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Bikes (MTB, gravel), Travel, Spain, Higher Education, Geospatial Technology, International Development, Mediterranean food/lifestyle. (Don't forget to use your sarcasm filter) --alguna que otra cosa bilingüe
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Wish i were in NJ now
League of Evil stuff
Terrible Lisbon news
Singapore view
Volcano near Bali
Outback
Another banger, front of RMIT
If it’s Wednesday it must be …
Visited RMIT (Monica and Matt), a modern university that looks more like a business start-up hub.
Mornin, judge
Strong coffee culture in Melbourne. Strong coffee And strong culture 😜
Worked today. International Labor Day is on May 1.
Thanks to Davood and Stephan for the interesting meetings today at University of Melbourne.
Mud bricks are not resistant 😢
The F1 Netherlands GP was even oranger yesterday… with the McLaren fans
“1000 Steps”: easy peasy
Sorry, but a concierge who, when asked where is the best coffee around here, says “ I would have to say at our hotel”, is not doing their job.
Geo drinks in Melbourne (St Kilda beach )
Just a taste
Now where???
Bye bye CHC
@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Or agreement
Not in this visit but will plan for biking next time
Final GI Science meetup at The Church
Finally got outside near Christchurch
Jano kicked ass again in his keynote talk at GI Science 2025. Deep thinking on how LLMs work and are biased, and on possible spatial angles to improving them.
Thanks for outing them. 😳
Some of the talking points from breakout sessions yesterday at GI Science. To be written-up, we are told.
Thanks to University of Canterbury (UC) for sponsoring the GI Science2025 conference dinner. Great venue (town hall), meal, music, and company.
Hazy down under
Final challenge by keynote speaker Prof Matt Duckham. #giscience2025
Nice explanatory graphic. ( sponsored by Master Card?)
Testing the effects of ADHD on navigation ability. In progress.
Not on this visit.
Citizen Science stars 🤩
Good idea to link a StoryMap to your poster!! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9799...
34 in the end. Good crowd, good questions. #giscience 2025
Breakfast in the Tūranga, which i thought rang a bell for some reason :) www.arcgis.com/home/item.ht...
Always nice to bump into Successful former students. Sunil did his Masters in Castellon/Münster and is now in a PhD program at U.Canterbury in NZ.
Not so many years back we steered away from promising prediction, but Pro has new prediction tools.
We are on UC campus for winter semester break and graduation. Congrats!
Full house (32?) for the Esri AI workshop on day zero of the GIScience 2025 Conference in Christchurch.
Oh so you are from the UK 1950s flat white school? 😜
Today i learned that my new fav coffee, the “flat white” is debated to have originated in Australia or here in NZ.
Checks and balances. Fix them.
My mom too, for an insurance company.
Worse than the usual worse in Spain
An embarrassing show
Good morning (Monday) from NZ. It’s going to be a tricky week to meet online with colleagues back home.
From the Singapore heat to the chilly streets of Christchurch. 6C this evening down under.
Baaaah. 🐑
Mt Cook national park, South Island NZ
Access to or “lock in”? And…I am more worried about kids being locked into a classroom with a racist science denier. Just sayin.
Out over the Tasman Sea
Protestant vs Catholic 😂
Remote sensing: outside Melbourne.
So good to catch up with Esri colleagues yesterday in Singapore.
Passing thru #Melbourne. I’ll be back for a visit next week!!
The US Dept of State continuously publishes warnings for dozens of countries, many that tourists routinely visit
Squid chips, yum.
“Original Chicago Style Popcorn”. Who’s gonna tell them? 🤪 #singapore
Excellent CNN interview from the car. Really.
80 arrests a day: sounds pretty normal for a big city.
John McEnroe doing tv ads for a hydrogen company. Yep.
….discovers the weekend.
Coulda been Alabama
And no, that hat was not photoshopped by The Onion.
Romanians do very well and integrate nicely in our province (Castellón)
Then again the more you publish in your unique voice the more AI has to train on
A bumpy ride last night
Poor Gerardus, he was just helping ships sail straight.
I’m not sure they can publish that 🤪
Right, but I mean will they dig deeper
Will people learn about projecting a sphere onto a plane? Or just that “Mercator maps” are bad?
Oh that feeling when you board and walk past a bunch of toddlers and kids sitting in First Class 🤨🤨🤨😤
Don’t you tell me they were hiding 😂🧐
Egypt’s distribution along the Nile is awesome
GIS, geospatial solutions for health, Geographic Information System, Storymap, GIS Center www.who.int/data/GIS
Or no students no teachers
do the teachers generate? one of my alma maters attracts students by winning the best student food award a bunch of years running. and the sports team attraction, etc.
Plus salad plus fruit and you’ve got a passing grade 🧐
cool and oh, how's the wine? often fancy labels mask inferior product
are those raw numbers or normalized per 100,000 population or similar? raw numbers show where more people live and that confounds the message
map of culinary richness or of protectionism, or a bit of both
and it was not bamboo!
A conference keynote on penguins: I'm in! avenuesltd.sharepoint.com/Shared%20Doc...
Holy cow, the Rays threw a ton of home run balls to Yankee hitters. 😳
because of course they have no idea what the song's lyrics mean...
or N. Carolina...
I will end my 7th war this year. Marco, go clean up the mess in aisle 6.
Microsoft Now
The old rule: if you keep asserting something (some) people start to believe it.
Erin: surf’s up along eastern seaboard
Anyone else googling on the correct spelling of Zelenskyy (that’s one option) ?
Feet-heat maps
Last night's LOW temperature was 26C ! And we are not in Spain's hottest area, not even close. Very overcast and humid. 🥵
Very hot and humid today and orange hazy sky due to forest fires across Spain 🥵🤬
Maybe oregano
Foreign students can study in English for free at Univ of Oslo, ranked slightly higher than Univ Southern California. Just sayin