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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nash on May 05, 2004, 10:10:30 PM
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One of our clients, an oil company, asks for a favour and says they're sending a kid over who needs some posters made.
The guy is 16 years old living here in Calgary. He's got a harsh Russian name - Vladislav something, but speaks english like he's lived here all his life. He developed a way (and this is where it all eludes me) to extract 30% more oil that would have been lost/wasted under current extraction methods. Oil sands.
It has to do with binding enzymes and molecules, and molecular strings like mmmmcmmbbmmfc or whatever.
He wrote this in his bedroom, and walks into the oil company to present it. The engineers scoff, then examine it. Turns out it works. They become his new best friends. This thing is worth millions upon millions upon millions of dollars, appearently. No doubt there's some kind of patent application underway.
The kid needs the posters made for his presentation at the International Science Fair which is hosted this year in Portland. He's appearently got the North American science competition all sewn up, and is like, the Internation Science Fair (with $3 million in prizes) is also going to be a no brainer. Dude seems nonchalant but absolutely convinced.
He's a super nice kid, but highly distracted... eccentric. He took a cell phone call while in our office, said "Uh hum, yep, well I..." and then he abruptly hung up, put the phone in his pocket and started pacing - obviously deep in thought. Then he said "I just hung up on someone didn't I?!"
Can't even imagine the kinda future a kid like that has ahead of him. Prolly retired at the age of 17.
The geek.
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A lot of geniuses are freaks and operate on a different plane than the rest.
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Once he stops thinking thats when you worry, because then the dissapear...
Sounds cool to know someone my age is going to contribute to the world...
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Hey Nash, could you make a rendering of the "crow attack" and post it? That was a funny story that put a picture in my mind that I could almost see.
Crows are rated among the top of the most intelligent mammals. I bet they can be very nasty.
The scene: a traffic light crossing
"on a university campus in Japan. Carrion crows and humans line up patiently, waiting for the traffic to halt.
When the lights change, the birds hop in front of the cars and place walnuts, which they picked from the adjoining trees, on the road. After the lights turn green again, the birds fly away and vehicles drive over the nuts, cracking them open. Finally, when it’s time to cross again, the crows join the pedestrians and pick up their meal.
If the cars miss the nuts, the birds sometimes hop back and put them somewhere else on the road. Or they sit on electricity wires and drop them in front of vehicle"
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Originally posted by NUKE
A lot of geniuses are freaks and operate on a different plane than the rest.
'cause if they thought like us they'd be normal, not geniuses.
worth thinking about next time you see some weirdo, he might have the answers to your problems,
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Originally posted by NUKE
Hey Nash, could you make a rendering of the "crow attack" and post it? That was a funny story that put a picture in my mind that I could almost see.
I don't have to... Someone had a camera and sent me the pic.
(http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/cwharton/sbm/crowattack.jpg)
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LOL! hahaha
Made my day Nash!
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LOL who would think Nash is helping to promote evil oil companies!!!
That little formula you are advertising is goingto make Dick cheney millions!!!!
:D :D
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My analysis:
A small town gathering, the guy in the suite is way out of place and is being attacked by crows. He is an outsider and no one cares about him.
An equally out of place man in a trenchcoat is the only other person who seems to notice the attack. This guy feels proud to point out the attack and wants to appear as though he is actually a part of it or controls it in some way.
The crows are unreal in the sense that there wings are not in flight.... they are personal demons, and they draw blood from the soul.
The old guy with the cigar is a witness who could care less about anything.
The little man figure below seems to have made a running start and slid into the pool of blood, arms raised in some kind of self-glorifiing gester to the "camera" and no one else.
The cow and Steer....I have no clue.....lol.
Anyway, Im just blathering.......sort of had a few beers.
John Lennon used to laugh at the interpretation of his songs.....
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Is that a mini Arthur Fonzarelli? :D
Good for the kid though. Einstein forgot where lived all the time. :)
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Am I the only one to have noticed that??
Originally posted by NUKE
...Crows are rated among the top of the most intelligent mammals...
It reminds me one episode of Calvin & Hobbes when the whole class immediately jumps on Calvin: "BATS AREN'T BUGS!!!"
:lol
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Very cool, but lets get him thinking hyrdogen, there is no future in oil for this planet.
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Lets kidnap him...
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Originally posted by Nash
(http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/cwharton/sbm/crowattack.jpg)
LOL! :rofl
Brandon Lee in the distant corner and Fonz ski'ing in the blood is classic!
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Originally posted by Nash
One of our clients, an oil company, asks for a favour and says they're sending a kid over who needs some posters made.
The guy is 16 years old living here in Calgary. He's got a harsh Russian name - Vladislav something, but speaks english like he's lived here all his life. He developed a way (and this is where it all eludes me) to extract 30% more oil that would have been lost/wasted under current extraction methods. Oil sands.
It has to do with binding enzymes and molecules, and molecular strings like mmmmcmmbbmmfc or whatever.
He wrote this in his bedroom, and walks into the oil company to present it. The engineers scoff, then examine it. Turns out it works. They become his new best friends. This thing is worth millions upon millions upon millions of dollars, appearently. No doubt there's some kind of patent application underway.
