I’m a PC
Fifteen Mac-vs-PC commercials back to back:
Do you really have to stoop to such low levels?
Archive for the 'Misc' Category
The Perks
One of the biggest advantages of being in school (while most of your friends are graduating soon) is the immense opportunity to learn at all times. The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Science center at SFU has lined up a list of high profile speakers over the next few months.
They are: Jesper Lutzen, Efim Zelmanov, David Brillinger, Craig Evans, Herbert Wilf, John Mason, Paul Seymour, George Papanicolau, Christos H. Papadimitriou and Marsha Berger.
As always, I’ll be writing about the “take home message” from these talks. For those at SFU, these will be held in the IRMACS center as usual.
Turbulent Winds II
About a month back, I had written about winds that had knocked out power in my area. Well, the last two weeks have been hell for us here in Vancouver. Last week, there was heavy snowing that lead to a closure of the school. In about 45 minutes, the condition had become so bad that they had to close all roads leading to and from the mountain (SFU is atop a mountain.)
When my friend finally dropped me home later that day, the roads looked like an ice-rink. With a bunch of amateur skaters. Stalled cars, jack-knifed buses and people shoveling snow to uncover their vehicles. Funny sight. Not.
School’s closed today as well.