One tendril of Dan Burns' vast influence: Kari Byron

I'm just gonna leave this right here, for the benefit of both of you who aren't on the social media.

This is my high school physics teacher Mr. Burns. I finally signed his year book. Found out he has a viral video with 56M views!https://t.co/w5fgxFatiy pic.twitter.com/HEPjm6TzXX

— Kari Byron (@KariByron) March 11, 2019

That's two people made of win right there!

Of course my Montana-sized ego compels me to at least attempt to sourgrapes this awesomeness. Not an easy lift, but here goes:

It's a good thing Kari Byron wasn't one of my students, because if she were, I'd be about 15 years into a forehead tattoo reading "I was Kari Byron's Physics Teacher!" If we're being honest, that would only serve to ostracize me from family, friends, students, and colleagues. And I don't think Ms. Byron would ever speak to me again. So... whew: dodged that bullet!

In any case, I hope Kari will keep us all laughing and thinking, and that Dan will continue to share his pearls wisdom with readers of this blog. The world could always use more people like these two.