more TASI stories

Today, near the end of Mike Douglas’ talk (when everyone was starting to fall asleep because we are a video game/TV generation with the attention spans of a knat), Louis got a little too comfortable in his chair (which is attached to and swivels out from a long, skinny, table-desk) and snapped his chair right off the pivot. Laughing, he stood up in the lecture, picked the chair up over his head, and placed it in the back of the room. Everyone woke up and wondered if we were going to get an announcement about not breaking lecture hall furniture. (There have been many such announcements such as not leaving TASI early for Perimeter, cell phones and computers in lectures, using fat versus skinny chalk, attending even the non-stringy lectures, writing on the far right side of the board, etc)