Year in review meme

As seen at silmaril. I skip pure meme entries, but given that pick the first sentence in the first post of every month, and string them together.

I'm in San Diego. So .... this spammer is offering me a computational cluster; say 16 nodes, each a 64-bit processor and carrying some 16 gig RAM; and a 3d-printer? And we're all STILL ALIVE! US trip so far - in general - REALLY good. I just got phishing email.
Next week was packed as it was. The slacktivist series on Left Behind often talks about how "Show, don't tell" is a good adage of writing that the authors of Left Behind tend not to follow. The TV station MDR, part of the national TV station ARD, want to do a spot about the Junior Mathematical Congress. With about an hour left to liftoff, I'm now through security and passport controls and sit in a reasonably comfortable airport chair waiting for boarding. So any sheaf is a presheaf.
I got everything I could have wanted so far. Wasn't the whole point of All the king's men that Willie Stark ran on a "For the people and against all this d*** corruption" platform, and then became incredibly corrupt himself?

A LOT of the past year was spent blogging while traveling. Go figure.