I’m not a big fan of Easter. The shops are either closed or open at random times. At the very least I would prefer it to be at a fixed date, instead of jumping around between March 22 and April 25. Even if the formula were just a little simpler… Oh well. I intend to [...]
I must admit that I made something of an error yesterday by attributing the slogan of the Christian Democrats to the Perussuomalaiset Party. Oops. Oh well, they are quite far apart in election results, but probably share some of the sentiments of the slogan. Let’s not think about politics any more. It could have been [...]
I have been very quiet, all because I promise myself that I shall write something tonight, tomorrow, the next day, and on and on the wheel turns. Well, only one major event has occurred in the last month: I am now in Finland an have been here for two weeks. I hope that I shall [...]
Just a quick recap of what has happened since my last post here: I have been working hard on the FAST system and I am finally finishing up an important part (handling DiVinE models). I hope to finish testing on Friday and then to write a full model checker (or three) on Saturday and Sunday. [...]
Since January 3 I have tried to follow Tim Noakes’ training programme again. Except that I have tried at least three times before and failed three times before. So, I decided that I cannot face another six weeks of walking 20 minutes every other day, and I sped things up. I resolved to do one [...]
You’ve seen the webcam, now watch the movie! Here are the two other webcam movies I was gathering images for over the weekend. It was a pure coincidence that I thought of this on Saturday. In hindsight it was exactly the right time to do so, since during the week these two places are kind [...]
Today I did absolutely nothing. Except. For various nefarious purposes I want to know the time of sunrise and sunset. I tried to find the formulas and write a small python program to calculate the times, but it turned out to be too complicated. Or at least, I didn’t get the right results the first [...]
I have finally decided (roughly) to go to Finland at the start of April and stay until the end of May (or longer if I can manage it). This is a little tricky because there is also a rough plan for my to go to the USA in June, so I’ll have to be careful [...]
Apparently primates respond to music specially composed for them (based on primate calls). They are indifferent to Nine Inch Nails, The Grudge, and respond only a little to Metallica. But they like to relax when they hear monkey-calming music (high octaves, rising intonations, sample 1), and get excited when they hear monkey-arousing music (sample 2). [...]
Today I did something that I have not done for the longest time: I bought alcohol. Usually, I drink beer and wine at parties, in pubs, and with meals at my parents, and I have a box of wine that is ageing in the corner, but I almost never buy beer or wine for the [...]