Saturday, December 20, 2008
Dont ever try to cut ur own hair!!!
Got worked up and tried this after reading a DIY article...i strongly recommend against it...tried a complicated optics arrangement to get a 360 view...it cost me a lot $$$$ to correct the small mistake of using a convex instead of a concave lens !!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
what an interesting idea..
If you have time, you got to check this out..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&feature=related
what a fantastic idea...what a fantastic adaptation of the song..
This is the poem stream of life from Rabindranath Tagore ( offcourse i didnt translate it, thanks to other bloggers out there :) ).
Stream of Life
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&feature=related
what a fantastic idea...what a fantastic adaptation of the song..
This is the poem stream of life from Rabindranath Tagore ( offcourse i didnt translate it, thanks to other bloggers out there :) ).
Stream of Life
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
One more beautiful Vetti Sunday 22/06/08
After an interesting week, where i broke one laptop and dropped the other into a pool, I back to the future with a desktop :))
It was really beautiful outside in the morning, so i slept till 11 :P; then got my car washed. Saw some friends for lunch.
Gas - 4.64 gallon
Full meals katufying at Saravana - $10
Last movie seen: Dasavatharam - $15
Full sized Jamba Juice & cold stone* in Afternoon - pricelessssss
*Had a Coldstone founder fav"after two weeks { Trying to sugar conscious , so I am keeping it to a "like it" size nowdays. Gets over in no time :( }
It was really beautiful outside in the morning, so i slept till 11 :P; then got my car washed. Saw some friends for lunch.
Gas - 4.64 gallon
Full meals katufying at Saravana - $10
Last movie seen: Dasavatharam - $15
Full sized Jamba Juice & cold stone* in Afternoon - pricelessssss
*Had a Coldstone founder fav"after two weeks { Trying to sugar conscious , so I am keeping it to a "like it" size nowdays. Gets over in no time :( }
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Darwins theory..
I am explaining darwins theory to a fly through a hand swatting experiment..its an advance class, where if it doesnt learn, it pays the ultimate price...
walking and music
Always find that i can walk or workout longer when i listen to good music ... why is that?
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Am i feeling lucky? Am I
Put my laptop in the pool...wanted to know fi the kutty little fans there would keep it afloat :P
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
funny pre flight announcement
Check this link out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCX2JjqLOGk&feature=related
We could use more of this, esp with the airlines trying to charge us for everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCX2JjqLOGk&feature=related
We could use more of this, esp with the airlines trying to charge us for everything.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Encrypt your USB drive -- More than just a Thought!
If you are holding some important information in your thumb drive, make it a point to encrypt it. As these flash drives get larger(4-8GB is common now), its only natural we tend to back up a part or most of our hard drive files to it.
There was a recent report that 1 in 7 usb drives are lost in 6 months. Encryption is easy to do and will save you a LOT of headache.
This is one of the best http://www.truecrypt.org/ and its free. Play with it. It takes about 15 minutes to set it up on multiple devices. Once its done, it is on the fly encryption, so you dont have to worry about leaving traces on your harddrive.
Cheers,
Haarith
There was a recent report that 1 in 7 usb drives are lost in 6 months. Encryption is easy to do and will save you a LOT of headache.
This is one of the best http://www.truecrypt.org/ and its free. Play with it. It takes about 15 minutes to set it up on multiple devices. Once its done, it is on the fly encryption, so you dont have to worry about leaving traces on your harddrive.
Cheers,
Haarith
Monday, June 16, 2008
Fitness Assessment..
Went to the 24hr fitness gym after a year. Had some for of orientation / fitness assessment. This is kind of how it went
Instructor: Did you finish your warm up?
HD: yeah .
Instructor: What did you do?
HD: Go for a Jog.
Instructor: And how long was that?
HD: 60 minutes.
Instructor: Really?
HD: No.
HD: Was more of like 30 minutes walk and 30 minutes jog.
Instructor: Really
HD: No.
HD: I just saw the clock, maybe something like 10 minutes walk 2 minutes of jogging.
Instructor: You must have some pretty good stamina
HD: Really?
Instructor: NO!
