Sinko

Matti H. lähetti mielenkiintoisen linkin, jossa vähän vertaillaan lukuja tulevan huippuyliopiston ja kilpailijoiden välillä. Aika surullista luettavaa ovat kyllä nuo luvut. Esim. MIT pyörittää puolta opiskelijamäärää nelinkertaisilla professoriresursseilla! On ohjauksen taso vähän eri kuin täällä. Ja jos vaikka vähän vaatimattomampaankin kohteeseen kuten KTH vertaa, niin siihenkin nähden on aika huonosti asiat tulevassa huippuyliopistossa. "Sinko" on muuten aika mainio työnimi ko. yliopistolle... :D

Tulips (before and after)

I love tulips and I find them beautiful also when they are not so fresh anymore. Well, today it seems that I will need to throw them away very soon.

Mignon Easter egg

During Easter my plan was to treat myself with a certain type of Easter egg, but everytime I went to a store, I forgot to buy one. My colleague Juha surprised me two days ago at the office and gave me exactly the egg I had been wanting. Today I finally enjoyed the egg at the courtesy of my own living room. :D

Leaping shampoo

I found a cool Leaping shampoo video that shows and explains Kaye effect pretty well. This is cool to watch even if you are not a geek. :)

Brazilian Portuguese

Today I visited the Embassy of Brazil, because I needed to register for a conversation class. I hate it that last spring when I took Portuguese lessons at Diálogo in Salvador, I was able to speak quite well, but now I have forgot the most of it, since I never get to use it. I've been wanting to take lessons for a while, but in all universities and schools in Finland, they teach Portuguese Portuguese, not Brazilian Portuguese. And I don't want to lose my Brazilian accent.
I just figured out a few days ago that I should probably take a look at the Embassy's webpages (why didn't that thought come to my mind earlier???), and so I did and found a perfect class which starts April 19. Yippee! And an even bigger yippee to myself for today, as I was able to survive with my Portuguese in the Embassy. :)
On my way back, I passed by Helsinki Cathedral which was whiter than I remembered.

Googlen mainokset ja muita sosiaalisen median liiketoimintamalleja

Tässä VTT:n tuoreessa julkaisussa pyöritään Web 2.0:n ympärillä kuten siinä aiemman postauksen julkaisussakin. Molemmissa on hyvää perustietoa ja paljon hyviä esimerkkejä.

Snow...

I woke up today, took a look outside, and nearly screamed: it had snowed!!! Fortunately it melted away by afternoon.
But still, please Mr./Mrs. Weather, make up your mind, what's it gonna be, spring or winter?

Tulips

It's Easter, so I bought tulips. By the way, I've "trained" Riksu, so he knows that if he ever buys me flowers, it should not be roses (I've never liked roses) but instead tulips, gerberas, chrysanthemums, or other simple-looking but colourful flowers.

Police!

We live in a quiet neighbourhood, but tonight for some reason two police cars had to pay a visit to Pub Vaakuna across the street. I would have missed them (as I'm not a crazy person that spends her nights watching neighbours through the kitchen window), but the cars had their blinking ligths on and that caught my attention. How exciting!!

A good day

It was a great day for both Juho and me: I received the news that Tekes is going to fund our 3-year project and Juho got a job, too. Yippee!
To celebrate, I had a dinner and a few drinks with my colleagues, and went "home" to Tetti's quite late at 23.30. I noticed she had put up Easter decorations, which date back a long time. The tiny chick figures made me laugh before I went to bed.

Spring stuff

You know it's spring when they start putting up scaffolding on houses.

The Forsyte Saga

I have forgot to tell about the best mini series I've seen for a while: The Forsyte Saga. Riksu took the dvd box home from library and we watched the whole thing in a week or so. I am a big fan of Jane Austen type films and series. I can highly recommend this one!

Test your musicality

I found three musical tests that test if you are tone deaf, what your pitch perception is like, and if you are good with rhythm. My scores on all three tests are here. Music school might have something to do with the results. :)
What's your score?

"Could Union Square Be Your Next Airport?"

For a while ago already, Juho showed me this article. Great out-of-the-box thinking, I'd say!

Freedom!

Although I've got a racing bike and a mountain bike, I've been wanting a simple city bike for a couple of years already. Whenever I visit my Mom in Oulu, I get to ride her 3-gear ladies' bike. My racing bike is purely for sports. My mountain bike is good for riding in the city, but not for parking it, locking it, riding it when wearing a skirt, or transporting anything. It doesn't have a stand, so it always has to be parked leaning on something. Locking it takes forever, since you need a separate insurance company certified lock. You can imagine the problems with the skirt. And as there's no rear rack, the only kind of bag you can have with you is a backpack. The outcome of all this is the fact that for some years already, I've been walking to places and using the mountain bike mainly for exercising. And as it takes longer to walk to places, I've felt "trapped".
Today I finally got myself a 3-gear, foot-brake (or whatever it's called) ladies' bike with a fixed lock. The bike has both a rear rack and a mounted basket on the front. I LOVE IT! There was a 20 % discount on all bikes this week, so the bike wasn't even too expensive, only 279 euros.
I got my freedom back!!! :D

Web 2.0 – johdatus internetin uusiin liiketoimintamahdollisuuksiin

Tässä Tieken tuoreessa julkaisussa on paljon web 2.0 -esimerkkejä (esim. Igglo, Amazon, BitTorrent, Wikipedia) ja muutenkin rautalankavääntöä, että mistä oikein on kyse.

PS. Tästä lähtien kirjoitan sillä kielellä, millä milloinkin huvittaa ja kumpi on tarkoituksenmukaisempaa. From now on, I will post either in English or Finnish according to how I feel and which language serves the purpose better.

Sushi and coffee

After work, before I took the train back home to Tampere, I had sushi and coffee with my brother Juho in Kamppi Center.

Ladies hairdresser Capriccio

I surf around scaryideas.com from time to time, and today I found a ladies hairdresser ad that made me laugh. :D

Biking season has begun

Today I took my dear mountain bike out for the first time this spring. Of course one can bike all year round, but personally I just hate it when I need to wear so many layers I feel like my knees don't bend well for pedalling... Today it was warm enough (over +10 °C), so I went biking for about 1 hour. Although it was a lot of fun, I believe I will need to wait a while until the next time, since there was so much dust in the air that my semi-asthmatic lungs did not feel too good.

I love goat cheese

The best part of a home-made chèvre salad is that there's enough of everything: rucola, green olives, red onions, basil, tomatoes...mmmmmhhh! :) I believe no-one likes goat cheese OK. You either love it or you don't (and you say it tastes like wet woollen stockings).