-- Before our moderator cuts us off, here's the note I sent to Ross: With an average snowfall of 93 inches(236 cm)/season, we did get an all time record amount of snow. We had no snow in November (almost a record), and no snow in December, until...the evening of December 24, when it started and didn't stop until it had deposited 83 inches (211 cm) in the city by December 29 (!). White Christmas indeed. Thanks to the National Guard and outside contractors who put 500 pieces of equipment in service to supplement our 40, we are digging out and hauling the stuff away. But really, a snowstorm even like this is merely an inconvenience, nothing like the ice storm Montreal had a few years ago where Mike Barr ended up living in his Math Department office, much less a flood or a hurricane or burning houses, or even terrorists mailing mad cow disease. In Buffalo (as quoted in the New York Times) we say "fuggedaboudit !". Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Jack Incidentally, I'm going to take John Isbell to "A Beautiful Mind" tomorrow. He was at Princeton with Nash and was consulted by the author of the book on which the film is (apparently, quite loosely) based. Can any of you who have already seen it tell me exactly where in the film the conversation with the student which ends with the notorious "functors..(two or 2-)categories" line comes? I would like to be ready to try to play very close attention when it comes!