ProfessorVanRyswyk

Really spiffy CheMistry professor. His lectures often resemble stand-up comedy routines that manage to also teach CheMistry. Teaches mainly ChemAnal? and sometimes FroshChem. Also seems to keep all the CheMistry department's instruments running. Knows a lot of stuff about a lot of things. Taught CS 5 back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and there was a "department of biology and computer science."

See AriNieh's [The Devil went down to Claremont].

Quotes from ChemAnal? Fall2002?:

I've been playing with MathCad all week and I'm really upset so we're gonna learn to use spreadsheets on Monday.

A pain in the butt? Must be a job for a physical chemist! (imitating a physical chemist finding out about an annoying experiment)

Let's start at the beginning except I'm not gonna start in the beginning, I'm gonna start in the middle.

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who divide the world into 2 kinds of people and those who don't.

• AFAIK, this is more traditional than due to VR. Still...
• The "continued fraction" version also bears pondering: "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into 2 kinds of people: those who divide the world into two kinds of people: ..." (over djinn)
• Wow, that's funnier than I usually am when I'm not trying...