SC09

I will be attending SC09 in Portland Oregon November 14-19 with my research group. In the standard spirit of having impressive low budget booths, this year our booth will feature a 4-sided rear projection display, a 16ft lighted sign (just the skeleton in the picture), both made chiefly from modular shelving, and the MOG maze. I volunteered myself to take care of allot of the preliminary arrangements, so I’ve spent an unspeakable number of hours over the last two weeks making sure everything was ready to go. This included setting up half a dozen computers, and finding and packing many of the booth’s component parts into nice rectilinear blocks to load on to our shipping pallet . I’m hoping that kind of behavior will slowly introduce my advisor to the concept of “doing things ahead,” which is, by all appearances, totally foreign to him. He noticed packing was easier this year; I’m not sure he understands why that was.
The pallet was (or at least should have been) picked up by the shipping carrier a little after noon today. Hopefully everything important is on it.