October Festivus

October is here, modulo Tigers and Twins who stretch it to Tuesday. Soon, there will be some sweet playoff baseball and the breweries in NY will politely challenge Munich for the Fest. Two comments on Sept blogs:

• Mihai's post and the discussions on and off the blog world reminded me, there is a little bit of Howard Roark in all of us and a little bit of Antonio Salieri, question is where we leave the dial at any given time.
  
• Noam urges academia to take a broader view of research and academic output. The best way to urge is by an example, and Noam is leading as a great example with incredible breadth and depth in CS and beyond.