Home made Croissant...

The MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science

Very, very cool!!!

The MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science - it's true!
http://web.mit.edu/chocolatiers/www/

Just before we get back home...

... a new news bulletin... this time is number 4

The other bulletins were:

• Arriving to USA and settling down
• One day at Rochester, NY, USA
• Halloween (a - we hope - creative story)
• Miguel's birthday and Niagara Falls
• New York City e Thanksgiving
• Joana's birthday

You have lots of stuff to explore... ;-)

Animagus food: Ice Cream desert

Animagus food: Meat Loaf

Animagus food: Chicken Curry

It's my party...

and I smile because even if most of my friends are far away (after a whole Ocean), I had a good time...
Some photos here...

Thanksgiving break: New York City, NY, USA

Taking the Thanksgiving break we went to NYC...

Miguel's Birthday and Niagara Falls

On Miguel's birthday we made a small cake...



We eat a part of it...



But since we are on diet, we gave a part to a good friend...



You can find more photos here...

Rochester, NY, USA - III: Halloween

Taking the mood from the Halloween days, we made a small story...

Rochester, NY, USA - II

A day on our life here at Rochester...

Home sweet home...

A small guide to Lisbon...

By André Ribeirinho.

And another, made for InterSpeech 2005.

Rochester, NY, USA

Photos from our new home...

We have a new master (MSc) at home!

Let's party!

Birthday's breakfast

A small gift to our sister (in law)...



Cappuccino, orange juice, lots of different breads, great cakes!

American dinner - Farewell my dear Portuguese friends...

A farewell party just before leave to America...



First prepares...



America and Portugal...



Pizza, Hamburguers, Salad, Potato Chips... with the right background.

Happy birthday, mom!

Cod-fish soufflé! A great meal!

Home made Kitchen furniture

IKEA is really a great store!
We can built our furniture as if they were LEGO!

You go there and if there is nothing as you want:

1. take a pencil and a sheet of paper and draw what you REALLY want
2. take all the relevant measures
3. go to a store near you and register all the possibilities
4. don't forget to stop at the opportunities section (we found a good 'piece' there!)
   
5. combine all you have in order to build what you want (don't forget to make your budget)
6. make several combinations (and several budgets) considering your space, the furniture that will be around (we found 'pieces' similar to those we already had), etc.
7. go back to the store and buy what you need
8. assemble all the 'pieces' (follow the instructions carefully)
   
9. your done!
10. take a picture...

This is a picture will it was being build



Look at our final result... :-)



There is space for everything we need!

In the moonlight shadow dinner

After a hard day: soup and salad!



in the moonlight shadow...

Ice cream...

We will be married next week! A farewell ice-cream!

The fight for the 3rd place: Portugal x Germany

Portugal x France

Publish

Portugal x England

Portugal x Holanda

Yet another match

Holidays... to be or not to be...

Today is local holiday in Lisboa.
But not in Oeiras.
Miguel gave classes on June 7th in Lisbon (when it was the local holiday in Oeiras) and today, June 13th, (local holiday in Lisboa) he is in Oeiras... I guess we are missing something... an holiday, perhaps...
No problem... after all, we have so much work to do, that if it where not this we would be working at home.

Programming...

... PAsMo anotations...
João's ShRep (Shared Repository) needs some information that is being lost. I'm adding it to PAsMo's structures and updating it according to PAsMo's functionality.

qwerty...

azerty...

Different keyboards drive me crazy... :(

Programming...

... PAsMo anotations...
João's ShRep (Shared Repository) needs some information that is being lost. I'm adding it to PAsMo's structures and updating it according to PAsMo's functionality.

qwerty...

azerty...

Different keyboards drive me crazy... :(

Tematic dinner (stuffed full food in Portuguese colors)

For the first match (hoping that a victory would came) we made a thematic dinner for my family and my boyfriend's family.



To start we made "stuffed full tomatoes"...



Then we had vegetables...



And "stuffed full pepper" (Capsicum)...



And "stuffed full mushrooms"...



Final result:

Go Portugal!

Today is the first match of Portuguese football team.
I decided to dress according to it!
Go Portugal!

Yet another improvement...

When I thought that PAsMo's improvements were done... Nuno, João, Ricardo and I, in a short meeting, came to the conclusion that one more thing was needed in order to use the tool that João developed on is MSc thesis. Again small things... yet another small detour... nothing much... one day of work!

In the end, one week was lost, but the benefits for the investigation group are enought to pay the effort. In the end of this, I think that if we get back to ATA, some good results could be achieved... If I will have the needed time... we will see...

In the meanwhile, my boy friend keeps writing and writing. Tomorrow he needs to send a first draft to his advisor. I think it is getting to a good end and that the work will have a good grade... Che será, sera... what ever will be, will be!...

In the fridge...

... there is a witch!

Am I coughing?!
No...
As The Cranberries sing: "It's just my imagination!"

And why everyone that enters this room starts to cough?
Questions...

And the oscar goes to...

... my colleague in the daily movie of life as the hurricane!

Sometimes a hurricane pass through...
Your heart rhythm increases...
And you wanted to scream that you already have your things in the "right" place!

The window was opened and the bird's singing could be eared!
The door was opened and people passing could be seen!
The air condicioned was turned off and the silence was a blessing!

But then... all of a Sudden... the hurricane arrives.
All the windows are closed.
The door is closed.
The air condicioned (and all the noise it does) starts!
And then... after all the possible changes were made... she goes out to the bathroom or to compliment everyone... and returns later...

Ignore! Ignore! Ignore!
Take it easy!

But when you are all alone in your working room without working conditions just because your colleague arranged hers working conditions and went out...

And the say team work is great?!

User's guide: done!

Now I remember: there is no acknowledgements on a user's guide...
So I had to write everything down with examples to make clear what can be done with my tool.

Now for some stupid remaining bugs... C++ here I am (again)...

User's manual...

After all the developments, the inevitable user's manual...

PAsMo enhanced!

New features:

• Left side
  
  • S1 [L1, ...]! ⇒ forces that all anotations match the description
  • S1 [L1, ...]!! ⇒ forces to have just one anotation matching the description
  • S1 [L1, ...] [L2, ...] ⇒ needs to match all the given descriptions
• Right side
  
  • S1* ⇒ rewrites what matched without changes
  • S1 [L1, ...]- ⇒ deletes the given anotation

When the editor does not help...

... we have to browse the web searching for something that will help...
And sometime we even find:

• C/C++-IDE: Write and run programs. Insert statements, idioms, comments etc.
  
• CRefVim: C-reference manual especially designed for Vim
  
• Vim JDE: Just a Development Envirement (Java/C++)

Dedicated to my "significant other"... ;)

Just an hint...

The day after...