For the first six months that I had a blog, it was in virtually complete obscurity. Now, when I go somewhere to give a talk, at least some of the people there will know I have a blog. I wish this change in circumstance were matched by my blog being way better now than it was back then, but, if anything, I suspect the reverse is true. (Although I never posted that much about sociology, and when I have it has mostly been surly.)
I spent some time walking around Princeton during daylight today. It reminded me a little bit of what I imagine Hogsmeade from the Harry Potter books to be like. I had European hot chocolate with handmade marshmallows at this place called The Bent Spoon. New Brunswick seems nice, as well, but more real and less theme-park-utopitown.
My talk is farther from being done than I wish to admit here. However, this was a day of several very interesting conversations, so I don't regret not having worked on my talk--or at least do not regret it yet. Check back in a few hours.
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More accurately, Princeton was designed so that it would remind its population of what they imagined life at Oxbridge was like. Hogsmeade isn't the half of it.
Utopitown is definitely a phrase you might want to look into copyrighting.
At least I was impressed by it.
Why not just tell them that it's easier to stumble across new insights when you ramble?
New Jersey is one state I avoid like the plague. When I went to the ASA in Philadelphia last summer, a special route through rural PA was mapped out that avoided NJ was mapped out. Unfortunately, a wrong-turn on the return trip caused a 15 minute U-turn through Jersey. Princeton is nice though...you might run into this guy on campus, legend has it
http://www.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/
Oh yeah, and John Nash is looking for an R.A.
http://www.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/texts_and_graphics/AGENCIES_and_COOPERATIVE_GAMES/Advertisement.329.2006.txt
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