Comments on: Random Travel Matters http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:47:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: When Worlds Collide, II - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-32482 When Worlds Collide, II - Asymptotia Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:24:29 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-32482 [...] The week that I returned from Dublin I noticed a phone message from an editor of a magazine asking me to return their call. A couple of days later I learned what it was about. It’s a magazine that largely focuses on buzz about people and projects in the entertainment and fashion industry - Music (R&B, Hip Hop mostly), Movies and TV, etc., as far as I can tell, along with some coverage of parts of the business world. Its readership is mostly younger African American males, I think. As far as I can tell, the intention is not to be about those things in particular, but it is largely reflecting the interests of the readership it is targeted at. It’s a major product, jumping out at you immediately when you are in the magazine store (the striking picture of a woman on the front helps it grab your attention, of course). [...] [...] The week that I returned from Dublin I noticed a phone message from an editor of a magazine asking me to return their call. A couple of days later I learned what it was about. It’s a magazine that largely focuses on buzz about people and projects in the entertainment and fashion industry - Music (R&B, Hip Hop mostly), Movies and TV, etc., as far as I can tell, along with some coverage of parts of the business world. Its readership is mostly younger African American males, I think. As far as I can tell, the intention is not to be about those things in particular, but it is largely reflecting the interests of the readership it is targeted at. It’s a major product, jumping out at you immediately when you are in the magazine store (the striking picture of a woman on the front helps it grab your attention, of course). [...]

]]> By: Thoughts from Above, II - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-32266 Thoughts from Above, II - Asymptotia Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:59:26 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-32266 [...] Ok, I’ve interrupted myself so many times now I don’t even remember what I was saying, so I’ll break off here, and use the rest of the flight to think about a physics problem I’m working on. (In other news, this United flight is still using Canada Dry ginger ale, and so maybe I was -thank goodness- wrong in thinking the other day that they’d converted to the dreadful Schweppes.) [...] [...] Ok, I’ve interrupted myself so many times now I don’t even remember what I was saying, so I’ll break off here, and use the rest of the flight to think about a physics problem I’m working on. (In other news, this United flight is still using Canada Dry ginger ale, and so maybe I was -thank goodness- wrong in thinking the other day that they’d converted to the dreadful Schweppes.) [...]

]]> By: FineStructure http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-32084 FineStructure Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:58:57 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-32084 Clifford, I was wondering if you could briefly comment about the academic environment in Ireland especially around Dublin. I know they have a strong string theory group. Would you ever considering living in Dublin? Clifford,
I was wondering if you could briefly comment about the academic environment in Ireland especially around Dublin. I know they have a strong string theory group. Would you ever considering living in Dublin?

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-30440 Clifford Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:19:05 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-30440 Selective sensitivity, LL. A pint of guinness would not have been the thing to have.... coffee -at the pleasantly moderate level of strength it was at- was fine.... Cheers, -cvj Selective sensitivity, LL. A pint of guinness would not have been the thing to have…. coffee -at the pleasantly moderate level of strength it was at- was fine….

Cheers,

-cvj

]]> By: Lab Lemming http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-30398 Lab Lemming Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:23:28 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-30398 Clifford, you make me laugh. compare: "the organizers remembered that last time I requested that the coffee not be as remarkably weak" with "I was treating my stomach rather gently on the one hand (it seemed a bit sensitive on this trip)" Clifford, you make me laugh.
compare:
“the organizers remembered that last time I requested that the coffee not be as remarkably weak”

with

“I was treating my stomach rather gently on the one hand (it seemed a bit sensitive on this trip)”

]]> By: damtp_dweller http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-30182 damtp_dweller Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:22:33 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-30182 Adam, I think that they've managed to stop a lot of the stag and hen parties from going to Temple Bar now. Both the Brits (the level-headed ones at least) and the Irish found them excruciatingly embarrassing. You didn't manage to catch any of the rugby while in Dublin, Clifford? Excellent stuff, in case you missed it. Adam, I think that they’ve managed to stop a lot of the stag and hen parties from going to Temple Bar now. Both the Brits (the level-headed ones at least) and the Irish found them excruciatingly embarrassing.

