Mu Theta Alpha, a high school mathematics honor society, held an annual math competition for high schools throughout Chicago. In my junior year I came in 8th in the city, and in my senior year I came in first. I still have the trophy.
I wrote a long article about a project my company was working on, which was published in Byte Magazine in 1990.
Does co-authoring a Staff Report carry any Cool Points?
I’m 68. A couple of years ago I needed some new sneakers, and although I’ve bought New Balance for many years, I thought I’d see if there were any other brands I liked as much. I went to the local sports shoe store and tried on a few and ended up liking Hoka shoes. They offered better cushioning for my 235+ lbs. Last year I bought a second pair.
My step son, step daughter, and her husband and kids were visiting yesterday and step son (33 y.o.) noticed I was wearing Hokas and said I was cool. Step son-in-law (40) agreed.
So I’m officially cool!
I’ve ridden about 200,000 miles on a motorcycle, all without any crashes so far.
Hahahah. Me too. No neighbors. :shrug: ziiipppp.
did the Rolling Stones ever perform in your state? … if yes, then your dose was the second largest, only to be surpassed by Keith Richards.
how cool is that!!!
I don’t have much cool going for me … but I have a worldwide unique last name with only 10 people sharing the same name in the entire universe (all family) …
It is also quite compliated - so everybody knows my by my first name … at one stage I was working for a big multinational company (about 5000 employees) and you could call the front-desk and ask to speak to “my first name” and the phone-lady would giggle and put you through.
I can dance, and will when called upon. My gf is a really good dancer, and she’ll occasionally grab my hand and tell me what we’re going to do.
She’ll tell me that the song is “a rumba” or whatever. Means zip to me. But she’ll quickly show me what to do and I can take it from there. Sure, she does all the fancy stuff, but I’m right with her looking like I know what I’m doing.
I often told/tell people who asked me what I did for a living (retired now) that I was an International Arms Dealer. Actually I was a mid-level bureaucrat in the Dept. of Defense that worked up the agreements between the US and other nations and then monitored and reported on the status of deliveries, but still dealt internationally with Military armament so I wasn’t lying and it sounded a lot cooler.
I checked in a Tony Award winning actor who called me funny because of how I responded to a joking question of his.
I did much the same as Foreign Military Sales was part of my DoD job. I’d be in the foreign country doing QA and logistics on the delivery. Snerk, I used the same line about “Arms Dealer.” Very cool and I have a handlebar mustache that l’d twirl.
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Madonna’s younger sister Melanie gave me her phone number when we were both around 13 years old. She was very nice.
This was a few years before Madonna (whom I never met) found fame and fortune.
I once shook hands with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Back in the late 80s there was a very surprising result in one of my research interests. I was friends with the person who did it and I got an early draft of the paper.
In the paper, the author claimed that the technique also applied to a variant of the base problem (and therefore generalized the result to another thing). I quickly saw that it didn’t apply to the variant, wrote up why, and sent it to the author.
So in the final version of the paper that claim was pulled and replaced with a credit to me for figuring out why it didn’t work.
This is a heavily cited paper so getting a credit in it is something I consider “cool”.
Another person eventually did figure out the claimed result but using a different technique. And I’m a co-author with that person on a couple papers. So that was cool for a good friend of mine.
(I have some of my own stuff that is highly cited, but this is in an area that I am less well known in.)
Very cool! I like your style. 
I’ve ridden 225,000 miles, also no crashes.
I’m in California. Where are you? Maybe we can meet up for a ride.
Heh, maybe I’m cool for neurophysiology reasons! During my undergrad years I was a coauthor of a 1985 paper Serotonin modulates photoresponses in Hermissenda type-B photoreceptors. Out of curiosity I found the paper and it has been cited many times by neurophysiologists whose names I recognize.
I coulda been a contender!
But you are no Bum!
I used to play music in an oldies rock band. It’s how I met Hubster. We played bars and events. The "cool “part? One nighr some artists who were playing for the FOP (Fraternal Order of ) Police fund raiser came into the bar we were playing at. I had the uncomfortable pleasure of bing on stage with Dave and Sugar, and you might not have heard of Tom Bresh, but he was? Is an excellent guitar player. Because of the way the stage was designed I couldn’t leave while they performed. I was bracked by two very tall very blond women. I’m 5’2” I had black hair, and I wasn’t fat but I sure felt sort of short, dumpy, and an amature. However, it was really cool.
Was it DSCA?