I often think that the presents you receive at Christmas tell you a lot about what people think of you and, as you all know, being a teacher is a large part of your identity. So, for a bit of fun, here is a list of the presents I got a couple of weeks ago on Christmas Day. What do they tell you about me? (Answers on a postcard … or better yet in the comment box at the bottom of the page!)
A Bicycle Cargo Trailer (View Similar on Amazon
A Year’s Subscription to The Economist (Visit their website)
A Year’s Subscription to Private Eye (Visit their website)
Several puzzles plus the following books;
Terry Pratchett’s Snuff (View the book on Amazon
Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational (View the book on Amazon
Tim Harford’s Adapt (View the book on Amazon
Benoit Mandelbrot’s The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets (View the book on Amazon
Kathleen Taylor’s Brainwashing (View the book on Amazon
Augusten Burroughs’s You Better Not Cry (View the book on Amazon
and QI’s Advanced Banter (View the book on Amazon
No prizes for telling that I’m a great reader of books!
I have managed to get through several of the books already and I love this one quote on books in the book of quotations;
“There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.” George Santayana
I’ve often noticed this with the online version of newspapers – the comments made by readers are very often more informative, and most definitely more interesting, than the article itself.
Mmmm … I wonder if the same will be true of this weblog eventually?
So what did you get for Christmas? Or have you forgotten it already after the start of the new term?
