Foo Bar

1:25am: Quentin Tarantino
Am a big time fan of Quentin Tarantino. He makes really slick and stylish movies. And one of the features of his movies are the kickass background scores. Below are 2 from his Grindhouse series.

Death Proof:




Planet Terror:

2:30am: Little Ozzy
Watch out for the surprise... :)

9:41pm: Arnie :)
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Funny Quote of the Day - - "I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun."

From Gmail's web clip!

:)

11:02pm: Learning from others code
One of the important methods of learning to code better is to see the code from others and learn from it.
A problem with this is trying to emulate bad code thinking its good code. Ran into this a couple of times in last 2 months.

10:34pm: Cool Mix


Bits and Pieces of different youtube videos beautifully stitched together into a cool mix.

8:34pm: Engineering and Arts
Engineering is Art with Rules!

10:42pm: Gandhi and Mallya
On Thursday something very interesting happened in New York city. After all the high drama, a few of Gandhi's last possessions were auctioned off in New York (The Story). A couple of things i want to point out here.

People tried to make money by selling stuff of a man who gave up all of his material possessions and practiced a simple life of high morals. And the Indian government screwed itself by getting into a legal position where it itself could not participate in the auction and instead ended up with one of its courts' ruling that the auction was illegal. Apparently they missed a key point there that the auction was being held in New York and not in Indian land and had no effect whatsoever on the planned auction.

In the meanwhile many wealthy Indian businessmen from all over the world got interested in Gandhi's stuff. The auction just took place as per the plan. And an Indian bought all that stuff and announced that he was giving all of that to Indian government. India's and Indian government's prestige was saved.

Now let me just try to remind you a few things about Gandhi. As i said before Gandhi led a very simple life. Also he strongly opposed use of alcohol in the society and led campaigns against it.

But fate had it that, the person who buys his stuff at the auction and save his country's prestige, be a showy prodigal who made his fortune by selling liquor. Some Irony here!

11:20pm: A Prime Minister To Have


Is it possible for anyone to make even a wild guess that she might be a Prime Minister of a Country?

She IS one!

2:46pm: Ubuntu ME - Muslim Edition
Apparently, there is a Linux Edition for Muslims!

I know there exist softwares for prayers and others for different religions, but am not sure if its a good thing to modify the mainstream softwares based on religion!

10:32pm: India's Richest List dominated by People from North
India's Richest List is overwhelmingly dominated by North Indians. By no measures it could have just happened that way. Does this signify the cultural differences between the two regions? I definitely think so.

10:38pm: Art in the Eye of a Needle
http://www.maniacworld.com/art-in-the-eye-of-a-needle.html

I have seen artists who work on rice grains etc, but this is unbelievable!
I know artists are crazy, but this crazy? Great work, though.

8:36pm: The times, they are a changing!
Who is owning the real power now? Times are getting worse and worse. Due to the greed of a few people at the top of Capitalism's hierarchy and the blunder committed by them, thousands of innocent people are suffering now. I am seeing this happening to my own close friends. Now the say is, this will continue through 2009. How worse will this get?

7:00pm: Obama set to ascend the Throne
From being nobody to being the most powerful person earth, Obama finally made it.
Its a great day for America and the rest of the World. Hope he does walk the talk and make things better.

1:48pm: The Royal Tenenbaums - Musik
I have been hooked up to the music from movie 'The Royal Tenenbaums'. Have been listening to it all the time ever since i saw the movie 4 months ago. Some great compositions from Mark Mothersbaugh and The Mutato Muzika Orchestra. And great numbers from Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground and John Lennon. Just try it and you will love it.

9:38pm: Best Places to live in
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/06/0611_mercer/index_01.htm

Interesting that only one city from US makes it to the list.

11:12pm: Domestic Work In India
An useful website for getting domestic work done in India from abroad.
Provides variety of services..

http://yourmaninindia.com/index.html

7:38pm: Longterm Programming Community Index


Courtesy: http://www.tiobe.com

3:19am: four eyed monsters
a very different one...simple yet very creative!

original background score and cinematography.

3:59pm: Site Advisory from Google
Was googling something and when clicked on a link, google showed this screen. Another free goody from google! I like it!

10:06pm: Mother of all Telephoto lenses
howzz this?

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/newsLetter/Mother-of-All-L-Lenses.jsp

2:53am: These Boots...


Must have watched this for about 20 times today.
Just love the lyrics, music and also the dance! :)

2:56am: When i am bored
When i am bored these days and dont find anything else to do, i just watch this video! :)

12:08am: Freting and Alternate Picking
Have been trying to play like this since a week but not heading anywhere...
Plan is to play this before the end of this term! :)

11:30pm: Sangam O7
I haven't been able to attend good Indian cultural events after coming to the US. However, 2 events that i have truly enjoyed are UTD Indian Student Association's annual festivals - Sangam. It is a fabulous event. This year it took place on the evening of November 3rd. It started at 6:00PM and ended at 2:45AM. That's like almost 9 hours of continuous entertainment. All of the events at the festival were truly amazing. Students had practiced hard despite tight course schedules. The audience almost got frenzied at the end of the event.

I had an opportunity to cover the event. Here are some of the pics. I was better equipped this time around with my Nikon D80 and a rented SB800 speed-light. I got far better pictures with a fast speed-light compared to the ones that got when i covered ACM-MMS workshop 2007, held at Dallas a couple of months ago, where i was shooting with camera's built-in flash. I was amazed at the end of event for having shot 650+ pics; the max i have shot in such a time span. I was forced to stop shooting when i ran out of my camera battery. Another lesson learned!

2:43pm: Sophomore
Woke up this morning to find myself deeply irritated with self! Started listening to "InteliQuest World's 100 Greatest People" series' Socrates volume. Its an amazing collection. If can find it, i would recommend everyone to go through the series.

And yeah, back to the title, Philosophy = Phil(Lover) + Sophy(Wisdom) ["Socrates - Lover of Wisdom",  thats how the Socrates volume ends! ]
Another example of sophy; sophomore = Sopho(Wise) + more(foolish)

Interesting to see how the second year students are seen as!