Mikromanagerointia

- I don't want to micromanage, but I think 30 seconds is enough!

- No worries! Right. Though that was literally micromanaging!

Väikkäri

My PhD thesis is ready now! The defence will be on 19th September at 13:00. See English version of this comic here.

Väitöskirjani on nyt valmis! Väitös on 19.9.2024 klo 13. Keitä kuppi teetä ja ota mukava asento, sillä tämä sarjakuva on pitkä (on tämä silti lyhyempi kuin itse väikkäri ja toivottavasti hauskempi)! 

 

Pulausepoletit ja räikkäperiaate

Elämää alle 2 kk ikäisen poikasen kanssa

Life with a less than 2 months old chick

Panel 1: Character 1: "Alright, let's put on the outdoor clothes." Character 2: "The phone is ringing! I wonder who it is..."

Panel 2: Character 2: "Penguin R speaking." Caller: "Hi! Just calling about..."

Panel 3: Caller: "...what kind of plan do you have..." Baby: "Waaaaaa!" Character 1: "Yes, you don't like the hat." Character 2: "Oh, sorry, I'm currently dealing with a baby!" Caller: "Oh, I see... Have a good day!"

Panel 4: Character 1: "Did you manage to get rid of the telemarketer using the baby?" Character 2: "Yes! Good timing!"

Panels 1-4: singing Finnish (mostly) children's songs

Panel 5: Character 1: (Singing) "Puf is a happy little dragon." (Speaking) "Let's google how these lyrics went... 'Now faded and forgotten'..."

Panel 6: Character 1: "He still has eyes wide open. What other songs even are there?" (Singing) "Little frogs, little frogs, they are so amusing..."

Panel 7: Character 1: "How does this song go again?" Character 2: "I don't know..." Character 1: "We'll find out."

Panel 8: Character 1: (Singing) "No ears, no ears... Hah! What lyrics! I can't take it. Hahaha!"

Panel 9: Character 1: "Aah! I'm dying of laughter! No ears! Hahaha!" Character 2: "But it's not even true!"

Panel 10: Character 2: "Of course frogs have ears." Character 1: "Right... In which sleep deprivation was that song composed?"

Dad-Penguin teaches the chick advanced vocabulary

Panel 1: Character 1: "Oh, poor thing, it has those shoulder epaulettes again!" Baby: "Blah."

Panel 2: Character 1: "Let's change to a dry bodysuit. When it doesn't agree to bend its arm..."

Panel 3: Character 1: "...we use the principle of ratchet wrench. " Character 2: "What?"  Character 1: "We don't force the arm to bend but when it bends a little, it can't go back straight."

Stirling's formula is ugly

Ryan O'Donnell approves!

Research visit to Paris

[French 2nd panel] "Well, we can try in French too" "Oh! Great! I'll show you everything!" "Thank you"

[French 3nd panel] "And here are the plates and sugar. And if you want bread, there's a really good boulangerie (bread store) not far from here, you turn right and..."

[French 1st panel] "Open the bag, please." 

[French 2st panel] "Ah, knitting?" "Yes!"

Pahvien taittelu

 I'm folding cardboard boxes for recycling.

- A few more should fit...

- Oh, how beautiful!

- Isn't it!

- Snow-covered trees...

- Ah outdoors? I thought you meant these neatly packed cardboards!

Mutta eikö olekin nätti?

Isn't that pretty?

Tarvitsen silmälasit

 

Should I get glasses?

- Oh! There's a big group of construction workers! I wonder why...

- Weird, now they all started running.

- ... towards that playground. ???

- Ah! That was a kindergarden group! I just didn't see that far!

SUP

 Tapahtui kesällä, kun oltiin piknikillä ja testaamassa Äiti-Pinkun uutta SUP-lautaa.

This happened in the summer, when we were having a picnic and testing my mum's new SUP board.

- Mum! Can I try that?

- No, you can't touch other people's things.

- But I want to touch other people's things!

- Dad!

- Yes?

- Can I touch other people's things?

Dad didn't give permission either.

Oluenmaistajaiset unessa

I had a dream I was at a beer tasting event.

- do you really want to try that Salted Block Beer?

- No! I know what I want!

(salted block beer looks like a bar soap with some sea salt sprinkled around)

- Good choice!

(my friend has his own milk with him)

- And here you are!

Työmatkalla

I had a work trip in November.

 

We also did some intense reserach :-)

Coordinating presents using homomorphic encryption

This comic was used in our research group's holiday greeting video at the CS department virtual holiday party :-)

Neulakintaat nollabudjetilla

 How to make nalbinding mittens with zero budget?

1. Pick some not-rotten stick

2. Carve it into a blunt needle, about the length of your index finger. Sand it with sandpaper or old nail file. If you want, finish the needle by rubbing some oil for extra smoothness.

3. Buy some cheap thick yarn from the recycling centre OR take a thick knitted garment from the free-of-charge department and rip it into yarn

4. Watch tutorials on nalbinding in youtube OR ask Pikku-Pinkku (me) to help AND make your own mittens!

Why nalbinding instead of regular knitting?

• You can throw the unfinished work in the bottom of your backpack and it won't break apart
• The fabric is quite thick and the wind won't go through so easily
• You can work two mittens simultaneously, so it is easy to make them match

Sitten rehellisyyden nimissä myös lista miksi tavalliset lapaset eikä neulakintaat:

• Tavallinen neulominen/virkkaaminen on paljon nopeampaa
• Jos tulee virhe, niin työn purkaminen on todella työlästä (toisaalta neulos on aika anteeksiantavaa, levennyksiä ja kavennuksia voi tehdä minne vaan huomaamattomasti)

For completeness, why not nalbinding?

• It's super slow
• If you make a mistake, it's really hard to go back (however, small mistakes don't show easily, you can easily increase or decrease a few stitches here and there without it showing)

Cryptographer at a work interview

Credits for the joke go to my professor and a postdoc from our group :-)

Terveellistä ruokaa ja videopelejä

 Tapahtui yhtenä iltana:

Happened the other night:

Complexity vs Cryptography

Meriharakka

 Oystercatcher

- Usually oystercatchers are quite peaceful
- "I'm just looking for something to eat at the coastline..."

- But sometimes:
- "WHAT!!"

- Another oystercatcher! On the same beach with my chick! Unbearable!!
- I'm warning!

- Not taking the hint, huh?!
- I'll show you!

En oikeasti tiedä miksi meriharakat tekevät tuollaista huutoa välillä, mutta kuvittelen aina, että se menee jotakuinkin näin :D

I don't really know about oystercatchers so much, so I'm not sure why they start the 'siren' now and then. But this is how I always imagine their thought-process behind it :D

Ruoan valokuvaaminen

Hurja kilpikonna

No speacial story behind this, I just thought about this when I saw the statue a few years back and now I finally decided to draw it.

Joutsenet

Pingviini välissä -hyökkäys (Penguin-in-the-Middle Attack)

Tämä on jatkoa edelliselle sarjakuvalle (julkisen avaimen salaus).

This should be read after the previous comic on public key crypto.