LUV meeting, reading, flights

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Hmm, I can hardly remember what happened in the weeks since I lasted
posted.  Last Wednesday, I gave my standard Debian talk at the LUV meeting
and then headed to a cafe with some people including Grant who had
completely cut his hair and shaven his long beard.  On Thursday, we watched
the Matrix&hellip; I guess everyone knows by now how much it sucked.  And on the
weekend I actually started writing one of the three 5000 word papers which
are due in 2 weeks.  I'm glad at least one is done.  I'm going to start
with the next one soon, but in the meantime&hellip;

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I finally did some reading again.  I read Douglas Adams's <i>The Salmon of
Doubt</i> a couple of weeks ago and found surprisingly many mentions of
Richard Dawkins.  I didn't know there was a connection, but thinking about
it, it all makes perfect sense.  I then discovered that Dawkins has
recently published a new book and, to my surprise, that there are some
books by him I haven't read yet.  So I started with <i>Climbing Mount
Improbable</i> and also discovered Matt Ridley's new <i>Nature via
Nurture</i> in our library.  I'm currently reading <i>The language of the
genes</i> by Steve Jones.  Being so busy all the time, I haven't done much
reading lately, but I'm glad I took the time.

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I also finally booked a flight back to Europe.  Since I was late, I was on
the waiting list for a while but then my flight for the 18th December was
confirmed.

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