Baboon backlash
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.