Tomorrow we leave for Greece.
I expect we’ll end up either set on fire or fed until we burst, depending on whether we get caught first by the Greek rioters or the Greek mothers.
If we survive these many and varied perils, there might be a few photos and stories in the offing. Check back mid-January (yes, [...]
We get regular mail about conferences, workshops, summer schools and so on in our research area. Today’s crop included an advertisement for a five-day “minicourse on Lambada Calculus“.
Who says logicians can’t get jiggy with it, after all?
Prependum (for my parents): Yes, we’re still going. Don’t worry. We’ll be peaceful, we’ll be careful, we’ll be ok.
Kimberley pointed me at a Rowan Thorpe rant about the Athens riots. It’s a good rant, and he’s angry about some of the right things.
I’m not sure, though, that the issue of whether the rioters call themselves [...]
It’s hard to make any cool-headed comment about this.
How can a government let so much resentment build up? How can an agressive cop be allowed to carry a loaded gun into a district where ‘clashes’ happen regularly? How can anyone take a molotov cocktail to a peaceful march, ‘just in case’ it turns ugly?
How will [...]
A previous argument: “C for K, because the printers have not so many as the Welsh requireth.”
A more recent argument: “Such a reform would diminish the number of letters about one sixteenth or eighteenth. This would save a page in eighteen; and a saving of an eighteenth in the expense of books, is an advantage [...]