10.19.2009

He may not be scheming, but I might hypothetically possibly potentionally might be...

As I sat down at my electric typewriter, beginning to print a draft for my next blog, I kept thinking about the same thing. I was thinking about this article that I'd read last night in WIRED Magazine. It was about the famous 'Minerva,' the South Korean man who had simply began to make predictions on South Korea's economy, and was so dead accurate it was unreal. The man had been studying economics by his lonesome for about four years before he began to make these predictions. He had not been scheming to become rich and/or famous, he simply wanted to test his knowledge. When his educated guesses came true, he began to get some credibility. The whole time though, he had been posting under the name of the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, Minerva. People began to wonder who this Minerva was. The only thing that made him so amazing what the fact that no one knew who he was. No one knew if he was some government official, or just the hobo living at the end of their street. The key was that he was always anonymous. If he had printed under his real name, people would not have payed him any attention. This kind of made me want to do something like that. Either sign up for some forum with some witty name then test my knowledge or make a blog that would blow people away. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but don't you agree that it would be fun to say something genius, and when people ask who you are, they would be forced to guess. So I plan to begin an anonymous blog, some where on the net. I'm not sure where it will be located, what it will be called, or anything like that yet. I will try to keep posting on this blog once a month or so, but if you find my anonymous blog, then you are pretty freakin' amazing. I will update this blog with some basic information on my new blog, like what site I used to create it, and a hint to what it might be called. I won't be dumb and tell you the URL or anything like that, so it should be a bit of a challenge. Good luck!

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