figmentseadog ([info]figmentseadog) wrote,

Conference... Over!

So I have been in Ireland kicking it at Eurographics 2005 for the past week. It's been good times. I gave a presentation on my paper that I did with Pauline, Callum, and my professors. It was a pretty wild week with lots of drinking, partying, staying out late, and work on the presentation. The coolest night was probably when I ran into Meru (travelling independently) at the temple bar! Everyone that he was with (5 people) I know from some point in Calgary! There were old Gauntlet allumni (Tony, Nicole), people that had been to my house for pancakes, and other old friends. The presentation was good too! Pauline and I worked our butts off on it. In the end we worked until 4 am the night before the presentation.... presenting on only 2 hours sleep isnt really that great. But we did it and it went well. Now I am going to relax around dublin for a bit... on the 6th, I fly back to canada to hang in toronto for a bit, and then I finally return to calgary on the 9th! See ya then!

-Kev

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[info]chaleur23

September 3 2005, 23:13:36 UTC 6 years ago

So what kinda touristy stuff have you done. I know the area a little. Did you go the post office, to look at the bullet holes? How about Killmainham Gaol? Gonna take a side trip to Newgrange, or anything like that?

[info]figmentseadog

September 5 2005, 08:37:40 UTC 6 years ago

I have been to the book of kells, I did a walking tour around town, I did a 'ghost tour' with the lab (hilarious...it was really more like a play involving 2 actors who switched off as ghosts and acted around various locales in dublin), and I went to see Newgrange! newgrange was really neat, although I am pretty sure the stones weren't originally up the way they constructed them! The chamber was incredible tho! (for the laymen and women, nwegrange is a prehistoric mound, aligned with the sun on the winter solstice with a long hallway and a chamber constructed of stone... incredible!)

I will try to get over to the post office today! I didn't know about the bullet holes!! Cool!!! How are things going for you in calgary?

Anonymous

September 4 2005, 06:27:19 UTC 6 years ago

Yo

His name is Kev-Zulah
The Mic Rulah

Yo Kev, it's Matt (obviously), I just hit Calgary at a very early time this morning and am at the Vinke's house. Will see you very shortly with lots of stories between the two of us to swap, your's from the south, mine from the north. Can't wait!!!!

Matt

[info]figmentseadog

September 5 2005, 08:38:31 UTC 6 years ago

Re: Yo

Hey Matt man matt! Cool man thats great! Will you still be at Candace's on the 9th?! Maybe we could hot tub! Definate story swapping time! PS everyone: Matt canoed up the McKenzie river to the arctic this summer!
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