dispatch from san francisco, two

I'm having fun. So much so that, as you can tell, I'm not blogging. Actually, right now, I've just commenced working on the talk that I will be giving at 8AM tomorrow. (I've learned from past conference experience that spending too much time on a 15-20 minute quantitative-research-conference-presentation is not just a waste of time, but actually leads one to give a worse talk--from the standpoint of both speaker or audience--than one would otherwise.) I'm leaving for a baseball game with friends in an hour, and then presumably late tonight I'll have to finish up getting my PowerPoint slides ready.