Wine, Belly Buttons, and
Strange Attractors

I was at a workshop on mathematical modelling. There was only one other woman in the class. After we were done for the day, she and I went to the pool, claimed lounge chairs, and spent the evening drinking wine. At one point, we were looking at (trying to focus on) our stomachs. She asked (slurred) “How would we model a belly button?”

“A Torus Attractor function,” I replied (slurping more wine).

“No, a Strange Attractor,” she argued.

I looked at her belly. It was true; she had two belly buttons.

We had stumbled across a sobriety test for nerds.