Not sure how much I’ll be posting in the near future, since I’m beginning a working vacation — or ‘workation’ — today, and won’t be back until Festivus. Today I’m at Whistler for a machine learning conference; tomorrow, I go to Tofino for the weekend with travel-buddy Janelle; then to Victoria to catch a plane…
unfiled
Posts from my previous blog, which have not yet been recategorized.
Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1956)
Yesterday, we continued the grand tradition of Turkey Day at the Kommune. It was a little less smooth than last year, because this year everybody was exceptionally busy and stressed-out with deadlines. In fact, so busy that we already rescheduled from Canadian Thanksgiving to American Thanksgiving so that everybody could attend. Since my own take…
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
On the weekend, I also found out that I would not be getting a free trip to Europe — I had submitted a paper to Eurographics, and had I been accepted, UBC would have paid for me to go there next year to present it. And if I had managed to get in, I was…
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
Yesterday was errands day. The downside of my start-up work lifestyle is that my free-time hours during the week are infrequent and generally spent going to the gym and/or being pretty tired. The upside is that, unlike PhD work, I can usually step away and relax for an entire weekend at a stretch and get…
addendum
Turns out it’s impossible to write a bunch of random unrelated paragraphs with bold key text and not come across like Jackie Harvey. I’m so, so sorry.