reading the blog and this just killed me. LOL
" I can just imagine the scene at one of the great federal intelligence houses, such as the Pentagon or NORAD. They're standing around, asking each other if maybe the Sun will come up the next morning, when an Appalachian State grad student bursts through the facility doors, clutching a handful of papers, and gasps, "Everybody! Big news! If you touch this big metal ball, your hair will stand on end! Oh, and we transformed our lecture hall into fire! Oh yeah, and we played the keyboard, and went camping, and...and..." The student would then collapse to the ground in exhaustion, flinging the papers to waver slowly through the air and settle upon his motionless body. A scientist would remove his thick-rimmed glasses, stick them in his lab coat, look at the other men, and say, "This man...is a hero." "