What a week it’s been since we presented our first Genuis Award.

We took a shot in the ad revenue when people apparently began boycotting our lightbulb ads in protest for the award to the baboon.

That hurt. People, it’s just an award. The baboon is already funded.

They’re not taking this lying down in Jakarta.

I suppose all that will blow over and our ad revenues will improve. I do want to make special mention and extend our great thanks for the tribute to the individual who found this page by searching for ‘macarthur genuis’. Obviously someone with happy fingers, maybe in need of a bulb or two?

So the awards committee has retired to the bunker. We may need to consult Robert Sapolsky for advice, as he is doing better than the baboon. There are no street protests in Palo Alto to speak of, and yet I feel we are on this great convergence.

Had we gone with Marketing’s pitch, we’d have given the damn award to Dr. Guinter Kahn, the inventor of Minoxidil, aka Rogaine. He put hair on Mount Baldy, by accident!

seen here working on his next invention, something called the wheel.

Announcing the Genuis awards. Some of us don’t rate a MacArthur foundation grant. Sapolsky gets one, but not the baboons.

Well, the baboons are still qualified around here. They also serve who only stand around and adjust themselves.

In fact, what the heck. Here’s our first winner.

This little fella is smarter than Robert Sapolsky because he’s getting taken care of so geniuses can watch him adjust himself.

Want one of these awards? Show some genuis. Send evidence. Pander to the crowd.

Realize that the baboon has placed the bar pretty high for this award.

Extra points for genuis as an unintended consequence. In this case, the baboon was already adjusting himself. He was trying to awaken a primal urge. Along came a field trip from Stanford and he had the ingredients for a new lifestyle. And this award.

which dot are you?

Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.

Lightbulbs tagged on flickr.





next stop on the genuis.net lightbulb blogathon is Singapore.

hello Singapore!

here’s how to do it

But I like the domain name and figure this is as close as I get to such a category or status.

Meanwhile, I explore the options for recent retirement, which range from pretty much nothing to undertaking damn near everything undone during my working years. If I come up with any ‘ingenius’ ideas in this new role, I’ll let you know.

Meanwhile, I’ll explore my options on this site.

…ben

Think of it as Facebook for the rest of us. Myspace for people with something to say.

You can be you@genuis.net or you can be

yuo

and have our bot fix it for you.

Most of all, you can be here because this is where you belong right now.

Don’t trip and fall on that chair over there. Look out for the cat.