The kid needs the posters made for his presentation at the International Science Fair which is hosted this year in Portland. He's appearently got the North American science competition all sewn up, and is like, the Internation Science Fair (with $3 million in prizes) is also going to be a no brainer. Dude seems nonchalant but absolutely convinced.
He's a super nice kid, but highly distracted... eccentric. He took a cell phone call while in our office, said "Uh hum, yep, well I..." and then he abruptly hung up, put the phone in his pocket and started pacing - obviously deep in thought. Then he said "I just hung up on someone didn't I?!"
Can't even imagine the kinda future a kid like that has ahead of him. Prolly retired at the age of 17.
The geek.
send him to a patent attorney asap
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Originally posted by Nash
The guy is 16 years old living here in Calgary. He's got a harsh Russian name - Vladislav something, but speaks english like he's lived here all his life. He developed a way (and this is where it all eludes me) to extract 30% more oil that would have been lost/wasted under current extraction methods. Oil sands.
Ask him who's the better hottie in the "Street Fighter" series, Chun Li or Cammy.
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Update:
The winners were announced today.
Turns out he won Best of Category: Biochemistry
Intel ISEF Best of Category Award for Top First Place Winner :
BI031 Directed Evolution of Hydrocarbon Utilizing Bacteria
Vladislav Igorevich Lavrovsky, 17, Queen Elizabeth Senior High School, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Congrats Vladislav, you freak! :aok
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Below are the people/projects that he beat.
Man.... In my day I thought I was king ***** for making a paper mache Volcano. Look at what these kids are up to.
BI050 Characterization of Mus81/Mms4's Role in Homologous DNA Repair During S-Phase Mitotic Cellular Division
Shamsher Singh Samra, 17, Clovis West High School, Fresno, California
Second Award of $1,500
BI025 Bean Beacons
Janet Michelle Freilich, 16, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, Vancouver, BC, Canada
BI034 A Comparative Anatomy of the Effect of Permethrin Concentrations on Lumbricus sp. Using Photomicrography
Ryan Michael Wisnoski, 17, Crescent City High School, Crescent City, Florida
BI056 The Effect of Plant Polyphenols Ameliorating Oxidative Stress in NGF-Beta Differentiated PC-12 Cells
Daniel Shing-shun Tse, 18, David H. Hickman High School, Columbia, Missouri
BI067 R-Cognin Mediates Aggregation via Free Cell Surface Sulfhydryls
Shantanu Kadir Gaur, 17, Bethel Park Senior High School, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania
Third Award of $1,000
BI004 The Characterization of Human Epidermal Stem Cells
Stefan Vitorovic, 19, Blanche Ely High School, Pompano Beach, Florida
BI006 Designing Organic Blockers Which Mitigate Protein Ligand Binding Between HIV-1 and CD4+T Cells
Frank Michael Selb, 16, Astronaut High School, Titusville, Florida
BI018 Uridine Phosphorylase Substrate Specificity: New Methods and Prospects
Alexandra N. Zakharova, 16, Moscow Chemical Lyceum #1303, Moscow, Russia
BI053 SmartGEN siRNA Libraries: Bridging the Gap Between RNAi Technology and Human Gene Therapy
Josh Max Silverman, 16, North Shore High School, Glen Head, New York
BI060 The Effects of Amphipathic Esters of Ticrynafen on Intraocular Pressure
Ishani Sud, 17, North Carolina School of Science and Math, Durham, North Carolina
BI061 Isolating Regions of Amino Acids in Proteins with Significant Structural Backbone Flexibility
Tarak Jagdish Upadhyaya, 17, Southside High School, Greenville, South Carolina
BI066 The Role of Brassinosteroids in Root-Cell Differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Edith Adriana Pierre-Jerome, 17, Mount Miguel High School, Spring Valley, California
Fourth Award of $500
BI010 Indole-3-Carbinol Protects Normal Neuronal Cells (HCN-1) and Kills Brain Cancer Cells (SK-N) by Downregulating Clyclooxygenase-2 and Nuclear Factor KAPPA B: In vitro Analyses
Lascelles Ewen Lyn-Cook, 18, Little Rock Hall High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
BI016 Screening HIV Reverse Transcriptase(RT) Inhibitors from Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms
Jianbin Wang, 18, High School Attached to Peking University, Beijing, Beijing, China
BI022 An Evaluation of the Effects of Temperature Increase and High Energy Photon Beams on Drosophila melanogaster
Parijata Desiree Mackey, 16, Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, Miami, Florida
BI023 Pre-emergent Stress on Sorghum Halepense Seed
Adam Kenneth Judy, 16, Moorefield High School, Moorefield, West Virginia
BI027 A Rapid Immunoassay for Denatured b-lactoglobulin: An Indicator for the Quality Control of Processed Milk
Tzu Yi Peng, 16, National Hsinchu Girls High School, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Taiwan
BI037 Bioluminescence of Dinoflagellates
Austin Andrew Chick, 17, Hanford High School, Richland, Washington
BI040 Proliferation and Differentiation of Adult Rat Bone Marrow Stem Cells When Co-cultured with Rat Hepatocytes
Joanne Ming-Li Ho, 18, Raffles Junior College, Singapore, Singapore
BI051 3D Structural Physiology of Immune Synapses as Determined by Electron Tomography and Computational Image Analysis
David Aaron Germain, 16, Winston Churchill High School, Potomac, Maryland