Scattered things...

[pmb]

• I remain skeptical of quite a few things that Hillary Clinton stands for - increased censorship is pretty much always wrong, and she's too willing to roll over and find the "middle ground" between the centrist position and the loony right - but linking the federal minimum wage to the congressional wage is a stroke of genius.
• 12 catches of 5 clubs. And I could count them myself instead of having someone else tell me how many I got. That was most pleasing.
• Conference submission date is May 16th. Work work work. Then I am done with the research project that is turning out to be kind of orthogonal to the research I want to do. Then it's all area exam all the time. Work work work. Then the term is over.
• And this summer I am teaching "Intro to Programming" in Python in a 4-week intensive (7/24-8/16). Using John Zelle's book based on the advice of several people. I am psyched. The rest of the summer is going to be spent biking and hanging out and reading and recovering from a relatively rough year of grad school.

Comments

[goteam.livejournal.com]

Living with Peter has completely ruined my appreciation for bar flair, it turns out: last month I went out with some friends who kept getting distracted by tricks that I didn't even notice because they're the kind of thing Peter does all the time. I just kept talking and I'd occasionally insert an "I just missed another trick, didn't I?" into the conversation. Are people like me the bane of the flair bartender's existence, or can we redeem ourselves by tipping well anyway? (Actually, I have no idea what constitutes tipping well for drinks, so if you care to fill me in on how to avoid being a jerk in the future, I'd appreciate it.)

[neonelephant.livejournal.com]

Frosh year at Mudd, and watching pmb and mbrubeck, among others, has made me quite jaded about three-ball juggling. My experience with flair bartending is zero, but I assume the effect is similar.

[porfinn.livejournal.com]

I can't believe you could be a jerk. I started an answer that got completely out of hand, so I sent it you by way of peter. If he is wondering why he is getting long, windy messages from porfin; now ya know.