Not a high-research day. Conversations with Bedell (Flatiron) about papers we need to finish, and a plan to sprint in one week's time. Also a great Brown-Bag talk by Matt Kleban (NYU) about the many vacuum states available in a string-theory-like model with lots of axions. There will always be lots of volume that has a cosmological constant near our observed value, no matter that it is so damned low. But figuring out what this means for generic observers is hard, both because of the anthropic issues, but also because there is no measure for the spacetime. That's crazy and led to yet another discussion of the measure problem. It always surprises me that this is an unsolved problem.
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