When I go through repetitive exercises (e.g., swimming laps), I often group the repetitions via integer factorization, such as 6 by 6 for 36, with a little voice in my head saying something like: 6 times are easy, and you just need to do 6 of these.
So psychologically I perceive the repetitions differently even though they are all the same.
Since my company allow us to report academic services as part of our volunteering hours for matching donations*, I have been keeping track of mine in a spreadsheet (down to the levels of the hours/minutes spent in each paper across different stages of the review processes).
According to the spreadsheet, so far this year I have spent 190+ (!) hours in total, including TVCG AE and paper committees in SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, EG, EGSR, HPG, etc., mostly during my “spare time” in the evenings and weekends.
I won’t be able to serve for SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia next year, so hopefully I can get back some time for other activities.
* For Adobe folks: remember to report your volunteering hours before the end of the year.
Experiment with Ai generative vector graphics to produce a simple graphical novel.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/186934551/HomeAlarmGraphicalFiction
Does wearing colorful clothing inspire playful minds?
https://www.behance.net/gallery/186650805/ColorfulSocksPlayfulMind
I guess 666 is a suitable number to pick up an order from hell’s kitchen.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/186355667/LunchOrder666
I have a collaborator whose name has the letter Z as the initial for all parts, and thus shows up as ZZZ, which seems sleepy, in our shared documents.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/186219073/Zzz
Familiarity brings comfort, including holiday meals.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/185309443/JoyRestaurantNov232023
Due to the APEC summit, the streets around SoMA were closed and it was quite interesting to see all these empty streets that were usually full of cars and people.
Later I heard that Xi Jinping was living in St Regis even though I did not walk towards that direction.
I wonder where leaders from other nations stayed and how the arrangements were decided.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yxkC4LHXfTDEU9Va6
https://photos.app.goo.gl/L9MK5YFjjPncmjZe7
I tried to take bus 281 from Palo Alto transit center to SJC18 and the bus got stuck in traffic on university avenue near highway-101 for more than an hour. (It took me about 40 minutes to walk the same trip.) I got a chance to draw a painful facial expression of one of the passengers.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/159829079/FingerPortraits/modules/1040399645
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