This is a homey Sunday afternoon. Autumn sunlight falls in through the window and there are birds outside. I'm wearing comfortably warm clothes. There's a big pot of Thai stew on the stove, an open book of integral calculus, erudite commentary on CBC, me fiddling with one thing or another, and plans for a collective dinner in the evening ( Read more... )

The man who wrote the office is on CBC describing Brent, the protagonist of his show. He says that Brent's flaw is that he confuses respect and popularity when the one usually excludes the other.

I love CBC. It accompanies calculus well.