I look up at the students. No one seems to be cheating, but I remind them anyways, "No Cheating!"

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Pavol is visiting from Vancouver, and we are talking about a problem with a paper. We would like a polynomial algorithm to decide if a graph has a semilattice polymorphism. I say that I think a Lexicographic breadth

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In this semi-fictional blog, I minimize talk of my Mother-in-Law. It is too rich a subject. A minefield. Not too rich for a fully fictional blog. But this blog is semi-fictional. And that means that it is semi-non-fictional.

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I'm at the Home-plus early in the morning. It's mostly empty, but there are two maintenance men going up the moving sidewalk. On of them sees a box over the railing of the sidewalk,

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I'm at the Chim-san Home Plus with Lucy. We come out with a back-pack full of cereal. As I am fighting with the lock on my bike, two girls come up ans start talking to us.

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Recently, Eunjoo reads Lucy to sleep every night. Four or five books, over and over, until, if all goes well, Lucy gets sleepy and nods off. If all doesn't go well, Eunjoo gets sleepy, and nods

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We're in a park with Lucy. I tell my wife I'm going to the powder room. It isn't so affected to say this in Korean. In Canada, when you have to go

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I'm sitting in my office with the windows shut, and my finger in the open jaw of a stapler. It is hot -- humid hot -- and I have the air conditioner off. The stapler is

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