Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/08/I used to think that the guy who came up with the idea for Velcro (“velour crochet”) was a super-genius. I mean, it's simple yet simultaneously complex. It turns out that whoever that guy was, he cheated. He peeked at the answers that Mother Nature provided and copied them when the teacher wasn't looking. He saw how Burdoch burrs stuck to his tweed pants, took a closer look under the microscope, then patented the process. Cheater!
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