Scattered things...

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• 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.

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[amoken.livejournal.com]

I recall a somewhat whimsical discussion in the Objectivist Club wherein we decided Congresscritters should be paid a set amount to begin with, and for each new law or bill they vote to pass, they'd have to relinquish some amount of their salary. I don't believe we came to a conclusion about whether we should give some back for each law they strike down. It definitely appeals to my sense of esthetics, as well as my hatred of "I'll vote for yours if you vote for mine" and other political wheelydealies, but I can't say I'd actually expect it to work as hoped.