Heh. I literally just tabbed away from watching an episode of Fringe[1] to check HN. I didn't expect to walk right into a Walter Bishop reference. You make a g

Heh. I literally just tabbed away from watching an episode of Fringe[1] to check HN. I didn't expect to walk right into a Walter Bishop reference. You make a good point though: what do you do with somebody like Walter who is simultaneously A. batshit crazy and B. a genius? I guess the Fringe approach of having people (Astrid, Peter, etc) to "babysit" him most of the time is one approach, but it probably doesn't scale. And one slip-up could result in... well, the end of the world in the fictional case. Hopefully nothing quite so dramatic is at stake here in our real (??) world. Just don't let the crazy guy keep a cow in the office... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_Desirable_Objects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_Desirable_Objects