Gotta love that mention of "The Next Bill Gates?" It's been over a decade and sadly we haven't heard of Episoft. It's fine and dandy to build your own computer using old parts, and you can't knock them for ambition, but the way he talks about phoenixes rising from ashes is just awesome. You can expect a lot from a slow news day in Maine.
This lucky gal managed to snag Bill Gates as her Secret Santa this year on Reddit's gift exchange. We're not sure how we'd react if the man himself sent us a 30 lb. stuffed cat.
"PRO TIP: When filling out your reddit gift questionnaire, don't act like a crazy person in hopes of making sure your santa understands the 1 thing you really care about. Bill Gates might read it. And then you will over-analyze every lame joke you made. #truestory
Step 1: Have an awkward moment with your FedEx guy, staring at him pushing a small refrigerator box up to your door. Offer to help.
Step 2: Proceed to scream and make inaudible sounds, causing all nearby cats and family to congregate.
Step 3: Confirm it is, in fact, from Bill Gates. Thankfully, a photo of Bill Gates with a massive Pusheen head next to him was included. You'd be surprised at the amount of time it may take to register what is happening and connect the photo to the gigantic cat-beast in your living room. My life is now complete.
Step 4: Clean off all the cat hair and put on makeup because, well, you know.
Step 5: After allotting adequate time to each individual gift, find a place for Pusheen to call his own. A large couch or small stable will do."
And so soon after Jobs passed away? Scandalous! What will the neighbors say?
Back in November, Bill Gates visited a plant that turns poop into water, and he took a nice big gulp.
The machine is called an Omniprocessor, and it uses a steam engine to convert raw sewage into electricity, clean drinking water and ash. On top of that, it produces enough excess energy to power itself.
He wrote about the experience on his blog:
"I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin. They made their way through the machine, getting boiled and treated. A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water."
The visit was part of The Gates Foundation's efforts to improve sanitation in poor countries. A few years ago, he asked people to try to reinvent the toilet as a possible solution to the problem.
The Omniprocessor was built by the Seattle-based Janicki Bioenergy, which will be conducting a pilot test of the machine in Dakar, Senegal in late 2015.
So how did the water taste?
"The water tasted as good as any I've had out of a bottle," Gates writes. "And having studied the engineering behind it, I would happily drink it every day. It's that safe."
Oh right, there was a coffee table book in there as well. But seriously, we were all in it for the Loki helmet.
What do you think happened when Bill Gates challenged the greatest chess player in the world to a match? He was embarrassingly defeated. Magnus Carlsen, 22, beat the founder of Microsoft in just over one minute of playing. Watch Carlsen's eyes as he continually stares at the chess board as though he has every move figured out almost before Gates even makes it.
