tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711828548333856795.comments2015-02-21T16:58:51.157-05:00Ouessant BlogEric Turkheimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07059094707929916121noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711828548333856795.post-17986728530381259632015-02-21T16:58:51.157-05:002015-02-21T16:58:51.157-05:00Sounds like your good deed was a blessing to both ...Sounds like your good deed was a blessing to both you and the Algerian gentleman. I loved reading this; thanks for sharing.milliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13108886285288465876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711828548333856795.post-3515604135806326672011-12-27T08:31:07.856-05:002011-12-27T08:31:07.856-05:00Be sure to try the Gewurtztraminer wines in Turckh...Be sure to try the Gewurtztraminer wines in Turckheim! Said to be especially wonderful there.Cathy Hardinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03328732805168983984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711828548333856795.post-28002370444466164242010-07-30T15:21:26.564-04:002010-07-30T15:21:26.564-04:00And, here is someone claiming that French cuisine ...And, here is someone claiming that French cuisine is failing due to a failure to innovate.<br /><br />http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n15/steven-shapin/down-to-the-last-cream-puffUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11085380050620214471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711828548333856795.post-29261150126285010542010-07-30T11:46:59.995-04:002010-07-30T11:46:59.995-04:00Eric,
Overall, I agree completely...
But here'...Eric,<br />Overall, I agree completely...<br />But here's something that bothers me. The baguette achieved its current form when? Probably by 1900? Similarly for the other French consumer goods that are important in my life? Where is the French Macintosh (or Google)? What happened to these people to make them stop innovating? Is there something to the notion of "creative destruction" in the market? <br /><br />Is it just consumer goods? Did any of the scientific ideas that matter in your work originate France after 1900? I have trouble thinking of one. Similarly for philosophy -- thinking of what mattered to me as an undergraduate, I'm still reading Rawls, Foucault not some much. Is that just a matter of Anglophone domination? The French invented probability -- why did they apparently miss statistics?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11085380050620214471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711828548333856795.post-17599885530294585112010-03-29T22:16:32.733-04:002010-03-29T22:16:32.733-04:00un peu etrange, bonne chance! emmyun peu etrange, bonne chance! emmyemmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08515043694941316107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711828548333856795.post-13772577248746653362010-01-14T12:41:27.796-05:002010-01-14T12:41:27.796-05:00That's interesting about the curtain. French l...That's interesting about the curtain. French living will be something to get used to.Ellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02317448534751775484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711828548333856795.post-80859294773116243262009-12-01T03:21:51.387-05:002009-12-01T03:21:51.387-05:00Thanks. I sense that there is another frame for th...Thanks. I sense that there is another frame for this plan: your and Carol's looking at how you will live when work -- or at least your professorship at UVa -- winds down. Would love to hear more about that.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11085380050620214471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711828548333856795.post-27156254577193808862009-11-27T14:07:06.676-05:002009-11-27T14:07:06.676-05:00_Yes_. I can't imagine what their departmental..._Yes_. I can't imagine what their departmental politics are like.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11085380050620214471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711828548333856795.post-22224959907770938042009-11-27T12:40:32.207-05:002009-11-27T12:40:32.207-05:00Congratulations!Congratulations!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11085380050620214471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711828548333856795.post-57324368835961662392009-11-24T08:59:14.902-05:002009-11-24T08:59:14.902-05:00This is so exciting! But... what is the back story...This is so exciting! But... what is the back story? What brought you from Charlottesville to Paris? Whatever, Congratulations to you and Carole!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11085380050620214471noreply@blogger.com