... and with that he put me through some stretching exercises. During the various moves, i kind of felt that part of my lungs, liver, kidney and legs were separating ways from me. Like they wanted to stay back as thank you gift.
Instructor: Did you finish your warm up?
HD: yeah .
Instructor: What did you do?
HD: Go for a Jog.
Instructor: And how long was that?
HD: 60 minutes.
Instructor: Really?
HD: No.
HD: Was more of like 30 minutes walk and 30 minutes jog.
Instructor: Really
HD: No.
HD: I just saw the clock, maybe something like 10 minutes walk 2 minutes of jogging.
Instructor: You must have some pretty good stamina
HD: Really?
Instructor: NO!
... and with that he put me through some stretching exercises. During the various moves, i kind of felt that part of my lungs, liver, kidney and legs were separating ways from me. Like they wanted to stay back as thank you gift.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
GLAST has launched
After almost 2 decades of work, Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope is finally in Space. Super cool stuff designed by SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). Keeping my fingers crossed for some "DARK MATTER" discovery.
If u want to know about gamam rays wiki/goog it..if you want to know about glast, well wiki/goog it as well :P, but this would be a good link to get started
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june18/tele-061808.html
If u want to know about gamam rays wiki/goog it..if you want to know about glast, well wiki/goog it as well :P, but this would be a good link to get started
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june18/tele-061808.html
Congrats Grads...
Stanford commencement today with Oprah delivering the commencement adrees...CONGRATs to all graduates :).
List of ppl who are getting awards: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june11/awards-061108.html
List of ppl who are getting awards: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june11/awards-061108.html
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Mrtg => http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
Been working on this for a while..its amazing the stats that one can create with this tool.
Just helped set up monitoring on a couple of gaming pc's..its fun to see temp cpu and network graphs spike during a assult in unreal!!..
The documentation in the website is simple and thorough <>
If you guys are just starting on this and are stuck on something, i will be happy to help.
Cheers,
Haarith
Just helped set up monitoring on a couple of gaming pc's..its fun to see temp cpu and network graphs spike during a assult in unreal!!..
The documentation in the website is simple and thorough <>
If you guys are just starting on this and are stuck on something, i will be happy to help.
Cheers,
Haarith
The Incredible Hulk - 2 green giants tearing up NYC for 10$
I am guessing that this story line is as good as it can get when your entire movie is focused on someone who turns big, green and yells at everything. I went to this one pretty confident that it couldnt worse than the first movie. If the first movie left a bitter taste in your mouth and a feeling of going hulk on the director, this one is a definite relief. Darwin's theory should have made that set to go extinct :P. It was decent fun, go check it out.
Oh and i heard an interesting discussion on my way back. A couple of kids were discussing about the movie. One was wondering whether the larger you are the more stupid you become, something on lines of size being inversely proportional to intelligence. We know its not true, but its interesting to see how these movies can be of influence.
Hell, I have had someone ask me if Indians like "Monkey Brains. Effect of an Indiana Jones Movie. (And a lot of us are vegetarians !).
Oh and i heard an interesting discussion on my way back. A couple of kids were discussing about the movie. One was wondering whether the larger you are the more stupid you become, something on lines of size being inversely proportional to intelligence. We know its not true, but its interesting to see how these movies can be of influence.
Hell, I have had someone ask me if Indians like "Monkey Brains. Effect of an Indiana Jones Movie. (And a lot of us are vegetarians !).
1, 6, 4 property
There is beautiful property in 1,6 and 4
1( N of 6) / (N of 6) 4 = 0.25 ( 1/4)
Eg: 166/664 = 1666/6664 = 16666/66664 etc = 1/4
There are another set of numbers that exhibit similar properties. Take a guess :)
1( N of 6) / (N of 6) 4 = 0.25 ( 1/4)
Eg: 166/664 = 1666/6664 = 16666/66664 etc = 1/4
There are another set of numbers that exhibit similar properties. Take a guess :)
The Coding Song
This is my coding song....almost like a background track to life.
http://leekspin.info/
http://leekspin.info/
Thursday, May 29, 2008
randy pausch
been inspired with this for the last 10 months when a friend sent it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
if u guys havent seen it already, you should.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
if u guys havent seen it already, you should.
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