For those of us who value precision of language. It must be a marvellous book. Or perhaps fabulous, great, fantastic, awesome, incredible, …? The way those words are used interchangeably drives me nuts. Anyway: great, in my book. smh.com.au/culture/books/…

A neglected question in Philosophy or, perhaps, Semantics has been raised by a disputed catch in the Aust v India Test Match in Sydney: does the “ground” begin at the top of the grass or the soil? I’m stumped.

Flew into Santiago yesterday in advance of a conference in Valparaíso next week. My iPhone attempt to capture the magnificent Andes on the descent. Not much snow: high summer.

In Viña del Mar, twin city with Valparaíso where my conference starts tomorrow.

Self-portrait reflected in a work by Yayoi Kusama ⁦NGV⁩

RIP Marianne Faithful. Her album Broken English always startles me.

Thunderstorm is here Splash of rain on my terrace Splashes on my face Amateur haiku. Well, why not?

I want my discrete flavour symmetry colleagues to put breaking of a group into different subgroups in the quark and neutrino sectors to music, visualised. youtube.com/watch?v=TWPBQZ…

Spending a few days in Adelaide. Check out the Dale Chihuly (American, b1941) glass sculptures at the Botanic Gardens if you visit.

The Johnston Street Hispanic and South American Fiesta is on this weekend about a minute from my apt. It’s a good scene!

Dinner with our speaker Raymond Volkas

Lunch today near Lake Bled with ⁦Shaikh saad⁩ and Prof. Svjetlana Fajfer of the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.

Ljubljana has a resident marsupial.

Happy 80th b’day to KJ! There is a new release, New Vienna, recorded in 2016 and to go live at the end of May, but you can already listen to Part V in the usual places. A great regret is that I’ll never experience one of his solo piano improvised concerts. search.app/F5ourt43C9W1Le…

Hope to have no need of this facility, found in my Daejeon, Korea hotel …