Sometimes it's so cool to know smart people, so you can congratulate them when they win awards. Go Kimbo! Hat tip Leiter.
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You need to speak to your paperboy. I think he's delivering things a bit late. (If you go to the Nicod website, you can watch the lectures he gave at the awards ceremony last May)
My paperboy here is Brian Leiter. He's not usually late on this stuff (I presumed the acceptance would be next May).