Thursday, February 12, 2009

Preparing for Thesis Presentation.

This is how I prepared for thesis presentation :P
First of all - I will have to leave my precious bike - I hope new owner will take care of him!


Waiting for opening ceremony of 2009/2010 year - good luck guys!


Get-together beer after the ceremony.




Too many pictures :P


Hardly working...


I love this sport!

Friday, January 30, 2009

Last days in Reykjavik.

Time for a small picture update. These are from my last few weeks in Reykjavik and Mosfellsbaer.
Back to Iceland - somewhere over Denmark.


Evening walk in Mosfellsbaer.


Japan festival hosted by University of Iceland.




Some pictures from work.




My desk in the office.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Wii Remote offtopic.

Today one of the employees in Innovation Center showed us how one can use a Wiimote controller in the serious, professional research :) This way I found the website of a guy who does amazing things with Nintendo controller. I really recommend to see the video with head tracking! Just check this out:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Friday, January 9, 2009

Christmas and New Years Eve in Poland.

Good morning everybody :P and Happy New Year. It's been a long time since I have published something here, but you have to excuse me - I was on a small winter break in Poland and I didn't have much time to do anything with the blog. I, however, had some time to shoot number of pictures with my brand new Canon EOS 450d :D

First of all I had a funny trip to Copenhagen from Reykjavik - there was a band performing on the plane during the flight - Icelanders are crazy :)




My mom and my brother playing with my dog during our stay at my mom's family house in Sudety mountains.


Mi familia.


Everything covered in ice...








My parents 25th year anniversary party for a small group of friends.


Beautiful day for a walk.












New Years Eve trip to Ustrzyki Dolne in Bieszczady Mountains region with a group of my friends.
Seba :P


Friends!






Śmieżymy :P


-15°C barbecue.


My beer!


Yummy!


Slope.




True winter sport!


So that's it, of course there were many more thing happening but it'll remain private :D I had a great time in PL and I can't wait to go back. I mean Iceland is beautiful and so on, and I will never forget this country and people, but after this visit I really realized that there is no place like home.
Anyways, I'm back in warm and rainy Iceland (it's 8°C here comparing to Poland's -15...) and now probably, there will be no more updates until February - I have to write the thesis finally :P

Friday, December 12, 2008

Something about the protest in Reykjavik.

There was a small thing I didn't notice when I went to the protest in Reykjavik - it was backwards to me... :D

Sunday, December 7, 2008

November in Reykjavik.

I know, I've become very lazy in updating my blog, but it's just not too much happening here right now. We spend most of our time at work doing the project and on weekends we are so lazy to do anything :P Anyways, here are some pictures I was able to take in November. Enjoy!

Saga Party @ Innovation Center. People were dressed as different characters from Icelandic Sagas - vikings, elves, witches etc. There was some traditional Icelandic food, like smoked lamb, dried fish and other, not necessary, tasty things; a lot of alcohol, singing and a realistic viking fight.












In Iceland during Christmas all kinds of shops are releasing Christmas line of products. They not only look different, but also sometimes taste different.




Hjaltalin concert @ NASA, Reykjavik.




Best burgers in town.


My 4th flatmate...


Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace Tower on the small island of Videy near Reykjavik. You can read more about this project here.


Sweet tasting in Innovation Center - Iceland cake :P


Because of the economic crisis, which struck Iceland very hard, people are angry on government, that they didn't do much to protect country from the after effects. Situation here is really hard for some people. A lot of them lost their jobs and because of the fact, that it was really easy to get a loan from the bank, they find it really hard to afford paying interests. Every weekend people are gathering on the main square in Reykjavik, in front of parliament and are protesting against Icelandic Government.