Canada 2006 - Aug 04th Edmonton

After much travelling and much presentation preparation, both the sightseeing and business parts of this trip are slowly over... just returned from the presentation as described in University of Alberta / Department of Computing Science / Artificial Intelligence Seminar:

Surgical Robotics, Navigation, and Error
Philipp Stolka, Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Aug 4, 12:00PM, CSC 333

Lots of people, all eating pizza. Although some looked like falling asleep (I suspect some did), the audience - which probably had no previous surgical robotics-related exposure before - asked some good questions. More, and more interesting ones, than in some relevant conferences even.




Apart from this - some rain, some coldness, how good Dad told me to bring a jacket and a sweater, and EDM's slowly running out of sights.

Canada 2006 - 2nd leg

To everybody left behind,
today is launch of the journey's second leg - from Vancouver to the Rockies, after Vancouver, Victoria, and Whistler are sucked dry. More or less. If everything goes well, tonight should be Lake Louise after a long drive across BC, and tomorrow a leisurely day looking for lakes, glaciers, and mooooses. No Problemmooses, thank you.

Vancouver Downtown:



Waaah - Indigeneous Art:


A Walk on The Beach at Sunset:


... with sea foot:


Seagull:


How to go to Victoria in style:


View of Victoria Harbour:



Problem-Sealions? No, thanks.


How to get around on a 450hp 44 knots Zodiac boat, looking for whales (but no whales there, instead sea lions and sea elephants (saying sth like "grrrrrgrrrrrgrrrrbrrrrgrrr") and sea seals) - not to be covered with shame:

Canada 2006 - July 24th, 25th Vancouver

My view for some 10hrs:



But I had the Max Legroom I had paid for:


Luckily, the jetlag you can see here is down to just 1.5hrs after two nights:






Probably the order in which the BC people place their loyalties:


I am aware this is not extremely impressive, but still - this is the first wild animal I've seen here which hasn't crossed my way before:



15cm away from BZZZZT:


And finally, some (modern, and not very representative) indigeneous art - The Shape Of Frogs To Come: BLAH!