Caroline said it’s her life goal to be on my blog so today, having nothing better to do, I’m going to post a bunch of pictures of us. I have no words to describe her.
This is Caroline. She is very sexy and likes to remind people of how sexy she is.
I have this charming habit of staring at my phone during breakfast. The only reason I’d be inclined to talk before noon is because something bad has happened to me in that 15-minute window from bed to breakfast and I’d like to file a complaint.
When other people delight themselves in small talks and weather discussions, I’d be scrolling through my Google Now cards. Maybe because I have been reading a lot about Brexit, Google has suggested a lot of news about New Zealand. They probably assume I’m a British national who is looking to migrate after their country’s giant farce. At least they are right about me wanting to move there. New Zealand sounds like the best country in the world.
Continue reading “[Day 56] Why we should all move to New Zealand”
Mykel Kochenderfer is my professor for the course “Building Trust in Autonomy” and he’s hilarious.
“Our policy function depends on whether our time horizon is finite or infinite. For example, if you knew that the world was going to end tomorrow, you wouldn’t just go to Tesco and buy green bananas. You would be buying the candies we had at the zoo yesterday instead.”
Continue reading “[Day 54] Things that Mykel Kochenderfer says”
Today, thousands of locals flocked to the streets to witness what was considered the first sighting of the sun in Edinburgh since the Great Miss Sunshine in 2001. According to several eyewitnesses, the sky was lit up blue for more than two hours from 11am to 1.10pm, Friday, July 1, 2016. The leaves dried up and suddenly, the locals realized that the leaves were of a cheerful shade of grey, not just a sad shade of grey.
I was browsing the news today when I saw this:
Continue reading “[Day 51] Why it’s not okay to say “women and children””
So I went to Edinburgh zoo today–you can’t be in Edinburgh without seeing its famous penguin parade–and I was telling Jonas about the giant panda I saw at the zoo.
Me: “I kid you not. That panda is awake for only 8 hours but poops 50 times a day.”
Jonas: “That sounds like a pretty shitty life to me.”
“We are now at the age when we have to decide whether we should settle down to be an ordinary person or we should continue being special.” – Tamypu
I don’t know any other person who could possibly say that without appearing pretentious. Pu is special, the kind of special that makes you want to crack her brain with a fine axe to see what is really going on inside.
My professor Mykel Kochenderfer wrote me this awesome email, and I thought I should share it with you.
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One little exercise that I did a while ago was to list the top ten things that I find completely unbelievable that are true. I used to keep this list in my wallet, but I can’t seem to find it anymore. Here are some of the items: Continue reading “[Day 47] Things that you find unbelievable that are true”
Guys, I met a Knight. He shook my hand twice to demonstrate how the Queen shook his hand when he was knighted. The knight and I took a selfie–he made a funny face for a knight and I just used that ugly face I always have. You can scroll to the end to see the pic.
Today, Sir Thomas Martin Devine was our guest lecturer. In case you don’t know (tbh if you’re not Scottish then why would you), Sir Devine is regarded as the leading authority on the history of modern Scotland and its diaspora. He was knighted in the 2014 for “services to the study of Scottish history”, the first scholar to be so honored for this reason.
Continue reading “[Day 46] Sir Tom Devine on UK leaving EU and what it means for Scotland”
As millions of British youths woke up this morning to the crippling terror that the UK is no longer part of the EU, the Brit print media was still struggling with one question:
What’s it? Are we gonna leave the EU or nah?
Below are the front page of few major print newspapers in the UK as of this morning, Friday, June 24 2016.
Continue reading “[Day 45] British print media still doesn’t know what happens with #Brexit”
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