  2 years ago I worked for Dr. Erik Talvila in the math department for 1 summer... he forever changed my life. I first met Erik when he taught me the calculus of complex numbers. He was an awesome teacher, albeit somewhat weird.
The first thing I noticed where his shirts. He had one shirt that was solid bands of different colours... all the colors. He also had a shirt that had skeletons having sex with each other and a banner that said "sex is bad to the bone" . He would also stop the lecture to do random things. He once stopped the lecture to say " If I could live my life over I would have gone pee before I came here... I gotta go ". In my friends class he randomly stopped and said " Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon is such a good album... I'll be right back, I'm gonna go get it! " He then went to his office and came back and put in the CD and the whole class listened to pink floyd. Did I mention he looks like this: His resume is awesome, it has the following two lines: "Aside from math I enjoy mountain climbing and mountain biking, although not at the same time.
I also collect board games" "I am a very 3-dimmensional person, but I'm working hard at becoming n-dimmensional" I was recently talking to him about graduate studies (I have kept in contact with him). I then mentioned to him that I finally listened to Dark Side of the Moon. His only reply was: Dark Side is one of the all time best albums. Welcome to the club man.
Erik 
