mathNEWS’ extremely brief moment of relevance
A few days ago, I’ve made a startling discovery: mathNEWS was semi-relevant for a very brief moment in 1996. For those of you who have no idea what a mathNEWS is, it is the publication of Math students at the beloved University of Waterloo; at least that’s what it is officially. Unofficially, and more realistically, it is largely an excuse for Dungeons & Dragons addicts, who, by the way, are obscenely obese or dorky or both, to, umm uhh… I guess I don’t know ’cause I’ve never met them; I just hate mathNEWS and the dorky fatties for writing it.
Anyhow, back to the story: it turns out Filler, the legendary web column written by the beautiful, sexy, charming, smart Heather Havrilesky under pseudonym Polly Esther, featured a link to mathNEWS on its May 1, 1996 inaugural issue.
I’ve never felt so close to someone that I admire since that guy at the Gap told me he met Thurston Moore once at a garage sale in a Chicago suburb.
