Pictures

A stone carved by my grand-father, Michalakis Dikaios Dikaiakos, in 1914 on a wall of St. George, his village in the Mani area of the Peloponnese, between the villages of Citta, Nomia and the old pirate port of Mezapos (see map).

This is supposed to be my name in Chinese!

My Erdos number is three, through my advisor, Kenneth Steiglitz, who has co-authored three papers with Daniel J. Kleitman in 1968, 1969, and 1973. Kleitman has co-authored seven papers with P. Erdos.

Some surreal pictures

Fast food (cypriot version), Nicosia, Dec. 2, 2006.
Teddy bear in the old town, Nicosia, Dec. 2, 2006.
Advertisement of the political Party of Justice near Omeriye, Nicosia., Dec. 2, 2006.
"Welcoming" message in my village; it refers to those "borrowing" stones from a destructed house. St George, Mani, Greece. September 2005.
Evzons parading in 5th Ave, Manhattan. New York City, USA, April 2005 (commemoration of the Greek independence day).
An old friend standing silently in a swamp near Mt Olympus in Macedonia. Dhion, Greece, August 2004.

And some not so surreal pictures and videos

Dikaios struggling to drink from my glass, Nicosia, September 29, 2007.
Aphrodite and Dikaios, Maroussi, August 2007.
Dikaios with Athena before his first flight to Athens (August 2007).
With Dikaios in Nissi Beach, Ayia Napa (August 2007).
Athena and Dikaios having coffee in Nicosia (1/5/07).
With Dikaios in Nicosia (26/4/07) and Zygi (1/5/07).
House in the old town of Nicosia, December 2, 2006.
Angel in the old town, Nicosia, December 2, 2006.
Old-town dweller, Nicosia, December 2, 2006.
With the IC-Grid Team at UCY, September 8, 2006.
At Europar 2006 in Dresden.
With Evangelos Markatos and Chryssis Georgiou in FORTH, during a CoreGRID visit in June 2006.
IPDPS in Rhodes, April 2006: with Calvin Lin at the gates of the Old City, and with Calvin, Daniella, Giorgos and Rizos outside the ouzeri "To Steno" (a highly recommended taverna!).
Noam Chomsky at the University of Cyprus, May 2006.
Science Day at the University of Cyprus, October 10, 2005: talking to high-school pupils and a visit to HPCL.
Psarantonis and his group performing in the Axiothea Mansion, Univ. of Cyprus Cultural Center, Nicosia, 21/9/2005.
Goodfather a la greque. Kifissia, Greece, September 2005.
Outside the Graduate College, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, June 2005.
Athena canoeing in the Princeton canal. Princeton, NJ, USA, June 2005.
Ken, Sandy and myself, somewhere in Rt 27, between New Brunswick and Princeton, New Jersey, USA, June 2005. "We look like pretty suspicious characters" Ken wrote, after seeing the picture.
With Makis in seaport village, near the Brooklin Bridge, May 2005.
Athena in Soho, Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA, May 2005.
The crowd in the U2 concert. Philadelphia, USA, May 2005.
"The secret is yourself." Wise words from the same concert.
Bono singing and speaking.
Pilgirmage to Fragokastello, the place of Dhrosoulites; near Sfakia, on the southern coast of Crete, Greece, August 2004.
In a gorge near Sfakia, Crete, Greece, August 2004.
With young Aphrodite, my niece, in Maroussi, Greece, Easter 2004.
Serious and smiling in front of "Petit Marius" in Rennes, France, April 2003.
With John and Sofia in Spetses, Greece, April 2003.

Noteworthy

"Μήνυμα Πρωτοχρονιάς 2008." Αρχιεπίσκοπος Αθηνών Χριστόδουλος, 28 Δεκεμβρίου 2007.
"Υπήρξα μόνος, ελεύθερος, χωρίς εξαρτήσεις." Συνέντευξη Μ. Θεοδωράκη στην Ελευθεροτυπία, Σάββατο 11 Μαρτίου 2006.
"Λόγος προς τους νέους," Θεόδωρου Κολοκοτρώνη, Αθήνα 1838.
"Ένας λαός αιχμάλωτος σε γυαλί και παπαγαλάκια," Μίκης Θεοδωράκης, παρέμβαση σε εκδήλωση του Δήμου Καλλιθέας για τα "65 Χρόνια ΟΧΙ στον Φασισμό", 25 Οκτωβρίου 2005.
Richard Feynman on Teaching.
"The Power of Four" by Tom Hanks. Commencement address at Vassar College, May 22, 2005.