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stoutfellow) wrote2004-10-06 06:50 pm
stoutfellow) wrote2004-10-06 06:50 pm
This and That
Well, I've (more or less) gotten word on the student requests for non-scheduled courses. The members of the Policy Committee seem receptive to offering the senior-level abstract algebra course in a closed-enrollment section next semester; I'll be raising the question officially at a meeting on Friday. I had to talk to the Chair about the possibility of adding the history of math course to the summer offerings, and he was not encouraging. Summer money is always tight. So, it looks like that one's not going to happen.
I put in my requests for summer semester; I asked for one course, with Combinatorics and Graph Theory as my first choice. Backups are Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning and the junior-level linear algebra course. We'll see.
Yesterday, Ben managed somehow to pull the hook - the attachment point for his leash - off his collar. I tried reattaching it, but it came off again almost immediately. I bought him a new collar this afternoon, and transferred his tags to it. This required about fifteen minutes of work with several different tools, none of them suited for the tasks I was using them for. (Except for the hammer. Hammers are useful.) Ben was a little distressed by the new collar at first, but seems to have accepted it.
Still reading Wood's book, and I'm also back to Poul Anderson; I'm rereading his The Day of Their Return. It's been a long time; as I recall, it didn't grab me the way most of his work does. I'm not sure why. It's set in Flandry's time; one of the characters is Chunderban Desai, who also appears (and tells Flandry about the events of this book) in A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows. Aycharaych plays a major role in it. I tried to track down Aycharaych's first appearance; I think it's in one of the Flandry short stories, and I think I know exactly which one (by content if not by title). However, when I went to search my shelves for it, I couldn't find it. I was sure that I had a slim volume with several such stories, titled Agent of the Terran Empire or something like that, but there's no sign of it. It may be boxed somewhere, or it may (avert!) have fallen down behind the bookcase. (My SF is, at least notionally, shelved alphabetically by author, and Anderson's books are on top of the first case. So...) Rats.
I put in my requests for summer semester; I asked for one course, with Combinatorics and Graph Theory as my first choice. Backups are Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning and the junior-level linear algebra course. We'll see.
Yesterday, Ben managed somehow to pull the hook - the attachment point for his leash - off his collar. I tried reattaching it, but it came off again almost immediately. I bought him a new collar this afternoon, and transferred his tags to it. This required about fifteen minutes of work with several different tools, none of them suited for the tasks I was using them for. (Except for the hammer. Hammers are useful.) Ben was a little distressed by the new collar at first, but seems to have accepted it.
Still reading Wood's book, and I'm also back to Poul Anderson; I'm rereading his The Day of Their Return. It's been a long time; as I recall, it didn't grab me the way most of his work does. I'm not sure why. It's set in Flandry's time; one of the characters is Chunderban Desai, who also appears (and tells Flandry about the events of this book) in A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows. Aycharaych plays a major role in it. I tried to track down Aycharaych's first appearance; I think it's in one of the Flandry short stories, and I think I know exactly which one (by content if not by title). However, when I went to search my shelves for it, I couldn't find it. I was sure that I had a slim volume with several such stories, titled Agent of the Terran Empire or something like that, but there's no sign of it. It may be boxed somewhere, or it may (avert!) have fallen down behind the bookcase. (My SF is, at least notionally, shelved alphabetically by author, and Anderson's books are on top of the first case. So...) Rats.