Monday, December 05, 2005 - Surely you're joking...
I'm reading "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" as a bedtime story. It's a book of vignettes (a paper blog, really) of the great physicist Richard Feynman, the snotty little genious. He is the best kind of genious, I do admit, at least he's got a sense of humore about his puzzle drive/obsession. So many geniouses just get carried away with what they're doing and don't ever take a chance to step back. Anyway, one of his stories is about Los Alamos, and how he just randomly became a lock-picker, because there was no entertainment in the ranch, because they could only leave on special occasions due to the security. Imagine a ranch full of geniouses and no entertainment. I would certifiably go crazy.