i am helping prepare some kids for the olympiads. the olympiads are similar to academic decathlons... i think... but they are a huge deal here. schools pride themselves if they have a student that does well and they will talk about it forever.

but as i was saying..

i am helping prepare some kids. and today we were working on an essay question. the question was something like pretend the fountain of youth was discovered and you could have any notable person live forever. who would you pick, why and what do you think the consequences would be.

my kids top choices for everlasting life were: Da Vinci, Shakespear, Aristotle, and Michael Jackson.

hmmm.