this one time – just to say hi – I dropped by one of Steve’s classes as he was trying to explain some intricate philosophical concept about the reliability of testimony as justification for belief, especially popular beliefs among large groups of people that may or may not actually be true, and so I looked at him and went “have you ever seen this old Monty Python movie called Life of Brian” and he kind of kicked at the rungs of his desk and beamed and went “oh, yeah! it’s about me” which was obviously followed by a collective facepalm but yeah I think that contribution to the discussion might have won him over somewhat