Some of you might enjoy this bit of journalism about my research: “Deus Ex Machina”, from the Communications of the ACM.

[	Tags	|	happy, music	]
[	Current Mood	|	happy	]
[	Current Music	|	While My Guitar Gently Weeps	]

I'm smiling after watching Jake Shimabukuro and Charles Yang play While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

The size of my smile is somewhat diminished after two failed attempts to embed the video. Help?

Heading out at noon for a colloquium, Ideology, Generics and Common Ground, by Sally Haslanger of MIT. The abstract indicates that this talk continues Haslanger's program of applying recent ideas in metaphysics and philosophy of language to critique of ideology, specifically to critique of such concepts as gender, race, and the family. I'm looking forward to attending the colloquium.

To everyone for whom the wish has meaning: I wish you a very happy, healthy, and sweet new year; a year of joy, a year of right livelihood, a year of healing, peace, and blessing. L'shanah tovah!