life is pretty good (but my feet are tired)

Yesterday, it was my turn to pick out a paper for the office CS Reading Group, which we just started at work.

With the help of Kathrin, who's got a doctorate in this stuff, I picked out one about this technique for doing word-reordering in machine translation, published last week. And we took an hour at lunch time to talk about it, and about machine translation and language in general. My coworkers had totally read the paper and had insightful things to say, and it was really pleasant.

Then after work (we do work too), I ran around in the park for about an hour with those crazy barefoot shoes. And my feet were tired.

Then, for whatever reason, I opted to walk (still with the crazy barefoot shoes) to Octane for atlhack -- it's about three miles from my house. And I got to hang out with Mark and Rob, and we talked about media and the creation thereof, and creativity, and school and learning and drumming. And then Mark (also uncharacteristically bike-less last night) and I walked back from Octane, and we picked up Chinese food along the way.

Yay living :)