Back to Italy. Girlfriend, warm sun, pizza... is there
anything else a man could possibly want? ;)
Now if I only had my luggage... :/
Out to lunch with Daniela, joke, eugy!
...plus some 100% european dessert and coffee ;)
Back to Italy. Girlfriend, warm sun, pizza... is there
anything else a man could possibly want? ;)
Now if I only had my luggage... :/
Out to lunch with Daniela, joke, eugy!
...plus some 100% european dessert and coffee ;)
Well, to convey the idea of how I'm doing it will suffice
to take a look at this
and this.
Do you have any idea of what it means to somebody who grew
up in
Italy?!
;)
Nonetheless I survived, and in two days I'll be back in my
warm
home country,
ready to enjoy the Christmas vacations
with my girlfriend Daniela and our friends. Happiness!
What else? I'm waiting for my J-1 visa. I also took a look at my future home here in freezeland. It's very nice!
And I wrote an event-driven engine to simulate the dynamics of granular assemblies.
I love to work here! :)
Spent most of the day digging into data sets. Attented a
couple of good talks.
I also created a few beautiful images using IBM's
OpenDX software.
I feel a bit guilty because this is the first non-GPLd
program I use since months...
This morning I woke up in Ann Arbor.
Which is good, since it means that I managed to survive the
pre-departure frenzy!
I'll be working here for one
month, under the guidance of Franco
Nori.
Yesterday I took a few pictures from the plane. They look nice, especially one shot of Manhattan at sunset, taken during takeoff from Newark.
Since I'm hungry (4pm!) I'll go eat something at my favourite chinese restaurant in town. Slurp!
Came back from Padua. Went to Rome, attended the LiMe, didn't quite like it, came back. Went to Padua, long meeting, came back. One more trip to Padua, then I'll be ready to leave for Ann Arbor - hopefully!
I played with the MPI support of ScientificPython, on my mini-Beowulf (8 CPUs). I added support for LAM and fixed a few bugs. As a result, release 2.1.5 of ScientificPython is now out.
I developed preliminary Python bindings for the VIRGO Frame Library. I'd like SWIG to allow for better control over shadow classes generation.
I was staring at this blank space and thought I would add my first diary entry. I'm at the Padua office of former Linuxcare Italia, hacking after a pizza with friends. I'm waiting to learn what will happen of PROSA Labs, and of my work there.
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