beaneater.org.uk Nicholas Wolverson scribbles on his screen

Theory in spate


06 April 2005
(22:37)

Certainly not a spate of entries.

I've been a bit quiet lately. My excuse is that currently Edinburgh is hosting the ETAPS conferences, from last Saturday until this Saturday. I've been helping out, as well as attending talks during the week. It's a bit tiring (today's was scheduled from 9.00-18.45); I can't imagine how knackering it is for those who have been putting in the time to do the organisation beforehand.

Some interesting talks though. Is good.

I seem to have been exposed as a Munro bagger. I should reveal the results of some idle fiddling, some hill stats. It's funny, in the last few days I seem to have ended up talking to a bunch of people about hillwalking. Now I wonder how many people do go in for some (serious) walking—it seems at first glance that more do from computer science than the average population sample. Either it's an essentially solitary (or perhaps personal) pursuit appealing to a particular brain-type, or I almost exclusively speak to computer scientists. Um.

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Alan

Relating to this and the last post, most people write better when they write about something they are passionate about, and that makes their writing more interesting. I also worry that I'm going to alienate readers when I write about the mountains (as I have today), but then I think that this is an important part of my life, so if I don't write about it then it won't be my blog, it will be the blog of the person I think people want me to be. I enjoyed your easter weekend post, it made me want to go there myself, very soon!

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Stephanie

I love going for walks in the countryside and am desperate to get up an munro at some point.

I must prod Tim and get him to identify a suitable hill for a beginner, now that the weather has picked up and I'm on the cusp of actually having some time .

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