DARPA offers $40,000 to finder of four aces
To All -
DARPA, the research funding arm of the Defense Department, is offering $40,000 to anyone who can find four aces in his hand this Friday night. You could also cop the prize by locating the ten red balloons DARPA is putting up throughout North America, but with a likelihood of 0.0018% for the aces, you’re probably in better shape to nail the bullets than the balloons.
I am not making this up about the DARPA balloon challenge (although I may be bending the facts about the Aces.) http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10406752-94.html
The House alerts you that it has sent its minions, Oskar the Wonder Dog, and Hajib, the House’s trusted manservant and batman, on search for the balloons. Forty large is, let’s face it, forty large. They have reached, respectively, Oncogongaluzia, Indiana, and Ft. Preposterous, Oklahoma. Still searching for the ten red bobs, even though they don’t go up until Saturday. But, golly, it’s fun to watch the hunt from the Web cams on their respective heads. The House will keep you posted on their respective success.
See you Friday at 8:00 PM here at the Center for Idiotic Research.
Best,
The House
December 1, 2009 at 8:43 pm
To the DIR of the CIR -
December 1, 2009 at 8:50 pm
To the Dir of the CIR -
I will be in full research mode as I conduct my own search for hot air, if not hot air balloons, in the environs of Fort Myers this weekend. This December foray will henceforth be known as the Preseason Warm-up in anticipation of the start of the Exhibition Season (what else would you call the act of transitioning from winter clothing?), which begins in earnest on or about 12/28, rain or shine.
Best to all,
Brad (a/k/a FWF, as in Fair Weather Friend)