Restaurant attitude

Does seem like something they would put in a japanese restaurant. Or at the Soup Nazi place.

Pink Fluyd

When I saw this I thought:
1) What the hell?!?
2) I wonder how poisonous it is. It sprinkles on nearby people.

Egg buoyancy

Humidity distribution

Humidity distribution graph on the Wean walls.

Representation

Everything is an accurate representation of itself.

Lilac flower

That's the right color, right?


I think it's pretty.

Made With Real Sugar

Real sugar? Limited time only!

Candle

Candles can last a pretty long time. This little birthday candle lasted over 15 minutes.

Sleeping in my car

That's what I did in NYC to get through the night, a block or two away from the Groumd Zero construction site. It was so cool - in the morning, after deciding to head up north, I simply brought my seat up, put the keys in the ignition, and drove away. No standing up required :)

Fall

Fall is the time for leaves to play around, to mingle, and to dance.

Another unhard design

This design was not too hard either. I did use some material for it this time.

Summer's out for school!

And it shows, with thousands of students walking around campus during lunchtime. Ph.D. comics was right!

I just think this looks cool

For a few seconds, I was so sure that the letters had to be BACKWARDS in the reflection for it to make sense (you know, because our left hand becomes the reflection's right, and etc...)

Craigslist giveaway

Cleaning out the house basement left us with lots of stuff we weren't sure what to do with, so we gave them away. The "free" category on craigslist sure is popular. One post, and a few hours later, responses from at least 10 different people came, in email, phone and text form.
So glad the stuff is getting reused, though.

Coin counter

Coke machine change bin filled up:






Never before in my life had I carried $865.07 entirely in coins on my shoulders. I felt a little like a pirate handling his backpack of golden coins. Argh.











I thought that machine was pretty cool. Seeing it count coins at around $5 per second (and avoiding the 5% non-customer rate at a closer bank) was worth driving 20+ miles for.

Sticky decoration

"Here's your stop violation citation"

Oh well. Most times nothing happens, but once in a while a police car comes driving by from your right side just as you fail to notice it because you're watching your left to make sure there's no immediate collision danger, so you have to brake a little suddenly to avoid bumping onto the police car coming from your right, and the police driver gives you a mean look and stops you a few meters away, very slowly writes up your info and fine details, then hands you a yellow piece of paper that accuses you of having committed an unlawful act. And one of those times could mean you a $109.50 fine, of which only $25 represent the actual violation fine, while the rest seems to be merely overhead.

And I go three days later to the court district judge, and I can't pay my fine because they don't have my citation in the system yet. So I go two days LATER and it's still not in the system. PA traffic police system... get with the times.

Must have been that carrot juice I drank

Unhappy quarter

Poor $0.25 looks unhappy.

I got a haircut

That wasn't so hard, was it?

I've been meaning to do this for quite a while now

Clouds

pretty... :)

Conscious diet

This is what happens when I start weighing myself and reading about proteins, vitamins, carbohydrates, fats, and other nutrition stuff.


Silk?? Strawberries?? Organic milk?? CARROTS???? Yup, I bought all that. Almost $40 off my wallet, direct.


And I start experimenting with kitchen equipment more sophisticated than bowls and cutlery. My carrot juice technique could use some refining, based on how it tasted,


but I think the banana/strawberry milkshake I made this morning was quite ok. It's hard to go wrong with any of those two fruits, anyway.

Early Fall

This... before even mid-July?









Over-anxious trees...

Rainbow shoes

wow I'm hungry

24 hours

It is now 10:52, June 18th, 2010, and I have just spent the last 24 hours roughly working on a single thing: The Geogame.
Well, I also planned out a trip to see ATB in Washington this weekend with Julian and other guys from CMU, and also met this Czech girl on facebook with whom we'll be forming a bigger group to go see the concert!!

But anyway, at least pretty much all of my time from 7pm to now has been devoted to fixing up stuff on the GeoGame. It took me freaking 6-8 hours to get a smoothish animation of the player's marker moving on the roads, and then the remaining time up to 8:30am to reduce the number of quest items to 1, to stabilize the data reset process, etc. After making super extra sure it all worked, I installed it on Tsaousi, made sure it worked, again, reset the db, an made sure again. Finally I sent a couple of confirmation emails for today's meeting with the MURI group, and I went to the house to change clothes and have some breakfast. Then I came back to campus, took a shower, came back to my office, picked up my stuff, headed to the meeting room, and then decided to write this post.

This is the first time, though, that I feel like I really earned the praise I got for the game. "Good job, Antonio" and "It looks very nice!" comments were present, and each one of them made me smile with satisfaction inside. It was worth it :)

Rainbow at my office

Cramming the iPhone

A linear augmentation of 1.25 induces a planar augmenation of 1.5625.

Pittsburgh tower

I rarely go downtown, but last time I did, I saw this:


Isn't it cool?? :)

Time shadow

Dating furniture placement shouldn't be too dissimilar from dating trees by their trunk width, or inferring past geological activity from the layers of the Earth.






(This is my new room, btw).

The facts

I really appreciate their honesty.

Coke

I'm a happy coke loader :)

My new room

It's cheaper, dirtier, closer to campus, older, bigger, and more private than my previous residence. I think I got a good deal.











Bed, mirror, table, and chair - all for free! I'm cleaning it up to make it nicer (I've found and murdered at least three bugs bigger than my pinky in the room so far, so for my health's sake, I'm taking an active interest in removing the filth).