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“Unhinged” is a pretty uncharitable description, and your “horrified” class sounds a bit closed-minded. Another way to describe the same is “excitable, passion
by jacobolus 7y ago
“Unhinged” is a pretty uncharitable description, and your “horrified” class sounds a bit closed-minded.
Another way to describe the same is “excitable, passionate, and non-conforming”.
But I would instead say “Cliff Stoll is a national treasure”. I’m super jealous of the middle school kids who got to have him as their science teacher.
- lagg 7y agoWell I mean I'd call it being dickish but that's just me. He's a perfect gentleman as far as I'm concerned. I aspire to keep form and force of character as he has this many years on. If anyone wants a pretty amusing documentary featuring him and a pretty good picture of his personality see The KGB, the Computer and Me. A scene of him sitting next to a guy being proper and having coffee while himself is sitting with feet on the bench and a big icecream shake comes to mind.
- rosser 7y ago> But I would instead say “Cliff Stoll is a national treasure”. Indeed. The man has more than earned a few eccentricities.
- wyclif 7y agoI feel like the world needs more people like Clifford Stoll. He represents one of the last vestiges of the "old, weird America", from a time when "Think Differently" meant something real and wasn't a marketing slogan. Sure he's eccentric, but that's what makes him unique, and I tend to optimize for uniqueness when it comes to things like art, literature, music, and even science. I read his book The Cuckoo's Egg when I was in high school and I found it vastly entertaining and enlightening. It's dated now but I think people could still get something out of reading it.