Tag Archives: GECCO

Massive road trip, days 7-11

Day 7 started with a vist to Lewis and Clark College, which was interesting if not overwhelming for Tom. It’s a gorgeous campus and the study abroad stuff there is very cool, but it didn’t particular ring Tom’s bells. We then spent most of the day hanging around Portland together, including a visit to the [...]
Posted in Family, Travels | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Massive road trip, days 3-6 (oops)

Wow – lack of internet and the busy-ness of college visits and GECCO in Portland have once again put me behind on this. Enough so that my wonderful mother commented on it. Oops. Sorry. It’s day 11, and I’ll try to get us up to day 6 today :-). So, a quick recap, but generally [...]
Posted in Family, Travels | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

I’m officially pissed at Northwest Airlines

Northwest Airlines is officially stupid and refuses to fly me straight back to MSP from Montréal (where I've become sick) and instead insists on making a sick person fly through DC to get to Minnesota. And they're charging me $200 for the privilege. Ugh.
Posted in Travels, economics | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Evidence that crazy (and mean) is old as the hills

Since I’m swamped at GECCO (tutorial yesterday with Riccardo, our paper presentation tomorrow, etc., etc.), I’ll take a few moments to share some seriously weird (no, I mean seriously weird) old ads. The obviously unstable folks at Retro Comedy have collected what they bill as The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time. While I’m [...]
Posted in General | Also tagged , , | Comments closed

I tend to scribble a lot

A photo demonstrating how much I scribble on papers when I'm editing.
Posted in Computing, Education, My writing, Photography, Research, Science, Writing | Also tagged , , , , | Comments closed

MSP Humphrey terminal: A modern ghost town

The Hubert H. Humphrey terminal at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport was eerily empty and quiet today.
Posted in Computing, Events, Research, Science, Travels | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments closed

You know, basic editing and lit review = teh good

Just finished my GECCO reviewing, and I must say that is seriously sucks when people don’t attend to even the most basic of issues. Two things almost guaranteed to majorly annoy a reviewer: Weird random floating fragments of text that are obviously the disemboweled remnants of some cut and paste action. Only 8 entries in [...]
Posted in Computing, Education, Research, Science, Writing | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments closed

Wrapping one’s head around the data

JOCP! It’s been almost five days since I’ve posted anything here, and I have so much backed up in the queue… There’s a major conference deadline (GECCO 2008) in a few days, and I’m struggling to finish up four different (and only loosely related) papers for submission. On top of that I leave Sunday morning [...]
Posted in Computing, Events, Photography, Research, Sabbatical, Science, Travels | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments closed
  • Recent photos from Flickr

    Loading...

  • Categories

  • Archives