May day

May 5, 2011

My second real full day:

Arrived at the university at 7:40. Did a lap around the electronics recycling bins to look for useful cables and such, found none interesting. Parked the bike by the administration building. Grabbed a tuna wrap from the cafe for breakfast. Read about Environmental Markup Language. Had a two-hour meeting with my first supervisor to sketch out a research plan. Ninja'ed my second supervisor into a meeting for tomorrow at 10 a.m. before he leaves for CanHEIT. Worked on the research plan. Had lunch (meatloaf with "brown sauce" with beet and cottage cheese salad). Fulfilled an epic number of /r/scholar requests on reddit. Did some Calgary work. Outlined more of the research plan. Fulfilled a few more requests. Did some email. Picked up my key fob and mopier code (will use once my office has a working wired connection, everyone uses panoulu wireless) from our incarnation of Boothby. He told me about the new coffee/warm beverage machine and its various cleaning cycles. Had dinner (1/2 hamburger with fries, soured milk, and cranberry juice) at 6 p.m. Watched last week's South Park. Picked up my mail from the student residence (that I will not be living in because roommate insists on scenting with eau de bottle depot). Tried a new bike path home. Got lost in the other student housing hamlet. Stopped by the Sale (sa.le) to find out when it's open.

Observations:

eduroam here seems to only with with one of the two University of Calgary RADIUS servers (number 1). In the last two days, I've only had partially working eduroam connections (non-routable) on the number 2 server, until today when I had to authorize the use of number 1's cert.

Everyone eats really fast. Standard condiments include ketchup, dijon mustard, green Tabasco (small bottles, almost always 0.5 cm remaining), four kinds of salt, a red powder resembling paprika, and probably others I've not noticed. I'd like to introduce the idea of combining flavours (senior faculty members have told me Finnish food tends to be "bland") using something other than an XOR function...

AC: +2, cute, giggled in Finnish