Sometime in the spring of 1986, when I was Resident Assistant for a dormitory hallway, I posted on the wall a length of blank paper and wrote across the top the provocative question: "What is your conceptual continuity?" The answers were varied and the handwriting atrocious (blogs have taken us a long way toward collaborative communication). My favorite entry:

Continuity is defined by the existence of all ordered permutations in the given euclidean time and space such that the limiting value of the assigned condition meets the value of existence when approached from all directions. Therefore, continuity is insured by disallowing piece-wise definition or any pathologic dysfunction of any rate of change. At least conceptually.

Macaroni Dish fans will recognize immediately that such a distribe can only come from Guido (who I understand had a pineapple recently torn from his ass). I still have a scrap of that posting -- the part that includes Guido's, er, insightful response.

Such was the humor of college. A few entries below Guido's, someone (not me) scrawled the response: "Tits are totally awesome!!"

Yeah, that's more like it.