On 4/26/2021 4:00 PM, Mark J. wrote:
On 4/26/2021 7:46 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 4/25/2021 10:30 PM, Mark J. wrote:
... Â* He was so
delighted, and he made me feel like a wizard.Â* ...

We MEs would say "He was probably an Electrical Engineer."Â* ;-)

Or maybe English? Once I noticed a faculty member's bike parked in a
rack on campus with the front quick release not clamped, but instead
screwed down by hand. I tracked the guy down and gave him a lesson on
quick release levers. He was very grateful.

I found him in his office in the English department.

The lost-pedal guy was from the Poli Sci department.Â* Later I took his
intro class on American ?Government? ?Political history? and enjoyed it.
Learned a lot about the accomplishments of the various presidents and
one hundred landmark Supreme Court decisions (we had to learn
one-sentence summaries of the 100 by name).

I sometimes make fun of people who don't understand simple mechanics,
but really, I understand that different people have widely different
knowledge and skills. (Yes, the Mechanical Engineering students and the
Electrical Engineering students ragged on each other, but it was just
for fun.)

One friend of mine whom I see a bit too seldom is a Harley riding
Catholic priest. He's ridden for decades and done countless long trips.
I once invited him to a motorcycle show at a local museum. I remember
him pointing and asking "So is that the carburetor?" to which I
responded "No, that's the battery" and things like that.

But on matters of European history, European culture, psychology and (of
course) theology, he's a font of information. Quite a brilliant guy.
--
- Frank Krygowski