The fol­low­ing ffffff­fuuuuuuuuuuuu describes most of my life for this week:

I’m fly­ing out to Cal­gary Sunday morn­ing and then head­ing to Kana­nas­kis for FMCS. My code is already work­ing for many cases, but it’s not as com­plete as I’d like it to be. I’d like to do a proper demon­stra­tion of bounds infer­ence when I give my talk. It’s a pretty laid-​​back con­fer­ence so, truth be told, even if I don’t get it totally work­ing by then I can still just demo what I have, or just not demo at all.

I went to FMCS once before, in 2004 at the end of my under­grad. It’s a very nice con­fer­ence, less formal than most, which makes it a lot more fun and a lot more pro­duct­ive, I think. After the con­fer­ence I’ll be hanging around in Cal­gary for another week or so work­ing on my thesis and hanging out with the par­ents. Good times.

The following fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu describes most of my life for this week: I'm flying out to Calgary Sunday morning and then heading to Kananaskis for FMCS. My code is already working for many cases, but it's not as complete as I'd like it to be. I'd like to do a proper demonstration of bounds inference when ...

I’m going to be going to attend­ing FMCS 2010 in Kana­nas­kis — not far from Cal­gary — in a couple weeks. I’ll be giv­ing a talk on the imple­ment­a­tion of Pola in some capa­city, though I haven’t figured out how broadly scoped or what to focus on.

I’m get­ting pretty psyched about it. The con­fer­ence will be fun if it’s any­thing like I remem­ber FMCS 2004 to be. The loc­a­tion is amaz­ing. Plus after that I get to spend some time in Cal­gary with my par­ents and hanging out with Brian and, prob­ably most import­antly but least awe­somely, work­ing on my thesis.

I'm going to be going to attending FMCS 2010 in Kananaskis---not far from Calgary---in a couple weeks. I'll be giving a talk on the implementation of Pola in some capacity, though I haven't figured out how broadly scoped or what to focus on. I'm getting pretty psyched about it. The conference will be fun if ...

Since I moved out east to Ontario I’ve never really done a proper Christ­mas here. I’ve either gone back out West to my par­ents’ or they’ve come out to Toronto and we’ve done Christ­mas some­where else.

This year Jasna wanted a Christ­mas. She grew up in Ser­bia where Christ­mas is a reli­gious hol­i­day and observed in Janu­ary. They do the tree/​Santa/​gift thing on New Year’s but I sup­pose it’s not quite the same, so this year we decided to do a real Christ­mas. We bought a proper (arti­fi­cial) tree, which you can see above and dec­or­a­tions and what­not. We bought stock­ings, too, though I some­how missed get­ting them in that picture.

We’ll still be doing Christ­mas proper some­where else, but at least we’ll have our own build-​​up to Christmas.

Since I moved out east to Ontario I've never really done a proper Christmas here. I've either gone back out West to my parents' or they've come out to Toronto and we've done Christmas somewhere else. This year Jasna wanted a Christmas. She grew up in Serbia where Christmas is a religious holiday and observed ...

I’m cur­rently hanging out at my gate in Pear­son air­port. In a couple hours I’ll be on my way to Paris and tomor­row morn­ing I’ll catch my con­nect­ing flight to Ams­ter­dam and then I take the train to Utrecht to see Jasna’s sis­ter, Ana, and her hus­band, Andre.

Jasna and I aren’t very good with sep­ar­a­tion, though I think this time went bet­ter than most. It could be that it’s a shorter sep­ar­a­tion this time — five days, in con­trast to Jasna’s recent two-​​month trip — or that we’re too tired from last night’s Hallowe’en party to get as worked up. Maybe we’re just get­ting bet­ter at it, though. It’s not like no tears were shed, but I think we did rel­at­ively well.

Unfor­tu­nately today my cam­era bat­tery decided to crap out on me. The upside to this is Jasna lent me her (very awe­some) DSLR cam­era for the trip. I’ll try to keep pic­tures of blondes down to a min­imum. Mostly I’m excited to see Ana and Andre, but I think they’ll be busy most of the time, so I’ll prob­ably ven­ture into Ams­ter­dam at least once to enter­tain myself. I brought the cam­era cable with me, so watch my photo gal­lery in the next day or two for pic­tures to start appearing.

The con­fer­ence — and my present­a­tion there — I haven’t thought a whole lot about yet. I’ll have to dis­ap­pear to Eind­hoven, which I think is only about half an hour from Utrecht — but then again maybe everything’s half an hour away from everything in the Neth­er­lands, who knows — and see what’s going on there. I’m fairly excited to see what FOPARA ends up being like since this is the first year the workshop’s being done. I’m espe­cially excited to see the Hume pro­ject people, like Kevin Ham­mond, since I’ve never met any.

I should say there’s still a lot of work that’s going on behind the scenes, work even on what I’m going to present to FOPARA. While I was in Cal­gary we decided to put in a new typ­ing sys­tem based on bunched logics which deals eleg­antly with a lot of the prob­lems with peeks that we’ve been sort­ing out in Pola, plus some new features.

I'm currently hanging out at my gate in Pearson airport. In a couple hours I'll be on my way to Paris and tomorrow morning I'll catch my connecting flight to Amsterdam and then I take the train to Utrecht to see Jasna's sister, Ana, and her husband, Andre. Jasna and I aren't very good with ...

That’s my ther­mo­meter from a couple minutes ago. I’ve been sick essen­tially since Sat­urday and it looks like it’s finally on the mend! For some reason the last couple times I’ve been sick I’ve got cold instead of fever. This morn­ing I was down to 35.6ºC (for you Amer­ic­ans, that’s 96ºF) and had to take a long bath just to keep warm. It looks like I’m finally get­ting back to health.

The upside to the sick­ness is I did do quite a bit of work today. The major rewrite of the bounds infer­ence for Pola accord­ing to the last paper is get­ting close. Only 4 or 5 screen­fuls of typ­ing errors to sort out and then test­ing, ha! I’m hop­ing I’ll get it fin­ished in the next couple days as it would be nice to have all the ducks in a row for my trip to Cal­gary next week to see my par­ents and work with Brian and Robin again!

That's my thermometer from a couple minutes ago. I've been sick essentially since Saturday and it looks like it's finally on the mend! For some reason the last couple times I've been sick I've got cold instead of fever. This morning I was down to 35.6ºC (for you Americans, that's 96ºF) and had to ...

My sister-​​in-​​law just made an awe­somely cute new entry to her pho­to­graphy blog which led to:

Jasna: can you fin­ish your PhD and get a real job ASAP so I can start pop­ping out babies?

My sister-in-law just made an awesomely cute new entry to her photography blog which led to:Jasna: can you finish your PhD and get a real job ASAP so I can start popping out babies?