I’m still exhausted from the flight, but the trip was excellent, and I think the presentation went really well!
Amsterdam is definitely a very cool and unique city! I’m extremely glad we were able to find Jess a last minute flight, and that the hotel didn’t mind her staying in my room (which was booked [...]
In less than an hour I’ll be leaving for the airport and will eventually be making my way to Amsterdam, after a half day in Switzerland. I’m hugely excited about the trip — it’s my first time presenting a paper at a conference, and I think it’s really cool that my Master’s research is [...]
It’s been a long wait, but I’m finally able to discuss my Master’s thesis: a real-time fluid simulation aimed at rendering large scale rivers for interactive applications like games. My supervisors and I put together a paper based on the thesis, which has been accepted to CASA 2009, and will be published in the [...]
As promised in Part I, I think it’s about time we start to actually have some fun with C++0x’s variadiac templates. There’s lots of basic tutorials out there and people talking about variadics here and there, but I haven’t seen anyone really delve into yet, so here we go. First up, the most [...]
If you’re a C++ user, you’ve probably heard that the up and coming language revision, C++0x, is adding support for variadic templates. And if you’re anything like me, perhaps your first question was “Cool, so what good are they?” And I would say “Excellent question!” to such an inquiry, because C++ has been [...]
Random tube weirdness:
Mike the Headless Chicken
Mayonnaise
Cop’s Eye
Space stations kick ass
So it’s official: I don’t have anything nasty… that they tested me for. I’ve just been sick a lot, and I only fainted that one time. .
They x-ray’ed me twice, did three malaria screens on different samples of my blood, ultrasounded my liver, spleen, and for some reason the underside of my freakin’ [...]
They released me from the hospital after nearly killing me with a “chicken” “sandwich” on “whole wheat” “bread”. They told me nothing was wrong with me and my first Malaria screen came back negative (yayy!). I also don’t have tuberculosis (YAYY!). Tomorrow there’s another round of tests though so we’ll see.
As for the [...]
Posting from my phone. Jess and I have been feeling on and off crappy since getting back from the DR in Dec. Finally decided to go to the Doctor this morn. They sent me to a lab for bloodwork and I fainted while standing in line. Rode in ambulance. [...]
I’ve used my share of window managers and desktop environments over the years; I think the progression went something like this: DOS (single window?) -> DESQview -> Windows 3.1 through WinNT -> WindowMaker -> Enlightenment -> IceWM -> Fluxbox -> E17 -> XFce -> KDE 3.x -> KDE 3.x with Compiz-Fusion -> Gnome + Compiz, [...]
