Oops. It’s been a month. Sorry! I’ll be back. Santa Barbara is beautiful. The Center is beautiful. Tomorrow, we head off to Vancouver where we will stay at the Sylvia and I will talk at the Surrey Art Gallery. I’m sure they’re beautiful.
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How I Know I’m Not in Montreal
Center for Advanced Study in Turkey Vulture Behavioral Sciences
Yes, more animals appeared outside my office on Thursday. This time, turkey vultures. . . There’s an old Far Side cartoon entitled “Birds of prey know they’re cool.” Scavengers? Maybe there’s the geek-chic of birds.
Center for Advanced Study in Deer Behavioral Sciences
The view through my office screen door the other evening:
No pressure
I occupy Study 30 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. I requested it based on the recommendation of my friend Fred Turner, who had enjoyed it a couple years back and who said it doesn’t get too hot. Which it doesn’t. Then I looked at the list of previous residents of …
California Crazy
Shortly after our arrival in our new neighborhood, we went out to the car to find this envelope affixed to the windshield: Clearly someone had noticed the Quebec license plates. Inside was the following letter: Welcome to Silicon Valley, where everyone has a startup company and is an entrepreneurial genius.* Which means, of course, that …
And on the sabbath, he rested
My first semester as a professor was the fall of 1999. What I remember the most was the intensity. It was like a constant sprint except I didn’t always know where or why I was running. Then, sometime in October a Friday afternoon arrived when there wasn’t something I urgently had to do. I had …