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Seattle, a Winter Wonderland

Before I moved to Seattle, people told me it “never snows in Seattle.” In the first few months of 2011, I had already found that to be incorrect. But today, more snow fell than I’ve seen here before. It’s really … Continue reading

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Back from SPLASH 2011

I returned from SPLASH 2011 in Portland tonight. I attended only the Educators’ Symposium on Monday and the first day of the conference proper, but it was worth it. And how could it not be, given that it was so … Continue reading

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Dissertation and Numbers

I received the bound copies of my dissertation yesterday. They look nice, but they’re kind of thin, for so much work. Including front matter, there are 157 pages. Some more numbers: The source code for my dissertation project has 35,979 … Continue reading

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Summer in Seattle

A radio station here in Seattle (I believe it KOMO News) had checked how many minutes of summer Seattle had so far in 2011. They defined summer as 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 C) and no rain. Guess how many? 70 … Continue reading

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Another One

A little bit more self-indulgence must be allowed, right?

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Three Old Men

Three old men, three doctors. I have therefore aged the photo accordingly.

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Working on Yet Another Flight

Economy class seat + first class notebook = not enough space to put the paper down. We’ll see if this work pays off.

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Passed My Defense

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COMP 410 Final Presentation

The guys of COMP 410 had their final presentation last Wednesday. They got some pretty tough questions, and the state of the final product was not as polished as I would have liked it to be, but I think they … Continue reading

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Working on a Recent Plane Trip

I just received two pictures from a recent plane trip. One of them even shows me diligently working on my MacBook and studying my quad-ruled paper notebook. You can see DrJava open on the MacBook.

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Back from GPCE 2010

After a rather long return journey and more than enough time at the Amsterdam-Schiphol airport, I’m back from my trip to GPCE 2010 in Eindhoven. It was fun. Eddy and I presented a tutorial on DSL implementation in Mint. Of … Continue reading

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Rice Graduate-Undergraduate Research Mixer

I’m glad that I went to the Graduate-Undergraduate Research Mixer organized by the SA and GSA at Rice with my poster today: I was the only computer scientist there. The Central Quad started to fill up a little after 6 … Continue reading

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90 Days

90 days and two re-send requests, and the Texas DPS still hasn’t managed to get me my drivers license. I think I also have a dysnumeric mail man, though. So maybe the DPS mailed it, but someone else received it. … Continue reading

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Having a Good Time

I attended the wedding of two of my friends in San Antonio this past weekend. I had a good time. Really. This is what me having a good time looks like. And that’s not jealousy on my face.

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Two Pieces of Fail

I encountered two pieces of fail today already. Fail number 1: Absolutely no place to park my bike. This has been pretty much the case ever since the undergrads have been back. Rice built two new colleges right next to … Continue reading

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Rice News: The doctor is out!

The doctor is out! Rice group celebrates million-download milestone for DrJava BY MATHIAS RICKEN Special to Rice News DrJava isn’t the barista behind the counter at Starbucks. But the doc still serves a pretty potent brew — and more than … Continue reading

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Home after Lots of Traveling

I’m finally home again for a bit, after a lot of traveling: During the last month and a half, I’d slept in my own bed for only eight nights.

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PLDI 2010 Was Great Fun

PLDI 2010 in Toronto is over, and I have to say it was great fun. I met some old friends again, like Gregory and Luke, chatted with old acquaintances, and made many new connections. There was concurrency and parallelism everywhere, … Continue reading

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PLDI Talk Went Well

Eddy did a great job with the Mint talk at PLDI 2010 here in Toronto. Congratulations (in more than one way), Eddy! And thank you very much for the repeated shout-out to me in the audience. The slides for the … Continue reading

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Beethoven and Brainstorming

I went on a walk today, on the prettiest day so far, for some Beethoven and brainstorming. I think I came up with some more nice ties back to my Master’s thesis.

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