Another inauguration

A bell rang and a professor got his puffy hat

Today I went to the inauguration of a friend of a friend. This inauguration was for a professorship. Here making full professor is a much bigger thing than in the States. It is comparable to getting an endowed chair in the US.



So Franz, a boyhood friend of my friend Taco, today gave his inaugural address for his professorship in the history of science at the University of Leiden. It was lovely and I even understood about a third of the talk. Unfortunately it was not a continuous third, but more like every third word. There was a nice party after the talk.

Killer ducks update

So the killer ducks from the last post are coots. Thanks Linda! A collection of coots, when u spreekt Amerikaanse, is a cover. Beware the cover of coots.