Friday, April 10, 2009

The NSF and their Future Truman Show

We are all (excluding myself and Jake) aware of the Truman Show that is about me and Jake. The National Science Foundation actually has access to the Future Truman Show, which shows what will be happening on the show about 3 or 4 hours ahead of the present time. They can accomplish this because they have science.

Pending my acceptance or rejection into the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the folks at the NSF must have turned on the Future Truman Show and seen the profoundly stupid, goofy way I informed/pouted at my esteemed colleague Jacob Brunner about my rejection. Namely,
"I didib get da en ed eb belloshib! I didib get da en ed eb belloshibb!"
This is, of course, not the kind of person they want as an NSF fellow. They had no choice but to reject me, not realizing that in so doing they were only fulfilling the potential future they had seen on TV.