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I was in a movie today! A student of mine is putting together a short film which he's entering into a contest. The movie is about a fictional university called "Easy Street College", and I played a professor in "Advanced Nonsense" for about 6 seconds: we scribbled a bunch of strange stuff on the whiteboard, I held a globe of the Moon under my arm, and I mumbled and repeated the words on the board while gesturing with a flashlight. I'm a terrible actor[1], but I was able to maintain a wild intensity for 10 seconds which was what he wanted.
Afterwards, he and his crew were sitting around in my classroom talking about what was next. They wanted a name for a sports team, and I suggested they use a double-entendre, like "Hookers"; when we remembered the college was called "Easy Street", it seemed strangely appropriate. The players would all have hooks on their hands, of course, which explains their failure in volleyball.
Sigh. I miss skit-writing. :) I miss you Div-I types; physicists and mathematicians on the whole are not terribly wacky people (Feynman excepted); funny, sure, but not so over-the-top. (Is "wet humor" the opposite of "dry humor"?)
Afterwards, he and his crew were sitting around in my classroom talking about what was next. They wanted a name for a sports team, and I suggested they use a double-entendre, like "Hookers"; when we remembered the college was called "Easy Street", it seemed strangely appropriate. The players would all have hooks on their hands, of course, which explains their failure in volleyball.
Sigh. I miss skit-writing. :) I miss you Div-I types; physicists and mathematicians on the whole are not terribly wacky people (Feynman excepted); funny, sure, but not so over-the-top. (Is "wet humor" the opposite of "dry humor"?)
