tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52797892011-04-21T14:10:00.916-05:00Collection of rambling thoughts I hope no one publishes on paper <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/381/171/1600/top1.jpg"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/381/171/320/untitled.jpg"/></a>InAustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536026570751030673noreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279789.post-16209342323541635312007-05-07T18:51:00.000-05:002007-05-07T18:54:32.958-05:00

My apartment sucks :( They won't fix the effin A/C. So I am exercising a little free speech here.To help me spread the haterade, link to the blog http://chateauduval.blogspot.com from your homepage. Yeah, make a flimsy pretext...like... InAustin lives in the "infernal Chateau Duval" or InAustin is "boiling in the Texas heat at Chateau Duval".Bump up the page rank :)

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InAustin's li'l bro DJ Sagga rocks Philly during his apprenticeship under a greenish looking spinner called DJRooGirl. From what I understand, they play deep house, trance and progressive house in the afternoon -- which is a sure fire way to keep listeners up through the post-lunch haze, sans caffeine, after that extra slice of turkey sandwich. What keeps DJ Sagga awake, naturally, is the

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Crossposted at naachgaana.Surely this one requires no spoiler alert. But if you have been comatose for nearly a year, it should suffice to know that the film is essentially an All-Veggie All-Aboard three-day two-night hurdle through Europe. Except that here you don't just take a look at the Mona Lisa, quickly snap what will surely be a badly illuminated photo next to the multiple layers of

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My brother, who hails from plebian Philly, was in dire need of a cultural shot in his arm and so I took him and this other dude I know from high school to a show on the Great White Way. Like the paranoid obsesser that I am, the first thing I did on Saturday morning was to wake my ass up and head over directly to the place where they put all this tamasha up. Naturally, the Nathan Lane and Matthew

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Latin: Sic transit gloria mundi English: Thus passes the glory of the world.Punjabi: Hot chicks don't remain hot. Latin: Timeo geeks et dona ferentis English: Beware of geeks bearing gifts.

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What do I do now when I have nothing to waste my time on?? My productivity has peaked to such lofty heights that I have sent over 2 articles (!!) to various academic journals today itself.Now, as I walk down the corridors of my lab, my labmates cringe as my caffeinated energy focusses so intently towards my research -- bathing my section of the lab in its intense refulgence. My B-2 pencils are

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All evening he'd wondered how it would be to touch that skin, run his hands through her hair. They'd touched knees beneath the small bistro table. And they'd both decided that they didn't want dessert. He drove up to her kerbside. They held glances for seconds together -- it was easy, effortless. Unawkward. "Coffee?"

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EvEr SiNcE wE stalked each other on XangaYou gave me anon. eprops; filled myDreams with kaleidoscopic manga,I've wanted to buy you dil-shaped balloons.Now you will call me yo babydaddy, yayy!And me you snookums. Hug, kiss,And stop traffic with aww-inspiring PDA.Common bayyybee shake that kundiI'll be your munda, you my mundi.

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If The Saw has taught movie audiences anything, it is that horror movies without suspense are about as scary as wathcing back-to-back Discovery Channel series on heart transplants over dinner. In the post- Scary Movie world where every horror-movie cliche has been parodied to its premature death - gore is at best the new kitsch. However, this insight seems to have eluded Eli Roth and the rest of

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A few sips down the line

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Rhapsody Playlist for the New Year: 1. Pull Up The People - M.I.A.2. Killer Of Giants - Ozzy Osbourne3. December - Collective Soul4. Fado Portugues - Amalia Rodrigues5. The Look Of Love (From 'Casino Royale') - Sergio Mendes & Brasil 666. Never Gonna Let You Go - Sergio Mendes7. The Girl From Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto8. Who Needs Forever (Thievery Corporation remix) - Astrud Gilberto/Thievery

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They make fun yet I'm the one Attempting to do some good Or do you really want a neighborhood Where people piss on your stoop every night? Bohemia, Bohemia's A fallacy in your head This is Calcutta Bohemia is dead-- 'La vie Boheme' Turn right off East Village, and instead of reaching the Czech republic you'll arrive, via a literary shortcut, at Calcutta --  or more accurately the version best

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Courtesy PG

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Return of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.RealTechNews blog featured an article about bacterial photographs created by bio-engineered E. Coli that produce a black pigment when NOT exposed to light and vice versa.And look what the bellyache bacteria have drawn for us! It's not "Take me to your leader". Or maybe it is?This diabolical daguerrotype was made at a Longhorn lab in collaboration with Chris

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News 8 Austin profiled my lab, the Wireless Networking and Communications Group at The University of Texas at Austin last night as part of a news story on the recent trend of increasing numbers of international engineering graduate students opting to return back to their home countries upon graduation.They interviewed fellow-labbie Aamir Hasan who cheers for the wrong side ;) in a cricket

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[This one is via SepiaMutiny]Pat Robertson has struck terror in the hearts of people in the little town of Dover, PA. Now that the debauchers in New Orleans and Houston have been appropriately chastised by God for dodging taxes, cheating on their wives and in general causing the sort of mayhem that would do any frat-house foam-party proud, the good folks of Dover know that Mr. Robertson does

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I got tagged to do this and I have to, despite me hate of compiling lists.7 things I want to do in this lifetime:1. Visit South America2. Write a novel3. Drive a Ferrari4. Say “I don’t think so, X!” where X is some head-of-state using my best Home Improvement voice.5. Go snorkelling in the Australian Bay.6. Create a foundation to end scientific ignorance.7. Own a smallish Monet.7 things I can do:

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"No I musn't," He tentatively eyed the soft white flesh that would give way like a warm sponge to the touch of his fingers. "Just one more." she eyed him coyly, sweat dripping past her forehead, her fists clenched nervously. "Beta, have another rosogolla. She made it specially for you. She cooks very well too."

