Not much to report today. I did four critical thinking classes in the morning, had some lunch, and prepared the new topic for the next week, on Bikeshedding, or really a simplified version involving “thinking about the wrong thing”.
Then late in the afternoon I took a train into the city for this evening’s Image Processing tutorial at the university. The students are into their project preparation work, and will be submitting the first of two reports this Friday, followed by three more weeks of working on the projects.
Before the class, I went to a new place for dinner, called A Bowl of Noodles. It’s Shanghainese food, with an extensive menu and very good online reviews. I tried the fried pork chop with rice cakes, which was pretty good, but I’m keen to go back and try some other things.
When I sat down at one of the outside tables (since it was a nice evening), there was a woman there already, with a bowl of noodles and a bottle of Asahi beer. She looked like a student. As I waited for my meal to arrive, a waitress brought her a plate of six steamed buns. And then a few minutes later another plate of eight fried dumplings. The waitress looked a bit confused, like there’d been some mix-up with the order, and was about to take the plate away again, but the woman said, “Yes, I ordered all of this. I’m hungry.” And she gave the waitress her empty beer bottle and ordered two more beers! She wasn’t overweight, either, so I guess she must just have a fast metabolism or something.