Wondering about what I will be doing a year or so from now, post-graduation, I feel an intense apathy ( oxymoron ? Lemme know ) towards the weird meandering path my life's heading for...I have, in fact little clue what I shall be doing in 24 hours, let alone after a year in this cold, desolate place ( This is Texas, mind you.)
Chaos & anarchy ruleth me mind...
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Friday, March 24, 2006
The Ides of March have passed...
Amidst much disappointed over missing some paper deadlines [ and realizing, to much ado, that there exists great fall before potential pride ], a much more humble, now-perenially [ oxymoron, I know! ] unshaven me has crossed into the path of happiness...Bliss so sweet, that one can feel such intense pleasure only after....
Well I know that Q4 is right around the corner ( or has it been released already ?? Lack of DIGIT magazine access here ensures that I remain ignorant of such tumultous happenings...)
For the uninitiated, Quake and its sequels [ and several other popular First Person Shooter(FPS) genre games ] are a creation of id software, a powerhouse in gaming technology and game engine development... A brief look at their shows how immaculate their 3D rendering technology is/has been; brought to the forefront with Q3 Arena ( which even spawned multiple game shows on several TV channels including noW!).
Tons of clans have spawned up over the years, and the initiation needs are quite different for each clan.
AdDiCtEd, am I.
Playing QUAKE III!!
Well I know that Q4 is right around the corner ( or has it been released already ?? Lack of DIGIT magazine access here ensures that I remain ignorant of such tumultous happenings...)
For the uninitiated, Quake and its sequels [ and several other popular First Person Shooter(FPS) genre games ] are a creation of id software, a powerhouse in gaming technology and game engine development... A brief look at their shows how immaculate their 3D rendering technology is/has been; brought to the forefront with Q3 Arena ( which even spawned multiple game shows on several TV channels including noW!).
Tons of clans have spawned up
AdDiCtEd, am I.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Spring breaks....
Wow....Was'nt that some match?? Absolute beaut with over 850 runs being scored in it....Amidst rumours of it being fixed, I was stunned by Gibbs' innings in particular....175 (111)!! My gang and I are presently caught up in running reruns of downloaded highlights of the match, amidst periodic reruns of old and new movies alike...Thanks to the 300 GB harddrive one of my friends bought sometime back....UTDCHUB rulz, eh!
I now yearn to drive here, after watching a few friends drive over from A&M....Seems easy enough to use the IDP for renting a car...Ah well...wish I had more time and patience to devote to further that idea...
Amidst hectic research going on, I am trying to catch up on my coursework, and thats proving to be a forgettable pain...Well less said the better!
Spring is officially here....Remarkable that in America, people celebrate it by basically 'chilling out'....getting a week off right in the middle of an hectic long semester ( or quarter, depending on where you are ;-)).
Most SB's apparently look like this....( I flicked this from a SB Album in Webshots)
Well mine involved only one location :-(()....
Reason has dawned on me that perhaps the best way to have fun is to jump into work with happiness...Do whatever you have to with a grin on your face, and things seem easier to take in stride...So many aspirations...So many challenges...Its sometimes difficult to focus on whats important...A reality check, if you like to call it, is in order...
I am happy that the internship processes are finally over....and I have time to devote to more critical things in life ( TV, Movies, Table Tennis, Racquetball :-))
Btw, I smacked a certain Raghavan in the face while playing racquetball, giving him a 'grunge' look in the process...He has been reported to be going around claiming he had got it in a fight....Be enlightened, if you have been speaking to him! The truth beckons thee....
Call it a premonition if you like, but some portion of my brain says that something negative is gonna happen soon.....
Call me a pessimist, but that's me!
Btw, I am now also the webmaster for The 2nd International Conference for Wireless Internet (WICON 2006)....Let me know what you think...The site's still in its infancy though...
Later, dudes...
I now yearn to drive here, after watching a few friends drive over from A&M....Seems easy enough to use the IDP for renting a car...Ah well...wish I had more time and patience to devote to further that idea...
Amidst hectic research going on, I am trying to catch up on my coursework, and thats proving to be a forgettable pain...Well less said the better!
Spring is officially here....Remarkable that in America, people celebrate it by basically 'chilling out'....getting a week off right in the middle of an hectic long semester ( or quarter, depending on where you are ;-)).
Most SB's apparently look like this....( I flicked this from a SB Album in Webshots)
Well mine involved only one location :-(()....
