Queer as a 3 dollar bill and hit on all the male students. I
   never took a class from him. But I sat in his office for many
   long hours as he discussed whatever the latest frontiers were in
   artificial intelligence, mathematical modelling, the history of
   mathematics, and the like. I was mad because his course was
   full; it was something about how mathematics relates to the
   Universe, fractals, patterns and stuff and I wanted in. This was
   WAAAY back in 1990.

   So instead, I hijacked him outside of classes and begged him to
   be my adviser for a semester.