You didn’t manage to catch any of the rugby while in Dublin, Clifford? Excellent stuff, in case you missed it.

]]> By: Show and Tell - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-30133 Show and Tell - Asymptotia Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:59:26 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-30133 [...] « Random Travel Matters [...] [...] « Random Travel Matters [...]

]]> By: Adam http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-30063 Adam Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:45:54 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-30063 I don't think that Dublin is particularly laid-back any more, Nigel (and Co Dublin is what, 1/3 of the entire population and more than that of the young population), even since I started going there in 92 or so. I like Dublin, although on a Friday night, it's pretty embarassing to be British in the town center there, or at least it was, with the stag dos through Temple Bar. I don’t think that Dublin is particularly laid-back any more, Nigel (and Co Dublin is what, 1/3 of the entire population and more than that of the young population), even since I started going there in 92 or so.

I like Dublin, although on a Friday night, it’s pretty embarassing to be British in the town center there, or at least it was, with the stag dos through Temple Bar.

]]> By: candace http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-29993 candace Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:23:58 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-29993 How funny, I am also picky about my ginger ale that I drink on the plane. I'm also picky about my tomato juice -- and those are my two plane drink weapons of choice: sugar and electrolytes. I wish there were good seats on my flight from London to Atlanta, but they are all shit except for first class. Sigh. How funny, I am also picky about my ginger ale that I drink on the plane. I’m also picky about my tomato juice — and those are my two plane drink weapons of choice: sugar and electrolytes.

I wish there were good seats on my flight from London to Atlanta, but they are all shit except for first class. Sigh.

]]> By: Nigel http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-29905 Nigel Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:52:47 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-29905 Clifford, I mean the idea of having a wide street with the cars facing the pavement or away from it, unlike the narrow London streets where the parking spaces are parallel to the road. I find it easier and faster to turn into a parking space in Ireland than squeeze into one in London. Clifford, I mean the idea of having a wide street with the cars facing the pavement or away from it, unlike the narrow London streets where the parking spaces are parallel to the road. I find it easier and faster to turn into a parking space in Ireland than squeeze into one in London.

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-29899 Clifford Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:33:59 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-29899 <blockquote> The nose-to-curb parking is sensible and also occurs in other towns in Ireland. </blockquote> Huh? You think I'd have been happier with them in the shot if they were parallel parked nose to rear?! Ha Ha Ha! -cvj

The nose-to-curb parking is sensible and also occurs in other towns in Ireland.

Huh? You think I’d have been happier with them in the shot if they were parallel parked nose to rear?! Ha Ha Ha!

-cvj

]]> By: Nigel http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-29895 Nigel Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:18:55 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/02/26/random-travel-matters/#comment-29895 The nose-to-curb parking is sensible and also occurs in other towns in Ireland. I have relatives in Leitrim who are farmers, and the differences to England are interesting. Go any distance into the countryside and you always get the smell of burning peat! The farm includes (or included) an area of bog land, and in summer peat is cut from it and dried in the sun, then used throughout the year to fuel the open fires and kitchen range. Unfortunately, the government is building a major new road which will have to pass through the bog - so they will drain it. I do think Ireland is a very pleasant laid back place, more like France than tense England. It is a shame that people attack the Irish with faked jokes like http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/cranetrouble.htm The nose-to-curb parking is sensible and also occurs in other towns in Ireland. I have relatives in Leitrim who are farmers, and the differences to England are interesting. Go any distance into the countryside and you always get the smell of burning peat! The farm includes (or included) an area of bog land, and in summer peat is cut from it and dried in the sun, then used throughout the year to fuel the open fires and kitchen range. Unfortunately, the government is building a major new road which will have to pass through the bog - so they will drain it. I do think Ireland is a very pleasant laid back place, more like France than tense England. It is a shame that people attack the Irish with faked jokes like http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/cranetrouble.htm

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