{amateur.photos} Posed

San Diego has lots of attractions for anyone holding a digital camera. The sea gulls are very familiar with tourists and they naturally pose for the camera. I like his metal feet more than the black and red beak.

{lovable.kids} Arteen

Handsome Arteen cheers for grandma.

{lovable.kids} Arteen in Del Mar

Lovely Arteen is waiting to get dressed for a day out in Del Mar.


It was a hot winter day in San Diego. The evening winds should be taken into account for the little angel. Add holiday spirit and this is how Arteen was dressed. A lovely outfit for a lovely angel.

{lovable.kids} Mr. Big Foot

He has two big feet, each of which have five toes. This may seem normal, but I think that's very strange for the little Prince of Persia.

He also smells very nice.

{touch.typing} TEA-ZISSSSS

{worldcup.draw} Group D

Now, that's fever. Iran vs. Mexico, Iran vs. Portugal, and Iran vs. Angola.

Group D:
11-Jun-06 MEX:IRN Nuremberg
17-Jun-06 POR:IRN Frankfurt
21-Jun-06 IRN:ANG Leipzig




Other groups:

Group A: Germany, Costa Rica, Poland, Equador
Group B: England, Sweden, Paraguay, and Trinidad & Tobago
Group C: Argentina, Netherlands, Serbia & Montenegro, Cote d'Ivoire
Group E: Italy, USA, Ghana, and Czech Republic
Group F: Brazil, Croatia, Australia, and Japan
Group G: France, South Korea, Switzerland, and Togo
Group H: Spain, Ukraine, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia

{soccer.fever} WC 2006

With all the fever around my thesis defence, I can't get rid of the soccer fever. See all the 32 world cup qualifiers, their key players, and how they qualified HERE.

{thesis.defence} Asking questions?

click to enlarge if the font is too small!

{favorite.quotes} Research

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you
take it from many writers, it's research. -Wilson Mizner

It's 112 pages of taking stuff from others expressed in a uniform formalism. Would the examiners think the same? Would they be happy as they read my thesis? Would they give me a hard time? It's only a week from now. Let's wait and see.

{operating.systems} Matrix XP

Would I really need Operating Systems as a breadth requriement to do a degree in Robotics and Vision? Probably so according to them. What I wonder is if they would teach us Matrix XP in that course. You don't know what it is? Check it out now (needs broadband Internet).