Reason has dawned on me that perhaps the best way to have fun is to jump into work with happiness...Do whatever you have to with a grin on your face, and things seem easier to take in stride...So many aspirations...So many challenges...Its sometimes difficult to focus on whats important...A reality check, if you like to call it, is in order...
I am happy that the internship processes are finally over....and I have time to devote to more critical things in life ( TV, Movies, Table Tennis, Racquetball :-))
Btw, I smacked a certain Raghavan in the face while playing racquetball, giving him a 'grunge' look in the process...He has been reported to be going around claiming he had got it in a fight....Be enlightened, if you have been speaking to him! The truth beckons thee....
Call it a premonition if you like, but some portion of my brain says that something negative is gonna happen soon.....
Call me a pessimist, but that's me!
Btw, I am now also the webmaster for The 2nd International Conference for Wireless Internet (WICON 2006)....Let me know what you think...The site's still in its infancy though...
Later, dudes...
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Of Coffee Drips, Late Nights, Research Papers, and Testicular Fortitude
Aloha,
PhD Comics is so the gospel....especially when it comes to grad school...Coffee drips do keepeth one awake! If you have'nt read it by now, I suggest you start reading 'em or drowning yourself!
And why I am resorting to masochistic self-deparavation of sleep? To 'put' a paper , thats why....Readers from the glorious heydays of SVCE would remember the ease with which paper were 'put', His Vettiness' help notwithstanding! I am realizing how much painstaking work goes behind writing a real paper for starts, one in which, the topic is not arbitrarily picked, and actually makes sense...
I even had to scribble on the whiteboard-common to get the facts straight! Thats so unlike me...I hate writing things down...
Amidst desires of AOE-ing away the weekend, most of the weekend flew past me with polka-dotted dreams of racquet sports disrupting consummate illusions of happiness.When that bubble had burst, I managed to learn one more of life's polymorphic forms:
Life's a constraint satisfaction problem!!
{grin: I could just imagine Viswas MS' happiness on reading this ;-))
How I wish that I had not whiled away my weekend, enforcing the constraints of project due-dates and assignment submissions and my research(gasp!) work, one could say, I am very well caught betwixt and between! An old friend, Sai Siddharth (a.k.a. Diamond Babu, as his illustrious PS Senior classmates call him), dropped by Austin, and lo and behold - the weekend hath passeth! { forgive my poor lizzy English...I shall better imitate Chaucer, perhaps at a later moment... }.
Learning of a new savvy way of torturing the donuts out of the typical male from "Madurai Veeran" Anand (CEO of Lungspace, Mindspace ) , I pondered the consequence of implementing the same on a few choice people(read: roommates)...
Btw, I hope to have my trusted Compaq laptop with me in a couple of days...Blogging would be so much more convenient and colorful with that, I guess...
I shall not further stretch the constraints. Escaaaape.
--
PhD Comics is so the gospel....especially when it comes to grad school...Coffee drips do keepeth one awake! If you have'nt read it by now, I suggest you start reading 'em or drowning yourself!
And why I am resorting to masochistic self-deparavation of sleep? To 'put' a paper , thats why....Readers from the glorious heydays of SVCE would remember the ease with which paper were 'put', His Vettiness' help notwithstanding! I am realizing how much painstaking work goes behind writing a real paper for starts, one in which, the topic is not arbitrarily picked, and actually makes sense...
I even had to scribble on the whiteboard-common to get the facts straight! Thats so unlike me...I hate writing things down...
Amidst desires of AOE-ing away the weekend, most of the weekend flew past me with polka-dotted dreams of racquet sports disrupting consummate illusions of happiness.When that bubble had burst, I managed to learn one more of life's polymorphic forms:
Life's a constraint satisfaction problem!!
{grin: I could just imagine Viswas MS' happiness on reading this ;-))
How I wish that I had not whiled away my weekend, enforcing the constraints of project due-dates and assignment submissions and my research(gasp!) work, one could say, I am very well caught betwixt and between! An old friend, Sai Siddharth (a.k.a. Diamond Babu, as his illustrious PS Senior classmates call him), dropped by Austin, and lo and behold - the weekend hath passeth! { forgive my poor lizzy English...I shall better imitate Chaucer, perhaps at a later moment... }.
Learning of a new savvy way of torturing the donuts out of the typical male from "Madurai Veeran" Anand (CEO of Lungspace, Mindspace ) , I pondered the consequence of implementing the same on a few choice people(read: roommates)...
Btw, I hope to have my trusted Compaq laptop with me in a couple of days...Blogging would be so much more convenient and colorful with that, I guess...
I shall not further stretch the constraints. Escaaaape.
--
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