An almost wasted weekend. I just did gain any momentum yesterday or today. I have made small incremental changes to our website theme and started on finishing up the framework for partial-order-reduction work with Henri. But I feel a little uninspired. It is not a rational feeling at all: I have a lot of work [...]
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. It is easy to believe that the population is more than a million, as everyone [...]
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 more strongly in the direction of placing all of our course information onto the WebCT [...]
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 mount used to generate large resolution panoramas with billions of pixels. There are essentially two [...]
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 had already proofread Willem’s official lecture and had seen most of the slides beforehand. Everybody [...]
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 the moment I think I’m at some sort of triple dip. I feel exhausted from [...]
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 weekend. One highlight of last week was GeekDinner. This is a gathering held every two [...]
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 visit to my brother. The disappointment was not that bitter. It turns out that the [...]
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. On the hand, it is important to “be yourself” when teaching and by this time [...]
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. (Which reminds me that I must add it to my list of publications.) My February [...]