A bear who had been wintering welcomed the arrival of Spring by making the journey to his favorite berry patch, only to find that Spring runoff had flooded a stream along the way, carving out his normal path, but accumulating uprooted trees and eroded mud some ways downstream, forming a dam. This afforded an easier crossing than before, but did not lead to his old trail. Crossing here, the bear followed a trail that seemed to have simply appeared and found himself in a much larger berry patch. The bear was quite content.

Woo-hoo!

That’s right. I got a car today. It’s a 2007 Subaru Outback 2.5i Limited or some nonsense like that. It was a great deal at just over 50,000 miles. It even still has that new car smell. It handles quite nicely, especially compared to the ‘94 Ford Escort Wagon that I’d been driving up until it died last October or November.

I gave myself a haircut today (that’s the picture that accompanies this post). It turned out pretty well, considering I can only see the front and sides of my head in a mirror.

It’s been a while longer since I last wrote than I though thought it had been. Not all that much has really happened in the past few weeks, aside from two of three submitted papers getting accepted (I suppose this means I ought to start my Curriculum Vitae); this means I’ll likely be going to CVPR in mid-June.

Oh well.

So this evening, myself and a co-worker decided to grab a bite to eat for dinner about a mile away down the hill from the University. As usual, we rode our bikes. The forecast for today was for rain, starting late in the day, turning to snow tonight and snowing all through tomorrow, so we looked outside, saw that it was barely misting, and figured we were good to go.

I suppose it’s about time I posted an update since it’s been five weeks since the last post. In case it wasn’t assumed, I’ve been extremely busy, with paper deadlines for three meetings (two workshops and a conference). I ended up not submitting anything to the conference (ECCV), though two of my colleagues submitted papers that somehow (surprisingly) got rejected from CVPR. However, I did end up submitting three papers in total over the past week and a half: the paper that got terrible reviews from the CVPR reviewers got a makeover and was submitted to the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Biometrics along with a new paper that got written (in surprsingly good shape) in a week and a half; and another paper on some stuff we’ve been doing for quite a while with modeling of synthetic and semi-synthetic data was submitted to Analysis and Modeling of Face and Gesture. Both workshops are in conjunction with CVPR, so I may get to go to San Francisco after all. I am third author on the AMFG paper and second author on both of the others, so I still have yet to be primary author on a paper, but I’m not all that concerned about that, as Terry and I are working on finding ways for me to do research on topics we don’t specifically have funding for, particularly with respect to the neuroscience of vision leading to the computational neuroscience of vision, which is what I’d eventually like to do my dissertation on. But enough of the school stuff…

I added an RSS feed to the blog tonight while I listened to the Colorado Avalanche live internet radio feed. They played the Edmonton Oilers and beat them 3-0. But I digress…

That’s right. I did it. Like I said I would yesterday.