What do you get the advanced research projects agency that has it all?
A persistent rumor haunting DARPA has it that the agency has a tough time finding program managers for its high-risk, high-reward research. In what was possibly a self-aware nod to that rumor, but was more likely a crushingly obtuse PR move, every table was adorned with pens and several sheets of paper titled "New Ideas."
"no more fish at banquets."
Every table was also adorned with several bottles of wine. That coincidence can't have been accidental. I settled on snark and made my case against serving 1600 individual pieces of salmon at enormous events (although there might be a DARPA grand challenge in there: how do you keep 1600 pieces of salmon perfectly cooked and warm through three speeches?).
If only the trusty Danger Room readership had been at the party with me.
"How can I find out more about sending the Army a proposal of my own?" writes one intrepid Danger Room reader. "I created, "hyp-hop-notherapy", self-empowering poetry using acrostic writing."
Read the whole letter.
