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November 20, 2006
My Wonko the Sane Moment
"It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilzation in which I could live and stay sane." - Douglas Adams, So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish.
Wonko the Sane, born John Watson, has a nervous breakdown when he sees that a packet of toothpicks comes with instructions. He realizes that the problem is with the world, not him, so he changes his name, and pulls a little architectural magic to build The Asylum - an inverted house that tricks the eye into thinking the rest of the world is inside. So he can stay "outside", away from a world gone hopelessly soft and mad.
I offer this merely as a kind of explanation of what thoughts went through my mind when I found out they invented a car that parallel parks itself.
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