Happy Birthday to me. Yes, we’re back after a fortnight break: a week at the Dyalog conference, then a week buried in what emerged from it. Now that’s a conference!
Miki read my Amazon wish list and gave me Rupert Sheldrake’s The Sense of Being Stared at. Sheldrake is a biologist and a member of the Royal Society. He has gone out on a limb by researching paranormal phenomena such as telepathy. I like his generous view of the limits of scientific inquiry, and insistence that ground-breaking research remains possible outside the Big Science labs. He also appears to be a neighbour.
No one else thinks I’m in danger of growing up anytime soon. Presents today include a soft frisbee, a ‘helicopter toy’ with an elastic band claimed to toss it 300' in the air, and some kind of a kite that comes in a bag the size of a jeans pocket. Never too late to have a happy childhood. Reports later.
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