There's construction on the road that I usually take to the highway. It's been sort of off-and-on for a few weeks now, and today it is on. The road is down to one lane open, so a pair of cops at either end keep the traffic moving here in alternating directions. Note that I use the word "moving" here very loosely, since while one side is moving, the ( Read more... )

Finished Rosenzweig. More about Aphrodite in Piraeus, particularly the cult of Aphrodite Euploia (Good Voyages) and its likely connection to similar cults in Kypros. I was wrong, by the way: that wasn't the last chapter. Last chapter was about Aphrodite on the east frieze of the Parthenon. The chapter was mostly lost on me, as I didn't see how ( Read more... )

I just sent this email to a person who recently set me loose in the field of set theory:

You, sir, are an evil rat-bastard. Out of nowhere tonight, as I was trying to sleep, my mind started toddling about in the field of recursive sets. "Is it meaningful to conceive of a set whose only member is itself?" "What about a group of sets A={B,C}; B={A,C ( Read more... )

I came to a conclusion this morning: I really need to go back to school for a degree in math ( Read more... )