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Prior to becoming The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski was a once-in-a-generation mathematical genius who studied at Harvard, taught at UC Berkeley, and published numerous papers on the subjects of boundary functions and geometric function theory in complex analysis.
As a result of his hobbies later in life, citing Kaczynski‘s research in new journal articles can be a tad awkward.
Unless, that is, one simply rolls with it, as demonstrated by Lara Pudwell in her 2006 paper "Digit Reversal Without Apology," in which she casually writes one of the greatest footnotes in the history of academia:
Neighbor's tree came down last night. Giant Oak, which was in much worse shape than it appeared from the outside. Narrowly missed my power lines but left a huge mess of branches in my yard, and on my roof.
Neighbor's tree came down last night. Giant Oak, which was in much worse shape than it appeared from the outside. Narrowly missed my power lines but left a huge mess of branches in my yard, and on my roof.
It’s a butt cramp, but at least it didn’t damage your house. Back in 2011 we had a huge snowstorm on Halloween in CT - leaves still on the trees. An 80’ hickory in my front yard split and fell, raked the front of the house and tore the gutters off. Had it fallen about 30 degrees to the left, it might have killed us in our bed. Since then, any trees on my property that could reach our house or a neighbor are gone.
See that line of trees in the second pic? Those are "lodgepole" pines, and they are all 60+ feet high. They go all along the property line, all the way around. When the previous neighbor moved in, thy took out almost 50 similar trees in the backyard. If one of them goes down, it's almost certain to cause damage to something. Cost of having them taken down is astronomical because they are so close to the house. I hate them with a passion, as they drop needles and cones all year round. I take at least 12 32-gallon barrels of debris out of my small yard each year. This is the view from my driveway earlier this year:
Pines can really suck. When we bought the house in Maine, we took down an 80 foot white pine with 3 trunks that had started making noise and was about 30’ from the house. Because it was so close, it cost almost $2500 - had to be cut into chunks and lowered by crane. Over the next couple years we had 16 more dropped, fortunately they were far enough away that they could be brought down in one or two pieces with gravity.
A week after the last of our trees were removed, my next door neighbors had a big tree fall into their house - nothing really catastrophic, but a couple months living in a motel.
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