Thursday night I nipped over to DA3 where ACM SIGGRAPH were presenting the animations that were short-listed, more or less, in last years’ conference. They had 906 entries, or something like that.. 55 hours of animation, which they someone managed to review in 3 days. Of those, 36 or so were shortlisted, and those were… Read more
Last Thursday I was down at Cal Poly – a mid-size university (~17k students, I’m told) in the rather nice town of San Luis Obispo, not far from Santa Maria, and very close to the famous Pismo beach, courtesy of Bugs Bunny. Career fair, of course; not a social visit, sadly. There were six of… Read more
That’s right, I used an arroba in the title, muahahaha. Christmas day, yesterday, I went round to Myke’s place for Christmas dinner. Mainly his family, and a couple of friends such as myself. It was pretty good, actually – I can handle being away from family for Christmas, though I do miss it, and Myke’s… Read more
Last Saturday F1 & I nipped out to catch ‘I Am Legend’. I’d been looking forward to it all week, because a) Will Smith action movies are usually pretty good, and b) I was interested to see how the movie would go with just one [human] character. Prior to that we had dinner with Ross… Read more
Last… what was it, Friday? Yes, Friday, F1, Ross & I went up to some random party at Stanford, of Peter’s. I was looking forward to it during the week, because I was optimistic it’d be good and there’d actually be people my age there. More or less, anyway. In a nutshell is was perfectly… Read more
My group went bowling today at the Strike on Wolfe. It’s been there for a while now, and I’ve always been intrigued, but I wasn’t sure if it’d be anything like the Australian ones, or what the clientelle would be like (knowing Cupertino :( )… anyway, turns out it’s much like the Australian ones, excepting… Read more