Miscellany
Nov. 19th, 2008 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellow1. This morning, as I was checking my e-mail, I noticed a message from the department secretary; the subject line was the single word "frig". Oh, my, I thought, she never uses language like that. She must be very upset about something. It was not until I opened the message that I realized she was talking about the refrigerator in the faculty lounge. (I always spell that short form "fridge", myself....)
2. Today, I met with a couple of other faculty members to discuss the possibility of adding a topology course to our curriculum; we've been assigned to design such a course, select a textbook, etc. In the course of the discussion, while flipping through one possible text, one of my colleagues grumbled that he hadn't thought about this stuff in about eight years. I commented that I had studied it thirty years ago. He gave me a rather disturbed look; in the conversation that followed, I learned that he hadn't been born at the time.... :groan:
3. This morning, needing a new bus book, I plucked Amartya Sen's The Argumentative Indian off the stack. For the moment, I'll only say that it's not at all what I expected, that it's very interesting, and that I will probably review it when I finish. But I want to mention one bit, in which he quotes the Bengali poet/savant Ram Mohun Roy:
2. Today, I met with a couple of other faculty members to discuss the possibility of adding a topology course to our curriculum; we've been assigned to design such a course, select a textbook, etc. In the course of the discussion, while flipping through one possible text, one of my colleagues grumbled that he hadn't thought about this stuff in about eight years. I commented that I had studied it thirty years ago. He gave me a rather disturbed look; in the conversation that followed, I learned that he hadn't been born at the time.... :groan:
3. This morning, needing a new bus book, I plucked Amartya Sen's The Argumentative Indian off the stack. For the moment, I'll only say that it's not at all what I expected, that it's very interesting, and that I will probably review it when I finish. But I want to mention one bit, in which he quotes the Bengali poet/savant Ram Mohun Roy:
Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be.Hah!
Others will go on speaking, and you will not be able to argue back.
