Einstein was crazy

Friday, January 12, 2007 » general

Last week I saw Neatorama's post on 13 photographs that changed the world, which included the famous picture of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue. The photo and the article's message that Einsten "would be remembered as much for his personality as for his brain" were apparently still fresh enough in my mind to cause me to dream about Einstein and his crazy antics.

For instance, I saw him walking through the halls at some university, discussing some complicated physics theories. When asked by his colleague what he thought, Einstein paused for a moment, stuck his tongue out with an accompanying BLEEAGGHH, and then skipped the opposite direction down the hall, making wild gestures with his hands.

Later on, Einstein snuck up on another professor as he was leaving a lecture hall, pulled a cane out of nowhere and hit the guy repeatedly with it, Three Stooges-style. He then somersaulted down some stairs and ran down the hall, making the same gesticulations as before.

The greatest thing about all this is, since I've never read anything about what Einstein's private life was like or seen him in any videos, this will be my prevailing concept of what Einstein was like. I will just always imagine him as a crazy prankster who sometimes beat people with canes.

So yeah: Einstein was CRAZY.