It is to weep that I need to create an account to buy a $0.00 download.

Yeah, it's dumb. Get it from here instead:
http://www.sigbovik.org/papers/proceedings.pdf

Well, you can find my recent publications on my web page. Are you interested in (a) computational geometry, (b) scientific computing, (c) graphics, (d) dynamic algorithms?

All I know about you is that your awesomeness is full of peaches.

You're probably most interested in my work with Umut Acar, who came up with a framework for computations that self-adjust when you change their input. If you prove a couple theorems, then you can prove that his framework will take your static algorithm and make it dynamic, which is pretty awesome. He has a formal semantics for what this really means (if you properly navigate his pages, you can find the papers).

I use it because I want dynamic geometric algorithms. And a Ph.D.

Do I remember correctly you telling me at some point in the past that you were looking for an undergrad to work on some project this summer? This is the information I was trying to pass onto chris.

Oh, oh, yes. There's an implementation of Nanevski et al, but it's bitrotten. So, the project is to (a) unbitrot it, (b) make it generally accessible, perhaps with a pretty web interface, or at least a download. The code is short enough that it might even be worth implementing from scratch. Depending on enthusiasm, perhaps also improve the generated code, which is sometimes really slow. The project would be exceedingly useful for computational geometry, graphics, and scientific computing.

Bob Harper is interested in this project, so hit him up for contacts. I'm interested too, but I have no power to grant either credits or cash.

Color production is black magic to me; I still can't figure out why all the figures in my SIGGRAPH paper get their colors subtly shifted when they get inserted into LaTeX, and believe me, I've tried just about everything.

It at least makes some sense to me that it should be black magic — when we try to manufacture things with a certain "color" that are inextricably dependent on the lighting environment they find themselves in, it seems natural that it's a nontrivial problem.

I get that, and the Pantone charts and all that business, but the part that gets me is that when I export a figure from Illustrator and pull it into LaTeX, the colors all end up wonky even in the displayed PDF. Is it too much to ask that I be able to match the colors on my monitor against, um, the colors on my monitor?

okay, I concede that is a tragedy.

Awesome! We need to make sure we put up some hilarious reviews for the Lulu page.