Noli the Anomaly

This post is devoted and dedicated to Noli.

It should be known that:

1. Noli is a good friend of mine.
2. Noli lives about 45 minutes away via car.
3. Noli is one of the smartest people I know.
4. Noli is pronounced nori in Japanese, which means seaweed.
5. Noli has many peculiar interests.
6. Noli is half Cuban, half Greek.
7. Noli is from Texas.
   
8. Noli likes sumo as much as I do.
9. Noli rarely wears pants.
   
10. Noli is an anomaly.
    

Meet Noli. He is an English teacher in Japan, but he studied paleontology at an Ivy League school in Pennsylvania. He is wicked smart in more areas than one. He speaks Japanese and Texan drawl. He has a $100 ping pong paddle and beats me only 45% of the time. He hates it when I call it ping pong ("it's table tennis!") and when I mention how he can't beat me even with a $100 ping pong paddle.

Noli really enjoys hiking and camping. He also likes to position his head between your legs right before a picture is taken. It is, in a word, exhilarating.

Noli is a fantastic juggler. Noli puts most of his energy into spelling immature, blasphemous, and ebonics words during a game of Scrabble. Noli once criticized me for using the word G-love in a Scrabble game, to which I replied, "It's glove!"


On a trip to Tokyo with Noli, I discovered he bookmarked the Mark Twain book he was reading on page 2. I asked him if he needed a break from reading that one page, to which he replied "the font is small and the margins are big!" He also affirmed that he wouldn't be able to remember that he was on page 2 without the bookmark.

Noli is the best (and only) mountain unicycler I have ever met. On a recent trip to China, he unicycled along the Great Wall. He also ate scorpion and centipede. I'll ask him for photos. Noli, nice to meet you.