Yesterday was a little busier than normal. In the morning I gave a research talk, “Text analysis with Iterative Denoising,” at the spring meeting of the International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region.

The conference was in Arlington, Virginia and my hotel was overlooking the Reagan …

Some friends took me to visit The Arboretum, in Arcadia, California. Located on 127 acres, The Arboretum is a tranquil botanical garden and historical site.

We saw lots of birds there too, including geese, ducks, and peacocks. This one bird was perched on a branch above the water and sat there …

Before you get too excited, no, it is not a museum of hammers. When I first saw the museum in Los Angeles’ Westwood area, I thought how great to have a museum on hammers – battle hammers or maybe even Thor’s Hammers!

Alas, that was not the case, but you should visit it anyway …