Perhaps it should be considered perfectly normal to pay unnaturally huge humans obscene amounts of money to bolster the image of a metropolis near you by competing with other unnaturally huge humans who take obscene amounts of money in other metropolises. The imbalance of the cash involved versus what we pay for other, at least equally worthy, human endeavors still chaps my hide.
It also makes it easy to overlook people who accomplish great things on–let’s call it a different scale. Today’s hero:
The slowest solver [of the Rubik’s Cube] is thought to be Graham Parker, 45, a builder from Portchester, Hants, who finished his Cube earlier this month 26 years after he bought it. “When I clicked that last bit into place and each face was a solid colour I wept,” he said.
Here’s to you, Mr. Parker.
