More cloud around this morning. On the Old Course a group of a dozen or so happy golfers are waiting impatiently to tee off. As we pass the starters hut a gentleman in a fucshia coloured shirt and almost matching trousers informs us that they're from 'the Dakotas'. He goes on to add ( somewhat archaically ) that 'We're having a whale of a time '. He offers to swap his 'Fighting Hawks' baseball cap for my somewhat battered 2023 Walker Cup one. ' It's new' he says as if this might clinch the deal. I politely decline. The gentleman expresses his views about the strength - or lack of it - of Scottish coffee. We wish him well. 'The Font' observes that we have never been to the Dakotas nor have we been to Montana or Nebraska which may ( or may not ) be in that 'fly over' part of the map between Chicago and Seattle.
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The Tiger Timberlake sports bar now well and truly open. The combination of cheap beer and golf simulators seems to be a recipe for success. Cheap beer alone might have sufficed.
Tonight the club will be hosting a student Halloween party. £5 entrance strikes me as being reasonable. I'm guessing they make their money at the bar.
Opening hours seem on the early side for a college town.
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Things are different now :https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2025/10/corporate-geopolitics-when-billionaires-rival-states?lang=en
The last Warsaw hero :https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/10/24/last-surviving-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-fighter-dies/
Sleep:https://news.mit.edu/2025/your-brain-without-sleep-1029
This was interesting. #8 raises questions:https://www.understandingai.org/p/16-charts-that-explain-the-ai-boom
The real world may be less forgiving :https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/30/students-react-grading-report/
3 comments:
Hari Om
There is something every so slightly 'up market student union' about those posters for the new venue. At least on the outside it masquerades as something better. I'm going to have to read the links later - am currently parked at St Cyrus, which is gorgeous, but almost no signal! YAM xx
I enjoyed the story about the fuschia-clad gentleman from the Dakotas - he may be better-prepared for Scottish weather than your frequent visitors from the South. Today's links were all very interesting and left me arguing with myself about various things. I think we are going to need some people like Michael Smuss in the US, but I am not sure where they can be found. We seem to have too many "snowflakes" like the Harvard students quoted in that article, but on the other hand, I basically agree with their point. My law school had a grading system that was deliberately meaningless - the idea was that we had shown initiative in getting there and now it was our responsibility to figure out how best to use the opportunity. It worked pretty well for the most part. We were amazed that Harvard Law students still had proctored exams.
I have been there, done that, North and South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska. Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse are interesting, but really out there in the middle of nowhere. Glacier National Park in Montana is pretty, but Switzerland has better trains. My Saturday posts this year, describe my visits to all 50 states (plus DC and PR to round out 52 weeks.)
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