NICO | GALOPPO || journal

We’ve been joining a great group of people for brunch every Saturday or Sunday morning. Last Sunday the breakfast club attended simpatica dining hall at opening time to have, for my taste, the best brunch food so far! Both the boudin blanc sausage biscuit I had and the chicken fried bison steak A. indulged in [...]

It had been a while since I’d been to a music event… Yesterday’s Chromeo‘s concert at Rotture reminded me how much I really enjoy a good show. I only recently got to know this crazy Canadian duo (kudos to Josh!) but I’ve quickly grown addicted to their accessible electrofunk groove. Last night, they drove the [...]

There have been a few. Parties I mean. During the holidays. But now (5:30AM), I’m still working. I get no parties. Anymore. Until the end of January. It’s the big beast. The SIGGRAPH beast. Oh well, here’s a pic of Lucia, Zack and me, at Lucia’s farewell party somewhere before Christmas. Have trouble remember the [...]

Last weekend, I went camping with Danielle, Zack and Rick somewhere along the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was the perfect weekend for leaf peepin’, the fall colors were in all around us in full glory. Not only that, but you could really feel the fall coming up. I was pretty damn cold in my summer [...]

Tonight, I prepared dinner for two friends, Lisa and Avneesh. I’ve had Lisa’s boyfriend, Brian over a couple of times, but for some reason I’d always picked dates that Lisa was out of town. With Brian being in Taiwan for two months, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to have her catch up. Knowing [...]

A couple of weekends ago, I went rafting with a bunch of people from our CS department, on the upper Gauly, one of the few rivers in the US that has five (the ‘Big Five’) class 5+ rapids. It was alot of fun! Russ and Jason have put up their pictures here and here. **Update:** [...]