On the Amazon Soapbox, in a discussion of the Darwinius masillae primate skeleton, I found another priceless example of someone's taking a cliche that they didn't understand in the first place, and twisting it into something hysterical: "While all the clock and dagger?"
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Every day I promise myself that tomorrow, I'm going to hop out of bed and into the shower and get ready to do wonders--whether in literature, home maintenance, landscape architecture or fine art. Then next day I find myself at 3:30 p.m. hovering over the danged computer. Whoever invented it ought to get at least a couple upside the head. It all started with Lord Byron's daughter Ada and a male friend of hers--they invented the first computer, if you don't count the abacus. Called it a "difference engine." Those cussed Byrons were too smart for their own good. Lord Byron had the biggest brain ever recorded, and, I've read, about the (estimated) second highest IQ (next to Einstein)--and look where it got him! For that matter, look where it got Einstein.
Which reminds me that Dr. Britt Anderson, while I worked at UAB, read that Harvard Med. was going to dispose of its samples of Einstein's brain, and any medical center could have it that would ask. Britt called up Harvard and got them to send him a jarful. Looked exactly like pickled cauliflower.
2 comments:
Well, I'll be darn.
You always have the most interesting historical comments...I didn't know Einsteins brain looked like cauliflower
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