So, Dear Tall, what makes a photo taken by a restaurant owner different from a photo taken at home, when both are cooking creation of someone who liked the end result?
And, question of the day: Have you ever been to Belgium? Please share your experience since I will be there in 40 days or so
@Gigili No, sorry. Or at least not long enough for a qualified answer.
@FaheemMitha Technically what? Sorry, don't get it...
I am sitting in the dullest doctor's office ever - I had the choice between a) discussing various ailments with very senior citizens, b) reading magazines that were printed probably a decade ago or c) chewing my fingenails. Now they have moved me in an examination room. Anyone here? Please?
@Gigili a restaurant owner is taking photos of his food probably to promote his restaurant. That's fine. People who take photos of the restaurant food they are about to eat are just bragging - "Look at me, I can eat food!" No one cares. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@FaheemMitha I second @AnubianNoob - don't get an Rpi for use as a media station. It doesn't have the oomph and as Noob said, it's a PITA to set up just for that.
Get a cheap laptop, 1Tb of NAS, and XBMC and you'll be much better off
@ElendilTheTall Yes, I see. That's handy, agreed. Unfortunately we don't have such stuff here. As far as I know.
I used Netflix streaming for a little while once. It worked quite well. There was a little gadget which you could use with your TV. A sort of mini-player.
@FaheemMitha I'm well, thanks. Trying to get more stuff done, sometimes managing it (so stuck working most of the time), sometimes not, so stuck procrastinating most of the time
had a very successful weekend, finally finished one major stage of my research
@ElendilTheTall Right. And I don't know if there are any services to use with it. I suppose Youtube would be a lot better than nothing. There is a lot of stuff on Youtube these days. Including tons of stuff that is obviously in violation of copyright.
@rumtscho Oh hello! not the fruit itself, boiled in water and salt/sugar will be added at the end if desired then goes into freezer for a few hours.. kinda like fruity Popsicles
@Gigili yes, that's what I thought. I didn't think of the boiling step, but if you'd only showed me the picture and said cornell cherry, I'd have thought it's mixed with sugar, like a sorbet. Not salted.
@ElendilTheTall it's not cherrylike at all
the fruit has an astringent taste, and no cherry/almond flavor
my prof is a genuinely nice person and wants me to succeed. Also, she pays attention to her doctoral students, unlike some profs who don't give a damn. And she has lots of domain knowledge.
The problem is that she can't really help me with planning
when I talk about ideas with her and ask her "should I try to do it this way", she says she doesn't know. She needs to see the result to say if it's OK or not
@Gigili here we have a hard candy called Rhubarb 'n' Custard. One half is sour and rhubarb flavoured, the other is sweet and vanilla flavoured. They are fantastic
I mean, you learn to take punishment. And in life, that is a useful lesson to learn. And academia is not a bad place in which to learn it. For one thing, it's a controlled, relatively safe environment.
and because I've never written this type of paper before, and wanted to do it right, I started looking through all back issues of the journal for examples of such announcements
and I wasn't done by the time I went on vacation
when I came back, my colleague had looked into it, and had just pulled 3 random such announcements from different biological journals
so basically, he had achieved the same goal in a fraction of the time. It wasn't from the same journal we are going to publish in, but only after seeing his solution did I realize that this detail doesn't matter.
others who contemplate the same solution seem to think "that's way too complicated/too much work, no way I'm doing that, let's think of an alternative"
that's what I've been trying to ask my supervisor, but the problem with her is that she can tell me when something is complicated, but can't come up with an alternative suggestion. I can't either. So I'm left with the complicated one anyway.
@FaheemMitha In the dissertation, that's impossible. I'm the only person in our department who works on that stuff. Others have a very vague idea of my topic.
When I was at Duke, I had a colleague (another post-doc) who wound up collaborating with another people from somewhere else entirely. That other person wrote to him, so he said. It's possible that event saved his career. Like lots of us, his prospects were not in good shape, and he had no help inside his/our group.
@rumtscho Oh, that's too bad. Is is practical to try to find/contact such people?
@Gigili well, your choices are either flying (almost certainly cheapest), getting the Eurostar from Brussels, or going as a foot passenger on a ferry from Zeebrugge, then getting a train to London
Anything involving trains in the UK costs an arm and leg though. So flying is definitely the way to go.
It went very well. From what the interviewer said, I think I have the best qualifications of all of the candidates. So I get to have a 4th interview and a decision will be made either by the end of this week or next, at the latest.
christ on a crutch, how many interviews can they need?!
you're applying for a corporate job, right? you're not going to be part of the President's close protection detail, or in charge of nuclear launch codes?
4 interviews. talk about HR justifying their jobs!
@rumtscho Good question. I guess write to people who have published similar work, to start with? Send your work to them, ask them if they are interested in talking.
@rumtscho Anyway, off to the gym. Talk to you later, hopefully.
@rumtscho Bear in mind, if there are people out there working in areas sufficiently similar to yours, they are probably desperate for people to talk to / get help from as well. The trick is to find the right people.
@FaheemMitha For this company and others, 3 would be standard. But in this case one of the Sr. Managers will be leaving the company in a while, so that created an additional interview with her successor.
Though it would have been nice if you had got the Citizen gig. A nice new chronograph or two would have gone a long way to assuage my arthritic pain ;)
