Archive for Great-Britain
early morn in Powys [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags Cymru, Great-Britain, Gregynog Hall, Powys, running injury, sunrise, Tregynon, Wales, winter running on April 8, 2022 by xi'an
merry Xmas
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags Bansky, Birmingham, Great-Britain, homeless, X, Xmas on December 24, 2019 by xi'an
total bullXit
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Boris Johnson, Brexit, Britain, EU, European Community, Great-Britain, no deal, Parliament, PM, prime minister, running bulls, Scotland, UK politics, UKIP on October 31, 2019 by xi'an
“Of course there will be an attempt to try to obfuscate the effect of this Act, but it does – the capitulation act, or the surrender act or whatever you want to call it – it does, I’m sorry, but it greatly enfeebles, it greatly enfeebles this government’s ability to negotiate.”
“But what I will say is that the best way to honour the memory of Jo Cox and indeed the best way to bring this country together would be, I think, to get Brexit done.”
“There’s a terrible kind of collaboration as it were, going on between people who think they can block Brexit in Parliament and our European friends.”
“What will synthetic biology stand for – restoring our livers and our eyes with miracle regeneration of the tissues, like some fantastic hangover cure? Or will it bring terrifying limbless chickens to our tables?”
“I can hardly condemn Ukip as a bunch of boss-eyed, foam-flecked euro hysterics, when I have been sometimes not far short of boss-eyed, foam-flecked hysteria myself.”
“We will leave the EU on 31 October, deal or no deal. The way to get a good deal is to prepare for a no deal.”
O’Bayes 2019 has now started!
Posted in pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Coventry, Great-Britain, mathematics department, O'Bayes 2019, objective Bayes, subjective versus objective Bayes, summer of British conferences, University of Warwick, Warwickshire, Zeeman building on June 28, 2019 by xi'an
The O’Bayes 2019 conference in Warwick University has now started, with about 100 participants meeting over four days (plus one of tutorials) in the Zeeman maths building of the University. Quite a change of location and weather when compared with the previous one in Austin. As an organiser I hope all goes well at the practical level and want to thank the other persons who helped me towards this goal, first and foremost Paula Matthews who solved web and lodging and planning issues all over these past months, as well as Mark Steel and Cristiano Villa. As a member of the scientific committee, I am looking forward the talks and discussants along the coming four days, again hoping all speakers and discussants show up and are not hindered by travel or visa issues…
hittin’ a Brexit wall
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Brexit, Bristol, bulldog, dog, graffitis, Great-Britain, jatp, the blind leading the blind, Theresa May on December 19, 2018 by xi'an
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