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Misc Sarajevo. Fancy mint lemonade from Talks & Giggles.
Posts between 2017/09 and 2017/10 (34 out of 34)
- Restarted yoga, finally.
- Made some good food... curry, salad, spicy tofu, pear and blackberry tart.
- Learnt things about email formats.
- Prepared for my viva.
- Implemented proper paging for AS2 Collections (eg. /tags/..) in sloph.
- Went on a weekend yoga retreat on Jahorina (a ski resort mountain south of Sarajevo) and relaxed and centered myself, hiked, shared experiences with some wonderful women, learnt a bit about ayurveda, and definitely didn't panic about my viva.
- OCCRP launched the Azerbaijani Laundromat investigation, a small bit of which has my name on.
- Flew to London from Tuzla and took the night bus to Edinburgh.
- Ate a haggis and tattie scone roll at Snax.
- Passed my PhD defense, with minor corrections.
- Ate curry at Mosque Kitchen.
- Went to Prewired.
- Ate pizza at Rigatoni's.
- Ate pizza with vegan cheese at Pizza Express.
- Ate cake at Henderson's.
- Ate pakoras at Pakora Bar.
- Ate pancakes and cake at The Herbivore Kitchen.
- Tea and chocolate tart at Anteaques.
- Dropped stuff at charity shops, the Bike Station, and The SHRUB.
- Ate a vegan burrito at Forest Cafe.
- Ran around Holyrood Park.
- Ate chips on the beach at Portobello.
- Ate soup from Union of Genius.
- Took more stuff to charity shops.
- Ate giant vegan nachos at the Hoose.
- Tried and failed to go up the Scott Monument.
- At dessert at David Bann.
- Took the night bus to London.
- Ate at Vx and vegan pie and mash from Piebury Corner.
- Flew from Luton to Tuzla; got back to Sarajevo at 3am Wednesday.
- Learnt more about ElasticSearch.
- Surrounded myself with broken instances of aleph.
- Started season 2 of Sense8.
- Started thesis corrections.
- Went up the Avaz Twist Tower with bengo.
S1E0: Captain Pike "isn't used to having women on the Bridge."
Captain Pike is somewhat disgruntled when trapped by aliens with a beautiful woman whose sole desire is to make babies with him. The woman is actually old and wrinkly and somewhat disfigured from when her ship crashed. She's so ashamed of her true appearance that she'd rather stay with the aliens in the end.
This pilot got bad reviews because there wasn't enough punching, and almost killed Star Trek before it began. The female first officer didn't go down well with the network either.
S1E1: Bones still has the hots for his ex-girlfriend so he doesn't notice she's a shape-shifting alien who drains the salt from peoples' bodies, killing several members of the crew. Most conversations are about how hot Bones' ex-girlfriend is.
S1E2: Charlie, a human teenager raised by aliens, has never seen human women before. His re-assimilation into human society doesn't go well, because all he wants to do is follow Yeoman Rand around and touch her inappropriately. Everyone is awkward about this and nobody does a good job of explaining to Charlie why this isn't going to work out. Also he has destructive psychic powers. They let the aliens have him back.
Spock and Uhura have a strangely intimate public moment involving song and harp.
S1E3: The episode opens with bridge officer Gary Mitchell making inappropriate comments about psychiatrist Elizabeth Dehner. In front of everyone, on the Bridge, during work hours. Apparently this is fine.
Gary is the hero of the story when he accidentally becomes imbued with ever-expanding psychic powers which make him think he's better than everyone else. He continues to sexually harass Dr. Dehner. Kirk is very sad that his friend's powers make him think he's better than everyone else, but doesn't seem too fussed about his treatment of Dehner. Eventually Dehner also gets psychic powers and runs away with Gary. She realises at the last minute this might have been a bad idea. They both die.
Kirk makes sure to note in his log that Gary was a decent bloke.
S1E4: Everyone is infected with an inhibition-removing virus. Nurse Chapel declares her love for Spock. Spock cries. Kirk is upset that being Captain means he can't get laid. Riley hijacks the PA system, sings Irish ditties, and has opinions on how the women dress.
