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2006, Jan 13

The Ultimate Truth

Filed under: Uncategorized — Hrishikesh @ 23:36

Well, three posts in a day! Some times, you can’t help it. And I will now quote from the Great Bong’s blog, A Birthday Story:
 
BirthdayBoy_at_20: Ooh good. Sounds fine. So I do my PhD in US…mm…feels kinda uncomfortable asking someone who is so much older than I am….but since you are me after all….do I turn out to be the super-rocking stud I always wanted to be? You know chick-magnet, party animal, bohemian hedonist without a care in the world. Do you remember how constricted you used to feel at 20 in an all-guys engineering college, growing up in a middle-class Bengali milieu, wanting to break free—total social and ethical anarchy. Do you remember, BirthdayBoy_at_30 ?
 
BirthdayBoy_at_30: Yes BirthdayBoy_at_20 I remember. Only too well. I am sorry to have to break it to you—but things didn’t quite turn out that way. Again what you cannot accept right now is that you have your limitations. As a matter of fact, turning 30 is possibly the stage when you truly realize the magnitude of all the things you cannot do. Its a sobering thought and one which, even though it comes at the cost of heartbreak and much sadness, makes your life that much easier.
 
BirthdayBoy_at_20: Excuse me but could you repeat that in plain English?
 
BirthdayBoy_at_30: It means “No”. You won’t have that lifestyle because your background and your upbringing and your sensibilities (the ones you are still not aware of) will pre-program you to take a different path. Plus lets face it—-you wont cut a dashing figure in a club, you wont have the cash nor the style. Your time will be spent better staying at home, reading a book, doing creative writing…..”
 
I wanted to say that. At all times. It just did not come out from me before. Anyway, full credit to him, for getting it out here. I think IT is the ultimate truth for me.
 
And kinda sad actually.

All the Rapes, and all the Pain…

Filed under: Uncategorized — Hrishikesh @ 20:51

… Make Jack a Dull Boy?
 
I don’t know.
 
And if all things turn out the way they have been till date for me, I possibly won’t ever either.
 
But all you readers, who have their own blogs need to see some of the latest posts that my friends have put up:
 
and many others, that I won’t bother listing here now. Sorry about that.
 
But then, I present to you some reading material. It’s about this black American (not politically correct, I know, but he refers to him as that as well, so wtf) who joined the JET program and is now teaching English to Japanese school students. Read the whole thing, and come back in perspective.
 
I don’t even know if that is really linked, but it sure is totally weird.

The Platters of the HDD go round and round…

Filed under: Uncategorized — Hrishikesh @ 19:56

I don’t know if I am the only person around who wonders about these kind of things, but anyway. I tried looking for an answer on the internet, asked around a bit and no one really seemed to know or provide me with a convincing enough answer. So, then, I did what I thought was the most sensible thing to do.
I mailed Seagate, thinking they would know:
This is not really a problem, and sorry, if this is not an appropriate channel for this query:
 
What made hard-drive manufacturing companies like Seagate decide on spinning the platters at 3600, 5400 and 7200 rpm? Why not 7000 rpm or 7500 rpm? And then why 10000 rpm and 15000 rpm?
 
I tried to locate the answer to this on the WWW, but was largely unsucessful. A response will be appreciated.
Anyway, so after about three-four days, my query got shuffled around a bit, jumping from Seagate’s technical support to pre-sales support and all that. I think they all had a great laugh and interesting water-faucet banter:
Hello Hrishikesh,
 
Great question! We do not have any info on this question. We do make drives to the specifications of our OEM partners and their customer base. This is what drives our business.
 
Brian W.
Disc Presales
Very well then. Anyone got a better response?

2006, Jan 12

Of Burnt CDs and Data Loss

Filed under: Uncategorized — Hrishikesh @ 22:32

Well, the internet is a pretty scary thing just the way it is, and then you come across stuff like this. In short, burned CDs only have a two to five-year lifespan.
 
That scared the shit out of me.
 
I read it thrice.
 
And here I am with at least about a few hundreds of CD-Rs and about fifty DVD-Rs. Why is this happening? What will I do with all that data now? Only five years? I’m doomed!
 
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Anyway, that was that.
 
The project is coming along full steam now, I’ll be starting work on Orcad. The components for the project have more or less been finalized now, and hopefully, things will work out. It’ll be damned kewl to have the working device ready by the end of the term. Not many can claim they have had that!

2006, Jan 09

“I work at the sex-toys factory.”

Filed under: Uncategorized — Hrishikesh @ 12:49

As I lay to sleep yeserday, and was running through the events of the day, with Swapneel now at Torino for the Winter Olympics (not for the games, as an IT hell desk courtesy Atos Origin) and the project and college reopening and stuff like that, this comes to my head:
 
Someone must be making all those sex-toys that they tout in my face every day I open my inbox. I mean, seriously, everything from surveys, design, conception (pun intended), planning, manufacturing / production, quality assurance, sales and support, they must have it all!
 
I mean, look at the situation here… So when someone asks you, you tell them what? “I work at the sex-toys factory”? Hilarious.
 
And then how do they go about designing new products? CEO: “Well, I have this irresistible desire… Gimme some clay, and I’ll see what satisfies me.” And bang, here comes a new product!
 
What about quality assurance? How does one do that here? Material tests? Actual use (eeeks!)? Animal testing? Do they subject it to stress testing? Like how? Give it to a baby elephant or something? This is too funny.
 
“Welcome to XXX toys. My name is Sophia. How may I help you?”
“Well, I have this um.. Er… Ah… Problem.”
“Yes, sir, what seems to be the problem?”
“Well, it’s kind of a guy thing… No offense, but can I speak to someone of the other sex?”
 
