Bill Thompson

I remember it.

She kept me after class once.

And she goes, you know, I knew your dad, Bill.

And, you know, your uncles were all smart.

My great uncle has an engineering wing of a school named after him out in western North Dakota.

And she goes, all these guys were thinkers and your dad did all this great stuff and built all this stuff.

And essentially what she was telling me is you're a waste of life.

All you do is you come in here, you disrupt the class, you upset people.

No one can talk.

Sounds like me.

You're trying to dominate every conversation.

But when, you know, you had written one paper on something that interested you, and I don't remember what it was.

And she's like, that was a wonderful paper.

She's like, if you could just do that every time.

And I...

was not hearing it, like I remember the conversation because I actually remember, I think she said waste of life.

I think she actually said that.

Like you're wasting, like you're obviously, my CPU clocks high.

I'm always thinking even when I'm not thinking and even as we're sitting here talking, I'm thinking about other things or stuff I want to do when I get back to my computer or stuff I want to do for my business.

And and so I joined the military and the absurdity of life is this.