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!

the deadline

Yesterday we had an important deadline. To meet it we switched into "work-only mode" with increasing working times. Unwanted. Example? If the deadline is Friday and you find discover that your theory is wrong (Friday morning, 1:30 a.m.) you have to rewrite the paper and your code. Resulting in 20 minutes sleep that nigth in which I found the answer to the problem. That was luck! Anyway, now I'm back in "normal mode", which is probably better for health and stuff. Next deadline is in 2 weeks...

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.

orchestra revisited

Sunday I went to an orchestra again to reactivate my violin skills. Was really cool. However, after 2 years of not unpacking the instrument the practice was rather exhausting.

puncture month

Unbelievable how unlucky I'm with my (new) bike this month. I got already the 5th puncture since 31 December—it's just two weeks! Probably I spent already as much money for repairs as for the bike itself. I hope today it's the last time!