Of BC and Roy

I was reading this article..
http://209.97.214.175/~scholars/wordpress/?p=1024
What impressed me the most about this was the idea that if enough people get together and fight for a cause, together with intelligent reporting, anything is possible. I'd like to think that this was how our independence was won. The only unfortunate thing was the use of violence and destruction of property. Hope that does not happen again and also hope that this results in real change. But still, it was a valiant effort.
Also hope the reporting was objective. Seems so.
Berhael

Of Legos and Fridays

It was Friday night, 7:30 pm, didn't really have a party to go to nor was in any mood to work or go to the gym after 3 hours of meetings. It was raining heavily outside and there was no one else in the lab. Felt really bored. Thats when I remembered something. My cubicle neighbhour had recently got a Lego Mindstorm set for Mentoring school kids next fall. I've always loved Lego Mindstorms, it has and will always be my dream birthday present. The nerd/child/self-obsessed-engineer in me will always make sure I will spend hours working under a lampshade making some new creation. And the beauty of Lego Mindstorms is that, it is somewhat like Windows, it is meant for people who don't want to tinker around with settings and innards and just want to whip something up real quick. But how it differs is that if you DO require to tinker, you can start interfacing python code or C code to create ever complicated robots. So when he gave me the license to play with the toys over the weekend, I couldn't resist.. So I spent about 2.5 hours pouring over the instruction manual and constructing the robots, and loading the programs. I wanted to do more, but the fear that there would be nothing left to do if I finished everything in 1 day, there would be nothing left to do later, kept my enthusiasm at bay. Here are some videos:

Who needs a social life when you have THIS!!!

Berhael

Of Kaakas and Naris

Once upon a time, there was a Kaaka (no not this one, but this one)who was very hungry. True to satisfy his wants, the new-age Maami wearing a T-shirt bought by her son from Walmart and sent across just yesterday, made him some Masala Vadais and gave them to the Kaaka. The Kaaka of course was used to the best food from across the world thanks to food at Ascendas, just a few potholes away. But since he was hungry, he decided to indulge the Maami and took them to his new Penthouse nest on top of the latest YAIT*.

Just when he was about to munch his sumptuous feast, a Nari (no not this one, but this one) saw him from the bottom. The Nari didn't want to waste any energy shouting out to the Kaaka so he decided to SMS him with his new BlackBerry Storm. The text convo went something like this:

Nari: hey dde sup?

Kaaka: nthng mch dde. jst got thse vds frm tht mmi

Nari: wtf it's bn ags snce i had vds pass sme ovr!

Kaaka: lmao ..no way jose, i'm fckng hngry now & no 1's gnna bt MY ass 4 these vds

Nari (strikes Vairamuthu pose and walks at the footsteps of the YAIT..thinking deeply and then): 

yo kka kka UR the brd i'd eat 

if i didn't hve UR vds 4 a trt

i'm sre UR vce is vry swt

so sing me a sng 2 the aadhi bt..

Now this was too much for the Kaaka and he immediately started his own hand at rap while the Vadas were still in his mouth and they all fell down faster than Satyam's shares in the stock market, for the waiting Nari. 

Nari: rotflmao!!! so lng sckr!!!

In this way the Nari managed to dupe the innocent Kaaka out of all his Vadas.

Update : This is to announce that the Kaaka has officially been granted a bailout package, approximately 70 billion vadas and tax-cuts worth another 70 billion whenever he goes for dining at the San Jose Saravana Bhavan. Some creatures have it made. *Sigh*

* - Yet Another IT Tower