Flashes of Panic

I was reading Kasia's hall of comment-spam shame and was further amused to find her story about "nerd attention deficit disorder." My high school history teacher, who was a Jeopardy! champion at some point, explained this differently. "I have a mind like flypaper," he said. "Everything useless sticks."

(This particular teacher was a startlingly fortunate guy, being also a lottery winner. Last I heard, he had been forced out of the school because he refused, on principle, to be fingerprinted under some new state law for teachers.)

Kasia also has observed a law of cat and door dynamics which I can support with direct observation. (I wonder if my cat and chair observations can be similarly summarized.)