User:TennesseeTony10

User:TennesseeTony10. Yep, it looks error-free at least this time, but if I wake up at 2:00 a.m. and start working differential equations that I make up so that they're next to impossible to solve, maybe somebody else will also be up, struggling to find the latest computer-generated prime number. Last I hear, it was well over 2 million and sill climbing. Anyway, whoever that guy is, maybe he can solve my differential equation and I can dig up the latest prime. Man I sure am glad the era of the slide-rule is over. I had to use that thing when I was a freshman at Georgia Tech, where along with the mistakes I made in using the slide-rule I was making more than an absurd, even existential mistake of thinking I had to major in engineering just because my two brothers-in-law did. Well, there was a kindly old Dean there, named George P. Griffin, who gave me some tests and then talked to me, persuading me to get the hell out of Georgia Tech as he could see right away I wasn't the engineer type. As I recall his scholarly coup de grace aphorism that persuaded me to leave Tech was when he said, "Look, I'm an asshole, and you're an asshole, but you're not our kind of asshole. Go somewhere where it will be obvious to you that they just love your kind of aashole. So I went elsewhere and eventually wound up working under a professor who was head of the creative writing program at Harvard.  Now how did that happen?  I've completely lobotomized that part of my brain that remembers how it happened. So, as Forrest Gump would say, "That's about all I have to say about that." Maybe you're thinking another of Forrest's dictums is more applicable to me, namely, "Stupid is as stupid does," but remember, that wasn't original with Forrest but with Sally Field, America's girl next door, then America's self-sacrificial wife, then a serious student of politics, until she finally left this vale of tears while up on the second floor of the Gump household. Here's to Bubba Gump.