I never get any good email
Other people get invited to swanky parties or offered freebies. Me? I get sent a copy of the speech Michael Gove is giving at the Reform Mathematics Seminar today.
Why am I being sent this and what happens if I break the embargo?
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 at 12:02pm under Tories
Break it and find out?
Jennie’s latest blog post… Conspiring
Well I would, but I can’t think of anything even remotely amusing to say about a right-wing think tank trying to rehabilitate mathematics. That fact they’ve got an anthropomorphised tadpole as their keynote speaker is about the only thing I could wring out of it.
I received the email as well.
Maybe they’ll stop sending us all spam if we break the embargo?
I think we should just start our own PR company or think tank. It seems to consist of merely building an email list and then bombing it with absolutely no consideration of whether the recipients will be interested or not. Job done.
Let’s try and get Ann Widdicombe interested in classic 70s hardcore pornography. We stand as much chance as getting me to comment on the burblings of Michael Gove.
I think we should just start our own PR company or think tank.
There must be an ‘entrepreneurial’ university module being taught on this, or does it go with, say, networking at Oxbridge?
After falling asleep at the last press release you received, Justin, I am staying well and truly quiet.
Sim-O’s latest blog post… The stiff upper lip method of coping
Maybe I can’t be too bothered to go through the whole press release but for a presentation to a mathematics seminar, the figures seem to be slightly off.
The headline says half a million and yet the text states 60,000 less at 440,000. It seems that an overstatement of 13.6% is acceptable in today’s society. What is the world coming to?
With this kind of discrepancy in their figures, maybe Gove and his spammeister should be put on detention.
The address and time of the presentation may well be incorrect if they used the same mathematical skills.
By my reckoning, the correct address for the debate could well be 50-51 Russell Sq, and the debate may have started at 11am.
Beau Bo D’Or’s latest blog post… Couple of Fillers While B3TA is Indisposed
The day politicians start trying to reform mathematics is the day mathematics is doomed.
Promote growth! Ban the contraction mapping principle!
Regulate matrices! Any matrices suspected of singularity must be accompanied by a completed form 34534b. This regulation is necessary for safe inversion.
You see, Decency is a genuinely totalitarian mindset – not just political politics, or political art, but political mathematics. I remember Martin Amis wrote a book about Stalin in which he said that Stalinism wanted the “politicisation of sleep”, but he doesn’t seem to have noticed that he’s now in a movement that has just the same tendencies.
Other people get invited to swanky parties or offered freebies.
Who? Where? What freebies? All I ever get is unlooked-for sexual advice and semi-grammatical investment opportunities.
Philip’s latest blog post… They Say, and Do Not