Michael Potter

Professor of Logic

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

@exitthelemming @channel5_tv An excellent episode, as you say. But “baby steps”? I think I first heard that usage about 15 years ago.

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

@jlo_conductor @northernballet @ace_national @ace_thenorth @WeAreTheMU @NLebrecht Such a shame. I do hope NB will always make it clear on publicity material when it is performing to recorded music. Audiences need to know what to expect.

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

I feel lucky to have been at last night's concert by @doric_quartet in Grinton with @MMilwidskyVln subbing in at incredibly short notice as 1st violin because of illness. Her playing in Beethoven quintet was amazingly assured (even when her music fell off the stand).

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

Terrific concert by @MMilwidskyVln in Aysgarth Church. Especially lovely playing in Elgar sonata.

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

@BBB_Mrs He's listed for Nutcracker.

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

"Time to gate 9 minutes." I'd expect such timings to be conservative, but at a gentle stroll it took me four.

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

Absolutely superb performance of Brahms German Requiem from @SCOmusic tonight, made all the more enjoyable by the lack of the usual excruciating pre-performance welcome chat from a member of the orchestra.

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

@JoWolffBSG Me neither.

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

@JoWolffBSG Et tu? Whenever I see "around" used to mean "concerning", it's annoying; but when the perpetrator is someone I know, it hurts.

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

Act IV, on the other hand, was very good, especially viewed from the Upper Circle. (Last time I saw it was on the much shallower stage in Sunderland.) #BRBSwanLake

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

At #BRBSwanLake for the first time since 2020. Goodness but Act I is a fair old choreographic mess: lots of awkward positioning, etc.

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

@exitthelemming I don't know if you generally watch your own progs, but if you saw ACGAS S3E5, I imagine you'll have twitched a little at the BR totem station signs on such prominent display.

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

It's an historical curiosity dating from Russell's brief idealist phase (1897): he attempts (badly) to argue that Kant was half-right: neutral geometry (what Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry have in common) is a priori, but which of the two is correct is empirical. 2/2

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

The new edition of Russell's /Essay on the Foundations of Geometry/ is now out, with a foreword by me. https://t.co/ijwrawRQmO
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[Anna Lapwood @annalapwood]

This was so moving. Spontaneously stopped off at the London Bridge station organ to play a couple of pieces for the Queen. This lovely security guard, Marcella, asked if I could play Lascia ch'io pianga. Turns out she trained as a singer! ❤️😭

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

Pleased I bumped into @ThatTimWalker, so I could tell him how much I enjoyed Bloody Difficult Woman. Dacre in particular is a gift to comedy, superbly realized by Andrew Woodall. @BDWplay

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

Train cancelled because of a "short-notice change to the timetable". Isn't that just a cancellation? #fb

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

@Aiannucci What, even the punctuation?

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

@acgrayling Before you retweeted this, should you perhaps have checked whether the quotation was accurate, or whether it e.g. left out a qualifying phrase?

[Michael Potter @MichaelPotter]

@acgrayling I think you should have checked the arithmetic before retweeting this.