Today I learned that yesterday’s post where I spoke about the wonderful statics textbook that architects use it sounded a bit like a scathing review not only of the book itself, but the people reading it and that this was a bit … unkind, even mean. To be honest, all that stuff I just found [...]
Today I learned that studying from textbooks of other majors than your own can be quite an interesting experience. Serendipity and stuff! Namely I was going through an architect’s book for their statics class. While certainly an entertaining read, I was absolutely abhorred by their raping of basic physics. Now I’m no physics buff myself, [...]
Today I learned that updating my laptop to Mac OSX Lion caused a very strange issue with my home wireless network. Actually I learned the issue was tehre as soon as I got back home, but didn’t really have time to look into it … apparently it no longer supports WPA encryption and my router [...]
Today I learned that mathematics is a very very dense language. Been studying theoretical basis of computer science for an exam from a textbook of some sort. Well actually it’s the draft of a textbook that was going to come into existence at some point but hasn’t been updated since 2008. There’s still references like “I [...]
Today I learned that jet lag is a much uglier beast than I ever anticipated. I don’t remember having this much trouble last time I came back from the US; perhaps because I wasn’t there for as long and the different timezone didn’t seep into my sleep cycle as much? All week I’ve been getting [...]
Everyone who sometimes changes their timezone has probably had this problem before. You’re planning a trip to a 9 hour distant timezone. Let’s say it is a business trip. To be more productive you schedule some meetings in advance and put them in your calendar. Whichever calendar will do, they all have this problem. Then [...]
Today I learned that Ljubljana has something awesome I simply couldn’t find in Palo Alto (I might not have been looking hard enough). We have a coffee culture. In the evenings when it gets a bit cooler and you can actually breathe, people start crawling out of the woodwork and into the coffee shops all [...]
The past couple of days have been consumed mostly by traveling from California to Slovenia. Apparently that takes a while. As a result I haven’t been online for almost three days and what I was online for was mostly just arranging to meet a few people for various reasons. Therefore I haven’t been posting my [...]
Today I learned that people really really love postcards. Bought one too many yesterday (it later turned out I didn’t buy too many, I just forgot my grandmother might like getting one) and offered on Facebook on Twitter to send the first person who gives me their address a postcard. Five people asked for one. [...]
Today I learned that despite being the biggest carnivore you are likely to meet I can actually enjoy a vegan lunch when it’s done right. Was on a shopping spree in San Francisco today because I need some clothes and they’re somewhat cheap this side of the pond. Part of the trip involved lunch and [...]