S1E5: The Enterprise needs an HR department.
Evil twin of Kirk assults Yeoman Rand. She's interviewed by Spock and Bones in the captain's presence. She's very visibly distressed. Kirk keeps yelling that it wasn't him. "Well he's the captain, I couldn't just... I didn't want to get you into trouble sir... I wouldn't have said anything, only...". A male witness bursts in and confirms it was Kirk. He's escorted to sickbay. Rand is dismissed.
When Kirk is re-merged, Rand goes to apologise to him (or forgive him, or something) on the Bridge. Spock says "the imposter had some interesting qualities, wouldn't you say Yeoman?" and gives her this weird-ass smirk. Spock! Wtf.
S1E6: It's very hard to concentrate with ladies in the room.
Only the feelingless Vulcan is immune from the captivating charms of three "females". None of them are dressed appropriately for space travel, nor do they react reasonably to terrifying space emergency situations. And of course all they want is husbands. The episode is called "Mudd's women"; Mudd introduces them as his "cargo" and Kirk is fine to refer to them this way. If they don't take a pill for long enough, their makeup is washed off and they get some wrinkles near their eyes and can't stand themselves any more. Eve has some character and agency but in the end decides to stay with the abusive miners on desolate Rigel-12 I guess because one of them decided he wanted to talk to her even after he found out she didn't really look how he thought she did. Mining infrastructure on Rigel-12 seems... understaffed. The episode has an 'if you believe in yourself you can be anything' moral, specifically that "homely" women can still be appreciated by men if they "act beautiful".
Spock moment: "the fact that my internal arrangement differs from yours Doctor, pleases me no end."
- Work stuff. By the way, OCCRP is hiring developers.
- Dabbled in Postgres (yes yes I know I'm a late bloomer).
- Dabbled in docker-compose.
- Dabbled in RabbitMQ.
- Climbed Trebevic with bengo.
- Finished Season 2 of Sense8. The most unrealistic thing in the whole show is how do Nomi and Neets afford that apartment in SF? Started Season 2 of the Expanse.
- Got some of my thesis corrections done.
- It got cold in Sarajevo :( I forgot how to handle this.
Week in review: 28 August - 3 September
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A beautiful weekend on beautiful Jahorina, with inspiring and insightful women, great food, and striking surroundings.
Higher contrast photos or photos with me in, borrowed from Aida.
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Leaving Sarajevo..
A major Azerbaijani money laundering scandal story was launched yesterday, and the raw data of almost 17,000 bank transactions between potentially implicated companies went up today. I played the tiniest role, but I'm dead proud to see my name up there.
ICYMI I'm super psyched to work with all of the amazing, unstoppable folks at OCCRP.
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What's the first thing you do when you roll off the night bus in Edinburgh after being away for 2 years?
(Answer: veggie haggis and tattie scone roll from Snax).
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Viva day. New cafe in AT basement. Level 4 coffee machine is still going strong. Edinburgh castle from Codebase. Prewired. Rigatoni's.
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Birdbirdbirdbirdbird.
I passed my PhD viva yesterday, subject to minor corrections! Just call me Dr. Guy.
Thanks to my intrepid examiners Dave de Roure and Mark Hartswood for reading my whole thesis and spending three hours on a really interesting discussion of my findings and the implications. I don't even have words to express how grateful I am to my supervisor Ewan Klein, who has humoured me faultlessly for the last five years.
Fun fact: I haven't written my thesis acknowledgements yet because every time I try to think about all of the amazing people who have supported me over all this time I cry.
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Eating! Pizza Express have a rice mozzarella pizza now. Much cake at Henderson's. Pakoras at Pakora Bar. Pancakes at Herbivore Kitchen.
And some books and stuff I gave away.
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Tigo and I had apple and peanut butter for breakfast.
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A day of auld haunts.
Raspberry tea and chocolate raspberry tart at Anteaques with Sergio.
