a craps shoot

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This entry was posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:47 PM and is filed under Characters I've known.

Dr. Kan

I stole the phrase "what the bogus" from David Kan.  Who?  David George Kan, Phd.  We were in 2nd grade together.  He drooled.  Two foot long strings of goo.  And his papers were crumbly.  One minute after Mrs. Staples handed out a worksheet, his paper would be a wet, spindled mess.

I checked out his math thesis.  Not that I understood a word of it.  I just wanted to see if it was crinkled and drooly.  A doctorate in math seems like a craps shoot.  I heard you gotta prove something that has never been proved before.  All the easy proofs are taken, so you're stuck proving some obscure crap that no one has any use for.  So you fiddle with the esoteric jibberish for a few years, and then one day you get super stuck.  A few more years go by, and you just can't finish the damn proof.  Seems like you'd be screwed.  But then, what if the whole proof only took a couple of weeks?  See what I mean?  A craps shoot.  Actually I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about.

Here's what I do know.  Dr. Kan taught me how to tie my shoes like one of the cool guys.  Allow me to demonstrate:

I really should buy some new shoes.  Or at least shine them.


The Gamblers - Joe Shive.mp3

***note...if you can't see the video above, it can be seen at:***
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1156336473566165720&q=genre%3Aeducational

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    • Friday, December 08, 2006 1:22 AM joshua mellin wrote:
      I had Ms. Chabbra freshman year and i was failing a 2nd semester of algebra and i asked her, like i was known to do, what with 2 days remaining i could do to pass the class.. and she said turn in a theory that no one had ever thought of... just by chance a family friend just got their math doctorate and had come up with one and was willing to let me borrow it. I brought it into ms. chabbra who smiled at me, patted me on the head.. and failed me.
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    • Friday, December 08, 2006 4:13 AM Brian S wrote:
      ha, i guessed what song you put on by the blog context. i never heard it before but i remember the story "on Christ, the solid rock i stand"
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      1. Friday, December 08, 2006 6:38 PM Old Man Neill wrote:
        Here's what he's talking about:  I matched that crappy song I wrote to a hymn written in 1834.  It's mildly disturbing.  It's was "sung" at Ignite, a 2004 youth retreat in Chicago.  The recording is 600 highschool/college kids singing miserably.
        On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand.mp3
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