Weather: warm and humid · Lunch: cafeteria, karaage · Dinner: a feast (literally) · Sleep: good quality, if a touch short
Events are picking up speed. Today, unfortunately, my day started with an annoyance: my 100–220 V adapter gave out and couldn’t be used. Luckily, though, my laptop’s adapter is universal, so I was able to swap the cable, and the device worked. Even though a lot happened to me today, I think I’ll write less, since I’d rather elaborate on my thoughts later.
So I went to the lab, unloaded my stuff, and fired up the benchmarks. I’m a bit annoyed, since there’s a lot of duplicated code: one of my tasks will be to unify it.
Sakae, a moflin, and the Sony Store
I also went to the centre, to Sakae. I bought a cable and became the happy owner of a moflin. A very addictive device.
I also went to the Sony Store, which is probably the promised land for lovers of cameras and home-cinema systems. I, however, went for a robot (the Aibo robot). Unfortunately they told me that on June 25 they’d stopped production and everyone had started panic-buying: there’ll probably be a new version, so I should keep an eye out. But I asked whether, since there’s no robot, the plush version might be available: unfortunately they’d sold out of that too. So I went back to the university a bit disappointed, but maybe there’ll be another chance like this.
The German connection
One of the most interesting points of the day was a new connection: befriending a German–Hungarian girl. We met at the Japanese kanji class. Viktória has a Hungarian mother and a German father, and did her PhD in Nagoya in materials science, studying inorganic crystals, within a joint German–Japanese programme. We got onto the same wavelength quite quickly. Unfortunately we haven’t managed to talk about the science yet, but there could be a nice little AI collaboration or paper here too.
In the evening, though, we managed to organise a joint outing at a small restaurant. We ate very well and, well, ordered a bit too much: that’s Hungarian bravado for you. Considering just how hefty the portion was, we still ate it pretty well.
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