But Can He Program a Y2K Bugged VCR?
LONDON, UK --- The boy genius who solved the riddle of Rubik's Cube is now grown up and the developer of software that detects where the millennium bug will strike.
At the age of 12, Patrick Bossert (aka Rubik’s Brainbuster) shot to fame when he worked out his own solution to the mystifying cube and wrote a book about it that sold 1.5 million copies.
That same year Bossert earned Boy Scout Merit Badges for campfire cooking, dairying and cement work.
Now, he and a team of software experts at London-based WSP Business Technology have developed a program that electronically scans hardware to identify microchips embedded that process date and time. It can determine which electronic equipment is likely to malfunction when 1999 becomes 2000.
Damn, he’s smart.
Next on Bossert’s to-do list? Inventing an electric dreadlock detangler, perfecting aerosol pork, teaching Baby Spice how to sing and coming up with the perfect hairpiece for William Shatner.
Prophecy of the Week: Ancient Chinese Millennial Proverb- ''He Who Laughs Last,Laughs Last.''
More from the great Chinese philosopher, Confucius, widely known for his wise, pithy sayings, and system for divining the future. A scroll including many of his predictions was kept under lock and key by Communist China until very recently, when a dissident scholar smuggled out a copy to western researchers in return for an appearance on the Price is Right with Bob Barker.
Here’s more of Confucius’ predictions for 1999:
In July, a massive storm will erupt on the surface of the sun, sending a tidal wave of heat and light directly at the Earth.
The brightness, unlike anything ever seen before (and likely to be seen again based on its results) will cause millions to go blind.
Get the Ray Ban Sunglasses’ people on the phone pronto!
Also, what Confucius describes as "all the new machines of man" will cease to function.
That's likely to be some enchanted evening.
A final installment from that fountain of cheerfulness, Confucius, next week.
ORLANDO, Fl.--- After a long day of negotiating peace treaties with Saddam Hussein, holding General Assembly meetings, berating the United States for not paying back dues and discussing Bosnian air strikes, where does U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan like to go?
We at Millennium Hell suspect that C. Montgomery Burns, owner of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, is leading the Nuclear Power Industry’s Y2K efforts. It was Burns who once was quoted as saying, " If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it’s your duty as an American to do it. Why should the race always be to the swift or the jumble to the quick-witted? Should they be allowed to win merely because of the gifts God gave them? Well, I say, cheating is the gift Man gives himself."