Misc Stuff

The infamous main building of UT a.k.a. the tower. It's heavily air-conditioned as the rest of the buildings, thermal insulation: "Huh ? what's that ?". They don't seem to have heard about windows with multiple layers of glass, also works for keeping the heat out guys! The sliding doors stayed open quite long, so you'd feel the cold air rushing out several 10 meters away. This was back in 2001/2. Maybe they've put in some upgrades now.

Is such a label strictly legal ? how about this: "... tax back payment of unknown amount..."

Too bad my current camera doesn't support long time exposure above 4s.

New buildings for future students... Lucky bastards.

New buildings for future students... Lucky bastards.

What do you see ?

What do you see ?

What do you see ?

What do you see ?

Nothing but snow.

The data was created with a perl script and turned into a beautiful svg image using gnuplot. The LaTeX formulas were added to it with Inkscape and the "Tex-Text" extension.

The data was created with a perl script and turned into a beautiful svg image using gnuplot. The LaTeX formulas were added to it with Inkscape and the "Tex-Text" extension.

Mr. Pigeon hasn't met Mr. Hawk yet. Otherwise he wouldn't choose such an exposed spot.

and it smells too! Consistency is much like Nutella (chocolate spread), but I surely wouldn't want to eat that. At least I hope my knee will like it.

This is what you have to deal with because mother nature didn't feel like giving you proper feet. Hearing grinding sounds coming from my knee doesn't make me a happy camper. We're NOT amused! --- Diagnosis (shortened): Bad news: 2nd to 3rd degree damage to the cartilage behind the kneecap + some sort of oedema + other minor stuff. Good news: No 'free particles' floating around and doing more damage.

Next step of escalation: Get an MRT scan to image the low density 'soft tissue' inside the knee and find out what causes the pain / grinding sounds. I need to get this thing fixed so I can ride my bike again and get rid of the unnecessary energy storage (a.k.a. FAT, life-belt ...) I've gained during the biking-hiatus. My Doc suggested taking 'Diclofenac' pills... but the possible side-effects of these are quite horrendous. The x-rays didn't reveal too much - and I didn't get a chance to make digital copies. The gap between the bones is clearly visible and seemed wide enough. At least there don't seem to be any fragments of non-cartilage-material in there.

This is a state of the art Arduino system. Provides smooth robot control and self learning capabilities, even speech!

Hell yeah ! Some movies are so bad that they are good in a way, some are even involuntarily funny. Unfortunately this one wasn't nearly bad enough. I feel ripped off. The guy sitting right next to me on my left was also pretty annoying. I don't know what kind of life form he was, but unfortunately he was drinking a can of RedBull. This stuff STINKS. The worst artificial strawberry flavour I've so far had to endure. Still I was lucky, he could have had a can of root beer. Then I'd have had to kill him.