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Did anyone else look into his Stanford biography page? Pretty insane stuff. https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/ https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/ http://web

Did anyone else look into his Stanford biography page? Pretty insane stuff. https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/ https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/ http://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/bucket/ http://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/bucket/ In a section headed by an anime girl, he claims to have, "figured out when and how a bunch of other fantasies got into our DNA and will shortly post an article on this web site that will explain how that happened, why it is causing modern humans to make billions of bad decisions each day, and how we and our descendants are likely to be wiped out soon unless we begin dealing with this problem in a rational way." Then there's a weird picture of his face, which is how he thinks he'll look in 2043, when "he plans to croak at age 112". On his bucket list page, "My choice as a troublemaker will be to get shot in the back while running away from an jealous husband in May 2043". Very weird stuff.

empressplay 5y ago
That last bit I think is stolen from Lazarus Long
scruple 5y ago
Found a couple links [0][1] that appear to be follow-ups to that section about fantasies. [0]: https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/earth/fantasy.html https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/earth/fantasy.html [1]: https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/earth/fantasies.html https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/earth/fantasies.html
KineticLensman 5y ago
Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and inbetween the sheets holywater death not a famous-last-words peaceful out of breath death When I'm 73 and in constant good tumour may I be mown down at dawn by a bright red sports car on my way home from an allnight party Or when I'm 91 with silver hair and sitting in a barber's chair may rival gangsters with hamfisted tommyguns burst in and give me a short back and insides Or when I'm 104 and banned from the Cavern may my mistress catching me in bed with her daughter and fearing for her son cut me up into little pieces and throw away every piece but one Let me die a youngman's death not a free from sin tiptoe in candle wax and waning death not a curtains drawn by angels borne 'what a nice way to go' death
- jll29 5y ago
  ...a poem by Liverpudlian poet Roger McGough (1967) Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McGough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McGough The Cavern referenced in the poem is a music club in which the Beatle played at the time, now it's tourist trap with canned pop music (what Brits call "cheesy music").
wfn 5y ago
> Did anyone else look into his Stanford biography page? It's great; it's called wit. :) If you want a more conventional boring bio, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Earnest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Earnest

empressplay 5y ago

That last bit I think is stolen from Lazarus Long

scruple 5y ago

Found a couple links [0][1] that appear to be follow-ups to that section about fantasies. [0]: https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/earth/fantasy.html https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/earth/fantasy.html [1]: https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/earth/fantasies.html https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/earth/fantasies.html

KineticLensman 5y ago

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and inbetween the sheets holywater death not a famous-last-words peaceful out of breath death When I'm 73 and in constant good tumour may I be mown down at dawn by a bright red sports car on my way home from an allnight party Or when I'm 91 with silver hair and sitting in a barber's chair may rival gangsters with hamfisted tommyguns burst in and give me a short back and insides Or when I'm 104 and banned from the Cavern may my mistress catching me in bed with her daughter and fearing for her son cut me up into little pieces and throw away every piece but one Let me die a youngman's death not a free from sin tiptoe in candle wax and waning death not a curtains drawn by angels borne 'what a nice way to go' death

jll29 5y ago
...a poem by Liverpudlian poet Roger McGough (1967) Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McGough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McGough The Cavern referenced in the poem is a music club in which the Beatle played at the time, now it's tourist trap with canned pop music (what Brits call "cheesy music").

wfn 5y ago

> Did anyone else look into his Stanford biography page? It's great; it's called wit. :) If you want a more conventional boring bio, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Earnest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Earnest