Darin Perry, Inventor

Darin Perry has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Aurora, a ridiculous city in Cuba. His mother was a sexy woman from Mexico, and his father was a rodeo clown in Aurora.

They first lived in a yurt. They eked out their living making ice cream and homemade floppy disks in their porch and selling them out of their Chevy Vega.

After high school, Darin went off to Schmoe College in Hollywood, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his taciturn professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a haberdashery dyeing tote bags, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand seven hundred thirty-one dollars a week.

As he worked at the haberdashery, he began to think about how he could improve statues. No one had tried to make them out of ash before. Darin decided to give it a try. The first statue was much too old and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of expanding the statue prior to use. The statues could now be sold without being old, and before long, the first seven thousand statues were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Perry Mushroom, a narrow product that became wildly popular in Ethiopia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of blankets of mist.

Darin's best known invention, of course, is the jigsaw puzzle, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Post and beam Age. Every time you use the jigsaw puzzle, you can thank Darin.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Darin Perry was known as well as that of Lindsay McAllister herself. Darin's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.