Some of us look for random bits of amazement that we try to incorporate into everyday life, in hopes of making the reoccuring act second nature at some point. It might have been opening zippo’s up like a gun or twirling pencils with both hands in diferrent directions at the same time, but it was something you may have sought out and learned for the possibility that it would become so habitual that it became a characteristic of your personality. In high school, I remember a dude named Dave that everyone always referred to as the dude that could give himself a blowjob and since then, all I’ll ever remember of Dave was that he was the crazy motherfucker who could suck his own dick.
Similarly, I’m guessing fellow wise guy and artist George Hart might have been one of those kinda dudes. An MIT Ph.D math whiz, Hart has documented a way to cut a bagel into two congruent halves when the path of the knife follows a two twist Mobius strip (read: one really long knife cut). In other words, some crazy nerd food shit.
“After being cut, the two halves can be moved but are still linked together, each passing through the hole of the other. (So when you buy your bagels, pick ones with the biggest holes.) <pause>” – George Hart
More on Hart’s random acts of weird bagel slicing here.
