One strange dude. His shoelace came untied once in class, so he tied it around his pant leg to "show it who's boss." The whole experience was simply strange. We agreed as a class that exposure to pure logic must have rewired his mind to give the illogical processes priority over everything else.

Hmm. This is one of those cases where I want to know more, but I know that knowing more would only depress me. It's scary knowing you or a loved one could turn out like this. I hope he's better now.

I don't think he was "broken" so severely that he couldn't function. But there were definitely some cracks in his psyche. Made for a slightly confusing course. As I recall he still finished his post-graduate research, and is presumably and hopefully now a productive member of society. (Though there are many of my fellow alumni from that timeframe that aren't working in anything related to our fields, having the benefit of graduating during the dot-bomb fallout and the Enron/AA mess. Our "career fairs" that year were... entertainingly silent, to say the least.)

that stupid lace had it coming.

But more importantly: Did someone try to use Prolog to mend it?