Monday, November 22, 2004

at last....something important

me and my laptop are now part of something very important.

http://user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/

Sunday, November 21, 2004

no rest for the wicked

try this ....

step 1:go to http://www.google.com.my/language_tools?hl=enstep

2:enter the following line into the translate textbox:
Sushmita's mom is nice and cool

3:translate from english to spanish.

step 4:copy the translated text, and translate it back from spanish to
english.

Thursday, November 18, 2004

siriusly kidding

Shock jock Howard Stern distributed free sirius satellite radio sets to crowds in New York while chanting "Death to the FCC". He's got a valid point when he says that commercial radio and by extension the media is too tightly controlled by the government. The government has no business dictating public morality. If the public wants to listen to an aging asshole mouthing off like a sailor, its their choice. if u do not want to ....change the fucking channel.

The media going satellite is like Dems going to Canada after Kerry lost. Solves your problem, but leaves the mainstream at the hands of those you regard to be fucktards. I have a very Orwellian view of this issue. Already there are two americas: fox news america and new york times america. the two meet only if you read the times while watching fox news. Satellite and the blog world will only make this worse. The likes of Wonkette and Stern make news with their blogs and satellite radio. They cater to one section of the population. There will be others catering to the pinkos, the red states
etc etc(wonder how pinko is communist and red states are conservative....which fucking moron came up with the nomenclature?) .

according to me a country is not a geographical entity. its a land that shares a common past and works towards a common future. in other words, its a country that tunes into the same 60 channels to get its news and form its views. there is a serious danger that multiple parts of this country will document history differently and consequently work towards totally different futures. just like ptv (pakistan) and doordarshan (india) view the same issues from angles 180 degrees apart, we will have various segments of this country viewing things they want to. ptv and doordarshan belong to different countries. fox and nytimes dont. at least for now that is.

Friday, November 12, 2004

cant sleep? feeling overconfident about your "physic"al abilities? want to take vengeance on your right hemishphere? try this.
http://www.hep.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/
follow the links at the end of the page. the ones that work are interesting.

found that some of my college buddies are blogging. nari: dercosyst, rohan: appwiz, chinar: chinaclay all at blogspot. will have to to add links to their blogs.



Wednesday, November 10, 2004

mental torture of being in grad school. have to bear horrible jokes. blogs allow you to torture others.

1. which is the only animal with any attitude
ans. dog

2. all animals other than this one are listless
ans. dog

reason for 1. apparently dogs always have their heads at an angle. in engineerese...attitude. SHIT

reason for 2. same reason as above. listing to one side.

i want to break something. now

hmm...another month gone. i have found a direct correlation between the number of times i blog and my mental distress. directly proportional. had a nice month. dont know why it was nice. maybe because i did not work much or maybe because i was reading novel after novel. Dostoevsky rocks. heavy but nice. read brothers karamazov. now reading idiot.
new things in my life: trance music--> paul van dyk, aarmin van buuren, asian dub foundation, karsh kale, and the list goes on. my office mates seem to like it too. so can listen to it on the speaker instead of the headphones.
browser: mozilla. nice. really nice.

search: journal paper: ovid, scifinder scholar. never used ovid before. found lots of cool features on scifinder.
Another awesome find: End Note: helps arrange papers and other literature on ur hard disk and the internet in a very methodical manner.

GOOGLE DESKTOP SEARCH rocks. found a lot of long lost friends on my hard disk. searches within word documents, excel files, ppt files. The day they include pdf files, i pledge allegiance to google and maybe even send them a check for a couple of dollars.

Women: as usual, the end tally leaves me knowing more hot women than the other way round. damn, wonder whether i will ever go black. It will be BLACK BLACK day indeed when that happens.


what the hell is the meaning of
"a friend in need is not a friend, indeed" almost meaningless without the comma. but i guess the meaning is pretty strange with the comma. or is it?

next blog...when time permits: my favorite issue: religion and politics. separation of church and state. i am distressed by both bush and france. one wants the two to marry and the other wants them to lead equal but separate lives. slavery versus segregation according to me.