Misattribution: Who the hell is Paul Bull?
Berlin: I'll be in Berlin from the 1st - 7th December for the GNOME DevDoc/Tools hackfest. Come and talk to us about documentation/user assistance!
Fun Paper: Concentric circles in WMAP data may provide evidence of violent pre-Big-Bang activity, V.G. Gurzadyan and R. Penrose [note the scanned-in graphs]. In what was, for me, a first-rate bit of physics hobnobbing, I spoke to Roger Penrose about it last Friday: "The crazy thing is that it might actually be real" [paraphrased]. He also seemed vaguely impressed by its appearance on arXiv - he's never published a preprint there before, apparently.
me: "I'm not sure I understand the consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics."
him: "I'm happy to hear that."