Seriously, no one really thought in their ugliest of the nightmares that Satyam Computers would turn out to be a black sheep of the Indian IT industry. And no one knows what lies at the end of this abyss?
As such on the facade of things I really have nothing to do with Satyam and their is practically no reason for me to write this blog, but somehow I remembered of an incident, which though fairly insignificant, could have changed a lot of things in my life by now!
It was the summer of 2004, when Nishant and I after completing our U-grad managed to get a face saving intership at a government organisation. We thank them for this oppurtunity, but seriously we wanted to be out of that mess. We were still in close touch with our deparment and had a constant vigil on an almost parched on-campus recruitment process. That's when Satyam computers, by some heavenly grace, turned up to our college and we thought, well that's it! This is our golden ticket to the outside world.
Almost instantly when we came to know about this news, we contacted our HoD, a real gentlemen by nature and a man with a very level head, for his permission to sit in for the interview process. To our dismay, he quite blatantly asked us not to sit for this, as we were already placed! We tried our best to convince him, but all was seriously in vain. We both eventually ended sitting in the canteen and cursing our fate over a cup of chai. Phew! That was a tough day and I still remember that.
The rest, of course, as always said is history that most of you are aware of. But, I am remembered of a the following line, which I saw somewhere:
"Life can only be understood looking back, but it can only be lived looking forward".
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Has LHC Destroyed Earth?
Well now that everyone is talking about the end of world, end of our civilization, end to human existence that too by a machine that has some fictional capability of creating black holes that will engulf the entire planet!
I really pity the fate of poor LHC...perhaps "The" most advanced system on the planet...is actually doubted to be a "genocide" machine!
Call it a machine that will unravel gods mind, but at the end of the day the machine is out there to find what physicist call "Higgs Boson"
And yes for all those people who feel that this machine will destroy the planet earth....well here is a web link that tells you the status of earth
And for those souls who actually want to see the original LHC, Click Here
I really pity the fate of poor LHC...perhaps "The" most advanced system on the planet...is actually doubted to be a "genocide" machine!
Call it a machine that will unravel gods mind, but at the end of the day the machine is out there to find what physicist call "Higgs Boson"
And yes for all those people who feel that this machine will destroy the planet earth....well here is a web link that tells you the status of earth
And for those souls who actually want to see the original LHC, Click Here
Saturday, August 9, 2008
The unholy morning
Beep…Beep…Beeeeeeeeep….[my alarm ]
He says [to alarm]: “Shut up its Saturday…”
He says [to me]: “You shouldn’t be getting up early today…dude there is absolutely no motivation for you to get up…the earliest you will get some good food in the day is in the evening…go back to sleep!”
Me: Well so I take his advice and go back to sleep.
He [after 30 min of loneliness]: “Get up you idiot, get up you are supposed to be with her… in her room next door….don’t you remember deciding this yesterday evening…you have already stalled the meeting….you were supposed to be with her in her room last night….but you got lazy…I can’t believe how can someone be lazy for such a thing…”
Me [to him]: “Shut up…f***off…let me sleep”
He [quite angry this time]: “Dude this is your last chance of doing this thing before the fall semester begins…and you know there are NO weekends in grad school…Listen up buddy tomorrow you are busy all day…and then what you have is one long work drowning week…and you have already blocked your next weekend’s…get up bro…you can do this!”.
Me: “Yeah[half asleep]….[lazily getting up]”
He: “Dude you may want to take of your clothes right now…so that you can expedite the process.”
Me:”Okay…[almost brain dead]”.
He: “Hey stop…stop…not the shorts you idiot…the room is next door…you don’t want to be seen by someone like that…”
Me[quite pissed off]: “What the heck!...okay…”
He:”And don’t forget [interrupted]”
Me:”the bag…I know…I know it’s the key thing...how can you even think of me going there without this bag?”
He[apologetic]: “I am sorry…I just thought of assisting you!”
Me [still pissed off and almost awake]: “Thank you…thanks a lot…”
Me: “Can’t believe I have to even pay her!”
He: “You always paid her…come on dude she is not that expensive….venki pays a lot more than you do…cheer up buddy…she is all yours this morning”
Okay…So here I stand at 8 on this Saturday morning…with bag full of dirty clothes in one hand and few quarters in the other in front of the laundry room next door.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Chocolate Donut
When you start capturing math in your food (well yeah the food that you are eating), probably it's signal that you should take a break for a while!
I am eating a chocolate donut right now and really can't stop myself from visualizing all kind of non-planar graphs that could be easily be represented in almost planar fashion on the surface of the donut. Well as such the concept not at all new, but mathematicians used much more elegant objects or rather names, which in this case is Torus. I guess doing math on poor piece of donut is sinful. And to extend my perverted sinful nature, I am wondering right now are there any special properties that vertically bisected donut will have as compared to a complete donut?
