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Could’ve sworn I brought this up before, too, but I can’t seem to find a journal entry and a quick search of what old e-mail I have with me turned up no matches. Maybe it was a passing remark in rambling pre-blog website material? Anyway, I’m not sure what I was hoping to gain reading an interview of an actor from a spinoff series that failed to win my viewership (and looks to be going the way of the Trek franchise, as far as I’m interested), but this bit stopped me mid-scroll:

And I tell you never try to tie your shoes in front of an astrophysicist. What happens is they’ll tell you you’re doing it wrong.

All my life I have apparently been tying my shoelaces wrong, there is a much more mathematically beautiful way of doing it, that I was shown by Bill Nye [the Science Guy].

Happened to me back in college, and while I still wasn’t convinced that the single-loop knot was any superior to mine (tied correctly), it was the frightening idea that I could go that long with the mistaken impression I was right about something. Like my definition of the word “sycophant.” You know, this may be what’s hurt my confidence all my life.

And lest I forget, while we were on the subject of shoes:

Too bad Bush is on his way out. He just may have returned us to a barefoot society.

Tagged clothing, firsts