suit, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Melbourne is the first Australian city I’ve visited where I really thought I could live. Lest that come off snobby, let me explain. Well, yes, I’m a snob but really? Sydney? Canberra? Sydney is too big and freeway-strewn and aggro, and Canberra is just kind of weird with…
Author: Eric, your haikuist
travels
One day, I’d like to take a trip where I have time to chat, sit in pubs and write up my journals of where I am and what I’m doing. I’ll be pithy, worldly and insightful, kind of a combination of Bill Bryson, Michael Palin and Nick Danziger. This is not that day. Commence info…
traveller
Eric versus the Arc de Triomphe, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. A full report will have to wait until I have more time and internets, but hey, yeah, I made it through Europe unscathed except for a couple of nasty blisters. I enjoyed bobo Paris more than a snarky small-town Canadian really should, Madrid…
Page, count!
thesis page count, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Holy crap. It’s 2:13AM on a Friday night, I’ve got Mogwai playing on the stereo, and I think I might actually kind of be done writing my thesis. I feel… odd. (Well, done until Nando and my committee read it and tell me to go revise…
[Brochu, Brochu and de Freitas, 2010]
I’m a little late in posting this, but I managed to get accepted to the 2010 Symposium on Computer Animation with my paper, “A Bayesian Interactive Optimization Approach to Procedural Animation Design”! I’ve added the pre-print PDF to my publications page, and there’s even a video, which explains the whole thing in under five minutes…