Phantasy Star: Fringes of Algo

Heard this mentioned on the radio:

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_ha ... ar_1349188



How often are your bed sheets changed?

I think I would have to say about once a week, if not more.

I change my bedsheets about once a month, give a take or week. Sometimes I forget about it for a while.

Hehe, I change my bedsheets um.........february, then.......maybe sometime in the summer?

Time to update this thread once again.

Here's a "ridiculous" story about a math genius who won $1 Million but refuses to accept it!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/2 ... t_43192211

hmmm, you would think most anybody would be happy to win a million dollars, especially in today's economy?

Comments or Opinions?

Silver_Surfer1 wrote:Time to update this thread once again.

Here's a "ridiculous" story about a math genius who won $1 Million but refuses to accept it!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/2 ... t_43192211

hmmm, you would think most anybody would be happy to win a million dollars, especially in today's economy?

Comments or Opinions?

That is all kinds of cRAYze.

Silver_Surfer1 wrote:Time to update this thread once again.

Here's a "ridiculous" story about a math genius who won $1 Million but refuses to accept it!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/2 ... t_43192211

hmmm, you would think most anybody would be happy to win a million dollars, especially in today's economy?

Comments or Opinions?

You would think so; I certainly wouldn't turn down a million bucks.
Perhaps he felt that unwanted family and neighbors would start hounding him for the money; who knows?

Schala Zeal wrote:Perhaps he felt that unwanted family and neighbors would start hounding him for the money; who knows?

That's a sensitive observation. Either way, I'm sure he has his reasons. From the little we know about him, it seems reasonable to suggest that he cherishes his anonymity and simple lifestyle. If he doesn't want the attention, I hope the media respect his privacy and leave him the hell alone.

Money can be a curse as well as a blessing. Large sums of it tend to incur the jealousy of others. I'm reminded of the recent news item about a lottery winner who was murdered by an alleged "friend".

But this guy have less privacy right now because he refused the money. Thats not better...

Gryz wrote:But this guy have less privacy right now because he refused the money. Thats not better...

To that extent, he was doomed to his day in the limelight as soon as he was awarded the prize for solving the Poincaré conjecture. There was going to be publicity if he accepted it and publicity if he did not. Sooner or later, however, the media will find new fodder. The acquisition of wealth, on the other hand, would attract more prolonged attention of a potentially less palatable form: envy, constant demands for money, and bitterness from those he rejects when he is obliged to favour one request over another. If one already has enough to make one happy, I can intuit that additional wealth might be a burden.

Here's the first thing I see from my local paper today when I checked my RSS feeds, though I also saw this on NPR last night.

Someone got REALLY drunk...

Last night my brother's girlfriend and I made up the following limerick in regards to this story.

A man once got drunk on a street
A red light he did try to beat
A possum got slain
And the man tried in vain
To resuscitate the poor little beast