Three more things about the trip to Pittsburgh...
Tony brought only one pair of footwear, and it just happens to be a pair of sandals. The story goes, before I picked up Tony at his home, I told him that I would come between 11:00 and 11:20. Well, I arrived at 11:00, and he was sort of panicking and didn't pack properly...oops. So anyway, at the end of Sunday, I was telling Tony about logistics for the next day, where I said you should pack up and come to my room before I leave. He asked when I would be leaving, and I said around 8:15 to 8:20. And I added, it's more likely to be 8:15 than 8:20...hehehe. By the way, wearing sandals at Niagara Falls? Not such a hot idea...but it does keep your feet cool.
On that final day, I needed to drive the car to the university and park on a street right beside the conference meeting place, which is full of coin-operated thingies for parking. When I first entered the street, I saw that every parking spot that I could see was occupied already. So I was panicking a little, and decided the park on the first empty spot that I see. Good thing there was an empty spot there. And then we put in the coins and started walking further down the street towards the conference place. Long and behold, we start to see a bunch of empty spots right beside that place...so, this is yet another proof that the greedy algorithm doesn't work.
The only interactions I had with people not from Waterloo: I shook hands with one of the organizers when I first entered the building. Also, on the last day of the conference, for no reason, I brought the Rush Hour game into the building. This seemed to have interested one of the speakers, and he asked me about it and I explained the game to him. The objective of the game is to get the red car out, and I mentioned that there are indeed very difficult puzzles here. Then he made the comment that no wonder the valet parking won't let us drive the car out of the parking lot...it's too difficult! Then he left... (Boy, I really don't have anything interesting to say about the trip, don't I?)
On that final day, I needed to drive the car to the university and park on a street right beside the conference meeting place, which is full of coin-operated thingies for parking. When I first entered the street, I saw that every parking spot that I could see was occupied already. So I was panicking a little, and decided the park on the first empty spot that I see. Good thing there was an empty spot there. And then we put in the coins and started walking further down the street towards the conference place. Long and behold, we start to see a bunch of empty spots right beside that place...so, this is yet another proof that the greedy algorithm doesn't work.
The only interactions I had with people not from Waterloo: I shook hands with one of the organizers when I first entered the building. Also, on the last day of the conference, for no reason, I brought the Rush Hour game into the building. This seemed to have interested one of the speakers, and he asked me about it and I explained the game to him. The objective of the game is to get the red car out, and I mentioned that there are indeed very difficult puzzles here. Then he made the comment that no wonder the valet parking won't let us drive the car out of the parking lot...it's too difficult! Then he left... (Boy, I really don't have anything interesting to say about the trip, don't I?)
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