The paper I'm doing starts to look decent by now (not that it's any guarantee for it being accepted of course), but I'm not goin...

..degrees, that is, with a hazy midday sun making it feel even warmer. After lunch I bought the first ice cream of the year and ate it while...

Still fighting the conference paper. We got ourselves a deadline extension . That's another week to make the paper presentable (Yay!) - ...

I have a deadline coming up very soon, so little time to write here 1 . But while you're waiting with bated breath (yeah, right) for for...

Valentine's day, again, and in the Japanese tradition women give chocolates to men (we reciprocate on "White Day" next month)....

It's Constitution Day, and everybody has the day off. Which in practical terms of course just means I've spent the day working from ...

In mid-January, barely back from our christmas vacation , I was back in Hokkaido again, this time for a three-day neuroscience workshop. It...