April 25, 2008
Guru would like to assure all his disciples that Mrs Guru is safe and well, and that he was only pulling their legs when talking of his fearsome axe.
But by uncanny coincidence the film that includes the most famous axe-wielding scene in cinematic history – Jack Nicholson's legendary 'Here's Johnny' moment from The Shining also featured the immortal line: 'All work and no play makes jack a dull boy'.
Of course, Yours Truly knows that big Jack was not the first to utter this phrase, however, as it was ancient Egyptian sage Ptahhotep back in the day – 4,408 years ago, no less – when high-tech brain surgery involved bashing a hole in the skull and pouring in unguents, before sitting back on a papyrus chair, sipping on an Nile Beer and waiting to see what happened.
Of course, back then, that would be usually be watching the holey skull (not a cheap Batman reference) person die, but nowadays technology has moved on somewhat.
And returning to his previous post, the recent brain breakthrough proves that Ptahhotep was, indeed right.
For years, low-paid folk have described their boring work as 'doin' my ’ead in'. Trouble is, it dulls them to the point of sleep, thereby awakening the interest of the boys and girls at the health and safety executive.
Who would no doubt be interested in the boffins 'big hat' brain scanner idea... on account of it being a bit of a health risk to the wearer.
So Yours Truly nipped down to the garage with picture of an MRI scanner in his gloved hand and saved them the job of imagining such a device... and here it is...
Combining the latest state-of-the-art MRI-like equipment, Guru calls his patented device the ThoughtMixer (TM).
Simply by mixing up any thoughts that might be knocking around in someones head, means their brain cannot possibly regard them as 'boring' as everything would be too scrambled to be considered as such.
However, the Norwegian boffins did admit that they were in a bit of a chicken and egg situation, as there was no telling what came first – does the thought that something is boring make the brain fall asleep, or does the brain shutting down render the thought boring, thereby leading to stray thoughts, shut-down brain areas and bad accidents.
In a true lightbulb moment for poultry-based conundrum lovers everywhere, the ThoughtMixer works better with eggs than chickens (the feathers get everywhere and cakes fail to live up to expectations when mixed with full-grown rooster), thereby leading to the inevitable logical conclusion that the dull thought is the equivalent of the egg and the brain is the chicken.
And having worn the ThoughtMixer for a few hours, Yours Truly is with the Health and Safety Executive on this one – all such devices should come with a written warning (preferably not in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs) or at the very least a universal neck brace.
Comments (1)
...is that an example of 'blender' development ;-)
I posted an article on blended development recently...
http://learn2develop.blogspot.com
Posted by Chris | April 25, 2008 5:57 PM
Posted on April 25, 2008 17:57