jonny goes to england

I’m already in my second year phd now! That’s quite scary. Anyway, I’ll have my first year review viva next Tuesday. I had to produce a report and I’m preparing slides now. The report basically only consists of my two (yet unpublished) papers and some introduction .. The slides will be about my recent paper about valuations on lattices for quantifying information leakage.

London Buses will run a great ad by the British Humanist Association, according to this BBC article. It says

There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying, and enjoy your life.

I couldn’t agree more . I’ll try to snap a pic of such a bus ..

Das Gym ist nun endlich fertig und seit einigen Wochen in Betrieb. Ziemlich gross und modern fuer eine Uni. Das beste ist, dass es nicht sehr viel Betrieb hat, speziell an Wochenenden. Praktisch ein privates Gym

Just checked:

1 British pound = 1.89124525 Swiss francs

When I came here in 2006, £1 was worth 2.50 Swiss francs! It’s so cheap here now I almost feel on holiday!!

I got a freebie by post. In a rather big, green, cardboard box. I open it up and you would never guess what was in it. Let me make a list to emphasise:

• A gold tee
• A golf ball
• A hearing aid

A what?! A hearing aid. Together with a description how nice it is to hear properly and how their plastic plug releases me from my pain.

Here’s the picture:

Mal wieder einen Eintrag auf Deutsch. Es ist erstaunlich wie schnell es hier von “Sommer” zu Herbst wechselt.

Das Semester hat wieder begonnen. Die neuen Masterstudenten sind hier; schon das zweite Jahr nach mir!
Letzte Woche hab ich ein Paper fuer Fossacs09 abgeschickt. Spannend was die Reviewers davon halten werden . Ich werde jedoch erst im Dezember feedback erhalten.

Yes, a rather cruel, new ad against illegal cabs. But don’t take them, or at least not when you are alone. I took one once alone and it was very uncomfortable. A dodgy guy who asked me £5 more because I asked him to drive 100m down the road to my house. God knows what he would have done to me if I wore a miniskirt that day!

Use cabwise. Text HOME to 60835 and you will get a list of local mini- and blackcabs.

Actually, there is something more. Recently, some “mysterious” ads appeared on the tube advertisement boards (the places which you pretend to read to avoid eye contact with the people sitting opposite to you).

Anyway, my lonely tube ride actually solved the mystery. I think it’s just ads from The Times:

I came across an empty tube waggon at night. Don’t know why it was that deserted. Since I was all alone I loudly whistled the Pipi Langstrumpf theme, just for the sake of it.

Not many updates recently, I’m busy looking for flats and other stuff .. more posts later!