I have moved all the pics in my album, plus a few previously unpublished pics, into Picasa:
http://picasaweb.google.com/caranha
Browsing, searching and viewing there should be better than with my current php album, even though they don’t have a neat “random picture” feature.
This should make the move to a newer version of wordpress easier for this blog.
Today I saw the master defense of a friend in my lab. To tell the truth, I was a little disappointed. Not on my friend’s presentation, which was allright, but on the professors who were watching. It seems to me from their questions that they didn’t took the time to at least peruse over my friend’s thesis before the defense.
I compare it with my own thesis defense, some 2 years ago. LM (one of the professors) opened his copy of my thesis, completely leafed through, and full of red ink. Made some insightiful remarks regarding my research, and after the defense handed me a page with 30 questions I should ask myself if I were to continue researching that topic (actually, 8 of those questions were answered during the thesis defense). The other professor also made questions more relevant to the content of the thesis, than that of the presentation.
In fact, my then advisor told me, when I asked how to prepare the presentation, “consider that the professors have read and understood your thesis”. I really hope they do the same this time around, for my current research is turning out to be much more interesting than my previous one.
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On an unrelated note, I have uploaded more pictures to PICASA. While it bothers me a little to use yet another online service to store my data (I would much rather have them on a local disk), the hosting service where this webpage is located is almost full, and I do not feel like putting my personal pictures on the Lab’s web server. But Picasa’s service is actually quite nice, in spite of not being able to exclusively search for tags, and the lack of a Linux Client.
Enough ranting, here is the link:
I have uploaded the pictures to my vietnam and hokkaido trips. Enjoy!
Just a quick post - Pictures from the Kamakura Trip have been uploaded! Enjoy!
… Or Marilia will be mad at you.
This is a post for my mother (not that anyone else can’t see it, mind you).
You always complain that there are not enough pictures of me. Or that I’m making faces in my pictures.
Very well - this weekend I was supposed to go take studio shots of marilia for a project of her sempai, but we missed the time and the appointment was cancelled. So we went to a nearby park instead, where she found that taking pictures was just as having someone take pictures of you.
HOWEVER - by seeing the below pictures you are hereby agreeing to NEVER, EVER, EVER again complain that I do not have enough pictures of myself in my blog. There are pictures below to last for my next 4 or 5 afterlifes. Furthermore, you also waive your right to tell me not to make silly faces when taking pictures of me.
Capisce?
Here are just a few of the pictures in my backlog - rest assured, there are many more to come! Of course, it would help immensely if I got out of my lazy ass and fixed the display in the photo album that sort pictures alphabetically, and not in the order they were most recently added - but I digress:
*1* - A trip to the past:
These pictures were from one of the many small parties we hold from time to time at my place. This one must be from late april. Saito-san showed us how to do the demon dance that japanese people do when they’re drunken in nomikais.
*2* - Cooking!
These are the pictures of the preparation - cooking for traditional food - for the June Brazillian Party at the Komaba Dormitory. The party pictures themselves should be up in the next update.
*3* and *4* - Bianca in Tokyo
Bianca, Denise’s sister, who lives in Oosaka, came to visit us here in Tokyo, and there was much rejoicing. Among this rejoicing we went to an all-you-can-eat pizza place, and Tokyo Dome, an amusement park.
