Me with Shun-ichi Amari and some other information geometry experts, at the University of Michigan in August 2004. Tendered as evidence that I would be one of the tallest information geometers in the world, but for (a) talent and (b) desire.

Every venue at Rich Shiffrin's 2005 Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference (ASIC) was makeshift. But using the "musculation gym" for the poster session was more makeshift than most.

It pretty quickly became crowded, hot and humid, so Rich made the executive decision to move the poster session to the out-of-season ski-resort hotel carpark. A great moment in cognitive science ensued, as other hotel guests, mostly returning from a long day's hiking in the French Alps, thought they had stumbled on an ad-hoc post-modern absurdist art display.

An elderly couple offered me ten Euro for my poster, but I talked them down to five.

Child Wrangling #1

A stand-off with Mitchell at Santa Monica, July 2005. I wanted to play football. He wanted to push the concrete roller into the sea.

We have about 3,254 stand-offs like this per day. Unusually, my view prevailed this time. (As a rule, I like nothing better than to push 300-ton concrete objects into large bodies of water).

Alternative Careers #2

An album poster, prepared by my PhD students Matt Dry and Jason Macpherson, released to coincide with hosting the 2005 Australasian Mathematical Psychology conference. Whether by accident or design, the Spinal Tap analogy works quite well. Simon Dennis (bass) is often described as luke warm water, Dan Navarro (lead guitar) worked summers in the finest chapeau shop in Whyalla, and I've always been uncomfortable if the Universe becomes too yielding.

A testimonial to my influence shaping young minds.