A bit of funny.

Taken from the podcast, Today In The Past, by John Hodgman

November 25.

"Happy Birthday, Colin Julius Robert Von Mayer. This famous German physicist, whom I’m sure you’re all intimately familiar with, turns a hundred and thirty one years old today. Famous for observing that “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed” (now do you know who I’m talking about?), Von Mayer went on to invent…immortality. He would later live on to regret it. And unregret it. And then regret it again. And then he would live on to reconsider his regret, another time, and then he would really regret it and then forget that it happened and then remember. He currently lives in a hospital in his home town of Hilebrawn, Germany, where he keeps active by pushing pieces of crumpled up paper around on a tray and thinking about his children, whom he has outlived, and his own many failed suicide attempts. Happy Birthday! (It happened today, in the past!)"