Huh! I should rather complete my donut and get back to work.
I am eating a chocolate donut right now and really can't stop myself from visualizing all kind of non-planar graphs that could be easily be represented in almost planar fashion on the surface of the donut. Well as such the concept not at all new, but mathematicians used much more elegant objects or rather names, which in this case is Torus. I guess doing math on poor piece of donut is sinful. And to extend my perverted sinful nature, I am wondering right now are there any special properties that vertically bisected donut will have as compared to a complete donut?
Huh! I should rather complete my donut and get back to work.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Watching A Cloud Die.
As I lie on my bed on a listless Sunday mornings in Minneapolis and thinking about absolutely nothing, I see a small piece of cloud on the face of the clear blue sky, a part of which I can see through my glass window. The cloud seems to be moving west perhaps all alone, but quite slowly as if it is in no hurry to reach its destination.
As it moves slowly across my view through the window, I start to notice its edges that keep on fading with time and the more I notice, the more I see the dynamic nature of the cloud. Now, no longer to me cloud appears to be a tranquil adult, but appears to be a playful child, who is fascinated with all the space that is out there. The cloud still keeps on moving!
I wonder, how qualified my thought process is! Or may be it's a common human tendency to personify things. I guess it's more of human nature, then my idiosyncrasy, we see life in everything. Probably, this is stemmed in the fact or rather our belief that anything that is born should die. We, the bed, the chair, the car, civilization, nations, planets, galaxies and universe, everyone took birth one day, both in realistic and figurative sense, and all will die! All of them should come to an end.
And so will this cloud, that I see outside my glass window. Probably, it has already started to disappear in the nothingness of the blue sky, returning to the place from where it originated. I can see edges dithering out and disappearing into the blue background, making the size of the cloud smaller and smaller every second. And as the cloud moves slowly and pass through my view it has shrunk to a smaller size and probably in next some minutes will disappear and will not exist.
As it moves slowly across my view through the window, I start to notice its edges that keep on fading with time and the more I notice, the more I see the dynamic nature of the cloud. Now, no longer to me cloud appears to be a tranquil adult, but appears to be a playful child, who is fascinated with all the space that is out there. The cloud still keeps on moving!
I wonder, how qualified my thought process is! Or may be it's a common human tendency to personify things. I guess it's more of human nature, then my idiosyncrasy, we see life in everything. Probably, this is stemmed in the fact or rather our belief that anything that is born should die. We, the bed, the chair, the car, civilization, nations, planets, galaxies and universe, everyone took birth one day, both in realistic and figurative sense, and all will die! All of them should come to an end.
And so will this cloud, that I see outside my glass window. Probably, it has already started to disappear in the nothingness of the blue sky, returning to the place from where it originated. I can see edges dithering out and disappearing into the blue background, making the size of the cloud smaller and smaller every second. And as the cloud moves slowly and pass through my view it has shrunk to a smaller size and probably in next some minutes will disappear and will not exist.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Dude! Give me a break
I have been thinking a lot about "Art" and it's role in the human civilization and somehow I just get a feel that it's a very foolish attempt to find meanings in things that are inherently contradictory or meaning less. I really at times get so much frustrated, that I feel like saying "Dude! Give me a break".
But then as I type this passage and to this extent I realize that I have fairly, tersely and satisfactorily criticized "Art", I really can't stop myself from appreciating the very fact that it's a very good piece of work or to my sudden depressing surprise that this itself is a piece of "Art". And as you can see the criticism actually extends to ad infinitum.
But then as I type this passage and to this extent I realize that I have fairly, tersely and satisfactorily criticized "Art", I really can't stop myself from appreciating the very fact that it's a very good piece of work or to my sudden depressing surprise that this itself is a piece of "Art". And as you can see the criticism actually extends to ad infinitum.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Random Thoughts
What a blind saw
and the deaf heard
Is a just a matter of surmise
Conjectures lead to discoveries
Undiscovered is what left
A sudden flap of the wings
And the time changes
the song it sings
the buried stay
where they are
the imaginative
make the way to far
strangled in the thoughts
of the known
fighting the quick sand
and possibly die unknown
and the deaf heard
Is a just a matter of surmise
Conjectures lead to discoveries
Undiscovered is what left
A sudden flap of the wings
And the time changes
the song it sings
the buried stay
where they are
the imaginative
make the way to far
strangled in the thoughts
of the known
fighting the quick sand
and possibly die unknown
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Postiviely Bad, but negatively good
Something that reminded me of what happened more than two decades back in Bhagalpur:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Villagers_pour_acid_into_mans_eyes/articleshow/3019795.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Villagers_pour_acid_into_mans_eyes/articleshow/3019795.cms
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Cross Winds! - The Hamburg Fiasco
I get fascinated when I see pilots touching down their planes in strong cross winds. It's the most elegant example for the application of vector algebra...but the cross wind landing at Hamburg airport was hard pill to swallow....the pilot almost screwed it up...Take a look all by yourself:
I would also recommend you to have a look at the following blog, its an interesting read:
http://www.airlineempires.net/blog/2008/03/03/hamburg-wing-strike-pilot-a-hero-or-lacking-technique/
For those who are wondering what happened eventually:
It was the co-pilot [the less experienced dude of course], who had messed this up... later on the captain took the command of the landing process and it was an happy ending!
