Mladen could probably've told ya

I had a dream in honor of my late friend and co-author Gilbert Baumslag. Gilbert and I were both in Berkeley, and he invited me to come over for lunch in the free product with amalgamation that he was renting. It was not clear which factor I was supposed to come to, and figuring this out involved some tricky group theory. I was still puzzled about it when I woke up.

Peter Shalen, via Facebook

Meh fact of the day

"Meh" might come from the Yiddish, via the Simpsons. From the Oxford English Dictionary:

Etymology: Probably <  Yiddish me be it as it may, so-so (1928 or earlier), probably imitative.
Probably popularized by the U.S. cartoon series The Simpsons , in which its earliest use was in the episode Sideshow Bob Roberts , first broadcast on 9 Oct. 1994.