A kinder, gentler Mason

Well, maybe not, but I'll try to stay out of trouble. (So some comments might come by e-mail instead of here in appropriate circumstances.)

Anyway, I received some good-natured ribbing today. But I wouldn't want things to go beyond that (especially given the expanded readership), so consider this entry to be a proclamation of increased caution (and that I eventually do learn my lessons, hard as that may be for my friends to believe).

It's been fun here so far. And maybe I have a chance to win snarkiness competitions around here after all. :)

And if nothing else, perhaps I've already guaranteed myself that I will never be the department head, which will leave me more time to devote to my research. (Of course, that would then be giving myself credit for having some sort of strategy, which would of course be patently false.)