Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Silly creatures

At no small risk to himself* a "senior rescue technician" of the Animal Rescue League rescued a Canada goose from the icy surface of a pond. The bird had been frozen in place for days. Oh, at the time of rescue the weather had changed and the bird was not frozen in place; its problem was that it couldn't fly because that would have meant first having to stand up on slippery ice.

*he wore an emersion suit [sic], in case the ice broke

About Me

I am a professor of mathematics. (I began calling myself "Empty" or Ø when hanging around at blogs, because I am somewhat fixated on the empty set. Students and colleagues know that I can be a bit of an ancient mariner about it.)