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| Monday, December 31st, 2007 | | 7:22 am |
I am SUCH a DUMASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After deleting all incriminating posts last night I have given my laptop to Allen - with my browser logged into LJ I'm such a DUMASS! UPDATE: Although this post was originally by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) 1pi00te005 aka Allen, I wont delete it considering the intellectual depth of the comments. | | Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 | | 8:51 pm |
phonetic alphabets
Transactions on the telephone have always been a problem for me, especially when I have to spell out my name. Untill today I had never taken at a look at the NATO phonetic alphabet chart, though I had picked up a handful of them from movies and friends. I was quite surprised to see a few of the words, for eg. 'India' for 'I' and 'Papa' for 'P'. | | Friday, March 16th, 2007 | | 7:07 pm |
Lords of the dogtown :)
After a lot of planning and waiting i finally went ahead and bought this today! :)  (No, not the Segway :p)   Its a standard skateboard deck (without any intricate artwork to save cost), with larger wheels (the ones in longboards), and a taller truck. My expertise at this point of time is restricted to scooting at moderate rates, making controlled turns, and landing on my feet whenever i lose control :p we have a couple of guys in our lab with pretty advanced skills, and they have been doing a pretty good job of conveying the basic idea of skateboard dynamics and how tricks can be learned. I dont see myself doing the tricks anytime soon though. Just scooting around the university campus (using it to go to classes) will be a pretty good experience :) | | Friday, March 9th, 2007 | | 3:14 am |
| | Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 | | 12:21 pm |
| | Friday, January 5th, 2007 | | 5:38 pm |
Sunrise at Manhattan
video [AVI] Time-lapse view from Manu Bhardwaj's apartment at Jersey City on Jan 2nd, 2007. Taken from 2am to 7:30am, every 4 mins. Video at 10 fps, created using mencoder. | | Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 | | 1:10 am |
My last day at my first job..
Today is my last day at ThoughtWorks. It has been a fascinating two-years to say the least. I didn't have to experience long tiring days, pokey-haired bosses and documentation. Life was lively, and I enjoyed it. I know everyone's name in the office, and I am sure everyone knows mine. And the most important thing for me; I didn't have to spend my days in a 10' x 10' cubical prison :) Now its time to move on and try something which is dearer to my heart. So if all goes well, I head to the University of Southern California on August 6th. Life is pretty much unplanned from here... Current Mood:  hopeful | | Friday, March 31st, 2006 | | 11:33 pm |
The Joy of Toys
My colleague, Jez, owns a beauty. A Kurzweil stage piano. Now, the fact that he's a Jazz pianist is a different thing, but heck, I had been eying that beauty for quite sometime now. It used to occupy a corner in his apartment. its a KURZWEIL for Gods sake!!! So, Jez decided to go on a 3 weeks vacation, a hint at the right moment, and voila! here I am, with its possession for long enough to get bored of it (hopefully)
Boy, now i love my room even more!
| | Saturday, February 11th, 2006 | | 10:24 pm |
Rang de Basanti
just watched rang de basanti and found it impressive. It has been a long time since i have walked out of a movie theatre after watching a hindi movie actually thinking. (actually it had been a long time since i had watched a hindi movie :p anyway, nonetheless, the makers of this movie deserves a pat | | Thursday, February 9th, 2006 | | 10:55 am |
Yesterday, I turned 25, and boy, had one heck of a Birthday!!! Details would be coming in later. There were many elements involved...nail polish, lipstick, cops, water; u know, stuff like that :p Well, one can't expect anything less evil when kalyan, , jugga, say_yes04, Ipsita, Yasmin and our very own mrinal decide to collaborate. Thanks a lot dudes. U guys rock :) Watched 'Chronicles of Narnia' at the end of the day. Thanks again to all of u who wished :) | | Thursday, February 2nd, 2006 | | 2:25 pm |
Aha..this is what I really am !
| Your Personality Profile | 
You are sexy, powerful, and bold.
You're full of passion and energy...
Sometimes this passion has a dark side.
You feel most alive when you're seducing someone.
You never fail to get someone's attention.
Quick minded, you're also quick to lose your temper! |
| | Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 | | 11:59 am |
Haha
| Your Birthdate: February 8 | 
Watch out Donald Trump! You've got a head for business and money.
You'll make it rich some day, even if you haven't figured out how yet.
A supreme individualist, you shouldn't get stuck in a corporate job.
Instead, make your own way - so that you can be the boss.
