Want to mess with your mind? Without the man in the photo, the photo of this man wouldn’t exist. *mind blown*
Posted on 08/19/2012 8:59:05 PM PDT by djone
The old man turned back at his coffee, took a sip, and then looked back at me.... “In fact, I’ve done lots of things ....Oh really? Like what types of things?, ...All the while, half-thinking he was going to make up something fairly non-impressive....I invented the first computer.....Um, Excuse me? ..... I created the world’s first internally programmable computer.... It used to take up a space about as big as this whole room and my wife and I used to walk into it to program it.... What’s your name?”. I asked, thinking that this guy is either another crazy homeless person in Portland or legitimately who he said he was........“Russell Kirsch”
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Crab mentality or more commonly “King of the Hill Syndrome” is quite real.
Some times called Gunning for the Buddha
Also, I have noted that most people are “pack animals”
My chemistry teacher in college was the guy who invented latex paint. Took $1 a year from the university to teach.
One of the things I find disturbing about our current scientific world is how people get into this pack mentality about science.
Global warming is a great example.
The notion that we control climate is a bit odd to me.
The idea that we can understand and be good stewards is more to my liking.
There is so much empirical and scientific evidence that we are just a grain of sand when it comes to global warming is overwhelming.
I’m jealous....
I don't know. How cool is that?
I read through the comments (over 350 of them). They are almost all positive. You must be looking in a different place.
Very cool.
“Gunning for the Buddha”
Hey, I resemble that remark.
Want to mess with your mind? Without the man in the photo, the photo of this man wouldn’t exist. *mind blown*
"You didn' build that!" - Barry Obama
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