Wow... my sense of time has inverted since I came back from Japan: while there, days felt like weeks; here, weeks feel like days. Has it really been six days since my last update? The calendar insists that it is. Fortunately, the memories of Japan are still fresh, so I will go on ( Read more... )

It was the 29th, a Tuesday, and we all got up early. Really early: we were out before most restaurants opened! (I have neither recollection nor record of the exact time. I think it was around 6:30 that we got out, but one of my companions might set me straight....) It was a moist morning, so we were glad to find umbrellas available to borrow ( Read more... )

I had been warned about jetlag. Really, though, I did not seem to have much of a problem with it, even on my first day in Japan. I got up early, which was nice, but not exceptionally early, and I was not particularly tired. My travelling companion had a similar experience ( Read more... )

It has now been two weeks since my last entry. I have been busy! Even keeping up notes to write up later has been a colossal challenge. Conferences tend to involve a lot of early mornings and late nights, and the touring around that I have done outside of the conference has likewise left little time for journalling. One of the friends ( Read more... )

I spent most of Wednesday and Thursday preparing for my model construction. This involves a lot of work in Illustrator, marking up images to be imported into Maya. It was not until Friday that I got around to the actual construction itself, which was a bit of a mad scramble to finish before I left. It involved a lot of tedious but frantic prep- ( Read more... )

Greetings all! It has been ages since I updated this thing regularly, but I have a good excuse to start doing so again now. My scientific exploits have led me to a conference in Japan, and given how expensive it is to get there, I and a bunch of friends and co-attendees are touring around a bit as well. I have a bunch of notes to turn into posts ( Read more... )