweat shirts published a petition that listed sixty six rules for pedestrians which they wanted to have enacted into law. The list included such regulations as:
- All shopping and laundry carts must have their wheels well oiled.
- Obese people must walk single file.
- Different types of lanes were to be established -- one way lanes, a passing lane, window shopping lanes, etc..
- Pedestrians must choose one lane and stay in it.
- No changing directions except at designated areas. No stopping while walking except when in the shopping lane.
- No gesticulating while walking.
- No eating while walking.
- No short people with umbrellas unless held at minimum height of 5' 10".
Pedestrians who violated the sidewalk rules were to be fined and forced to attend a WALK RIGHT! sidewalk etiquette school. WOR TV Channel 9 News and CNN, walked right into WALK RIGHT!
© 1997 Joey Skaggs
1984, New York, New York
In December of 1984, Joseph Virgil Skaggs (a.k.a. Joey Skaggs), had had enough of the outrageous behavior exhibited by inconsiderate, unconscious, hostile pedestrians in New York City. Skaggs formed WALK RIGHT! -- an ad hoc group of vigilante sidewalk etiquette enforcers who patrolled the streets to make New York a better place to live and walk. This Fascist group, dressed in all black with WALK RIGHT! sweat shirts published a petition that listed sixty six rules for pedestrians which they wanted to have enacted into law. The list included such regulations as:
- All shopping and laundry carts must have their wheels well oiled.
- Obese people must walk single file.
- Different types of lanes were to be established -- one way lanes, a passing lane, window shopping lanes, etc..
- Pedestrians must choose one lane and stay in it.
- No changing directions except at designated areas. No stopping while walking except when in the shopping lane.
- No gesticulating while walking.
- No eating while walking.
- No short people with umbrellas unless held at minimum height of 5' 10".
Pedestrians who violated the sidewalk rules were to be fined and forced to attend a WALK RIGHT! sidewalk etiquette school. WOR TV Channel 9 News and CNN, walked right into WALK RIGHT!
© 1997 Joey Skaggs
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
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