Getting Down to Business

(Buffalo) Well, today is my busy day here in Buffalo - with a workshop after lunch and my guest talk in the evening. I met some of the students here as Trebor Scholz showed me around yesterday, and I'm looking forward to the events. Some other interesting developments: I received an email yesterday from former La Trobe University MA student Derek Lackaff, whose thesis on heterarchical moderation schemes in Slashdot and elsewhere I had the pleasure to examine recently - turns out he's now based here in Buffalo doing his PhD... Also, an email from Mark Tribe at Brown University - he's invited me to do a guest lecture there as well, and I may be able to take a day trip to Providence during my week in New York City. And I phoned David Marshall at Northeastern University in Boston, who is also looking to set up something. More soon!

So far I seem to have avoided the worst of the jetlag for some reason - and I had a good walk along the river here yesterday to get some fresh air. Might try and see if I can do a day trip to Niagara Falls tomorrow - I didn't actually realise how close by Buffalo is. I've started to upload some of my photos from the trip to Flickr, so expect to see some more of them appear soon.