The wife of Steven Weinberg

Audrey: 

I will be taking baby

 

to her second conference this summer, this time in Nova Scotia.

Predrag:

What's she talking about?

Once had a lunch with Steven Weinberg and his wife. At the Niels Bohr Institute. Guys like that always went through Niels Bohr Institute, because that's on the way to the Nobel Prize.

He talked without stop in his booming voice. He's very smart (reason I became a theorist, but that's another story), and articulate. It was all about particle physics and (perhaps?) the standard model. He ignored us ignoramuses, and only addressed his wife.

Now, she's a lawyer. They had moved to Texas, as UT Austin hired her as a law professor, a part of a package deal.

She talked back as a good theorist would. She knew all the words, you would not know that she knew no theoretical physics. It's just that she's been listening to his stuff for a long time.

So, I'm expecting The Baby to give a good talk. The ignoramuses will be awed.

I'm accompanying My Baby to Eresfjord, Norway. As the Mediterranean is becoming increasingly unlivable, Norway is inundated with tourists. Norwegians are desperate. They are rich, they do not need all these tourists. 

 As Swift puts it :

"for as to those filthy Yahoos, although there were few greater lovers of mankind at that time than myself, yet I confess I never saw any sensitive being so detestable on all accounts; and the more I came near them the more hateful they grew"