In the mail
My father sent me several issues from 1938 and 1939 of the philosophical journal Mind. Unfortunately, it's not the 1950 issue where Turing introduces the Turing test; none of these issues appears to have a particularly famous paper in it. But I always read things where somebody is saying "Oh, yeah, of course this was dealt with in that famous paper in Mind in 1938" (as though you happened to have a bunch of issues of Mind from 1938 at home. Well, now I do.
My father also found my old training manual from the Olympiyeda in 1995. The big surprise was that it contained four postcards, complete with stamps, which I'd written from Israel but they forgotten to mail. I'm afraid the Israeli stamps aren't likely to be honored by the USPS; I could add some U.S. stamps and mail the postcards now, or something. Two of them are addressed to high school teachers of mine, one to my mother, and one to a friend I haven't been in touch with in quite a while.
The pictures on the postcards are pretty eclectic -- a church in Jerusalem, a painting celebrating peace, people skiing at Mount Hermon (the mountain after which my high school was named), and a harbor in Tel Aviv.
I also got a new Dover Publications catalog in the mail.
