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My photo specialty flagged by Hans of Stockholm

December 19th, 2004 · No Comments

Hans from Stockholm sent me email about this photo:

Hi Betsy,

Today a colleague of mine who had noticed that I spend more and more time reading
about Frank Wilczek said “Hey Hans, what is it with Frank Wilczek? You don’t
know him. He’s just one in a long row of Nobel laureates. There’s nothing
special about him.” In a split second I could feel the rage explode inside me.
“Nothing special about him. How dare you say that? He is a genius!!”

My now
former collegue looked surprised at my outburst. “Genius, yeah sure. And how can
you know that? There’s no sign on a person saying ‘I’m a genius'”. I felt really
good when I could kill this ignorant fool with the following remark “Well,
actually there is. Besides from the fact that I’ve listened to his speeches and
don’t understand a thing (that makes him a genius), he also wears the true mark
of a genius, a light bulb on his head. And that’s a fact!”

http://betsydevine.weblogger.com/2004/12/12#a2028

All the best/ Hans

I admit that my photos sometimes show people with strange stuff behind their heads. In this photo, however, the famous aurora photographer Torbjörn Lövgren is responsible for the object on Frank Wilczek’s head. That is, I took this rather blurry photo at a Kiruna Space Campus
party (Frank is wearing a Tshirt with one of Torbjörn’s aurora photos)
and Torbjörn, who had just been awarded the prize of a tinsel wreath,
put it on Frank’s head.

The black doorframe shadow emerging from Torbjörn’s head like a unicorn horn is my own and all-too-typical contribution.

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