> someone local to wherever it is you are. Satisfying honest intellectual curiosity is catnip to academics. I live about a mile or two from Roger Penrose; I ha

> someone local to wherever it is you are. Satisfying honest intellectual curiosity is catnip to academics. I live about a mile or two from Roger Penrose; I have wanted for years to ask him out for a beer. I believe he has views that are very interesting to me, that he hasn't published on (not his field). I know someone who knows him. But I'm terrified. > what hairy even is Several people have picked up on me using that word, and run with it. I was only using the word casually, to refer to something that looks like it could be cut with a Razor. I'm beginning to get the impression that it's sort of a technical term with an established meaning. [Edit] I'm not sure if any such established meaning might be related to the observation that "black holes have no hair". I'm not using it that way, TTBOMK.