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 !!

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.

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 :( }

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 !).

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 :)

The Coding Song

This is my coding song....almost like a background track to life.

http://leekspin.info/

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.

IS IT BAD TO THINK!!???

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so
--William Shakespeare

does anybody get what this means?? i do ... and i totally used to disagree until ...until someone told me what it CUD have meant :)..if you have read William Shakespeare work, you will agree with me in saying that , he was friendly to the unimagined as far as english understanding was concerned.

Yes they make wonderfull literature to study, not because they are so complex, we have to ponder over it for hours at a stretch..the beauty of his work is make someone think deeper without sophisticated use of words..what a magician :)...

This one cud be an expection..instead of taking it at face value as we take his other work, we need to think deeper..ie go to the shady PSYCHO level ...

probablly what our dear mr speare meant was , dont waste time thinking about things that are not in your control..makes sense..yes it does...ook , in an attempt to show i understoof, i will now get back to work ;)..

cheers,

The Narrator :)

All nighters!!

I am currently working on a research topic for a class. I was busy googling away , when i heard a bunch of guys sitting near me at meyers( a library here at stanford) talk about a programming assignment that was making them go crazy.

I was immediately pushed 3 months into the past. OMG!!...it was the busiest and the scariest part of my life. I had taken a programming assignment based course without actually evaluating the pros and cons of taking it along with other tough courses. what followed is really hard to explain.

It was a period of time when sleep was a prized possesion. I hardly got any sleep. constant coding wrecked not only my eyes but also my eating patern and sleep schedule. The good thing about this was, that when we finished the quarter , the week that followed was the happiest week ever !!..I looked at the devastated dudes near me and told to myself , dont worry it will be over soon and you will learn an very important lesson..all the best :)...

okie let me get back to googling for pictures..i mean pdfs :D...

till later

The NIGHTREADER :D

Lakalakalakalakalaka...emira

Yeahooo thala padam pathu kuthuadichachu (translated -> seen rajinis latest movie). split personality theme again. Of late i am on a spree to watch only these schizophrenic movies. I was obessed with the movie called "fight club" for quite a while..such was my extent to my fascination, that once i went outside and tried to kick the crap out of me to get my dual personality going...why u ask do i need another personality..well to be frank, i am bored being the sweet good loving kid for 21 years of my life. wanna have fun being the bad boy for a while :D.....coming back to the movie, chandramukhi is definitely worth a visit to the theatre...i so miss the thrill in being at a theatre back home when rajinis movie is released...Its something to watch the movie silently and its totally something else to go to the movie and come out without even having heard more tahn a few words before cheering and have a sore throat....LONG LIVE OUR SUPERSTAR :)..

Who am i??

Grin..it was only a matter of time, before i asked this question. I always believed that the best road to self realisation is not live without realising oneself. I mean , what do u gain by knowing who u are!!...A few months here have been maddening, where life revolves around homewokrs, projects, seminars, classes, research and after a few indulgant trips to the ice cream parlor i have been asking this question to myself??..who am i?? i dont know why i keep reminding of this jackie chan flop movie title!!..If i figure out why, i will let u know :)