Deirdre and I "transitioned" to upstate New York on Monday — moving ourselves and the two cats and a bunch of stuff from our tiny New York City apartment to our little house in the Catskills, where we'll be spending December and quite likely a significant chunk of January. The uncertainty of our return back to the city mostly involves my current work-in-progress, The Annotated Turing . I do not want to transition back to the city before submitting the final chapters to my publisher. I'm basically stranded here in the snowy mountains until it's done. Among the stuff I needed to move up here were books that I'm using for research for The Annotated Turing — everything from the obvious (Andrew Hodges's biography, the four volumes of the Collected Works of A.M. Turing , Jean van Heijenoort's extraordinary anthology From Frege to Gödel ) to the more obscure ( Machine Man and Other Writings by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Bertrand Russell and Trinity by G.H. Hardy, and The Love that Read More...