49 schools are getting free 3D carving machines.

Potentially not a real place.

A company called Inventables manufactures 3D carving machines. Like the much heralded 3D printers that are turning heads, 3D carving machines create various products out of blocks of source material. Wood, metal, plastic, and wax can each be turned into guitars, cabinets, dolls, and a really killer wannabe Yankee Candle.

Zack Kaplan, who founded Inventables, wanted to donate one machine (which costs anywhere from $1,000 to $2,000) to a school in every state in America. 586 schools from 49 states submitted videos or written pleas looking for a machine, of which 49 lucky grade schools or high schools will be chosen.

The one state missing?

Delaware.

No school from Delaware is receiving a machine because no school from Delaware submitted a proposal. This is okay, because the vast majority of you probably have never heard of Delaware anyway. It contributes so little to this country, you might have assumed it was the name to some indie rock band out of northern California or a type of plastic cutlery sold at Target. "Honey, get the Dixie Cups and Delaware for the picnic!"

Delaware is like Nebraska if Nebraska lost weight, added a coastline, and became a pale actuary who drinks rice milk. And, mind you, Nebraska is about as thrilling as Benedictine monks chanting--and yet it is still more exciting than Delaware. Nebraska is the white rice and oyster crackers of states. But Delaware? A Peter, Paul, and Mary concert was a live wire of action in comparison.

Delaware didn't have a single school submit for a 3D printer because there's a good chance every citizen of Delaware is a cardboard cutout of a door-to-door insurance salesperson that can only be made by a 3D carving machine first.

That's right.

Think about it.