Sunday focaccia project.
“Proforma” does not mean “blank form for you to fill in”, even in the UK, right?
It’s almost impossible to believe now that the 1989 TV movie Roe vs Wade was broadcast on NBC to some acclaim, and (correctly) portrayed the 1972 decision as a heroic triumph for civil liberties.
It is the summer solstice so time for my annual reminiscence of seeing Sun Ra and Don Cherry celebrate the rising sun from Battery Park in Manhattan with @disquiet back in 1989.
Perhaps one day I’ll make it out to Stonehenge with the druids.
I was out of contact for five days, four of which were holiday or weekend, and it still took me over two hours to deal with all the accumulated emails and messages.
The first IRL-exam I’ve given in three years! Good luck to our great @ImperialPhysics students.
I am honestly unsure whether the email “Welcome to the
ua-internal-reseacrher [sic] Group” is legit. Do any of my @imperialcollege colleagues know?
My grandmother was born in 1911 in Shepetivka, Ukraine, when it was part of the Russian empire. At a time of pogroms against the Jewish population, she fled to the US after WWI, following her father who had made it to New York before the war.
I only just realised that there are two different von Mises.
Things made a lot more sense when I discovered that statistician Richard was different from his brother, free-market-musketeer Ludwig.
(Perhaps I should have written “I was today years old when…” but I couldn’t quite bring myself to do that.)
It is surprisingly difficult to correctly typeset “rock ’n’ roll” nowadays.
How have I only just found out about The Paranoid Style? Thank you for existing, @paranoiacs.
Taking a place in my heart/brain/ears with @wussymusic and @TheMekons.
Etaoin Shrdlu
I’ve succumbed.
Wordle 201 3/6*
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This excited me more than it probably should have.
What a spectacular view of #JWST flying off on its own and unfurling its sails. Left me a bit choked up.
DIY festive cheer, c. 2021.
(Yes, positive, for both adults in the house.)
Why would anyone prefer “𝚫” over “∇²” for the Laplacian operator?
Was just asked by a funding agency for whom I have written a grant review to change “young researcher” to “early career researcher”. I think this was a good catch and an appropriate request, but still somehow feels weird.
My first in-person @imperialphysics teaching at the front of a lecture theatre in almost two years. Whew.
Lucky to be visiting @Sissaschool in Trieste just in time for a colloquium by newly minted Nobel Physics laureate Giorgio Parisi.
Done with 3+5 hours of @ImperialPhysics tutorials in 1+1 days. Fun, but exhausting.
Today is my first day no longer the head of the @ImperialAstro group after 5.75 years — finally time to rest. Best of luck, and commiserations, to new head @AlanHeavens…
I liked Coach Beard’s Scorsese “After Hours” London escapades, but I really loved the Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus pseudonym and “Nightclub Jitters” by the Replacements. #TedLasso
I have now been living, working, teaching, writing, and researching in the UK for twenty years, from just pre-9/11 to post-Brexit and mid-pandemic.
It’s home, though I’d describe myself as a Londoner, rather than British. And I’m still a foreigner (though my kids aren’t).
If you have the right connections, someone will transport xiao long bao across London from Din Tai Fung to a supermarket parking lot for you.
It turns out the end of the rainbow has been in Richmond Park all along.
I get much more nervous when I have to talk about management and admin than science.
It is the summer solstice so time for my annual reminiscence of seeing Sun Ra and Don Cherry celebrate the rising sun from Battery Park in Manhattan with @disquiet in 1989.
I am pretty sure I (we?) then stayed up to see Tito Puente and Koko Taylor at Summerstage in Central Park that night.
I still remember dancing in the stands to “Oye cómo va”.
RIP George Stranahan, founder and benefactor of the Aspen Center for Physics, and owner of Hunter Thompson’s favourite bar (both of which I’ve had the pleasure of visiting a few times). h/t Will Kinney @WKCosmo.
The local pigeons seem to be addicted to these berries growing on the tree in our garden.
