The perfect sunday

lots of green


red and blue



red and yellow



a glossy snake


all those rays of sunshine

one tanning, the other dying


and a pretty picture hanging on the wall



definitively the perfect sunday, never mind the flat tire...



Fisherman's Wharf

Alcatraz


the sea lions at Pier 39


sunset at Ghirardelli Square


mmmm... sweet, sweet chocolate


Harriet's binary haiku

Aww... It seems that our poor old server has been feeling lonely and ignored now that everyone in the lab is using jesus, so he's decided to seek for some attention. Now, every time we log on to harriet he shows us this funny encoded message.



It's an haiku, isn't it obvious? Three lines... 5, 7 and 5 syllables...
Ok, for those of you who don't speak binary i'll decode:

An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.

Shame on you mean awful god fearing lab people! You made our harriet recite poetry.,,

The 30 km bike ride

Seemed more like 300 because of all that terrible wind, but we got to prove how athletic we are (especially me with my 3rd hand $10 "bike").

Mad science at UC Berkeley - warming Zaak's pork

What do you think lab hot plates are used for? Good scientists must be resourceful.

The end of the world

The world cannot come to an end without a population genetics meeting, two barbecues and lots of alcohol...

Qi giving his talk


the first BBQ, in Berkeley



Zaak's delicious smoked pork


the gang


and beer beats fancy name tags


the second BBQ, in Santa Clara



it's after 6pm and i think i'm drunk... why hasn't the world ended already??


Mad science at UC Davis - cat's plot

these cats are crazy... believe me, I used to work with them!


zooming in on the post-it:


Weekend in Davis

the Arboretum




two voracious squirrels staring


and after all Davis is the bicycle capital of America...


Views from Twin Peaks

Ah ah! Even Superman with his flying powers and X-ray vision cannot resist this view.


Painting a mural

Last December, me and Nuno volunteered to paint a mural in a history park in San Jose. We were sad that we didn't get to see the final result, though. Today we finally went back there to see our work of art!

the rainy December day


volunteers at work



it got really colorful... and messy!!!

taraaaaaaa!!!



Rockit room

A night full of art in San Francisco.





"Art is the sex of imagination..."
                           - Slava Likhatchev