Thursday, November 20, 2008

True Genius.

On Monday I had to take my MacBook to the local MacStore for some mundane repairs. The technician who handled the repair had a business card listing his occupation as ``genius.'' Later that day, and over the course of the week, I had the rare privilege of having several conversations with a visitor to my department who was both a MacArthur Fellow and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He also gave a series of astonishingly beautiful lectures on his research in mathematical biology. So I suppose his business card should read ``SuperDuperGenius.''