[Phys-L] Re: Aristotelian thinking among modern students

[anngeorg at PACBELL.NET (Bernard Cleyet)]

Wow I am mixed up and don't read.

bc, who wonders who is the SLO city Physicist I was thinking; and may
have met JM at one of the joint N & S AAPT mtngs.

John Mallinckrodt wrote:

> > I like to think I had something to do w/ it.
> >
> > One of my Santa Barbara x's degreed at SLO city U.  She'd say she was
> > going to SLO city to whatever.   I've several times written SLO city and
> > Calpoly slo city, to differentiate from the one where the IP writes.
> >
> > bc, who's met Slo John at AAPT mtngs there.
> >
> > p.s. I think he's got a great ADV. Lab program there.
>
>
> I hate to disabuse Bernard of his pleasant notions.  I do love SLO
> even though I understand there is a University there that has adopted
> a name very similar to the one I at which I teach.
>
> "Slo," however, is my nom d'artiste as Lead Guitarist for the
> Out-Laws of Physics.  My bandmates--Harvey "Styx" Leff, John
> "Phingerz" Jewett, and Jolene "Throte" Houser--and I all teach in the
> physics department at Cal Poly Pomona and moonlight at a number of
> musical venues in the area.  Although we generally exceed by a
> significant amount the fairly low expectations generated by our
> collective bios, we do know better than to quit our day jobs.
>
> --
> John "Slo" Mallinckrodt
>
> Professor of Physics, Cal Poly Pomona
> <http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm>
>
> and
>
> Lead Guitarist, Out-Laws of Physics
> <http://www.csupomona.edu/~hsleff/OoPs.html>