[penguicon-general] GoH / Nifty Idea

[Matt Arnold]

I agree! He is very much heard of, and over the past 12 months I have
done everything short of hiring a private investigator to track him
down so we can invite him. Any help would be appreciated!
-Matt

On 10/17/07, Steve Gutterman <stevegutterman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure nobody's heard of this person, but it doesn't matter, because it's
> just too cool to resist.
>
> I want to suggest Thiago Olson be a Nifty or even a GoH in 2007.
>
> Why?
>
> Because he's 17 years old, and he built a NUCLEAR FUSION REACTOR in his
> basement!  Which, you have to admit, is way cooler even than running Linux
> on a dead badger.  And even better than the guy a couple years back that
> built a supercomputer out of interconnect PS2s.  And Thiago actually lives
> in Michigan, so he'd be a *cheap* guest!
>
> Check out this article:
> http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/58c7db3c57f61110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
>
> Maybe he can even bring the reactor in.  Imagine basking by the pool in the
> warm blue light of Cherenkov radiation...
>
> Steve Gutterman
>
> --
>
> "I hear that in the wake of the forged-documents story Dan Rather spends his
> evenings in the cellar at CBS's 'black rock' (headquarters) wearing a cape
> and playing a pipe-organ upon which he pounds out Teutonic funereal dirges
> while singing about how he will one day eat Karl Rove's heart." -- Jonah
> Goldberg
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