Note

Smoked last cigarette at 4:45 PM on 31 October, 2013. I am 30 years, 10 months, and 30 days old now and I have been smoking for about 12 years.

Tasks for tomorrow

• clean gait data, compute scores without fancy windowing, plot ROC curve (1 - 4)
• return the damaged phone (by 10)
• talk to Steve and explain the state of affairs (try around 11 at his office)

Principles of work at campus

1. Things to take: keys, moneybag, laptop, charger, smartphone (fully charged), the phone to experiment with in box, the biometrics book, the little notebook, the space pen, an empty flask, and a book of puzzles.
2. Buy the coffee on your way to campus in the morning.
3. Pick an open space on 4th floor; surely not the PhD room with its problematic door and high population density. You do not need to chat, you need the comforting, humming noise. If no space on 4th floor, go to the library.
4. A flask of water, one Starbucks coffee (between 9:30 and 10), and lunch (between 12 and 12:30): no more foods or drinks.
5. At lunch (12), shutdown laptop. After lunch you can relax without using smartphone or laptop: may be do some puzzles; but stop at 1:30. Reboot laptop no later than 1:45. 
6. One task a day, plan it the night before.
7. 4 solid hours is enough. [may be 10-12, 2-4]
8. No FB. If something need be shared, take note; share it later -  from home.
9. No smoking, you can do it on returning home.
10. No ordering-of-books from library; if some books are needed, take notes of which one and why do you think it is needed; when at home think hard, if still think needed order them from home and pick them up when you walk back home.
11. No printing; unless a manuscript is complete and you need proof-reading.

Home vs Campus

Home - Pros:

1. No need to walk with load in my backpack in cold to the campus. [Take only what is necessary for the day's work, need to do twice a day, at most 40 minutes, a bit of walking is good for health]
2. No need to take lunch with me. [Could buy lunch]
3. I can smoke as much as I wish. [Reduction in smoking is very good]
4. I can take tea as many times as I wish. [Could have a refreshing cup of Starbucks coffee instead]
5. I can wear very comfortable clothes and do not need to wear shoes. [Could take sandals in the backpack and wear comfortable dress]
6. Going toilet is very easy. [Not frequent]
7. Apart from Facebook and Zafar, almost perfect solitude. [Better to reduce context switching]

Home - Cons:

1. Light is not abundant. [Plenty of light in Cudahy or in Raynor]
2. Deterioration of professionalism. [Nearby the office, so can meet instantly]
3. Too much smoking. 
4. Too much tea.
5. Nobody else around who is studying. [People are studying all around, a comfortable humming noise]
6. Neglected official duties. 
7. No printers around. [Both B/W and color printers around]

Homunculus talks October 16

• morning thoughts book
• meena
• kawsar ouzo
• dtw: warping image, low cost path image
• inter-class and intra-class matching
• EER, cost
• glucose, ego depletion
• big bro has a big car
• christopher boon's mental tasks for calmness
• draw floor plan
• mental arithmetic
• draw map
• observe quantitative details
• mental quadratic equations
• cubes of cardinals
• book of characters: rizwana concerned about injustice to females
• how do we know what is not so, arrives tomorrow
• sleep on the floor
• rooms of suriya villa
• tiny sounds from apt 204, may be moving on the bed
• about a watch: boon's keeping of exact times
• thinking of telling zafar how many thoughts in short time

R

• Simple plots using R
• Graphical parameters at Quick R
• Multiple qplots side by side
• ROC curve and EER: 1
• Polynomial fit in R: 1, 2
• k-means
• reverse geocoding on android

Nonsmoking Day 1

I have decided to quit smoking, and this is not the first time I am deciding this. I shall note my mental and physical state of each day and at the end of 6 months, if I succeed; I shall summarize my experience for other smokers who wish to quit it. The reasons for quitting are:

1. Weak breathing and fatigue
2. Increasing self-control by winning over a big temptation
3. Cleanliness

Recently I had been consuming 4 to 7 cigarettes a day. I prepared crab-avocado salad for tomorrow's lunch and after that I felt an urge to go to the nearby store and buy cigarettes. It was past 9 so the store was close, I knew; if I want to smoke I need to go further. I resisted. This is the first of many urges I need to tackle. 

peek

I went to sleep late at around half past two, but slept well. I woke up at Angshu's banter with his mom around half past ten in the morning. It was sunny for a short while. Rizwana insisted on going to the zoo, but I told her we would go next Saturday; because it would be sunny. When Rizwana went on a stroll with Angshu, I cleaned the stoves and set the baby seat in front facing position. I need to go to put the clothes in the dryer now. I shall prepare lunch for tomorrow. I am supposed to start on the journal paper where I left it, need to hurry.