I fly to Italy tomorrow to give a talk in Naples and then to spend a couple of days with an odd grad student offsite meeting being held in Capri, under the tutelage of the international Derrick Dekerckhove.

I have found in mentioning this to people that I get zero travel sympathy, so I have given up trying, although the truth is that I wouldn’t mind a couple of “Oooh, you poor, hard-traveling person! It must be so tiring!” What you don’t understand is that I am totally an indoor Jew. The loveliness of the outdoors is to me as the loveliness of quarks: I’m never going to experience it firsthand or ever actually understand it.

I’ll be back on Sunday. The only tan I get will come from the lovely quarks emitted by my laptop’s screen. That is my pledge to you.

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