Friday, July 27, 2012
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Random walk and random dinner toppics
I was having a dinner at the conference hotel with two random guys that sat at the same table. One of them was chinese (CH), other - jew from Russia that now lives in US (lets call him RU).
RU knew about New wave festival that is held in Jurmala.
RU: They were joking in that festival that Jurmala is empty because everyone has gone abroad to work in EU.
CH couldn't pronounce the name of my country and kept calling it "Lativa" or something like that, but said that he knows a basketball player from there - Sabonis. I don't know much about sports and the surname sounded familiar so I agreed that he is correct. Now when I checked with google, it turned out that Sabonis is actually from Lithuania.
CH (randomly changing topics): So you are religios?
I: ?
CH: I see you have a cross (necklace). So you believe in Jesus?
I: Yes, I do.
And about that random walk part - I just loved some presentations (ok, not about random walk, but about cox proportional hazard model (just the one we I'm working on right now) and estimating the trust in central bank as a function of inflation, unemployment, growth and some other factors). But later in evening I actually applied random walk process and went to explore Athens a bit better.
RU knew about New wave festival that is held in Jurmala.
RU: They were joking in that festival that Jurmala is empty because everyone has gone abroad to work in EU.
CH couldn't pronounce the name of my country and kept calling it "Lativa" or something like that, but said that he knows a basketball player from there - Sabonis. I don't know much about sports and the surname sounded familiar so I agreed that he is correct. Now when I checked with google, it turned out that Sabonis is actually from Lithuania.
CH (randomly changing topics): So you are religios?
I: ?
CH: I see you have a cross (necklace). So you believe in Jesus?
I: Yes, I do.
And about that random walk part - I just loved some presentations (ok, not about random walk, but about cox proportional hazard model (just the one we I'm working on right now) and estimating the trust in central bank as a function of inflation, unemployment, growth and some other factors). But later in evening I actually applied random walk process and went to explore Athens a bit better.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Feeling like a hostage
Recently I posted about a hotel in Athens, Greece called Hostage (Omiros). Now I know why the name is such. Though it is (only) 32C outside, it seems SO hot; air conditioned room, a bath and free wi-fi are much more attractive. At least till the evening.
And this is a view from the window, though it could be any other as the curtain is closed all the time to avoid sun.
And this is a view from the window, though it could be any other as the curtain is closed all the time to avoid sun.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
little things that make day happy
There are days full of misery and days full of joy. I'm happy that today it was one from the second kind.
There were just so many things to be happy about - sunny morning, funny conversation in the morning, miracle that I could finish all tasks meeting the deadlines, inspiration for the commentary I had to write, the fact that also others liked the commentary, cammomile tea in the afternoon, the first presentation of our research, note that maybe we will be sent to a conference, feeling of a well spent time in work, feeling that I have done also everything that I had promised to do for my co-students, news that the deadline for one other task is extended by half a month, implication of that news that I can rest this evening, meeting friend, exploring the city while searching for a closed club, cartoon, song of the captain, peppermint tea, small rain instead of heavy rain showers, pink and purple flowers, my fish still alive and so on and so on...
All those little things that makes day to be happy. Hope may of them will meet me also tomorrow. At least those flowers will.
There were just so many things to be happy about - sunny morning, funny conversation in the morning, miracle that I could finish all tasks meeting the deadlines, inspiration for the commentary I had to write, the fact that also others liked the commentary, cammomile tea in the afternoon, the first presentation of our research, note that maybe we will be sent to a conference, feeling of a well spent time in work, feeling that I have done also everything that I had promised to do for my co-students, news that the deadline for one other task is extended by half a month, implication of that news that I can rest this evening, meeting friend, exploring the city while searching for a closed club, cartoon, song of the captain, peppermint tea, small rain instead of heavy rain showers, pink and purple flowers, my fish still alive and so on and so on...
All those little things that makes day to be happy. Hope may of them will meet me also tomorrow. At least those flowers will.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
About rain
"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."
Dave Barry
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