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So I've gotten back from Mumbai. Twenty hour plane flights and everything. Not very coherent at the moment, everything keeps feeling like I'm just subtly in the wrong universe, like everything is a milimeter off where it was supposed to be, and I have to reach that extra perceptible distance to get to things.
Mumbai was all right for some, but mostly it was poor, and crowded, and dirty. I wasn't expecting anything more, but it did put sort of a pall over events. Especially since I don't like travel. So, between crazy people in cars trying to kill me, and crazy taxi cab drivers trying to kill me, and crazy people trying to sell me stuff, and then kill me by trampling me to death, I managed to see some of the city. It looked more or less like I expected; I think it would be a very beautiful city if it had, oh, I don't know, maybe six million less people? Seriously, I think they've passed over into diminishing marginal returns space long ago and are on the way down. Yet the city keeps growing. I can't blame the people who live there, but on the other hand, I don't see a way to salvage things without stopping the flow. At least, not for now.
So, I've given my first formal conference talk, turned in my first paper to a conference proceeding, and listened to a bunch of other talks. Lots of arguing over stuff, nothing to do with me. Some interesting presentations on LHC computer models, debates over whether ATLAS is crazy to use resilient dCache instead of storing data on tape, over the benefits of different grid computing model, and over whether we need faster internet connections than this dumb 10Gb/sec Ethernet (because ALICE is insane).
I don't know what else to say, except that I'll write more on India later.
Today's Accomplishments: Forced OpenOffice to install on my work machine, and managed to write my first hand-coded webpage. God I'm pathetic.
Mumbai was all right for some, but mostly it was poor, and crowded, and dirty. I wasn't expecting anything more, but it did put sort of a pall over events. Especially since I don't like travel. So, between crazy people in cars trying to kill me, and crazy taxi cab drivers trying to kill me, and crazy people trying to sell me stuff, and then kill me by trampling me to death, I managed to see some of the city. It looked more or less like I expected; I think it would be a very beautiful city if it had, oh, I don't know, maybe six million less people? Seriously, I think they've passed over into diminishing marginal returns space long ago and are on the way down. Yet the city keeps growing. I can't blame the people who live there, but on the other hand, I don't see a way to salvage things without stopping the flow. At least, not for now.
So, I've given my first formal conference talk, turned in my first paper to a conference proceeding, and listened to a bunch of other talks. Lots of arguing over stuff, nothing to do with me. Some interesting presentations on LHC computer models, debates over whether ATLAS is crazy to use resilient dCache instead of storing data on tape, over the benefits of different grid computing model, and over whether we need faster internet connections than this dumb 10Gb/sec Ethernet (because ALICE is insane).
I don't know what else to say, except that I'll write more on India later.
Today's Accomplishments: Forced OpenOffice to install on my work machine, and managed to write my first hand-coded webpage. God I'm pathetic.