intel

interesting article. apparently there was this young black dude who came up with the first circuit diagrams for the 4004 (to the uninitiated, this was the father of a computer on a chip or processor as we call it now). below is a link to an interview of his.
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_14374.shtml

watched 2 more kurosawa movies as i promised myself. worth the time and the 5 dollars spent on rentals. watched sanjuro and hidden fortress. the first one is almost a sequel to yojimbo and is a non-subtle kurosawa. hidden fortress is almost an indian movie of the 60s. minus the songs. i recall watching at least 1 or 2 tamil movies with a similar storyline and feel to it.

a friend of mine in penn state told me something interesting. penn state has requested all its students to stop using IE and switch to firefox. the fox is after the microsoft sheep. so go get firefox.

kurosawa

Saw "yojimbo" by akira kurosawa. AWESOME. if you have seen and liked seven samurai (Shichinin no samurai) then you will like this too. if you havent seen either, you are missing something.
This is a beautifully made western that spawned a whole genre known as the spaghetti western. though in black and white, this movie has some stunning cinematography. Some scenes have directly been used in hollywood movies, most notably fistful of dollars and the horribly made last man standing. another stunning thing about the movie is the lead actor. Toshiro Mifune. This guy truly rocks. he is the cockiest bastard to ever have donned greasepaint. everything from his stride to his swordsmanship and humor have an edge of arrogance. he makes clint eastwood and other assorted hollywood cowboys look like a kids. planning to watch at least 3 more kurosawas over the next week. hope i lay my hands on them.

check this one out. you have to subscribe to new york times to read it. its free.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/garden/16FRID.html

this world is fucking nuts. while the poles melt, we are freezing more in our refrigerators. suv sized refrigerators for suv sized people.

i bled two years (masters research) trying to increase the efficiency of supermarket cooling systems. got a 5 to 10 percent improvement over existing values. nice. what to do with the increased efficiency. build bigger (-: good thing i moved to other things with absolutely no real-life applications!!!

no blogs for a while. breaking this hiatus to write an obit for 2 people. pantera's lead guitarist darrell abbott aka dimebag. he was shot down yesterday night in a club. may his soul rock heaven and hell. wonder why the good musicians meet an early death?? today is exactly 24 years to the day john lennon died. the real crappy ones live on and on and torture us.

second: donald rumsfeld's brain. " you go to war with the army you have". clap clap clap. wonder why he wasnt kicked in the ass by some GI. anywayz...mr rummy....you go to war against the army they have.