4.181 laundry, fopal, talk

Wednesday 05/31/2023

While the first load of laundry ran I took a short walk and had a nice coffee and pastry break. Then finished up the laundry. Later, to kill some time, I ran down to FOPAL and did an hour’s sorting. Added about 100 words to the novel, and fiddled around with a programming problem that has been bothering me.

In the evening I went downstairs for a talk. Professor Emeritus David Abernethy, taught at Stanford from the 1960s, working on a book in retirement. He’s writing about the general issue of how a few European countries came to dominate and colonize so much of the world, with effects still shaping the world today. He summarized that in an hour, so basically the outline of his book. I didn’t like how David M. was running the A/V but since he is one of my very best team members I am not going to criticize.