"Yes, Isaac?"

"What about that problem?"
"Oh, that? Don't worry about that."
"Wait. Why?"
"I just put that up as a joke. That's probably the hardest geometry equation in the world."
"Well, how much extra credit is it worth?"
"Well, considering I've never seen anyone get it right, including my mentor- Dr. Leaky at MIT, I guess if anyone here can solve that problem, I'd see to it that none of you ever have to open another math book again... for the rest of your lives."

I have a soft spot in my heart for mathematics... up to a certain point. there are people who take it too far. these are the men who i had as teaching assistants in college. they're graduate and post-graduate students of mathematics. their brain and their work exists in a place that they've never seen, touched, or experienced. they make math jokes about non-orientability, and zero-volume bottles. while i admire the technical ability necessary to make them, and have thought several times about buying one to set on my desk as a "i'm-smarter-than-you" conversation starter:
"hey dude, what's that?"
"oh, that's a klein bottle."
"what's a klein bottle?"
"[patronizing pause, and maybe even a slight eye-roll] it's a non-orientable, zero volume, one-sided surface. didn't you have math in college?"

i'm still a little weirded out that people like this exist out there... and are able to procreate.
check them out: http://www.kleinbottle.com/whats_a_klein_bottle.htm I think it's that i find their humor a little funny, and that means i'm closer to being able to relate to them than i am to not...

if you go back to the root page (kleinbottle.com) and poke around a bit, you'll see what i mean.

i think i just figured out what i want for my first tattoo: the polynomial form of the Klein bottle equation. how hot would that look running down my biceps?