1. \u00a0On one occasion, Weiner drove from MIT\u00a0to a conference at Yale. \u00a0When the conference was over, Weiner could not remember where he had parked. \u00a0Not only that, he couldn’t remember what kind of car he drove! \u00a0So, he patiently waited until everyone had left, and when there was only one car left in the lot, he drove it home!
\n2. \u00a0Apparently, Weiner was once giving a lecture and a student asked a question. \u00a0He replied “that’s obvious”, and then stopped and stared into space. \u00a0He walked from the classroom and didn’t return for quite awhile. \u00a0When he returned, he said “yes – it’s obvious”, and picked up where he left off.
\n3. \u00a0My favorite. \u00a0The Weiners had just moved to a nearby neighborhood. \u00a0Weiner’s wife – knowing he was liable to forget the location – wrote out directions for him. \u00a0That evening, Weiner headed home, but -of course – forgot the instructions! \u00a0So he drove to his old neighborhood, and found a young girl sitting outside on some steps. \u00a0He asked the girl, “Little girl, can you tell me where the Weiners have moved?” \u00a0The reply: \u00a0“Yes, Daddy. \u00a0Momma said you’d forget, so she sent me here to bring you home.” \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three Absent-Minded Stories about Norbert Weiner 1. \u00a0On one occasion, Weiner drove from MIT\u00a0to a conference at Yale. \u00a0When the conference was over, Weiner could not remember where he had parked. \u00a0Not only that, he couldn’t remember what kind of car he drove! \u00a0So, he patiently waited until everyone had left, and when there was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-math-tidbits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryncampbell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryncampbell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryncampbell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryncampbell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryncampbell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryncampbell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryncampbell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryncampbell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryncampbell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}