Arts and Science by Grass

05/09/2026

Art inspiration from Andre Kano
I occassionally study master watercolorist's works to improve mine. I changed the density of the forest in the background and made the weeds bushier.

Watercolor on Hahnemühle post card paper

02/09/2026

Bellydancing with Veil
Thank you FITNESS BELLY DANCE | YOGA TEACHER YTT200 for the dance routines today. :)

01/09/2026

It is the rambutan season in the country now and one of my colleagues brought some today. I took this photo for a painting reference in watercolor later.

31/08/2026

The Camera I Almost Bought: How ChatGPT Saved Me ₱12,000

Grass Padrique | The Fabulous Scientist I almost bought another camera. There. I said it. For someone who already owns a Fujifilm X-T20 and an Insta360 GO Ultra, not to mention two smartphones (never mind that one of them is old), this probably sounds like the beginning of a very familiar story among photographers: "I don't actually need another camera, but hear me out..."...

Grass Padrique | The Fabulous Scientist I almost bought another camera. There. I said it. For someone who already owns a Fujifilm X-T20 and an Insta360 GO Ultra, not to mention two smartphones (nev…

31/08/2026

Cats of UP Diliman
Photos taken using Fujifilm XP-140 rugged camera during our fitness walk this morning. ☺️

31/08/2026

I tested my 7 year old all-weather camera, Fujifilm XP-140 and it still works! So glad I didn't sell this one. Point-and-shoot cameras as good as this one is hard to come by nowadays. :)

30/08/2026

Podcast Episode: Why Fountain Pens Matter in a Digital World

Pip: The Fabulous Scientist is a site run by someone who spends their days wrangling machine learning models and subsurface data — and also, apparently, a growing collection of fountain pens. Mara: That's fabulousgrass, and today we're looking at a post that asks why analog tools are making a comeback in a world that has already solved the problem of writing things down....

Pip: The Fabulous Scientist is a site run by someone who spends their days wrangling machine learning models and subsurface data — and also, apparently, a growing collection of fountain pens.Mara: …

30/08/2026

Why Fountain Pens Matter in a Digital World

Grass Padrique | The Fabulous Scientist I work with data. I work with machine learning. I play around with AI and large language models. I spend a good portion of my working life staring at databases, spreadsheets, digital maps, subsurface data, and whatever other collection of zeros and ones has decided to make my day interesting. So naturally, people (like my boss) sometimes ask me:...

Grass Padrique | The Fabulous Scientist I work with data. I work with machine learning. I play around with AI and large language models. I spend a good portion of my working life staring at databas…

30/08/2026

Snapshots from my visit to the UP-NIGS Geology Museum, Diliman, Quezon City. Finally got the chance to visit the fossils of Matabungkay. 🩷

30/08/2026

White Daisy
Watercolor on Hahnemühle