Simon recently sent me the best of the obituaries for Donald Coxeter. Among other entertaining facts, it reports that Coxeter drank a Peaches and Cream made with soy milk every night — obviously this cocktail should be renamed in his honour (I'd suggest whether made with soy or without as I suspect only UofT bars are the only ones with soy milk outside BC). So please go out and order one to get the word around.

Another amusing thing is how parents used to bring their children to Bertrand Russell and other great professors. Supposedly Wittgenstein once asked him if he should keep on being a philosopher or go do something else — wouldn't it be nice if we could all have such advice?