When transmat became cheap and reliable he

When transmat became cheap and reliable he couch-surfed around the globe. But even with friends he often stayed in a corner, bandages still on his head. One evening, though, he

and some pals were transmat-ized to the carnival's Round-Up ride. "Ack, a cornerless prison!" he lamented. The centrifugal force peeled away his bandages, revealing a row of metal

staples across the poor creature's countenance. His head lolled from side to side. The centrifugal force was so great that the staples finally flew from his face revealing

a second mouth in his cheek. Finally the "Tilt-a-whirl" came to stop. The Carnie said, "Alright, another shock and roll...woah!" The Carnie saw his second mouth and nearly lost

his health insurance policy but an insurance assessor determined a second mouth was covered. The Carnies dentist employed extra stuff when he made an appointment

if he had scrolling LEDs stapled to his forehead and hardwired into his brain. Now the whole world would know what he was thinking.

He needn't have worried. His forehead thought LED showed no evidence of thought at all - just LED white noise. Sometimes 'burger' would scroll across, perhaps at lunchtime, but oth

erwise the panel was chaos. Physicist Lawrence Krauss appeared, pushed his glasses up his nose, and pointed at the LED array. "CMB," he informed. "And I'm hungry. You wanna grab a

small critter with our bare hands, bash its head in with a rock and roast it over an open fire?" I said, "Let's strip down to our loincloths & paint ourselves with mud & ash too."