There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
No particular reason, just felt in a Rand-bashing mood tonight.
… There is a young guy applying strokes to an oil painting while frenetically dancing to tribal trance music…
Pros and cons of attempting to survive on maximum recommended dosage of Japanese cold medicine on a workday:
Pros: Finally answering the old nagging question of whether Vapnik–Chervonenkis dimension makes more sense on mushrooms (or any satisfyingly close approximation thereof).
Cons: The answer is: no, it definitely doesn’t.
You know you are in Japan when…
you show up to renew your Kyodai ID and a staff you’ve never met before immediately pulls it out of a stack of 300 identical cards, before you had a chance to give your name.
Yea: not a lot of whities in my faculty.
Today is the 29th of March, sakuras are in full bloom and i am walking home under snow falling.
FML.
Just when I was starting to get the hang of that German language thing, I am back in Japan.
Which means I will probably spend the next few weeks, answering any question in Japanese with: “Genau” or “Na, klar“…
Let’s see if that confuses Japanese combini clerks as much as their German counterparts.
Berlin, 7am.
I have more ink on my wrist than… a… erm…
Too soon?
You know it’s time to visit a hairdresser when:
Lab sysadmin recently announced that, due to excessive use and lack of server space, individual user directories were now capped…
… at 4 terabytes…
… per user.
On the program for this month, we have so far: two operas, three official Berlinale screenings, two music recitals and a couple exhibits.
Sometimes I do work too.
Now you know why updates are scarce around here…