Palfrey's life

Busy days.... as announced previously, went on the AEGEE "Cheese and Wooden Shoes" excursion on Saturday. Photos are up here (Folder title was "cheese and wine" for a while... I've been a very dozy bugger today). In short, a visit to a cheese factory in Monnickendam, clog factory in same (me in clogs, silly games with sets of the darn things attached to planks), biking to Marken and seeing the apparently quite famous Paard van Marken lighthouse. Also a meal in a very nice Italian restaurant. Met cute Italian girl (not via the restaurant, one of the other foreign students).

A most unexpected person appeared in my office today: Henk Muller - my supervisor back when I was finishing my BSc in Bristol and the person responsible for telling me about the project in Delft that I'm doing now. Haven't seen him since I graduated last summer. Apparently he was over here because his brother is getting his PhD and he decided to say hi to a few people along the way. That was cool.

Apologies to the uh... at least two mathematicians that read this, but mathematicians should not be allowed to write sensor network papers. I've just been attempting to review a paper today for Sensys, and it's got all the classic signs - simulation in MATLAB, no real-world data, vastly over-complicated analysis scattered with assumptions that don't actually hold in the real world, enough greek letters to make your eyes bleed, etc. Technically all of this is in a double-blind review process, but given that the types of spelling mistakes actually tell me quite a lot about where it's from, and I suspect that five minutes with Google would get me the authors, it's not very blind...

MLP

• Read off the back of someone's t-shirt today - Help your horny friends!


• Disclaimers you don't want to see - "The Oxfordshire National Health Service Trust accepts no responsibility for the loss of patients."


• Something Positive has the best jokes (related joke). And as I'm here "Cunnilingus and Braaaaaains..." (work safe amazingly)