Yay! It's snowing! Sooooo much better than the cold rain we were getting last week. I think that I have about a week between the start of break and going to Akron -- I should see if I can get some CMU people to go to Seven Springs for some early skiing ( Read more... )

Apparently Burlington is the 4th best beer city in the world, and the best in the western hemisphere. Hell yeah -- I miss my Magic Hat and Long Trail.

I'll try to do a more comprehensive update in the next few days (possibly with pictures from my trip to Bertinoro, Italy, for the Workshop on Flexible Network Design), but for now I just need to point out that Princeton beat Harvard 31-28. Princeton is now 6-0 overall, 3-0 in the Ivy League. This may be our best chance for a bonfire since the ( Read more... )

This is definitely the longest time between posts since I started this journal my sophomore year. Three months, the whole summer. All in all it was a pretty good summer. After reunions (which I wrote about back in June) I went to the Montreal Workshop on Approximation Algorithms at CRM (Centre de Recherches Mathematiques). It was a fun workshop ( Read more... )

Why the hell isn't my local ABC affiliate showing the England-Paraguay now? I woke up early just to watch it! The national ABC broadcast starts at 10, but the Pittsburgh station decides to push it to 10 in order to show TWO HOURS of local news??? WTF is that?

Both Rehan and Joe Gallian sent me this link (two people I never thought that I would mention in the same sentence). It's definitely the most ridiculous juggling that I've ever seen. Check it out.

I can't even describe how great reunions were this year. Almost every '05 that I knew was back, including pretty much everyone from Quad. Gabe and I drove down on Thursday afternoon and came back on Sunday. My friend Dan from CMU is spending the summer in Princeton, so I got him a wristband and was planning on staying with him, but I never ( Read more... )

My paper on spanners with slack with Anupam and Hubert just officially got into ESA (the European Symposium on Algorithms). According to the email there were 215 submissions to ESA this year, and 52 were accepted. I was pretty sure our paper would get in, since ESA isn't a great conference and our paper was (I thought) pretty good. It would have ( Read more... )

Another entry written on an airplane and posted after I land. I'm now flying from Phoenix, Arizona back to Pittsburgh. While obviously Phoenix isn't really on the way back from Seattle, it's still better than flying through North Carolina like I did on my way out. And flying over the desert was really cool. I don't remember ever having done ( Read more... )

Written yesterday, posted today ( Read more... )