Posted on Tuesday July 21st by The Infrastructurist | 61
Secretaries of Energy are just like us! They’re on Facebook too, compiling their hobbies and likes and dislikes and throwing up a few old photos, including the one where they’re next to a celeb.
By “they,” we mean Steven Chu. Who we admire. But today we know more about him than we ever expected to–or perhaps even wanted to.
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For instance:
* He likes biking and doing crosswords with his wife Jean and is “trying to learn golf.”
* He used to wear those big low-on-the-cheeks double-bridged glasses that hipsters wear now–and wore them pretty well actually.
* He shows good high-low range in his choice of quotes, from an inspiring but highly speciesist one from William Faulkner about how human beings are the best things ever to a Yogi Berra classic about taking the fork in the road.
*”My career has not gone exactly as planned.” (Wow, us too!)
* He planned to be a theoretical physicist but got sidetracked into experimental physics. He won a Nobel Prize anyway. (Never mind.)
* He graduated from HS when he was 18, so didn’t exactly follow the Doogie Howser-style accelerated academic plan.
* Jean is brilliant too, holding a PhD from Oxford–presumably the one founded in the Middle Ages, not “Oxford” the Internet diploma mill.
* His musical tastes are “Classical, some opera”–thankfully not a Dave Matthews fan or something.
* He took a meeting with Brad Pitt and is still a little bit aglow over it.
* He looks nervous when he’s talking to his boss.
* Pisces — as if we couldn’t have guessed!
Anyway, Dr. Chu, welcome to Facebook. As of about 5 minutes ago, we’re officially a “fan.” Do you play Scramble, by any chance?
July 21st, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Steven Chu, the David Bixby of physics
July 21st, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Hahaha, I ment Bill Bixby. I crossed it with David Banner.
July 21st, 2009 at 8:40 pm
@el pinche: Haha. You can’t think or spell.
July 21st, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Oh, if I had known it was moderated I would have expanded the comment. I wasn’t flaming, he just made a mistake both times.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:02 am
[...] Chu is on Facebook, for reals [...]
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:44 am
Where is LaHood’s facebook page? There are four different pages, one from his Representative days, one that looks like his DOT page (only two fans though) and one blocked page.