Dropped by SHRUB to leave some textbooks, and was lucky enough to catch Joe. SHRUB is doing great, and has grown an arm for food sharing too.
Went by Forest Cafe for an excellent vegan burrito.
Walked back through the Meadows, and detoured to the Crags to watch the sun set.
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Sunrise run around Holyrood. Seemed shorter and easier than I remember, and downhill most of the way. I remember it being uphill most of the way before. Drizzled a bit. All the running I did in Boston must have paid off.
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Chips on the beach at Portobello, and a visit to Rikki's new place.
The weather gave us a perfect 20 minute window of moody sunshine to enjoy the beach, raining heavily only when we were on the bus or inside. Cheers, Edinbrah.
Whilst eating we were protected by our Seagull Defender, who chased all of the other seagulls away (except the one who was bigger than him) and waited patiently to be rewarded with a chip at the end.
Week in review: 4 - 10 September
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Wandering around campus; views from the new and improved Appleton Tower.
Jane and I attempted to go up the Scott Monument, but it was inexplicably closed.
Giant vegan nachos in the Auld Hoose. A wander down the Royal Mile. Dessert in David Bann. The bus to London. Thus ends this visit to Edinburgh.
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Return to Sarajevo, via London.
Another beautiful morning in Sarajevo.
I see on average one cat per minute on my ten minute walk to work in the morning.
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Avocado mess on toast.
Pasta with vegetables, cabbage, tomato, soya mince.
Cheezey quinoa.
Not-omelette with not-cheese.
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Misc; cats, Aleks' last day, Karuzo.
I'm doing my thesis corrections.
As you may know, my whole thesis writing process has been public on Github throughout, in the interests of #OpenScience and #LinkedResearch. The feedback from my examiners during my viva is documented as issues with the 'viva' tag, and I also opened more issues from my own notes during the defense.
If there are bits of my thesis you've read on the past or are particularly interested in, now would be a great time to file any other issues you've spotted for things you'd like to see updated or fixed in the final hardbound copy of my thesis which will, I presume, live in the University of Edinburgh library, survive the impending technological apocalypse, and generally outlive all of us. I aim to print the thing by the 31st of October.
Week in review: 11 - 17 September
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From the Avaz Twist Tower with bengo.
Food at Blind Tiger, Biban and Karuzo.
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Climbed Trebevic. First stop, the bobsled tracks. Then on to the summit. Took longer and was more challenging than anticipated. Only got lost in the woods a couple of times. Photos with me in taken by bengo. GPS trace.
Okay, I went out for lunch, went to the market, sat in the sun, uploaded photos from the last week, took a nap, and made chocolate muffins. 7pm seems like as good a time as any to start the day's thesis corrections.
Where no MaN has gone before
Watching The Original Series has actually been really challenging. I can't binge it and sometimes even making it through an episode is work. Taking notes is helping, and now I've started I feel I must continue.
The really horrifying thing is how groundbreaking and revolutionary the role of women in this show was at the time. Wtf was the rest of TV like?!
Week in review: 18 - 24 September
During 90% of group social interactions I'm happy to be there but would prefer to be invisible. I think that's why I like IRC so much. I'm in a room full of people chatting amongst themselves, nobody is really aware that I'm there but also nobody minds that I'm listening. I can interact if I want, but there's no expectation that I do, even if addressed directly. Real life more like IRC rooms please.
Klingon fashions and hairstyles sure changed over a couple of centuries. I love their (the Klingons') diversity though.
I'm disappointed by the lack of space in the opening sequence. Never enough space.
I anticipate great lolz from Saru.
But yeah, I think we're off to a good start.
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Cakes, mushroom pie, etc..
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Elizabeth and I made stir fry, bbq cauliflower, roasted marrow, and zucchini noodles. We ate most of it.
I'm thinking about doing NaNoWriMo this year. I last took part in 2013 (and feebly at that), before my phd and associated distractions took over. That was a long time ago. My fiction writing foo is completely out of whack. I can barely remember how. I don't know what to write about. This definitely means I should commit to it, I guess.
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Barley with vegetables and tomatoes.
