Had the opportunity to attend a quiz after a long time last week with the inception of a desi quiz group. Although it was a very small gathering, there do seem to be hopes that things will pick up and will be nice to spend time on more interesting things than coursework. Since most of us were amateurs, the quizmaster, Aithal made sure that we didnt ( Read more... )

So its 12:00 at night one week before the final exams at Georgia Tech. What do you think any self respecting grad student would be upto ? Studying ?? Not a chance ! Walking through some of the more notorious streets of midtown Atlanta lugging a bitti couch and two chairs would be closer to the answer.

( Details of the expedition )

Some hilarious stuff I found on the net about writing thesis papers

- Automatic CS paper generator
- Something else about thesis

Read and enjoy :)

One of the better books which I got a chance to read was "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan. Its an amazing book with some great writing. It really amazes me from time to time how well some people have a grasp over language such that every sentence seems to have been written perfectly!! I had felt that while reading "The God of Small Things" and I felt ( Read more... )

since i spend a lot of my time with various puzzles , i thought i might as well post some of them here to make up for all the blank space ( Read more... )

Had to make a minor ( or so i thought ) trip to mysore to finish off some work which i had in college. Took friday off and thought i could be back in bangalore by saturday afternoon or so after finishing my work. But that was not how things turned out ( Read more... )

First Microsoft and now Friendster .

thank god my blog is never work related ;)

Bah , Staying up late after a long time tonight. Stupid disk crash at on an important box at work. Thankfully we had most of the data backed up. But still a major pain in restoring it to production ( Read more... )

Got round to catching up on my reading after a long time and am getting to scratch some books off my "yet to read" list. Last week was Golding's Lord of the flies. An extremely engrossing read. As with the "To kill a mockingbird" or "God of small things" the story is narrated from a childs point of view. This itself lends some amount of charm for ( Read more... )

Work has been unusually quiet over the past coupla weeks. Get to go home at 8 and what not. In fact am passing my time and posting here while i wait for the taxi as of now ( Read more... )