I turned on Letterman the other night to find the camera showing the back of his guest's head with Dave in the background. My heart leapt to my throat as I wondered if what I was seeing really was...really was...No, it couldn't be! Is that Chris?!
Turns out the closely shorn pate was not Chris's, but Daniel Tammet, pukka savant. Tammet is autistic, and apparently memorized Pi, in only a few weeks, to an INCREDIBLE twenty-two thousand, five-hundred decimal places. He said it took him something like five hours to recite, which means in those few weeks he couldn't have gone over the number that many times in order to memorize it.
While I know Chris doesn't have those skills to that degree, I think his friends and family ought to cut him some slack. What with blogging and memorizing Pi in his spare time, it's a wonder he's as far as he is with his dissertation. And thus we hope he's relaxing and dancing with wolves up north.
Posted by Paul at April 29, 2005 11:22 AMI'm not dancing with wolves, but I did eat bison for lunch. Seriously.
That picture is creepy. But I want to believe I'm better looking than that guy.
Posted by: Chris at April 29, 2005 02:51 PMAw, yeah, you are. But as I told the story, I wondered if it was you when the camera was showing the back of the guy's head. Thus, I took him, from behind, to be you.
Posted by: Paul at April 29, 2005 06:04 PMKegri, I know what you're thinking; it's not funny; shut up.
Posted by: Chris at April 29, 2005 06:12 PMIt's a trap!!!!!!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 30, 2005 04:20 PMPerhaps, but you will get another chance like this.
Posted by: Spaz at May 5, 2005 03:17 PM