cambridge beer fest

These days, there is an awesome beer fest going on. I already enjoyed Andechser Spezial Hell and several types of ales (slightly disappointing, though). Good stuff!

i'm not rational

Pi meets e

hillwalking in lake district

Last weekend, we went again to the Lake District to climb some of the hills there. It was quite fun although we suffered from strong wind, rain, and hail (at least on Saturday).

office guns

Today, I randomly found the office guns homepage: How to build reasonable weapons from stationary... Cool stuff! http://www.officeguns.com

trip to ely

Jarno and I went to Ely by bicycle. Instead of a nice path for bikes we had to go on public footpaths, which essentially means across meadows. That was quite exhausting, especially if you do this for 15 miles (3 hours). Nevertheless, Ely Cathedral was very nice to visit. On the way back we took a "standard" main street.

visit in london

Yesterday, I went to London for a couple of hours. Mainly because of a seminar in which I gave a talk about my research. After struggling with technical things it went OK I think. Anyway, I met a lot of people I knew from before, e.g. Christian or Dilan. The 10 hours in London were definitely worth it!

winter school in sheffield

Last week I went to a winter school on data modeling in Sheffield. Sheffield looks much more like an "English" city than Cambridge—less touristy, more British-style Victorian-age buildings. Apart from interesting lectures I met a bunch of nice people from England. During this week I gathered some ideas how to improve the stuff I need for my daily work.

visitors in cambridge

From end of December to today there have been two friends visiting: Hiroto and Hannes from Tübingen. Hiroto just came over for new year whereas Hannes came to work with our supervisor. Great times—although New Year in Cambridge is probably the most boring event ever: nothing's going on, many places are closed. However, we had a very nice time here (at least I think so). Hannes came just after Hiroto has left—and brought sun to England. Best weather to do sightseeing in Cambridge and London!

kappa

Discussing about making sushi and other foods we ended up with "kappa", the cucumber-liking frog-like monster, which is the reason for the name kappamaki, the cucumber-sushi roll...

the game

Yesterday, we played The Game (aka "settlers of Catan"). We used to play it in Tübingen every weekend. However, after moving to England it was just lying around. It was quite fun. Particularly, playing the German version of The Game with non-German speaking people :-)

simpsonized

I was simpsonized!!