2 May 2012 crhodes   » (Master)

A most excellent day. I mistimed my morning, and had to miss breakfast in order to arrive in time to catch the ferry to Preko (a village on the island opposite Zadar) with a small but perfectly-formed band of intrepid explorers: Didier Verna, David Johnson-Davies, Alessio Stalla and Nils Bertschinger. Given the attractive description of the castle of St Michael as a "telecommunications station", with my employment, how could I not attempt the walk. And so we walked through the sunshine to the top of the mountain, to see what we could see (the other side of the mountain, it turns out, but also more islands, more sea, more sun...). Some fun discussions, about the more esoteric parts of various lisp dialects, machine learning, method-combination-based hacks, the nature of objects, and so on (quick riddle: what are the possible fixed points of type-of?) Then, as we were sitting down to yet another Southern European lunch, what should happen but an extremely localized rain shower?! How odd.

Then it was back to reality; it was time to face the fact that I was going to have to leave the sunny, sleepy Croatian coast to return to rainy, cold, difficult real life. (It has its compensations...) A very good conference; a big thank you to Franjo Pehar and Damir Kero, and the University of Zadar, for being such excellent hosts; it's been a great three days.

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