Another way:
“So ma’am, what happened?”
“Well, I was using the total vibra suite 2006 and suddenly it stopped working!”
“Are you sure the batteries are ok?”
“Fuck, what do you take me for?”
“Ma’am, just calm down… Can you please check?”
“Calm down? WTF? I mean, it gives up on me, at the moment… This is so frustrating…”
“Maybe the buttons… Check the remote…”
“I’m never buying one of your products… They are no different than the real thing!”
 
BTW, there’s this very freak other industry, that manufactures stuff that runs off blue tooth… Complete with software that can run on your phone, so that you can give yourself, or your partner, minutes of pleasure with your phone… Just don’t let it get hacked into… And yes, they now have it for the iPod as well… With 71 total vibrating combinations, so the music really lives in you!

2006, Jan 07

What’s with BEP?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Hrishikesh @ 00:19

The Black-Eyed-Peas, that is.
 
I am not a very big fan of the Hip-Hop and the Rhythm and the Blues, but then, I do like the BEP. I think I have all of their albums. And they are pretty good too… With the beats and the general funk, with some really hilarious songs, take the Elephunk Theme for instance.
 
But then, I don’t understand one thing. All of their albums start off really funky and cool, and then in the end there’s this obligatory world peace / come close all / let’s all be together / come join us for the greater good kind of songs… I mean, WTF?
 
Do they have a contract or something with the society? To produce at least one of the above? Did someone give them an ultimatum that we won’t buy your songs until and unless there’s one of the above? Seriously.

2006, Jan 06

Blog Limits

Filed under: Uncategorized — Hrishikesh @ 00:30

It’s really unfortunate that I cannot put up anything and everything I want here.
 
Really, really unfortunate.
 
And you, dear reader, is, for once, not to blame.
 
Because it is me.
 
I don’t want you to read certain stuff.
 
That’s the way it is. Sad.
 
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I guess, in my head I’m trying to make this blog something it isn’t.
And yes, this was written in this very point size.

2006, Jan 04

Does it really matter? – Reflections

Filed under: Uncategorized — Hrishikesh @ 04:03

If you have not read it yet, read this first.
 
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That was one hell of an ugly piece… Not what I wanted it to be…
 
The real point was: I am tired of doing stuff because I should be doing it. It’s not that I don’t want to do it, or that doing it is going to do me any harm, or vice versa… But it must be done, or so says something in me, and I do it. Until this other really nice and wicked thought comes along: What if I don’t do it?
 
Does it matter? Really matter?
 
And the answer to it usually is NO.
 
It’s funny actually. Because the real work (to finish that stuff) takes very little time. It’s the time spent in having it in the pipe-line, and thinking about it, mulling over: “Oh, I got to do this!” that is all consuming. The actual task is almost never that difficult.
 
There have been innumerable instances when I have finished stuff in like one-hundredth of the time allotted to it… Only, it took that little time because the deadline was that close. So, if you were to look at it from outside, it took all the time that was given to it. Now this is saaad.
 
Because so much more could have been accomplished in it. And very frustrating, because I realize this, and acknowledge it, but never do anything to stop it, or improve upon it. It’s one of those things that you don’t care enough, and get swept below the mattress, lost until the next spring cleaning.
 
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I am going to stop here, because this piece is not being written in the way I wanted it to either… Which is sad, because it means there is something wrong. Let’s see if I can place my pinkie on it… Till then, enjoy!

Does it really matter?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Hrishikesh @ 03:52

People live life in all sorts of ways. Some live it always under pressure and worry, always thinking what problems tomorrow will bring forth, and how they can best brace themselves so as to overcome them. Some others, life like there was no tomorrow, as if they don’t care, and the rest of the world can buy itself a one-way ticket to hell.
 
The problem is, good people, the ones that we call average Joe, like me and you, and probably that guy around there who won’t read this because he does not know it exists and even if he did, he probably would be too busy taking care of his day to read this; all of these people are of the first kind.
 
It should really be no surprise. It’s kind-of evolutionary, in our genetic make-up… Remember the squirrel who gathered nuts for winter? Or the famous grasshopper fable? They are all here to imbibe into us the worry of tomorrow…
 
And then, as if that was not enough, comes the worry of society, of personality, or peers…
 
How many times have you not done what you wanted to because you felt someone would be hurt? Or because your mind was too busy trying to figure out how it would affect your standings, your image, your tomorrow? There are very few people today, who cannot care less.
 
It’s not money that can spare you this trouble. It’s not not having money either. It’s almost entirely got to do with your thought process…
 
While it’s very difficult to actually do this, try it out: Do something completely stupid. Here are some suggestions:
  • On the day of submission, if you are anything like the average Joe mentioned above, you will still have not finished whatever it is that needs to be submitted. Don’t fret. Don’t kill yourself over it. Just don’t submit. Do it when you finish it… Take another day. It won’t matter. Because if it did, you’d have finished it before anyway. And if you are anything like me, you’ll do it doubly better and shine.
  • Call a random person in your phone book, and have a chat. Funny thing is, I have some numbers in my cell phone contacts, with names that I cannot associate. I just can’t recall who they are, or why they are there in my list. It’s really silly.
  • If a friend asks for an opinion, for once tell them the truth. And it won’t matter if you tell that one special friend how you feel about them… What’s to happen? Worst-case: They’ll hate you. Their loss.
Anyway, I think you get the idea by now… ;-)

2006, Jan 02

Get Windows Live Mail

Filed under: Uncategorized — Hrishikesh @ 01:29

Normally you would need an invitee, but here‘s the deal!
 
Remeber to follow all the instructions and ensure that your location is United States and not any other nation/region.
 
Enjoy! ;-)

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