DAS Blog

(after having smoked a pipe to celebrate the all but ending of the semester: I've still maybe 1 or 2 straggling late assignments to grade and then to submit the grades -- but I've pretty much survived my first semester teaching! that's worth taking time off to smoke a pipe, ain't it?)

What could be more professorial than standing around in a wool cap, smoking a pipe and pondering Tweedie distributions? A colleague of mine spotted me and commented that I was striking quite the pose ...