Vancouver.
I’ll be in Vancouver all next week for USENIX Security. No, I don’t have a paper or a demo; the first Electronic Voting Technology workshop is contiguous and co-located, so my advisor and I are attending the whole week. The ACCURATE group will also be getting together to share ideas and WIP.
Of course, you gentle readers won’t really notice, since my writing here has been so erratic and sparse of late. Even E has been better about updating over the last few weeks.
I don’t think I’ll bring a proper camera (as my advisor will most certainly have his vastly superior photographic equipment on hand), but I’ll have my phone, so you may see some photos appear over here from time to time.
I’ll leave you with this excellent little exchange from last night, as Glenn and I discuss the prospect of catching a midnight screening of The Wrath of Khan at the Drafthouse.
Glenn: OK, here, let me set the stage. [pauses, gathering strength.] I’ve done far worse than kill you. I’ve hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me…as you left her: marooned for all eternity…at the center of a dead planet. Buried alive…buried alive.
Dan: Uh, wow. That’s really impressive.
Glenn: Well, I’ve watched the movie since I was four!
Dan: Well, yeah, me too. Just…not continuously.