Born to do Math 132 – The Born to do Math Tattoo
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Born To Do Math
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2019/08/15
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The Born to do Math tattoo. what is it?
Rick Rosner: I only have one tattoo. I got it in late 1988. It says, “Born to do Math.” It’s on my right ankle. It is remind me that I should be doing math because I do a lot of bullshit that isn’t math, and math and physics are really the stuff that I should be doing.
Because I am good in that area, but am really lazy. I also, at the same time, got a couple of dots of eye liner at the corner of eyes to distract from that fact that my hair was going away. But those tattoo dots have long since gone away.
But I still have an old blurry “Born to do Math” on my ankle. The best thing that ever happened with it. That is, the only story that I really have about it. I was modelling for an art class. A guy asks if I am gay. I say, “No. How come?”
He says, “Because you have the tattoo ‘Born to do Matt’ on your ankle.”
Jacobsen: [Laughing].
Rosner: That’s just an interesting to have if I indeed had that tattoo. That I have decided that my one purpose in life is to fuck this one specific guy.
Jacobsen: [Laughing] this is an encapsulation of your entire life.
Rosner: [Laughing] yeah, I guess so [Laughing].
Jacobsen: [Laughing] this is everything. This is everything rolled into one. Everything else is a variation on this theme.
Rosner: Yeah, I suppose so.
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