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| my stone-age electric shaver
was apparently not up to the challenge of having to sense and adapt
to non-us voltages. it fried and died a horrible death. |
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| my talk was scheduled in the
first slot (after the keynote) in the first workshop on the
first day of the conference.
thinking it started at 8am, i arrived at 7am to discover that it
didn't really start until 9:15am and that my talk wouldn't happen until
11am! ack. |
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| "it's a unix system! i know
this!!" -- lex. |
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| my futile attempts to obtain
a login on console. (didn't have a floppy on hand unfortunately :)
the observant viewer will note that i am completely out of touch
with the hpca series. it was hpca6 in toulouse (not hpca15!) which,
btw, turned out to be the login! the password was easily guessable
as well. |
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| philippe reynes, phd student
at the institut de recherche en informatique de toulouse or more
simply: irit. |
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| thierry haquin, pascal
sainrat, and two of the women in rotation at the hpca welcome desk. |
|
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| philippe called me a
japanese tourist. these women obviously like being photographed
by japanese tourists. |
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| some sports structure that
got in our way on our way to lunch. we didn't travel far though. |
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| soon enough, we were at chez
margot where we leveraged off of
jeremy martin's rudimentary (but
impressive in my opinion) french skills to snag a table and obtain
pretty good service. |
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| these guys evidently had
the same idea. |
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| jeremy martin (oxford
supercomputing center) and
michael haungs (uc
davis cs dept). jeremy and i bumped into michael and his pal
phil sallee
on our way to lunch and so we invited them to join us.
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| michael looking on while
phil attempts to discover whether the meat he's eating is indeed
duck's liver. |
|
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| i drank a lot of wine while
i was in france. wonder if uc berkeley will cover me for it. :) |
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| not a stingray, but nonetheless
very tasty. |
|
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| phil paying for his duck's
liver. |
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| on our way back to the conference.
we had a fairly long lunch and i missed some up*/down* routing talk in the
process. think i was stressing over it? hah. :) |
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| there's a park between the
conference center and the novotel, so i decided to take some pictures.
january is clearly not the best time to visit this place. |
|
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| grey skies and no leaves. i
suppose pictures of scenes like this are good for contrast to some
of my
other pictures
on my web page.
|
|
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| trying hard to make something out
of nothing. :) |
|
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| another attempt at the same.
matt massie will note that the
captions are getting shorter, but i assure you it's not yet a sign
of fatigue! :)
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| it's lack of interesting
subjects. |
|
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| but hey, i don't pay for film
or disk space, so why not take another picture? |
|
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| heading back to my hotel
to drop my things off. as part of checking in, i got a free hpca
jacket. oooooh. |
|
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| yagns (yet another gratuitous
"nature" shot). i successfully hid all the buildings in this one. |
|
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| the car i rented. hope
berkeley doesn't mind the additional fees compared to the basic
vehicle they offered me. :) |
|
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| distributed computing researcher
and owner of a digital camera fancier than mine, pete wyckoff from sandia.
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|
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| after the day's sessions
had ended, philippe took us to one of his favorite restaurants in
toulouse. note the highly varied selection of meals. (phil
and philippe have the same thing too btw.) left to right: michael,
bethany,
trisha,
phil,
matt farrens,
and philippe.
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| and here it is in detail.
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| the plates kept coming.
the sauce was tasty but surely was death by any measure of health
criteria. |
|
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| our host for the evening. he
sleeps 8-9 hours a day and does research on trace caches just in case
you wanted to know that. :) |
|
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| bethany's fancy dessert which
michael skillfully matched up on the menu and with jeremy's lunch earlier
at chez margot. |
|
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| michael had some chocolate
"thing". |
|
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| and i had something which
had a 'y' in it and which i secretly enjoyed being able to pronounce
with reasonable confidence. :) |
|
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| group shot outside of
la grillotéque before heading off to the pubs. |
|
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| thierry gave philippe
directions apparently and so with that we were off to rendevous with
him. on our way there, i got a nice shot of the place du capitole.
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| another shot of
the capitole. some guy was talking to me in french while i was
taking this. i think he was trying to tell me something about
the main door, which i later learned had some significance, and
which i even later unlearned and hence have nothing to say here. |
|
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| this says "bar a vins". the reason
it's so dark is because i only got one shot. the reason i only got one
shot is because after taking this photo, i had to dive out of the way as
some crazy french driver tried to plow over me at full speed. french drivers
are insane! |
|
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| this place looked like it might be
pretty happening. bethany, philippe, and michael seem to think so. |
|
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| inside, we drank under the eerie
glow of blue illumination. it was neat. |
|
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| more of that. |
|
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| we drank french beers -- since
we were in france. |
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| bethany outpacing her man. |
|
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| retreating back to our hotels in 5
degree weather. |
|
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| time for more room service and
french subtitled american movies. |
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