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2003 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners Announced
ccnull writes "This year's list of 24 MacArthur Fellows has been released. Each winner of the so-called 'Genius Grant' receives $500,000, no strings attached. 2003's winners include a blacksmith, a biomedical engineer, a computation geometer, a biophysicist, a nurse, and a short story writer 'crafting witty, experimental prose.'"
So I guess my shell-script "thinkgeek fortune grabber" wouldn't cut it.
Esoteric reference.
a short story writer celebrating the complexity of life's most ordinary moments (Lydia Davis
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" a short story writer celebrating the complexity of life's most ordinary moments (Lydia Davis)"
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What exactly does "a blacksmith exploring the expressive qualities of metal" mean? Does he hammer the iron until it cries?
There is no spoon or sig.
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Those who can't teach, teach teachers.
Those who can't teach teachers, administrate
Those who can't administrate are on the school board.
Personally, I dislike Sarah Sze's work, but damn is she pretty.
They turn me down for a Nobel.
Then they turn me down for an Ig Nobel.
Now, the Genius Grant passes me over.
Why don't I get some recognition for my first-hand studies on the effects of sleep deprivation due to intense Slashdot reading? Dear Lord, WHY???
One of the winners, Erik Demaine, is 22 and is already a CS professor at MIT with a gigantic publication list. I find this both inspiring and profoundly demoralizing. He'd better not be getting laid more than me too.
I, for one, welcome our genius overlords.
It always kills me when people with interesting, fun jobs get money and awards. Like this and the Academy Awards. To qualify for these awards you first have to have a great job that you love. In that case do you really need more award.
That's not entirely true : you can be employee of the month at McDonald's.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
All true, except MIT is not Ivy League. It's in a league of its own. :)
I mean, the guy has a Tetris Award, for fucks sake--you know how that drives the ladies wild. Plus, his beard is pretty far onto the "eww, gross" side of the facial-hair spectrum; no woman can resist jowl-pubes.
...is that the decision making process for these awards includes a swimsuit competition.
Which still doesn't help me. Blech.
10+ years ago, there was a short-lied show on Fox named "Flying Blind". The girlfriend of the min character had a roommate who just wandered around in a bathrobe, apparently unemployed, but always had money for stuff...
About halfway through the second season, the main characted asked, "Just what do you DO, anyway?"
Bathrobe guy: "I have a Genius Grant..."
Main Character: "You? But you're not a genius!"
Bathrobe guy: "I was the night I slept with the lady who gives out the grants..."
Or the person whoi designed a piece of sftware that saved a bank over a Billion Dollars a year?
Thatswas how I learned I would never be a captian of industry. If Someone saved my a Billion dollars a year, I'd give them 1%.
I'm not bitter, I got a football for my efforts.
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Uh, Try Staten Island, NY (Ramones)
..........FULL STOP.
meditate and memorize. I did it once. Problem is you'll start babeling to yourself nonstop in a stream-of-conscious sort of way recalling all sorts of details of your own life like the time I was walking alone as a little kid along down the road to see the deep river come unfolded through the eye of an apple tree with all sorts of grasshoppers floating in my direction to strange copper land of slivery gold and rosy flowers growing high among the clouds of the settling sun with its sidulent snaky path pulling me down under the fidged hoary water with my ghostly siblings exhaling their last oxygen crys from a body dragged down with current back scaping rocks head over tumbling heals to a far shore where a dog licks the putrid fishy corpse!