Two weeks of traveling

Last week I was in CEC, in Sendai. The week before that I was in the ICPC world finals, in Morocco. It was nice leaving Tsukuba for a while. The World Finals went better than I expected. The transportation to and from the airport, which I was worried about, was quite smooth. Arriving at the […]

Rainwave

Some of you might have heard that GrooveShark was killed. It seems that grooveshark lost a dispute with the infamous RIAA, and as a result had to hand them over all their assets. That sucks. But I think I have already found a good replacement. Enter Rainwave. I used grooveshark mostly for browsing playlists of […]

The Singularity is passing by me

This past week I have been doing a lot of introspecting about my self-dissatisfaction. Sometimes I evaluated what I have been doing with my life, sometimes I just wallow in self pity, sometimes I even delete games from my computer and draw strategies to turn everything right starting this very moment. It has been a […]

Mental fat, part 2

When i was in high school, I remember a weekend when I solved 300 physics problems to study for the university entrance examination. In the first presentation of my master degree, I had a thick stack of papers that I had referenced in a few weeks in order to prepare for it. Somehow, I feel […]

Recurring characters

Every morning I meet the talky guy. He is a young man who talks to himself while riding on the train. Sometimes he sings. Today he asked a lady with a baby to remove a string from his shoe. Unfortunately, she did not have a scissors, but she was nice to him. Sometimes I also […]