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pozorvlak ([personal profile] pozorvlak) wrote2008-06-18 12:27 am

Esprit d'escalier

I was at the Heriot-Watt semigroup day on Friday (at which I was one of a surprising number of category theorists).

It was only after I'd got there that I realised I should have been wearing my No2ID T-shirt...

[identity profile] antoniabaker.livejournal.com 2008-06-18 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
did you meet any more of my former beaus?

[identity profile] pozorvlak.livejournal.com 2008-06-18 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Not that I saw, but then they don't exactly go around wearing badges :-)

[identity profile] penguinlord8017.livejournal.com 2008-06-18 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Although we PenguinLords possess awesome knowledge, we do not yet fully understand your Earth humour. Could you possibly explain the joke for us? And be proud! For 'tis not many who can humble the PenguinLords.

[identity profile] pozorvlak.livejournal.com 2008-06-18 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I was wondering how long it would take someone to ask. Semigroups are mathematical structures like monoids, but which don't necessarily have identity elements.

I didn't say it was a good joke...

[identity profile] jonjonc.livejournal.com 2008-06-19 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh hey cool, Yohei was my summer research student a couple of years ago!

[identity profile] pozorvlak.livejournal.com 2008-06-19 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Small world :-)