Serendipity again comes into play. I no sooner write an article about Archimedes than I am sent this fun political limerick by Bob Duplantier:
EUREKA!
When I got an idea that was big,
A round bulb would light over my wig,
But now incandescents
Are replaced by fluorescents
And it looks like the tail of a pig.
Actually, I don’t believe in serendipity, I think we simply process so much randon info every day that we are bound to run into coincidences. Still, it does make all this reading enjoyable to once in a while try to “connect the dots”. Which reminds me, a long time ago I wrote a movie review of A Beautiful Mind. It was on ostensibly the same subject. What a coincidence!
