Pictures from VM'04 Trip to San Jose - [home]
note, these are completely informal and unprofessional photos

Wednesday, May 5th, 2004

at Toronto

  • Marc
  • Levon

    at Minnesota

  • [levon] Riding the Tram

    at San Jose

  • Levon, our chaperone, waiting for shuttle
  • Marc
  • California
  • Our room at the Hyatt
  • Gosh, conference travel is so tiring
  • [levon] Mathew and Jing
  • [levon] the long journey ahead
  • Yep, looks like serious work is ahead of us
  • [levon] serious, serious work....
  • ahhh our office
  • a shot of the pool and gazebo
  • it starts to sink in... this is a nice place
  • the grad student life
  • thinking sure takes a great deal of effort
  • [levon] the superstar
  • [levon] food!
  • [levon] food!!!
  • research meeting
  • [levon] Marc's turn to do more thinking
  • [levon] Jing doesn't think; he just smiles and nods
  • [levon] trees
  • [levon] water
  • Mathew cooling off after a heated debate

    Thursday, May 6th, 2004

    I was way too hammered and trashed to take any pictures
  • [levon] post-dinner party

    Friday, May 7th, 2004

  • [levon] packing up our stuff in Mathew's rental
  • [levon] Levon and Mathew actually working
  • [levon] IBM's presentation
  • Lunch
  • Tarek and Mathew
  • ahhh free lunch
  • Miguel de Icaza (left)
  • Marc, Angela, Borys
  • take 2
  • Borys, Levon, Mathew
  • Levon and Mathew
  • "where'd Marc go?"
  • Ah... back with seconds! (Feng, on the left, is amazed)
  • Borys and Levon
  • [levon] Borys and Levon

    afternoon

  • Meetings are such a chore
  • so much productivity going on
  • taking advantage of the hotel's wifi
  • more work going on
  • Levon captures the pivotal moment
  • [levon] working...
  • Borys
  • Levon
  • Mathew working? How can he see with those shades?
  • [levon] Mathew
  • [levon] Jing, looking for a chance to slack off
  • maybe what we need is a break from all this hard work
  • nope... slave-driving supervisor continues to work
  • [levon] Angela telling me to get back to work
  • nice gazebo
  • and pretty roses surrounding it
  • Ahhhh we needed a change of location. That was the key
  • a look back at the pool
  • shouldn't we be attending talks or something?
  • Marc... thinking... hard...
  • a shot of the hotel
  • more shots of the hotel
  • [levon] Group Photo!

    afternoon / evening

  • Shea
  • Angela
  • Oleg
  • Marc

    post-conference conclusion

    We couldn't convince Angela to come get hammered with us.
  • Road Trip!
  • Leaving the Hyatt
  • random shot out the window
  • we skimmed by Stanford
  • random shot out the window
  • more random shots
  • Canada Road?
  • more random shots
  • Yikes that came close! This must be what nailed Gerard
  • Golden Gate Bridge!
  • San Francisco fog
  • random shots out the window
  • more random shots out the window
  • yet more random shots out the window
  • nice sunset
  • some funky is land

    evening at Downtown Berkeley

  • at Thai restaurant
  • Oleg
  • found a decent room at the Capris Motel
  • Jing lost the coin toss, so he gets baby bed

    Saturday, May 8, 2004

  • checking out
  • this was where we stayed
  • some bike cops eating at the diner
  • heading into Berkeley
  • yep.... no parking needed for us
  • trees in Berkeley
  • Psychology
  • random shot of Berkeley
  • nice willow
  • more random shots of Berkeley
  • the buildings have very Romanesque feel
  • Botany
  • some random shot
  • more random shots
  • library against clock tower
  • some random shot
  • garden in front of clock tower
  • clock tower is closed
  • random shots
  • more random shots
  • I'm taking pictures of random people
  • random shots
  • more random shots
  • clock tower
  • engineering
  • nice vista street. didn't show in picture, but there's a bridge visible in the distance
  • some random shots
  • Emergency Procedures!
  • leaving Berkeley

    at San Francisco

  • San Francisco
  • some modern sculpture inside the Hyatt
  • Embarcadero
  • random shots
  • see? I wasn't lying
  • Embarcadero walk
  • Washington St?
  • Pier 3 (I think)
  • random shots
  • more random shots
  • Sea Lions
  • Pier 39, Fisherman's Wharf
  • Bush-Man!
  • Bush-Man at work
  • Olivia and Marc
  • Eat at Joe's. Joe's Diner. Joe knows crabs!
  • Olivia leading us around
  • random shot
  • beautiful (but way windy!) park
  • it was very nice there
  • more random shots

    Sunday, May 9, 2004

  • Marc, passed out at San Francisco International