1. Is he a true Savant or is he "just" incredibly gifted?
2. What's the over/under on this getting DCMA'd?

"Son Uva Digger" is being drive by a savant.

Ya well, his delivery sucked because he's a humourless self-important idiot-sans-savant with the self awareness of a particularly dull rock. His place in comedy is _in_ the joke, not in the telling of them. I mean christ, even Bush made me laugh a few times and he was practically a chimp, so really there is no excuse for an orangutan.

There are some places that do use the clear boards, but I agree they are pretty impractical IRL.
And why wouldn't an accountant just be using Excel (or similar), instead of writing columns of numbers on a board? Even if this savant character never makes a math error, it takes way longer just writing everything down rather than keying it in.
A physicist or mathematician solving very long equations makes sense to use whiteboard or chalkboard, but not an accountant.

You, sir, are a comedy savant.

Pop-up spike strips would be good, but I'd put them *after* the water stop sign projection (which would be moved out a bit). They already had to stop traffic for 20+ minutes to clear road so the dude could back up and get his truck out. Backing up a semi is hard, particularly if you've got double trailers (triples are near impossible unless you've got savant-like reversing talent).

If they popped his tires, add hours onto that to replace probably 10+ tires if he gets the whole semi tractor over the spike strip. However, even that is still better than letting the dumbass drive into the tunnel at full steam and causing massive damage.

Idiot Savant.

Very interesting. We need to figure out how to teach these guys how to talk. I'd wager it would make an interesting conversation. Would be pretty cool if humans caused a sort of chimpanzee singularity.

Then again, perhaps its their extraordinary ability at tasks like this that also prevent them from learning language. Maybe we should try giving them magic mushrooms?

>> ^Jinx:

Wonder if he is autistic/idiot savant.


If so he is highly functioning and very social =o)

Wonder if he is autistic/idiot savant.

>> ^dzonny:

Crumb is a savant of sexuality.


Yes, and all about the femme! Adjusted:)

Crumb is a savant of *sexuality.

The thing I do like about auto-tune is that it enables those that NEVER, atleast in front of the public, to sing. There is something primal and deeply connecting about music and song, it connects with us in ways we never get connected to, especially emotionally. It calms us, it brings a grand hush to those listening intently (and if there not listening intently, they are the idiots in the mosh pit) as though something profound may be learned at any moment.

For those that did bring so much to the world, like the Carl Sagan auto-tune, it had the same response... You shut-up, listened and believe it or not there was a profound message in that one AND there is one here, but on a much smaller scale. I'd love to see more of our most beloved humans and those of the humanities that have given us all so much get this treatment, but only if done with the same amount of respect as this one had and Carl Sagan had as well.

Music and song strangely seems to access a part of us that destroys the worst motivations in us, atleast for awhile--as long as you're listening (although if you're the one creating it, I'm not so sure; I think you must be a savant for that to happen). Next to our ability to reason and create, this is by far our next most powerful ability.

I hope to hear more. I hope they take their time.

My guess: he's got a high-IQ, high-functioning, autism spectrum condition.

Sensitive to stimuli like street noise so that he blocks his ears with his hands, obsession and savant-like talent for a specific activity (composing / all things musical), etc.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that fairly clearly he's wired a bit different -- and that is a good thing.

I'm used to cheating shows that involve a group of MIT students or some savant breaking an unbreakable system.

This was like watching a student cheating on a geometry test. The culprit is generally no better at cheating than they are at math. A smarter person would have done a much better job running this scam.

Like savants -- able to do amazing things, but the details of day to day are too much?

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Pardon my butting in, but you may be interested to know that plenty of programmers would be just as baffled by the different embed styles as non-programmers. Some are really techie types, others... well... just aren't. I recall working with some who had trouble turning on their workstations
>> ^ant:

NP. BTW, I am not a programmer either.