CompleNet

I've been working like crazy since yesterday to finish the organization of CompleNet. A workshop that we are organizing in Catania, Italy. So far it has been a success but it requires dedication from all parts. Unfortunately, the authors of this year's edition are very used to having papers published in the same way as computer scientists. So it has been a learning experience.

Nothing like it

There is nothing like it having two gay (men) couples kissing in your train car, in feont of you after a long day work. Seriously, I don't deserve that. LOL.

Photo uploading

Just managed to upload some photos from the New Year's Eve and Obama's inauguration party at Cheryl's. I hope you guys like it.

An unlikely event

Here is a picture with two friends from the lab. This is not likely to happen very often because we have a Brazilian (me), an Argentinean (Julian) and an Italian (Luigi) on the same photo. Given the history of these three countries in soccer is is hard to get three of us on the same picture enjoying a glass of wine.

Donald Harrison

I finally found sometime to download the photos from my camera so here a couple of pictures from the Donald Harrison concert in Washington, DC.

Going home

I thought about going to a pub to drink a Guinness but I think I'm just going home. I'm tired today.

Happy Valentine's Day

Just spoke to my valentine :). I wished I was there in Florida. Since I can't I have to go back to work. I'm my way to the lab. I woke up a bit late today, but that is life.

Tavern

I'm on this tavern bar on central station. Nice place and they are showing the basketball all-star game. 5 researchers from the lab are here. This is the first time that they are actually not talking about work. I guess they are humans after all. LOL.

Skype

I have been talking with a lot of people I haven't spoken in a while. It's nice. Yesterday I spoke to Mano for quite a while and this lunch time I spend sometime talking with my cousin from Rio de Janeiro, Holberi. It nice how the technology approximates us. My cousin I haven't spoken in many, many years.

Harvard

Sometimes a beer is not so bad for you. After a couple of beers this evening I think I achieved two things. The first is to get the opinion of a professor at Harvard from an idea I had for research. The second is another possible invitation to give a talk there. So who said beer is bad for you?!

Muqueca today

A person here in the lab is leaving and some of us will go to Muqueca restaurant for a farewell party. Look forward eating some nice food. We'll be there around 8pm.

Hawaii Hotel... Free :-)

I just booked my trip to Hawaii. The nice thing is that I got a free night from hotels.com and I used to book a room in Kona Big Island. The place is called Mauna Lani Resort (photo). Check their website here. I'm flying from Honolulu to Kona and back for $80. So I'll go there, see the volcano, sleep and stay in this hotel and back to Honolulu on Saturday night. On Sunday, I fly back to Boston. I hope this place is as nice as everyone say.

Patricia Barber

Last night I went to the regattabar for the concert of Jazz pianist Patricia Barber. What a disappointment!! She has a very nice, well controlled, voice but in terms of jazz she is very weak. She tried to look cool by making faces and such when she plays the piano but the quality is simply not there. The band that played with her only made it worse. The guitarist looked like he was playing on a funeral or something. I'm glad it was very expensive. The only good part of the concert were the two songs from Cole Porter that she played: Ce Magnifique and I've Grown Accustomed to his Face. She also played one of my favorites songs of all time: Blackbird (Beatles), but she managed to make me dislike it.

Happy Darwin's day!!

200 years ago today one of the most important scientists in history: Charles Darwin. 150 years ago he published his most important work: On the Origin of Species. Happy Darwin's day!!!!

Jazz tonight

I think I'll try to go to Patricia Barber tonight. I heard she is a good jazz piano player. Let's see.

Mac is back!!!

I have my mac back. I'm so happy to be able to do some work. I missed it. Here my mac is my only friend :)

Early-start day

I'm still without my computer butbim trying to do some work. It's hard becase I have a lot of code to write. Apple promised the machine yesterday but didn't fulfill the promise. I hope I get it today. I'm quit behind on the things I have to do. I got here to the office at 8:15am today which is my record :). Not bad given that I went to bed at 1am.

More squash and no mac

I've played squash today for about 45 minutes and my knee was fine :) in fact today as a day or not much work because in the afternoon we went to watch the soccer game between Brazil an Italy. Brazil won 2x0. Then I cs back to the office and despite Apple promising me to give mac back I got nothing. :( Hopefully I'll get it.

Boston library card

I got my library card this morning and hence I'm now an official resident of Boston. LOL. The library is huge and you can find any possible book you can think of. Kalil would love it also because you can get a lot of music (piano) scores from every kind of music, from Rachamaninov to Beatles. I believe they also have free wireless so I might go there to work sometimes if I'm bored here.

Significantly significant

At at talk here in the lab a candidate jus wrote on the slides that
the results are significantly significant!! At least this tells me
that not everyone interviewing here is as good as they all seemed to
be up to now.