Me-mefied

It was a perfectly ordinary day, which somehow ended up with me getting hundreds of messages from people I know.

In the morning I taught Ph.D. Micro III.

Something amusing happened at the beginning of class. I’ll let the student tell it.

The next day, I come to work. One of my colleagues asks if I’ve “ever heard of Twitter.”

“Isn’t that the thing that helped that guy get out of that Afghan jail?”

“Come with me,” he says.

In his office, he shows me this:

I still occasionally get messages asking if it’s me. (Reddit)