A Saturday Well Spent
Hung out at Dangerous Mathematicians yesterday for about 5 hours. When Karen, the store owner, found out I was a programmer she just about flipped. I ended up doing some modeling for her and will have some pictures posted on the website and inside the store. Her store rocks! Its loaded with fun, sexy clothes, framed by mathematical formulas with physics books littered about the store. I spent the afternoon playing dress up and drinking wine, basically. It was awesome!
Apparently Stephen Hawkins's co-author on A Brief History of the Time wandered in there by accident one day. He was lost at night on the lower east side, saw a place called Dangerous Mathematicians and figured he could at least get directions out of someone there. Imagine his surprise when he walked into a women's clothing store! Karen has a picture of him staring up at the math formulas and rubbing his chin, deep in thought (or maybe thoroughly confused).
Another really cool thing is that Karen is going to start tutoring some local kids in the back part of her store (ironically located next to the lingerie). Outside of the designer boutiques and over-priced restaurants, the L.E.S. is a pretty economically depressed area. A lot of kids there don't get the education they should, so she plans to offer deeply-discounted tutoring.
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