explain my avatar

knuth is 74 today.

nemirovsky has new book out the wine of solitude

mccarthy died this week and he invented lisp.

Némirovsky

The daughter of a wealthy Jewish banker, Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942) was born in Kiev. In 1918, she was living with her family outside St Petersburg, the family then fled from the Russian Revolution to France. In France she was a successful writer, until the Germans stopped her from writing under German occupation. In 1941, the family left Paris and resided in a little village. July 1942, she was arrested and interned in the Pithiviers concentration camp, from where she was immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died August 1942.

a great writer.

dennis macalistair ritchie (such a scottish sounding name) rip.

bit late but steve jobs rip.

l borges

the thing about the john boyd orr avatar was that it was too easy to slip into scotticisms which was at conflict with my goal of being an international person. actually i knew someone once who held that only way to be a citizen of the world was to embrace your own national identity as much as you could.

know much about john boyd orr until this piece in the guardian yesterday.

john boyd orr by alasdair gray

a scottish nobel peace prize laureate.

feyerabend austrian philosopher of science.

chimpsky