For no good reason today I found myself thinking of Dr. Peterson, my AP Chem teacher in high school. I was only in his class for three weeks before switching to AP Physics, realizing that chem wasn't for me. Give me the gravitational constant over avagadro's number any day.

The two salient features I remember about Dr. Peterson are that, in his thick Indian accent, he would often joke, "We call it de Pidiodic Table because we use it... pidiodically." Also, before teaching high school, he did cancer research at USC. I remember that because I used to wonder, inthe back of my head, why someone would stop doing cancer research; I had this notion that people working to cure cancer wouldn't stop until it was done...

Not really sure why I thought of that today.