Your strength: Your undying determination
Your weakness: You require an opulent lifestyle
Your power color: Plum
Your power symbol: Dollar sign
Your power month: August |
| | Monday, January 23rd, 2006 | | 1:59 pm |
how to 'fix' a DVD
Well, this weekend I borrowed a DVD from my library at Kormangala BDA. I did get an original DVD; a copy of an original DVD actually.It was getting stuck every now and then. So I got pissed off and decided to do a bit of cleaning up. My standard procedure is a layer of deospray/after shave wiped off with an optical lens cleaning cloth. I couldn't find my deospray. I saw a thinner that came along with a correction ink bottle on my table. I applied a layer, wiped it off, and the bloody DVD came off with that. There were these nice deep grooves all over. I checked the constituent of the "thinner" and it turned out to be Toluene. Now I have to pay close to 200 bucks for that DVD which was 'The Shawshank Redemption'. Feel bad that i actually screwed up a nice movie. | | Friday, January 20th, 2006 | | 5:03 pm |
| | Friday, December 23rd, 2005 | | 6:10 pm |
| | Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 | | 6:25 pm |
Robotics and Rocketry club at PESIT
On November 19th 2005, PESIT finally launched its 'Robotics and Rocketry' club. mrinal and I were present at the launch (also to be felicitated for our "achievements" in robotics). The launch itself was pretty interesting, with 3LER being programmed to press a button which would launch a model rocket. I had to build a prototype of 3LER in little more than a night, for this launch. The rocket platform was built by our juniors in close collaboration with us. Overall, it was good fun, and everything went smoothly. watch the video here. Not so long ago when we were in college, I once presented a proposal to our management for the formation of a robotics club. I got but didn't go ahead with it at that time. I still don't understand the reasons, but it was perhaps because I loved my freedom, and with or without a club, we were still doing our stuff, and enjoying it like crazy. Perhaps it was also because we were too busy with COMRADE by that time. However, after I passed out, I had been helping a few juniors with the design of robots. Now I am actively involved with this club, and we already have two important competitions lined up.The maze-solving robotics competition, MicroMouse at IIT Powai in January 2006, and India wing of RoboCon at Nirma Institute of Technology in March 2006. Both the events are something we always wanted to participate while in college, but couldn't because of various reasons. I am now helping our current juniors design and build robots for the event. After a year at the "enterprise" world, this is heaven. If anyone is interested to contribute/help/be-involved in the events, please barge in. This is as good as it gets :) | | Wednesday, December 7th, 2005 | | 11:50 pm |
 Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
Last Saturday I didn't flush (-1 points). In February I had a shoot-out with rival gang lords on the 5 near LA (-76 points). Last month I bought porn for amitng (-10 points). In August I set umang's puppy on fire (-66 points). Last week achitnis and I robbed a bank (-50 points).
Overall, I've been naughty (-203 points). For Christmas I deserve a lump of coal!
Sincerely,
jd_knight |
| | 12:52 am |
general update
MS application deadlines are so close i can hear them burp. Finding it kinda difficult to manage the process along with work, which is, ummm, not particularly interesting at this point. Took a few days off, but again tomorrow(today) i have to be at work, and this kinda breaks the flow i need to finish my SOP :-( Got hold of a 7 octave Electric Piano with weighted keys from a friend. It had some minor power supply issues. Fixed them and as a part of the deal, i get to keep it for a few days. Its amazing fun playing on weighted keys ghosts and mindblocks are back. wrong timing i would say. anyways, i have this cycle, wherein i fleet through a few months, and am in this weird state for another. will get through this one as well had taken yesterday and today off for apps. Spent this afternoon at MG road Bangalore Habba stretch. It was a nice change from my claustrophobic dark room. Got me into a mood to add more words into my SOP. Later on in the afternoon I met an amazing ex-colleague, Ravi Mohan. It was a few hours well spent. Had been planning to meet him for quite some time. Got a lot of insight into AI, continuation, interpreters, ASTs, LISP related stuff, guitar playing, and general life experiences. Looking forward to seeing him again damn, i want to take a break | | Tuesday, November 15th, 2005 | | 1:44 am |
Have you seen my data?
Thought of running some legacy code i had written in first year of engineering to control this robot i had made called 3LER (read "thriller"). it used to run on this thing written in TurboC++ under win98 Unfortunately, WINNT, WinXP etc doesn't allow free hardware access (stuff like parallel port, game port). Hence i ventured out to install whatever was lying close to me, some old win98 version and bloody amazing. i lost my partition table (my fault, did something dumb). now, it just shows 70+ GBs of unpartitioned drive. And i have code, loads of snap, and god knows what else which I haven't taken backup of :-( Now i am sitting and trying my luck with google, and downloading freeware to retrieve my lost partitions and data any suggestions on this? Current Mood:  disappointed | | Sunday, October 9th, 2005 | | 1:35 pm |
The Rahman Concert: In the Flush
So ya
Thought ya
Might like to
go to the show
To feel the warm thrill of confusion
That space cadet glow
Tell me is something eluding you sunshine?
Is this not what you expected to see? .....Well. Even the rain seems to be a big fan of Rahman. Has it ever rained this crazy since it judiciously spoiled the show of some well known clown-who-thinks-he-remembers-how-to-act at Chinnaswamy stadium a few months back ? Luckily I had carried my umbrella but even that didnt help much considering the gusto and the multitude of directions in which the rain decided to arrive at the venue. The show was supposed to start at 7pm. Even at 8pm, people had no clue regarding the show's status. No announcements were being made. Hah! how could someone even operate an amp (forget the PA) after such a rain. Even the electrons would have been drenched to the core However the PA was still working, and some guy announced that Rahman was still interested to go ahead with the show...and then struck another bout of terrible rain! .......And we're going to find out where you fans
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