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Bienvenue aux ch’tis
I am now in Lille at the Euromicro SEAA conference. I intended to blog more often, but connectivity has not been great and my time has been a little constraint. In short, Lille is much, much bigger than I expected. … Continue reading
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This and that and the other thing
Today was a long day that started at 5:00. I had to enter the essay marks for the SE course and it took a while to figure out how to do that. Our university seems to be moving more and … Continue reading
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Community service
I went to a talk today by Illah Nourbakhsh about the Gigapan project. It was very good: entertaining, informative, and also somewhat thought-provoking. I won’t go into the details of gigapan, except to say that it is a cheap camera … Continue reading
Inaugral
This evening I went to Willem Visser’s inaugral professorial speech. In fact, there were two inaugrals: Ingrid Rewitzky was first, and she was followed by Willem. I found both presentations interesting. Perhaps I was more intrigued Ingrid’s more because I … Continue reading
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Biorhythm and blues
The notion of biorhythms has been discredited, but since there are naturally high points and low points in one’s emotional, physical, and intellectual life. It is natural to interpolate the idea of a cycle. Don’t want to gripe, but at … Continue reading
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Digest
Last week was a busy one. I hope to have a little more “free” time this week to deal with (at least) my enormous email backlog. I don’t mind working hard because I plan to go away for the long … Continue reading
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Night falls
It’s been a long day and I am glad that it is finally over. Got up at five, did some work, went to the office at six, did some work, bitter disappointment, OK-ish lecture, home to nap, and finally a … Continue reading
Phew! One down, sixty to go
First day of teaching. It was utterly exhausting. I almost thought it was a mistake to schedule all of my classes consecutively, but this is the year that I must learn to teach faster and talk less nonsense in class. … Continue reading
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Review
It is kind of the right time of year (if not the right time of the day) to review this year’s work so far. In January I rewrote the course notes for the Bridging Course, which comes to 52 pages. … Continue reading
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The bends
Our paper deadline was this morning at 10:00. I may have been a little nasty to one or two of my colleagues and I had better apologize tomorrow. Truth is, I have never written this much of a paper, this … Continue reading
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