Last night we made sushi! Personally I had never even eaten sushi, let alone made it so it was a double first for me! Out able teacher/supervisor Kanako showed us how to do it. The actual preparation turned out to be more fiddly that the actual production of the sushi which in itself is quite simple. A blow-by-blow description here would be a bit pointless considering the number of sites on the net which do a much better job!
As for the sushi itself - I found it pretty tasty. We used raw salmon for the fish element which I guess is fairly harmless and tame compared with the weird and exotic that you might expect. As with all things it comes in a wide range of varieties and even has its own vocabulary. We made sushi rolls known as Norimaki (correct me if I’ve got this wrong). If I can do it, anyone can so go try it now!
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Post cremation!
A toast - faces cut to protect the innocent!!
Setting the scene
“Someone” sneaking off with the vin rouge!
Sunday night I put on my metaphorical chiefs hat and, with the help of an assistant, cooked up dinner for a few friends consisting of roast pork, roast potatoes, carrots & broccoli, followed by Carte D’or toblerone flavored ice cream (to die for!). Considering the lack of culinary resources (and wine glasses!) I’d say it went pretty well with the exception of the gravy which didn’t turn out quite right (but still tasted OK).
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The weather in Durham has been pretty good recently. I took the above photo last week on a short break from revision (one of many!). Whilst it’s a fairly stereotypical shot of the Cathedral I quite like the composition with the tree leaves silhouetted in the foreground. I’ve desaturated the shot from the colour original and used a ’softglow’ filter to make the whole thing stand out more - you can see this better on the higher-res version.
At 11am tomorrow the exam nightmare will be over and I’ll be free forever from formal education (in theory at least!) so a small moment to mark in the history books! Expect more soon, very soon…
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So busy… No time to post… Must not get distracted by Star Wars…
Must. Revise.
Actually my next exam is nearly two weeks away but thats no reason to be complacent especially when it comes to the intricacies of the 3D graphics pipeline and distributed computation algorithms! Probably best not to mention the first exam - half good, half awful :-S
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Sorry again for the low frequency of posts these last few weeks - revision, revision… I H A T E R E V I S I O N. Got the message?! To be honest during these periods of *intensive* work there isn’t usually a lot to talk about but sufficed to say I’ve dragged something out of myself today! Yesterday saw the conclusion of my major project (worth 1/3 of this years marks) with a live demonstration - this seemed to go quite well and luckily the examiner didn’t ask any horrible questions contrary to what I had been expecting. Whilst some of it has been quite interesting it’s good to put a lid on it finally 
So here’s what the Software Engineering component of my course looks like on Q-cards:
(Fascinating huh?!)
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Google’s Singularity machine - are Google building ‘AI that transcends humanity’? Perhaps.
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Time Traveler Convention - Nice idea which unfortunately didn’t work. Dr. Who fans may be disappointed!
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Edsinger Domo - Be warned the robots are on the rise (again)! Not quite at Schwarzenegger terminator level yet.
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Culture Jamming - Some guy walks into famous museums and puts his own work up. Old news but still cool!
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