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Tuesday 2006-02-28

doctor doctor

Mindless quote propagation: the following is from a discussion at Crooked Timber. I do hope it's true.

A collegue was attending a formal German event as guest of honor. He has two doctorates so he was introduced as Herr Doctor Doctor Professor X.

His wife is also a professor and has a doctorate. She was introduced as Frau Doctor Professor Doctor Doctor Professor X.

Monday 2006-02-27

books four, five and six

As I mentioned, I've been in the middle of several books (and procrastinating on reviewing others). So:

Sunday 2006-02-19

electrical emergency

I was recently in a hotel in California. On a cabinet door there, I saw this notice:

ELECTRICAL
EMERGENCY
GENERATOR

I wonder whether there was a switch inside with settings for "Total blackout", "Lightning storm" and "Electromagnetic pulse".