Archive for May, 2004
New Traffic Signs
Wednesday, May 26th, 2004Clockwise Foot
Tuesday, May 25th, 2004This is going to drive you guys crazy:
While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot and make clockwise circles with your foot.
Now while doing this, draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will change direction and you can’t control it!
Keep trying … I still am!
Inching along
Sunday, May 16th, 2004I am one 5 page paper, 1 Econ exam and 1 Communications exam away from graduation. HA! I wish. Time to wake up now and realize that I got 6 more gruesome semesters ahead of me not to mention the summer and the winter sessions.
OH! I feel my stomach tying in a knot. Its not a good feeling. Whoever graduates before me is ….. is …… is um stupid! yes, stupid!
Fast computers
Saturday, May 15th, 2004One thing for sure is that a 3.0GHz processor with a Gigabyte of RAM and 200GB of hard disk space is not outside our grabs. But still, there is something missing. The computers, they … er they are not exactly mind numbing fast. Don’t get me wrong. They are faster than my 266MHz 128Mb RAM 6GB HD. They’re much faster than that … but are they fast fast?
I guess the ability to crunch numbers faster than a human was achieved by the most primitive of calculators. But that fact is given the premise that the computer already has its input in machine form. I guess what I am saying is that the computer may be able to think fast but can it relate its thinking to us fast enough?
You push on a button and a computer fan turns on and you see some garbage on the screen comparable to your garbage every morning you wake up. But do I really want to see a computer go through its early morning chores? Answer is no. I mean if a computer is so fast, then why can’t it turn on so fast? Why is the fastest computer forced to display, “loading your personal settings …”? Isn’t the point of having a fast machine to surpass your own thinking powers?
Then why is it that it seems that sometimes YOU are waiting for the computer to work and not vice-versa? All those times when the stupid machine is on standby and you move your mouse and wait about 5 seconds for the CRT (Monitor) to turn on. Then you type in your password and it takes forever for it to let you start working on something constructive. Everytime you click on Internet Explorer, you wait for it to LOAD!
Everytime you visit a website, you wait for it to LOAD. I mean what more than a 3MBPS download does hotmail.com need for me to read my messages without waiting for it to take a crap? I guess everything just seems fast but I think the most important thing that needs to be fast is still slow. And that is the freakin’ I/O (Input/Output) interface in use by computers.
Will I see the day when I think something and the darn machine will have processed it for me to think ahead without taking a coffee break? Will I see the day when there will be no waiting for the computer to LOAD or WORK? Will I see the day when this darn machine that I am typing on will understand my frustrations? Will I?
Show me the meaning of being desi
Saturday, May 15th, 2004I stumbled upon a song by Penn Masala titled “Show me the meaning of being desi”. Check it out, its worth an ear -
http://www.pranavsharma.com/misc/showmethemeaningofbeingdesi.htm
Changes … and time savers
Thursday, May 13th, 2004So I have had it with y’all complaining about the tick, tick, tick … when you visit my site. I think mohit was the one who said that he had to turn off his speakers just to visit my site. Well, guess what? The chat script is out of commission now. It never really made it out there. Although I am sad about this loss, all change is for the better isn’t it?
On a different note, I did make an improvement and added a feature that I hope you all would find useful. I made a page called All blogs. Click on it to go to a page which has the blogs of (in order) gokul, ankan, mohit, pranav, anu vishal, karthik, mukta. Of course I tried to organize them in order of how soon they are updated. And if anybody has to bi**h about my position above Anu, Vishal, Karthik & Mukta, then you can kiss my a**. However, anybody else’s position always remains debatable right? Okay anyways, bookmark http://www.pranavsharma.com/allblogs
Any suggestions are welcome and ofcourse you’ll see more features as I progess through my finals. I mean I need something to do between study breaks!
Boat load of new weblogs
Tuesday, May 11th, 2004Ever since gokul’s advertisement of squarespace, there has been a burst of new weblogs started by his wannabe peers. Hats off to gokul for maintaining his weblog with long and interesting updates almost everyday. I think Ankan rightfully called him the “guru of web logs”. However, that does not make everybody who knows him a guru on weblogs. Some things are best left alone for some people. Hint hint Ankan, Mohit, Mukta, and this other dude who due to some personal reasons wants to keep his name private which, defeats the purpose of a weblog right there.
The buzz is that it “takes an average layman to figure out the working of this website“. I don’t argue that and I’ll admit, the websites do look nice and if some ahem bio majors can do it ahem then it must be very simple. However, it takes a lot to keep a weblog updated. I can tell you that from experience. But then again, if you’re at work and the boss isn’t looking (Ankan), it might be a bit easier.
It is apparent that this ‘blogging thing’ is a repeat attempt for some. And I’m certain that before the ‘30 day rush‘ is over, these weblogs will be over. And, it will then again lead to repeat attempts sometime in the future. These websites just popped up due to the ‘bandwagon effect‘ and before long, they’ll be gone like the cicadas.
Weblogs in question:
● Ankan ke khayal (Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein Yeh Khayal Aata Hai) @ http://ankan.squarespace.com/
● m o h i t (the journey just begins…….) @ http://mohit.squarespace.com/
● Mukt (The Absolute Freedom) @ http://mukta.squarespace.com/
● Vishal’s (Kick it in Punjab’s Styles) @ undisclosed location by request [Blog Name and description modified to preserve anonimity]
P.S: I think karthik should take inspiration from these amateur bloggers and update his weblog atleast – i don’t know – once a quarter maybe?