This year's ASCB social took place in the outstanding San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, allowing the delegates to let their hair down, mingle, and contemplate an entirely different set of abstractions from those on display across the street at the Moscone Center.
Toward the end of the afternoon, Christine Fong came down to mingle with her unofficial tenants.
I told her she shouldn't be in front of the podium when she's giving a speech; she should get down and mingle in the crowd,' " Ms. Krupp said.
Sammler, a proto-neocon, believes America's old elites are "eager in a secret humiliating way to come down and mingle with all the minority mobs and scream against themselves".
As in "Black Watch," the actors bound around the stage in packs like exuberant schoolkids at the last bell before summer vacation; moments later, the mood darkens as they slow down and mingle aimlessly while the lyrics place them in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven.
My social life was anchored around the fact that going to see something like an Autechre live show wasn't a chinstroke-fest – it was still a rave, a place where you would melt down and mingle with all sorts until the small hours.
Plascencia ran up and down the stairs, mingling with the winemakers and checking on his catering staff.
They have a rare condition called synesthesia, in which the customary boundaries between the senses appear to break down, sight mingling with sound, or taste with touch.
Like White et al., they argue that dynamism is a key feature of future systems; indeed, they see the traditional boundaries between static and dynamic activities breaking down and development support mingling with run-time support, thus invading the traditional middleware territory.
Wolves were potent symbols long before Hall's story of re-wilding them in the Cumbrian countryside, but in her hands they inhabit liminal spaces in which wilderness and civilisation, wildness and the desire to settle down, meet and mingle.
