Chip (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ckillian) wrote,@ 2007-02-24 21:41:00 |
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Just a few minutes for an update
Good evening all -
I just wanted to take a few minutes to post an update. First, though many of you know by now, the other paper we submitted has also been accepted for publication. This paper is the one about Mace, the language extensions I write for C++ to let you easily build distributed systems. (The other one was about a model checker for Mace, which means finding bugs systematically). This paper is being published at PLDI 2007 (Programming Languages Design and Implementation). Unfortunately, the conference is here in San Diego, so I don't get to do any exotic traveling for it. Now we're busy working on the next paper, which is due March 18th. There's a lot of work to be done before the deadline, so I'm keeping busy.
Tonight we went to the "Black and White" concert at our church. Our two Dominican priests are pretty good singers, so they have this show they do, singing a bunch of stuff together. "Black and White" is one of those double meanings for them -- on the one hand one is black while the other white, and on the other the Dominican "tuxedo" is a set of black and white garments. Anyway, it was a pretty nice concert, and then afterwards we went with the young adult group to dinner. It was a pretty good crowd -- 18 people made it.
We've joined the "Keeper's Club" at the zoo, which means on the 2nd Saturday of every month we get to go to the zoo an hour before the gates open in the morning and have a quieter visit. We went to our first one last month and had a good time with friends from church who also are members. We've also deemed 2007 the year of the theatre. We've decided to go see a show each month. Starting in December, we saw the Grinch at the Old Globe Theatre. Then in January it was Don Quixote at San Diego Repertoire Theatre, and February was Ace back at the Old Globe. In March we're going to see The Farnsworth Invention at La Jolla Playhouse. The ones we've seen so far have been quite interesting. The Grinch was nice, with some catchy tunes and very creative costuming. We still periodically find ourselves singing "Who likes Christmas? Who's like Christmas!". But without the arm motions and inflection it's just not as good. Don Quixote was different. It bore some resemblance to the play I know, but it was not the musical Man of La Mancha. We knew it was different going in of course. This one seemed to be mostly about religious tolerance, and while it wasn't quite a musical, it did feature some songs and a juggling act. Then most recently Ace (a new musical) was an excellent show about a boy growing up and learning about his family of pilots. It also included some history of American pilots roles in WWI and WWII in Europe and China.
And that's it for this edition of the news from San Diego. Good night, and good luck! (btw -- we saw this movie recently from our Blockbuster subscription -- quite good.)
Good evening all -
I just wanted to take a few minutes to post an update. First, though many of you know by now, the other paper we submitted has also been accepted for publication. This paper is the one about Mace, the language extensions I write for C++ to let you easily build distributed systems. (The other one was about a model checker for Mace, which means finding bugs systematically). This paper is being published at PLDI 2007 (Programming Languages Design and Implementation). Unfortunately, the conference is here in San Diego, so I don't get to do any exotic traveling for it. Now we're busy working on the next paper, which is due March 18th. There's a lot of work to be done before the deadline, so I'm keeping busy.
Tonight we went to the "Black and White" concert at our church. Our two Dominican priests are pretty good singers, so they have this show they do, singing a bunch of stuff together. "Black and White" is one of those double meanings for them -- on the one hand one is black while the other white, and on the other the Dominican "tuxedo" is a set of black and white garments. Anyway, it was a pretty nice concert, and then afterwards we went with the young adult group to dinner. It was a pretty good crowd -- 18 people made it.
We've joined the "Keeper's Club" at the zoo, which means on the 2nd Saturday of every month we get to go to the zoo an hour before the gates open in the morning and have a quieter visit. We went to our first one last month and had a good time with friends from church who also are members. We've also deemed 2007 the year of the theatre. We've decided to go see a show each month. Starting in December, we saw the Grinch at the Old Globe Theatre. Then in January it was Don Quixote at San Diego Repertoire Theatre, and February was Ace back at the Old Globe. In March we're going to see The Farnsworth Invention at La Jolla Playhouse. The ones we've seen so far have been quite interesting. The Grinch was nice, with some catchy tunes and very creative costuming. We still periodically find ourselves singing "Who likes Christmas? Who's like Christmas!". But without the arm motions and inflection it's just not as good. Don Quixote was different. It bore some resemblance to the play I know, but it was not the musical Man of La Mancha. We knew it was different going in of course. This one seemed to be mostly about religious tolerance, and while it wasn't quite a musical, it did feature some songs and a juggling act. Then most recently Ace (a new musical) was an excellent show about a boy growing up and learning about his family of pilots. It also included some history of American pilots roles in WWI and WWII in Europe and China.
And that's it for this edition of the news from San Diego. Good night, and good luck! (btw -- we saw this movie recently from our Blockbuster subscription -- quite good.)
