11/17/07
Twenty five more dreams until there are 1000 dreams recorded here at heptapod.org.

This is almost as good as desecrating the final resting place of the deaf midget cretin known as Thomas Alva Edison. ConEdison will be shutting down the last source of direct current in New York City. Edison's last stand against Tesla's successful yet unacknowledged technological and cultural victory is at 10 E 40^th Street.

If Edison has entered some manner of afterlife, which he laughingly pursued with failed spiritualistic technology, I hope he is screaming and railing at his abject failure.

I posted this anonymously on Slashdot to preserve my precious karma. Slightly edited.

Thomas Edison is a hack. He didn't invent anything, he just used work-for-hire technicians and inventors then slapped the Edison label on them before marching off to the patent office. Had there been a Steamdot back in the late 19th century and early 20th century I'm certain nerds back then would be decrying Edison's ethics and business practices. Of course old Tommy would've been literally and figureatively deaf to their criticisms.

The most charitable description of Edison's oeuvre is improving something that's already been invented. How can anyone consider Edison to be a legitimate scientist if he actually pursued technology that communicates with the dead?

Nikola Tesla may be considered obscure to the general public but every generation will learn that alternating current, those ubiquitous and efficient fluorescent lights and wireless broadcasting which form the backbone of modern Earth society and culture were the brainchild of a humble yet eccentric Serbo-Croatian. Someday soon Edison will become a footnote in history while Tesla will stand as an example of creativity and inspiration tempered with a rational mind seeking to contribute to humanity rather than to one's personal savings account.

As if this day wasn't about to get any better! Apparently the images from the Cosmic Background Explorer, that garnered a Nobel Prize of all things, aren't of the early universe but nearby clouds of hydrogen. Sorry it's an article at Wired but Google is your friend when it comes to finding alternate sources of information.

Here's to the inevitable heat-death of the universe instead of an outrageously Hollywood Big Crunch.

I always get Bob Geldof confused with Neil Gaiman. Same goes for John Denver (PBUH) and Kermit the Frog. The association of the latter pair is far more intimate to me than the simple confusion I have with the former citizens of the United Kingdom.