Oh - I solved the problem mentioned in my first March entry a few weeks ago. (The one about f(p), I mean.)

That fashionable textual poster boy, Slavoj Zizek, often overstates his case for the sake of paradox, but this time around I could not agree with him more. I do not mean this at a general attitudinal level - he thinks as I do, down to the details. He seems to have picked my brain, the little a*****e. Leave a comment

In the last two weeks, I have put writing and editing largely aside to focus on solving two problems I have been considering for some time. I plan to keep this regime for the next week ( Read more... )

Not to be self-centered, but couldn't the anonymous person have left at least an anonymous thank-you note? I feel my brain has been flattened by a Jungian archetype.

I do hope she got home safely.

- in about five months. I have accepted Bristol's offer.

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As some of you know, I live in a one-room apartment on a third floor. Most of the apartment's back is taken by a large window-pane that does not open; a door on its side leads to a small balcony, which doubles as a fire escape. A steep spiral staircase runs down the side of the building ( Read more... )

A strange thing happened to me the night before yesterday - or, rather, it happened for the most part to somebody else.

I do not know whether it is appropriate to post it here, since it does involve somebody else (whose identity is unknown to me). People who heard me tell it on the ifMUD - what is your opinion on the subject?

This time from Canada - a university in Montreal is making me an offer. (This one is tenure-track, rather than essentially-tenured-though-at-first-technically-on-probation - after all, Montreal *is* in North America ( Read more... )

I have been offered a permanent post (as ultimus inter pares) at a rather nice place in the UK. (Rather nice in my opinion, at any rate.)

My alimentation for the next fifty years should now be assured.

Spielberg's _Munich_

I did not know what to think at first, when the film showed the hostage-takers talking in what to almost all of the audience must have sounded like threatening gibberish. (There were no subtitles.) Neither did I a little later, when all Israeli characters were shown speaking in (accented) English - in Israel, among themselves. I ( Read more... )