It's been a pleasant summer so far. I went off to Afghanistan in June. We've taken a too-short vacation at Cornell Adult University in July. We visited with old friends from college (!). They came to see us on a return visit.

In the coming month, I will travel off to Winter Park to see our condominium and meet with old friends. And, later this fall Robbie and I will take a short trip to Amsterdam to see art museums.

The World Awaits Our Empty Blog

I have a new computer. I have chosen to name my new laptop Laplace, after Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), a French mathematician and physicist. Laplace applied Newtons laws to the movement of the planets, and was instrumental in founding the metric system. Laplace was one of the first scientists to postulate the existence of black holes. Laplace also described a method of inductive reasoning and probability theory that we, today, would call Bayesian statistics.