Picking A Lab Desk

Picking a lab desk

I started going to weekly research meetings in the Software Practices Lab (SPL), which is the lab that I intend on joining and doing my research in after I finish with my courses (maybe even before?)

There are twelve personal desks in this lab, numbered on top in the following diagram:

Given the choice, I would prefer a desk where I wouldn't have my back to the corridor, so either 3, 4, 7, 8, 11 or 12.

But, given that I'm me, I won't be satisfied with a finite set of six numbers. I need to math it.

Wolfram|Alpha to the rescue! The series we want is:

Because… you know… this is preferable to doing stuff I actually need to do.

Simkhai [Grindr's CEO] says it’s important to fill out your height, weight, ethnicity and other fields on Grindr. This will allow users who filter people on the app to find you. “If you don’t fill them out, you won’t come up in the search results,” says Simkhai.

Alternatively, you can leave your height, weight, and ethnicity blank and make sure that you never get a message from a person who filters by height, weight, and ethnicity.

(Quote from Grindr tips: CEO Joel Simkhai gives advice on optimizing your experience)

That cute guy on the bus

We both shyly stare at each other only to avert our eyes when the other one notices, standing next to each but not saying a word – until he get off the bus first and then we stare at each other through the window, smiling, as the bus drives away.

There's a rush of adrenaline as I'm imagining myself starting to talk to that guy (and let's be honest, also imagining less innocent things…)

But I never act, and I end up feeling like I missed the opportunity of a lifetime.

And it happens again and again.

Privilege

Tumblr makes me think “What a cliché! Two able-bodied, cis-gendered, white, upper-middle-class men” when I’m looking at pics of my boyfriend and me.

Dammit Tumblr!

I use yellow sticky notes as bookmarks for the books that I read.

You should try it, it’s easier when your bookmark doesn’t accidentally fall when you open your book on the bus and lose your place in the book!

This one no longer sticks after being used in 4 books. The black dots are ink stains on the glue strip.

Isn’t this awesome? 😊

Awesome inventions in Antwerp

I visited jocmeh, who recently moved to Antwerp, for one day. Belgians have the best ideas, among the ones I saw were: — A pedestrian tunnel to cross a wide river (with pretty, old school wooden escalators) — Belgian fries cooked in animal fat (each bite tasted like an artisanal burger) — Lindemans Kriek, cherry beer (a.k.a. the first beer I genuinely liked) — A cocktail called Coconut Woman (practically a drinkable cake) — A laundromat that doubles as a bar (so you can socialize while you do the laundry) — Pay for the bus with a text message (failed to work for Jochem and me, but he says it worked every time before that) — An escalator that goes up, then continues forward flat, then goes up again (so you can lazy while you lazy) Keep at it Belgium. You have my approval.