part man, myth and legend

now many of you have heard of my prof who came with me (Dr Hess) and tales about him being the smartest man to ever live, or near there. so i have a tale for you...

the height of kevin's intelectual career.

While walking atop the city walls of Jerusalem we came upon the Damascus Gate (pictured below). We all pondered whether or not the roof would colapse under our weight because the surface was undulated. No one could come up with and answer, so i thought some more and had my moment of brilliance: thus began my 45 sec of being smarter than Dr Hess. So to end my upper hand, i walked over to him and said, "is the roof shaped like this to prevent water from standing on the surface?" He looked at me and said (and this is a fairly direct quote), "yeah, that would make sense. you know i have wondered about that all my life, and you just told me." He walked away, and my time knowing something Dr Hess did not was over.
ps. he was not posing for the first picture.