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   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2026/1/27 9:58:3, Paul wrote:   
      
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   > want to be chased down a hall, with a pitchfork. He was one of   
   > my favorite characters because he could derive *everything*   
   > from first principles. He would start at 10AM with a yellow   
   > pad of quad-rule paper, and derive Greens Theory, and for the   
   > 1PM class, he would put a solid ten pages of notes on the   
   > blackboard (in one hour). In other words, he did not work from "canned   
   notes".   
   > The ink was still wet at 1 PM.   
      
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   If we're swapping lecture anecdotes:   
      
   At school (not uni), we had the very opposite of the above: Mr. King in   
   geography used _his_ notes from when he was at school (the same school).   
   He _had_ added a footnote about North Sea Oil (this was the 1970s).   
      
   At uni, I once dozed off while actually in the act of taking notes; on   
   examination afterwards, the letters just got smaller over about three   
   words, then stopped.   
      
   "This is a one-line proof - of we start sufficiently far to the left."   
      
   Old professors never die - they just lose their faculties.   
      
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   Intelligence isn't complete without the full picture and the full   
   picture is all about doubt. Otherwise, you go the way of George Bush.   
   - baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller (former head of MI5),   
   Radio Times 3-9 September 2011.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)