On hotness too good to be true

I sat down at a math press briefing and thought, "Gee, this mathematician..." *peers at name thing* "...David Krumholtz is unbelievably hot."

Should have known right off that, since this briefing addressed the show Numb3rs, that he was an actor.

He is still hot, but he does not have the added hotness of being a mathematician. Sadness!

I've never seen the show, but between the interesting descriptions their math advisor was giving, and the hotness that is Krumholtz, I may just have to check it out. Luckily, they were giving out free DVDs with an episode. Score!

I confess, he is sufficiently hot that I had trouble focusing while the mathematicians were talking about their work, and my stomach was turning little flip flops. However, I was good. I have no business related reason to talk to him, and so I did not follow him to the interview room afterwards. Even if in my fantasies, he was checking me out rather than just noticing me checking him out.

Sci Fi con organizers... if you want to get info for him for cons, speak now or forever hold your peace.

Time for the Crackpot or Not game!

This guy was handing out cards at one of the symposia I visited.

http://www.alexandermayer.com

If you search Google for him, you'll find that his website used to be hosted by Stanford, but has since been taken down. Nor is he in their directory of people. the cached site
It does appear that the format personal sites on Stanford's website follow is www.stanford.edu/~username... but that doesn't mean he was there for physics-related, academic reasons. He could have been any kind of staff person.

The people I've seen him chatting with seem to be hanging on his every word. Commentary online seems to be very mixed however. Half the people think he's a crackpot on the order of Time Cube, and the other half think that he is the next brilliant theoretician to break into physics.

I haven't read the documents yet. But I thought I'd throw this out to you, my readers. Any thoughts?