3 easy steps for really fresh sushi
Posted by Michael on February 4th, 2008This is step one: Get yourself a nice bluefin tuna of ~100kg.
Steps two and three of this fotonovela are after the fold.
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Found on the way to work
Posted by Michael on December 18th, 2007Life is a skinny child – I found this thought-provoking graffito fresh one morning close to my workplace.
S’pore Part II
Posted by Michael on December 7th, 2007I’m in Singapore. It’s monsoon season. It rains a bit. C. wanted to know how much. Here’s how much (Orchard Road).
The weather fortunately keeps changing quite dramatically during the day, and the picture below was taken on the same day on Raffles Place.
But back to Orchard Road, the top-class shopping district, a bit like Ginza [...]
S’pore
Posted by Michael on December 5th, 2007It certainly is true, working in science, and even more so, in academia, is not always very rewarding. While the suited business guys zip around in business class and get their incentive holidays and other perks, we usually sit day & night in front of our monitor glare (voluntarily!). But sometimes, the exceptional happens, and [...]
Restaurant cards from Paris
Posted by Michael on November 6th, 2007Over Easter, we stayed in Paris. To the surprise of everybody we tell this to, we were very satisfied with the restaurants and the service. Maybe just dumb luck. Only once during that stay, we managed to get into a tourist trap with bad wine, bad food and even worse service, But don’t worry – [...]
Restaurant Cards from Milan
Posted by Michael on May 26th, 2007Occasionally, I discover a restaurant I really like. More often, I am shown a restaurant that somebody really likes, and then, I find out that I agree. In which case I usually pick up one of those restaurant business cards at the exit, in anticipation of the next time I’m in that place and would [...]
Things destructive, things constructive
Posted by Michael on May 24th, 2007Today is my first day back from the Scrum Master Certification course I took in Milan. Coming back to work was quite a shock – the landscape around my office was radically transformed:
Formal Friday
Posted by Michael on May 6th, 2007The really cool thing about my workplace here at the university is not that it’s full of really smart people (Remember Watson’s rules for doing important science: “Never be the smartest person in the room“). No, the coolest thing is that we’re all a bunch of geeks ready to do fun extraordinary stuff. We went [...]
More from Valencia
Posted by Michael on June 8th, 2006Another beautiful morning in Valencia, and I am taking some time off to update this travelogue with some information from yesterday, and a picture that shows me walking on my way to present a talk on the Dengue docking project that I have been heading for nearly two years. I have no idea what happened [...]
Valencia by night
Posted by Michael on June 6th, 2006In my last post, I promised some more pictures from Valencia. In the meantime, I have found out that the network connection I am using here is a bit shaky, the access point comes and goes, seemingly at random. Let’s hope I can put these pictures up, though.
In the end, I wanted to venture out [...]