Ars Mathematica

My laptop was still under warranty, so I took it back to the store to get it fixed. They originally told me it would be “a few days”, but then they decided to send it back to the manufacturer to repair. And it’ll take four weeks! Mercifully, my warranty includes a loaner, so I have a temporary laptop. It’s a newer laptop, which would make me sad that it’s so much faster than my old laptop, but fortunately it runs Vista so that’s not a problem. Vista’s main features seem to be a) translucent windows, and b) if you let IE run for a couple of hours right-clicking stops working entirely.

With any luck, some sort of normal posting schedule will resume.

My computer has met a horrible fate, which is making it hard to update the site. I’m creating this open thread for anyone who has anything on their mind while I find an alternative. Michael Costantini asked in this old thread if anyone was interested in talking about Serge Lang. Michael knew him back in the 70s.

(My computer was a laptop. Every laptop I’ve ever owned breaks in the same way — the power supply stops working. Does this happen to anyone else? Do I generate my own magnetic field, like Magneto, and that’s why my laptops break? How does Magneto websurf? I guess he has no other outlet for his energies than supervillainy.)