Korea 1 - Arrival

Made it to KAIST, Korea. After uneventful flights from Delhi through Hong Kong to Seoul, I was picked up by Otfried from the new airport. Stayed the night over in Seoul and then continued by fast train to Daejeon (150km in about 50 minutes). My apartment in the guest house is quite nice. Except for the Korean alphabet (which is BTW very interesting), the place feels like a western country.

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India 14 - Holi

>From the colors of war streaked on all faces around here, you would think that Indians took over the place - and you would be completely right.

[![Holi][1]][2]

The holiday has to do with the coming of the spring (and probably an opportunity to have some fun before the hot unbearable summer comes visiting). The official reasons for this holiday seems to be largely unimportant.

Since this holiday follows a Lunar calendar, similar to the Jewish calendar, it coincides with the Jewish holiday Purim. Purim is a holiday of remotely similar spirit, with the difference that the story itself is quite important. It is yet another quasi-existential story of the bad guys trying to kill the jews, and the jews escaping again from destruction. It is also the only holiday were you are suppose to get drunk, and unlike most other Jewish holidays it does not have a dark side to it. No need to repent, no celebration of a local success in a stupid rebellion that lead to total destruction. A simple holiday, almsot like Holi.

[1]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/x/travel/07/03/04/all/LMG_7763.JPG

[2]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/travel/07/03/04/all/

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Comment on Gunpowder - an explosive history by Piotr

> And all the invasions of Russia by European forces failed.

What's wrong with borsch and perogis ??

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Comment on Elections II by Sariel Har-Peled

Well, this is 12pt with standard spacing. If you mean the text itself should be broken into lemmas/claims/proofs/etc, I agree. But the issue now is just how to handle the figures. The text definitely needs work.

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[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "Elections II"

New comment on your post #464 "Elections II"
Author : Suresh (IP: 67.186.233.146 , c-67-186-233-146.hsd1.ut.comcast.net)
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To me the problem with page 14 (and page 12) isn't actually the figures. It's that the text is so dense otherwise, that the figures only add to the sense of being cluttered. I think that your problem is really with the text and not with the figures.

btw, I don't see how piotr can read between the lines when there's so little space.

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Comment on Elections II by Piotr

I would go for (D), but it is just because I dont like any papers of yours in general.

Cheers,

Piotr

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[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "India 11 - SirSir and YesYes"

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I'm glad the head waggle clarification was useful. Basically, the gesture has the same connotations and built-in ambiguities as "okay". :-)

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