# busy busy busy

No posts here lately, I’ve been rather busy. A lot of time has gone into planning my combined work trip/hiking holiday to Iceland, which finally begins in two days. You can expect a report on that when I return, hopefully with lots of nice pictures if the weather holds.

So what have I been up to? I had a nice Saturday about a month ago when I went for an extracurricular maths day at Birkbeck. Specifically it was a day meeting on the history of formal logic, focusing mainly on 19th century developments. There I learned some interesting stuff about the mathematical work of Lewis Carroll, who somehow managed to be a progressive and a reactionary at the same time, mathematically at least (see also: Augustin-Louis Cauchy). And in general it was just a nice day wandering around Bloomsbury. I really like Birkbeck actually, an institution I’d barely heard of before. All of its lectures are in the evening, in order to make higher education available to those who may not be able to quit full-time work in order to study, which is a fine socialist ideal. It also has the best free conference biscuits I’ve sampled thus far.

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