I would also recommend you to have a look at the following blog, its an interesting read:
http://www.airlineempires.net/blog/2008/03/03/hamburg-wing-strike-pilot-a-hero-or-lacking-technique/
For those who are wondering what happened eventually:
It was the co-pilot [the less experienced dude of course], who had messed this up... later on the captain took the command of the landing process and it was an happy ending!
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Daffodils By William Wordsworth
This is one of my all time favorite poems! Really like the loneliness described in the poem.
Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
-- William Wordsworth Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Friday, June 1, 2007
The River
(River Ganges At Twilight)The River
And then he asked the last question
Where are you going?
I don’t know...May be nowhere
Or may be in the river finally
And be its soul.
And then there was the silence
Everywhere,
With darkness engulfing life
But then there was the light
Seeping through
And here I was
To start it all again
May be to embrace the darkness again
May be to flow in the river
Again.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Quantum Theory Fails Reality Checks
A very interesting article on Quantum Theory...Following are some of the paragraphs from the article:-
"The big question always was … whether one can go beyond this probabilistic description," says physicist Markus Aspelmeyer of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna. Perhaps Einstein was right that "God does not play dice," and a photon has a true state that is somehow hidden from experiments
In other words, Aspelmeyer says, nonlocality is not enough to save realism from quantum theory. "You have to pay a price," he says. In effect, quantum naysayers like Einstein would have to swallow the spider to catch the fly. "I'm still amazed [at the experiment's outcome], I have to say."
Read the entire article on the Scientific American >>
"The big question always was … whether one can go beyond this probabilistic description," says physicist Markus Aspelmeyer of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna. Perhaps Einstein was right that "God does not play dice," and a photon has a true state that is somehow hidden from experiments
In other words, Aspelmeyer says, nonlocality is not enough to save realism from quantum theory. "You have to pay a price," he says. In effect, quantum naysayers like Einstein would have to swallow the spider to catch the fly. "I'm still amazed [at the experiment's outcome], I have to say."
Read the entire article on the Scientific American >>
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Life Is A Highway
Life is a highway is the OST of the animation movie CARS. Really cool song...with really great lyrics...well here is the modified poetry of the song:-
Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend and sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside ev'ry darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate
To Break down the garden gate
There's not much time left today
Through all these cities and all these towns
It's in my blood and it's all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights
Knock me down get back up again
You're in my blood
I'm not a lonely man
There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors
There was a distance between you and I
A misunderstanding once
But now we look it in the eye
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
Check out the video at YouTube
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend and sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside ev'ry darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate
To Break down the garden gate
There's not much time left today
Through all these cities and all these towns
It's in my blood and it's all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights
Knock me down get back up again
You're in my blood
I'm not a lonely man
There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors
There was a distance between you and I
A misunderstanding once
But now we look it in the eye
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
Sunday, April 8, 2007
The Twenty20 Cricket World Cup
Here it is guys...the abridged version of the game...The twenty20 Cricket World Cup.
The grouping and schedule goes as follows: -
Group A: South Africa, West Indies, Bangladesh.
Group B: Australia, England, Zimbabwe.
Group C: New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Kenya.
Group D: Pakistan, India, Scotland. (The Group Of Death)
Fixtures:
September 11: South Africa vs West Indies (Johannesburg)
September 12: New Zealand vs Kenya (Durban); Pakistan vs Scotland (Durban); Australia vs Zimbabwe (Cape Town)
September 13: West Indies vs Bangladesh (Johannesburg); Zimbabwe vs England (Cape Town); India vs Scotland (Durban)
September 14: Sri Lanka vs Kenya (Johannesburg); Australia vs England (Cape Town); India vs Pakistan (Durban)
September 15: Sri Lanka vs New Zealand (Johannesburg); South Africa vs Bangladesh (Cape Town)
September 16: C1 vs D2 (Johannesburg); B1 vs A2 (Cape Town); A1 vs B2 (Cape Town)
September 17: D1 vs C2 (Johannesburg)
September 18: C1 vs B2 (Durban); B1 vs D1 (Johannesburg); A2 vs C2 (Johannesburg)
September 19: A1 vs C1 (Durban); B2 vs D2 (Durban)
September 20: B1 vs C2 (Cape Town); A2 vs D1 (Cape Town); A1 vs D2 (Durban)
September 22: Semi-final E2 vs F1 (Cape Town); Semi-final E1 vs F2 (Durban).
