My paternal grandmother grew up on a farm in rural Germany, met my grandfather, a member of the US Army's occupying 2nd Division, in late 1918 and they fell in love. He brought her home to Brooklyn and decades later I grew up with them in that same house. Hearing Mr. Herzog's German-influenced English, his cadence and pronounciation of certain words, brought me back to spending my day with her as she did her cooking and cleaning, toted me along with her to the market, talked to her brother who had followed her to Brooklyn (he'd fought against my grandfather in France(!), and chatted with our neighbors. I replayed a couple of those posted clips both because he was so interesting, and because they made me so nostalgic.
I don't know why, but in my mind's eye on first glance I read Whitey Herzog, and now I can't get my mind off of the former Cardinals skipper doing calculus in his jacket and sansabelt pants.
What a cool experience! I can't agree more about his voice, it is captivating. Not a huge math guy but if I'd been local I would not have been able to stay away!
i've fallen behind on my consumption of Inconspicuous Consumption content, but this morning's offering was irresistible. as a mathematician who has been a long time reader of UniWatch and an early adopter of IC, i want to say thank you for highlighting something near and dear to me in the way you did. if you enjoyed those moments half as much as i did, then you certainly got your money's worth. thanks for sharing this with us.
My paternal grandmother grew up on a farm in rural Germany, met my grandfather, a member of the US Army's occupying 2nd Division, in late 1918 and they fell in love. He brought her home to Brooklyn and decades later I grew up with them in that same house. Hearing Mr. Herzog's German-influenced English, his cadence and pronounciation of certain words, brought me back to spending my day with her as she did her cooking and cleaning, toted me along with her to the market, talked to her brother who had followed her to Brooklyn (he'd fought against my grandfather in France(!), and chatted with our neighbors. I replayed a couple of those posted clips both because he was so interesting, and because they made me so nostalgic.
I don't know why, but in my mind's eye on first glance I read Whitey Herzog, and now I can't get my mind off of the former Cardinals skipper doing calculus in his jacket and sansabelt pants.
What a cool experience! I can't agree more about his voice, it is captivating. Not a huge math guy but if I'd been local I would not have been able to stay away!
i've fallen behind on my consumption of Inconspicuous Consumption content, but this morning's offering was irresistible. as a mathematician who has been a long time reader of UniWatch and an early adopter of IC, i want to say thank you for highlighting something near and dear to me in the way you did. if you enjoyed those moments half as much as i did, then you certainly got your money's worth. thanks for sharing this with us.
" if you enjoyed those moments half as much as i did, then you certainly got your money's worth." —> I sure did -- the event was free!
yeah, i read that part. but i hope you enjoyed it more than "it was free."
That Herzog event is the sort of thing that makes me wish I lived in New York City instead of a small city in Iowa.
I'm sure your location offers certain benefits that are unavailable to me here in NYC. Like everything else, it's a trade-off.
Amazing! Wish I could have been there. If you see the entire talk posted anywhere, please let me (us!) know.