stoutfellow: (Ben)
stoutfellow ([personal profile] stoutfellow) wrote2008-12-04 09:34 pm
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St. Barbara

Today was the feast day of St. Barbara, who is - among many other things - the patron saint of mathematicians. (Basically, she's the patron saint of things that go boom; I guess we got in via the early study of ballistics.)

I did my undergraduate work at UC Santa Barbara.

I wish I'd known about this earlier today - I'd have celebrated somehow - but I didn't find out until around 7 PM.

I'll have to mark my calendar for next year.

[identity profile] stoutfellow.livejournal.com 2008-12-06 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, no. And that's odd; UC Santa Barbarians are such a party crowd that you'd think they'd grab any excuse....