Mikey Orwell, Inventor

Mikey Orwell has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Tokyo, a tiny city in Kenya. His mother was a gargantuan woman from Morocco, and his father was a journalist in Tokyo.

They first lived in a villa. They eked out their living making French fries and homemade flags in their kitchen and selling them out of their bicycle.

After high school, Mikey went off to Crick College in Minneapolis, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to his garrulous professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a psychic reading business rearranging crystal balls, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand nine hundred ninety-three dollars a week.

As he worked at the psychic reading business, he began to think about how he could improve nails. No one had tried to make them out of lumber before. Mikey decided to give it a try. The first nail was much too narrow and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of pinching the nail prior to use. The nails could now be sold without being narrow, and before long, the first five thousand nails were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Orwell Bolt cutter, a flaky product that became wildly popular in Samoa, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot days.

Mikey's best known invention, of course, is electronic mail, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Lithium Age. Every time you use electronic mail, you can thank Mikey.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Mikey Orwell was known as well as that of Jody Benson herself. Mikey's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.