Orchid XP v8 schrieb:

> David Jones. (Yes, that was his name.) Today we'd probably all call him 
> Davy Jones. Which would probably puzzle the hell out of him.
> 
> He was one of the lecturers at college.

Wait - is that "David Jones" as in "David E.H. Jones", aka "Daedalus"?

When I was a kid, there was a kind of scientific quiz show on German TV 
where a school class would compete with their (non-natural-science) 
teachers to explain entertaining physical (or sometimes chemical) 
experiments. That David Jones guy was a regular guest "experimentor" on 
the show (spoke quite a good German, except for his notoriously hoarse 
voice).

As "Daedalus", he also wrote about some "crazy" ideas that stuck in my 
mind, such as the "anti-greenhouse".


 > If you want to know about the
> binomial theorum, or Dikjstra's shunting algorithm, or DeMorgan's 
> theorum, or the vector cross product, this guy can tell you everything 
> it is humanly possible to know, and how to apply it to any imaginable 
> mathematical problem. Try to explain to him that you're taking down the 
> B/W posters to replace them with colour versions of the same posters, 
> and he looks at you like "wait... what?" Very strange.

Could be that guy... an amazing "practical genius" if I'm asked.

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