decidedlyodd

So, yesterday I gave that talk I’ve been working on for the past week or so. I guess it went ok, but it turned out to be way over the 20 minute time limit that will be imposed by EG. Fortunately, this was just a practice talk and usually the talks at work [...]

So, the slides for my presentation of my Eurographics paper at work tomorrow are basically done. I even found a nifty way to have Acrobat have xine play the two movies I need to show.
A bunch of the Prosper templates are missing on my notebook though, so I had to change to the plain [...]

Today was nice, as I actually got out of my apartment on the weekend for a change. Some guys from work (Gernot and Martin) and I went to the Erlebnisbad Calypso for about an hour and a half total. It’s something like a cross between a miniature water park and public pool. [...]

I came across this fascinating link today. McGill University has a little piece on their role in the history of football. Apparently, football is derived from soccer. In the late 19th century, people started experimenting with various rules. A pair of matches played in Montreal between Harvard and McGill in 1874 [...]

Man, I’ve seen a lot of funky college paraphenalia in my day. The chairs the Boston College Bookstore sells are pretty bizarre if you ask me. But Tar Heel Mailbox Covers? I mean, who would buy such a thing and actually put it on their mailbox? Even if you did use it, [...]

I put up some more old pictures. Click on “my photos” in the upper left-hand corner of the page. Unfortunately, I lost my Heidelberg photos in the process and they’re on my desktop harddrive, which isn’t accessible right now. Doh! They’ll be back in a couple weeks.

While reading the New York Times today, I came across an article on the use of computer graphics in movie special effects, which made reference to Tolkien “borrowing” the primary concept of The Lord of the Rings of an all powerful cursed ring from Wagner. In fact, Wagner’s “Ring des Nibelungen”. That led [...]

So my desktop (name: munja, which means ‘lightning’ in Bosnian and Croatian) is a shell of its former self, now that I have removed the power supply. It looks very sad sitting there. But soon I’ll be shipping it off to sunny California. I was looking on NewEgg yesterday and it looks [...]

So, my old friend Rebekah Punak just got in contact me (through this very blog). It’s nice to hear from her.
However, because of this, I stumbled onto the San Clemente High School website’s alumni section. Lots of married and settled down people it seems like. And those who don’t fit in that [...]

So, the monitor is now done as well. In the end, it went for 46,60EUR and the guy is supposed to be coming to pick it up, which (hopefully) means less to deal with. I think I originally bought it for 135EUR about a year ago, but them’s the breaks in this world, [...]