The atmosphere of the BPPA conference is clearly infecting Durham at large:
It looks set to be a decent conference, although if I ever get my hands on a time machine I'm going to change the history of manners by somehow killing off the convention of standing up all the time at wine receptions; besides my usual difficulty with height differences, it ensures that I overheat quickly and have to keep wandering outside.
...to learn that there are professional plagiarism-enablers promising a 'zero-tolerance plagiarism policy'. The art of philosophical paradox is alive and well...
Dark Roasted Blend grapples with the search for meaning in the face of human mortality:
You know how they say: "1000 destinations to travel, before you die", "1000 awesome things to try, before you die", "1000 ways to prepare pasta, before you die" (really, they should sell a book "One simple way to prepare a poisonous mushroom, before you die").
