Notes from the Word Wars

1. From Political Wire:

President-elect Obama met with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in Chicago, according to the Washington Post, "and is under consideration to be Secretary of State in the Obama administration."

President is a hard enough job; he wants to be Secretary of State too?

2. Some charity or other is sponsoring a food drive on campus. Apparently they particularly want "stapled foods".

3. One of the little shops at the University Center has a sign up:

To serve you better, please do not use your cell phone or MP3 player while in line.

I'm Not Going to Try to Explain This

Wednesday, at the seminar, Prof. W introduced an odd intriguing problem, involving finding shortest paths on the surface of a polyhedron. Thursday, Prof. T asked that we meet again on Friday; she'd found something interesting. We met in her office. Under the cut, some bits of the discussion.

( Talkin' Geometry )