I made it to SIGGRAPH with remarkably trouble-free travel, even though I overslept by an hour. Flying direct from Logan (Boston) is much much better than flying from Providence to Chicago/Dallas/St.Louis/Memphis/GenericMidwestHub. We made the trip in five and a half hours, then sat on the tarmac for 20 minutes waiting for a gate to open up.
This morning I attended Sketches: Artistic Depiction but got there late and only saw a paper on physical simulation of viscous paint for painting with a virtual brush.
Now I'm in Seeing, Hearing, and Touching: Putting It All Together, a course led in part by Tamara Munzner, a very nice, talented woman whom I met wey way back in 1996 or so, at SIGGRAPH. She was working on a project involving a technique for turning a sphere inside out without having to actually make any folds. It involved a twist, and something about seventeen. Anyways, this course is interesting so far: kind of pushing Edward Tufte into VR, explained by a very intelligent woman, related to cognitive science. I'll stop blogging and start listening now :)
"A West Texas girl, just like me."
And more from The Complete Bushisms - Updated frequently. By Jacob Weisberg:
"I want to thank my friend, Sen. Bill Frist, for joining us today. … He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. (Laughter.) Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me."—Nashville, Tenn., May 27, 2004
"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein."—Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004
Bushism of the Day By Jacob Weisberg
From Bushism of the Day By Jacob Weisberg:
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."—Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
Connected in so many ways
In preparation for siggraph, I've established identities in a variety of media:
dodgeball.com: finding friends via cel phone
flickr.com: photo sharing
the siggraph wiki
I'm taking a fairly rad but clunky camera with me -- the Nikon Coolpix 990 -- and I plan to moblog like mad. Should I carry my tablet around with me? Will siggraph have free wireless access everywhere?
Brown Computer Graphics Lab
| Does this look familiar to anybody? The Brown Computer Graphics Lab, operating continuously for a really long time... and the single room in which I've spent the most time awake in my whole life. |  Brown Computer Graphics Lab Originally uploaded by sbshine. |
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Maher and Moore beg Nader not to run
On the first episode of Bill Maher's new HBO show, Michael Moore and Bill Maher got down on their knees and begged Nader not to run. He demurred.
Thanks, guys. It was worth a try.