9 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

  1. It’s too bad that we cannot say that Pierre Trudeau had the identical “greatest achievement”.

  2. This is a guilty pleasure of mine. I love picking up a biography on some historical figure to get the generic take on them. Then start the digging. Because, it seems the truly brilliant tend to lean a little towards the absurd. The one that really caught me off guard was Benjamin Franklin. Holy smokes, that guy was a bit eccentric. Just ask the team of law enforcement officials that had to clean up the pad he had in Paris after he left. It included a survey of surrounding cemeteries. Yikes!

  3. It’s ironic. By Darwinian thought, he’s a huge failure because he didn’t pass on his genes. But his name will live as long as humanity does math and physics.

    1. Evolutionary biology is what you do when you can’t do hard science or math. It is lower-tier “science”.

      “The only real science is physics. All the rest is just stamp-collecting”.

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