September 24: Final (Johannesburg).
You can have a go at the entire article at Cricket.Indiatimes.com
The grouping and schedule goes as follows: -
Group A: South Africa, West Indies, Bangladesh.
Group B: Australia, England, Zimbabwe.
Group C: New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Kenya.
Group D: Pakistan, India, Scotland. (The Group Of Death)
Fixtures:
September 11: South Africa vs West Indies (Johannesburg)
September 12: New Zealand vs Kenya (Durban); Pakistan vs Scotland (Durban); Australia vs Zimbabwe (Cape Town)
September 13: West Indies vs Bangladesh (Johannesburg); Zimbabwe vs England (Cape Town); India vs Scotland (Durban)
September 14: Sri Lanka vs Kenya (Johannesburg); Australia vs England (Cape Town); India vs Pakistan (Durban)
September 15: Sri Lanka vs New Zealand (Johannesburg); South Africa vs Bangladesh (Cape Town)
September 16: C1 vs D2 (Johannesburg); B1 vs A2 (Cape Town); A1 vs B2 (Cape Town)
September 17: D1 vs C2 (Johannesburg)
September 18: C1 vs B2 (Durban); B1 vs D1 (Johannesburg); A2 vs C2 (Johannesburg)
September 19: A1 vs C1 (Durban); B2 vs D2 (Durban)
September 20: B1 vs C2 (Cape Town); A2 vs D1 (Cape Town); A1 vs D2 (Durban)
September 22: Semi-final E2 vs F1 (Cape Town); Semi-final E1 vs F2 (Durban).
September 24: Final (Johannesburg).
You can have a go at the entire article at Cricket.Indiatimes.com
Monday, April 2, 2007
Stupid Is As Stupid Does!
Forrest Gump ...now I remember...thats the movie where I first heard this phrase...well if this happens to be a most common phrase of your vocab...then please pardon my English... It's not my mother tongue!
More interestingly this phrase got stuck into my head and over years I kept on wondering about its meaning, until I googled for it today! Some Mr. Tony Lee explains its meaning as:
"It means that and intelligent person who does stupid things is still stupid. You are what you do.
Another variation is beauty is as beauty does or ugly is as ugly does."
So there you go some interesting gyan (hindi word for knowledge) for the day!
There are some very interesting reads on this topic over the web. I have shortlisted some of them below... rest you can always google.
1) Stupid Is As Stupid Does By Scott Reeves at Forbes.com
2) Stupid Is As Stupid Does By Charley Reese at LewRockwell.com
3) http://newmexiken.com/archives/2007/03/0010689.php
More interestingly this phrase got stuck into my head and over years I kept on wondering about its meaning, until I googled for it today! Some Mr. Tony Lee explains its meaning as:
"It means that and intelligent person who does stupid things is still stupid. You are what you do.
Another variation is beauty is as beauty does or ugly is as ugly does."
So there you go some interesting gyan (hindi word for knowledge) for the day!
There are some very interesting reads on this topic over the web. I have shortlisted some of them below... rest you can always google.
1) Stupid Is As Stupid Does By Scott Reeves at Forbes.com
2) Stupid Is As Stupid Does By Charley Reese at LewRockwell.com
3) http://newmexiken.com/archives/2007/03/0010689.php
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Dark Energy
Dark Energy, definitely a word that ought to be a part of any sci-fi that deals with cosmos, but I guess that's not enough, a bunch of really great scientists have found it in our universe and believe that it comprises of 70% of the entire universe! Phew! Seventy Percent! Thats way to much of this stuff...but then why can't I see it or feel...Well here are few articles that may answer some these questions:-
Wake Me Up When September End....
I have' been a Green Day fan from the day I heard it's song "Wake Me Up When September End..."
It was one of those lazy, half asleep Saturday mornings in Melbourne, when I heard this song and I felt like I have been waiting for this music all my life. From that day (something like 2 years back) I have been a fan of the music of Green Day! Though I "beg to dream and differ" slightly from their philosophy!
You can watch the video (Live Version) of this song at the following link: -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj4qfCNQB6s
Some intelligent information on this song can be found at: -
P.S. :- For the sake of all those weak hearted souls who are reading this, let me tell you, the genre of this song is Punk-Rock! So listen the song at your own discretion :)
Some intelligent information on this song can be found at: -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Me_Up_When_September_Ends
And for the lyrics...there you go:-
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
like my fathers come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are
as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends
summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when september ends
here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are
as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
(Repeat 2 Times)
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
like my fathers come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are
as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends
summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when september ends
here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are
as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
(Repeat 2 Times)
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