Congratulations

As a member of the educated elite, I take pedantic, sadistic pleasure in others' spelling and grammar mistakes. The Cake Wrecks blog tracks such unfortunate mistakes on confections:
I wonder what Mickael (Michael?) conformed to, in order to deserve a celebration with a cross-laden cake?


This post's theme word: lucubrate, "to work (such as study, write, discourse) laboriously or learnedly. "

Award-winning students

At CCC (currently happening!), two of Steve Cook's students won awards. Former PhD Mark Braverman won best paper, and current PhD Aktioshi Kawamura won best student paper. That's great! I am re-intimidated by them. (Hat tip: Lance Fortnow.)


This post's theme word: hagiography, "a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)."