Re: DP 5/29/2008 Wed

Sherwood Harrington <sherwoodNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Mike Beede <beede@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <g1nd16$hp$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sherwood Harrington <sherwoodNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sadly, the best friend I had in the physics department is
currently serving 25-to-life as a guest of the State of
California, and the remaining physicists don't seem to trust me
very much.

You MUST elucidate on this.

If I do, it'll be over on my blog. It's a very sad story, and
isn't really appropriate for this happy group.

Did it involve a professor and a ball peen hammer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Streleski
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,959900,00.html

The _Time_ article omits the rest of the quote. After "If I express
remorse, I would not only be a murderer but a dirty lying dog." he
reportedly said "I'm a murderer. I'm not a dirty lying dog."

I was at Stanford when he was released in 1985. The math faculty
there was a bit on edge, to say the least.

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