As part of the lab offsite, we took an urban hike between 601 Townsend Street and the Mission-Dolores Park. The weather was unusually nice for January in San Francisco, and this is actually the first time I walked through the neighborhood between Mission and SoMa which has this interesting industry-under-the-highway feel.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/190359367/ExteriorMotoGStylus/modules/1076608513
After finishing a demo in the morning, I drove to San Francisco, listening to Edvard Greig’s piano concerto (A minor, opus 16) on the way, and went to the Legion of Honor to see Boticelli’s drawings, which I finished on time by avoiding reading all the descriptions.
It was a beautiful day, with the sun shining and Golden Gate bridge visible from the museum.
Rainy Saturday, writing, drawing.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/189507309/SleepingProfileSofa
I spent the evening on some manual household installation/repair tasks and felt a visceral sense of satisfaction of using my body, which tends to be missing for sitting in front of a computer all day.
Given that our bodies are designed (or more precisely, evolved) to be moving around, I wonder if there are ways to structure our work routines so that we can use our bodies more.
The existing design for “spatial computing” is mostly for content consumption and authoring tasks that are inherently spatial (e.g., 3D modeling).
How to extend that for more abstract tasks (like programming) is an interesting question (personally I doubt if spatial manipulation of node graphs or the like is the right answer).
This is by far the longest PhD defense I have ever attended, and I have attended many.
The first half was spent on the presentation, with the second half on discussions (among thesis committee members and later the candidate) about how to deal with the lack of publications.
I enjoyed the first half much more than the second.
Is buffet an expression of gluttony, aside from catering for workspace events which can be more convenient than sit-down meals.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/186107513/PortraitsMotoGStylus/modules/1062082245
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
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