Yay! The ban on hand luggage on flights leaving the UK has been lifted. I didn't expect this to get sorted out so quickly. This is especially good timing, as I'd planned on booking my flights home over Christmas this week, as soon as I found out when the final is for the class I'm teaching for ( Read more... )

No, it's no longer Johanna, but Sherry Roush. Anyway, what I'm interested in is: do you think she submitted that picture herself? If so, it's very funny; if not, it's very rude. I'd quite like to know, so as I can set my hilarity / third-person-offense levels appropriately.

I really hope this gets sorted out before my trip home over Christmas, or I'm taking the train to Paris and flying back to the US from there ( Read more... )

(A sign displayed on someone's door in Evans):

Patrick is most likely in 1015 Evans if he's here.

You might have thought this sign was most likely to be found in 1015 Evans. Well, maybe it was, but it was actually found on the 8th floor corridor and not in 1015. Hence, we must be in one of the unlikely worlds today; I think I'll buy a lottery

You all know how it goes: you see people doing it at a party, you join in to be cool telling yourself you won't get hooked, then you start doing it on your own more and more regularly until gradually it becomes a habit which you do without even consciously willing it. Friends tell you you should stop and that it's dangerous and you hear their ( Read more... )

That's the subject line of a piece of computer-generated spam I just received. I rather like it. Being obtuse, I read the your as a second person possessive pronoun, giving me a rather fun noun-phrase: [your [[recommended before] gingerbread]]; that is, I was hoping for an email about the gingerbread of mine that had previously been recommended ( Read more... )

Had to try very hard today to avoid injecting today's calculus lecture with a bit of politics. We were doing calculations by cases (first suppose x isn't 0 to allow you to divide by it and get one set of solutions, then suppose x is 0 to get the rest, etc.) and one of the students asked "What if the assumption that x isn't 0 turns out to be false ( Read more... )

(Bonus points for any-one who recognizes the subject line ( Read more... )

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.
✓ I don't watch much TV these days.
✓ I own lots of books.

( it goes on... )

...philosophy prelim. passed!