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The little boy's eyes were the blue of the mountains and the skies beyond them. Of the sapphires that his mom sold. But the boatman who told these fantastic tales chose to taunt his prodigious nose. Now he's grown up and the boatman will take him across the lake to meet his bride to be.

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1000 unique reads.1000 unique reads Need I say more? Thank you gentle readers. More importantly, I thank everyone who has randomly arrived at this blog and decided it was not worth their time (and who can blame them?) but left their lasting impression in the form of a digital uptick on my Blogpatrol counter.'Whatever!', I say, and pop the celebratory bubbly.

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Nooooo she didn't say that! Toral Mehta played the religion card on tonight's episode of the Apprentice. While we all respect diversity, I am sure any other Indian-American would have called her bluff when she cited religious and cultural reasons for not being able to wriggle into a puffy cheesy outfit. Unfotunately, her recently appeased Gods did not come to her resuce at the Boardroom and the

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I spoke with my contact at the Department of Education over the weekend soon after the Sooner rout. To be fair, I called him up only to brag about the victory. Wilbur had graduated from OU with a degree in Physics a couple of years back and is now a minor underling of some sort at Secretary Margaret Spellings' office, so when he seemed incoherent over the line, I naturally put it down to denial.

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If eyes are windows to your soul, the eyes of the man facing him were shuttered and dark. Looking to either side he saw his comrades look back at him with the grim steel of their helmeted warfaces. As the sea of burnt orange screamed "Sooners Suck!" in unison, he felt less freshman and more man.

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When I arrived here, she was far past the midnight of her birth.She'd done it all these 33 years into ripe maturity. - teenage idealism, torrential adolescent squabbles with her siblings, romances with revolutionaries. Like her, we mid-life's children learnt the value of a stable bank balance and grew too wary to fall in love. 

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In the summer afternoon quiet, he helped the Ashramites collect the white cotton towels drying on the line. Bathing with his clothes on today, out on the mossy stones next to the well, with the rest, he had missed being perfectly naked in her tub with the door closed to the world outside, with her. + -  -  + + -  -  + + -  -  + + -  -  + + -  -  + + -  -  + + -  -  + + -  -  + + -  -  + + -  -  +

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This one was typed with RocketPost, which is the new Windows based blog-editor RocketPost, which is the new Windows based blog-editorfrom mutineer Manish Vij's software behemoth Anconia. That explains the cool new formatting options that I have now. Also, since I will no longer lose posts because my wireless connection flaps, it is likelier that I will post more often. And perhaps with somewhat

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This is from the US site of Reliance India Call which is a VOIP based calling service if you want to call anywhere in India from the US.One hates to ridicule a service that is quite all right, but it appears that the media/communications/advertizing people are not really well up on high-school physics. First prize to whoever gets it right first.

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Yahoo Messenger's new special garam Indian beta version puts the chaat-masala back in chatting. The new audibles section gives you the Mumbai street-smart you've always wanted but were afraid to try out.It is perhaps a fitting tribute from the creative people at Yahoo to the millions of Yahoo users in India. Neville Taraporewalla, Country GM, Yahoo! India talks to the IOA and says:We have put

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This one is from Manish at Sepia Mutiny.Recall our recent outrage at what the Times of India has been publishing lately. And how it has taken comic turns in the form of unwarranted humour on the part of the hacks in Mumbai working for it.Now the TOI imputes that Jason Alexander from Sienfeld was married to Britney Spears! Now any schoolgirl would let you know that Britney was actually married for

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Xinhuanet reports that Angeline Jolie will be acting in a Paramount + Warners joint production of Beowulf, which you ignorant money-grubbing non-English-major fools should know is an...Old English epic poem, which is thought to have been written in the eighth century, [that] chronicles the exploits of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the indomitable monster Grendel.The movie

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That's what I'll be saying soon enough. At least if Prof. K M L Misra et. al. have their way.As reported in the Telegraph and in Instant Kaapi a group of historians from Agra Archaeological Society led by KML Misra former Head of History at Agra College are lobbying with the President of India to rename the capital city (and state) from Delhi to Dehli. He says"For 800 years Delhi was called

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Reuben Abraham from ZooStation writes in about the pathetic state of journalism in India, especially the TOI, long hailed as the benchmark of Indian news and features journalism. Read about it here.Now there is talk of setting up a collaborative weblog to be an Indian media-watchdog. Do you think that Indian bloggers can make a difference?Mediaah's recent debacle with the powers-that-be at the

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This one is via OgsandEnds.With an attitude that recalls the aggressive attestation of Black identity in hip-hop culture, your timid FOB helpdesk guy is striking back by bear-hugging the very stereotype (see video here) that makes him a pariah in all parties except your Auntijie's Diwali party.InAustin predicts that in the next twenty years, you'll see kids running around in leather chappals and

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Move over Aibo. Japanese researchers have created the first female android and she is called Repliee Q1 just so that you don't forget she is a robot.She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe.However, any fears/doubts that this fair lady might be one of the fine young ladies that you might have dated in the past, are quite unfounded. While Professor

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The MoMA, as we all know, houses the best and finest of Modern American Art. In a bid to bring design into the drab HomeDepot interiors of every apple-pie baking mom's boudoir, the MoMA organizes the International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design annually.So when Charles and Ray Eames, two furniture makers and architects from LA decided that they wanted to enter it in 1948, they knew

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Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid. Here's what they thought of me. I am a little bugged since I am not an LOTR freak by a mile. In fact, I couldn't care less if Bilbo bailed on the whole ring-courier job and assumed an early retirement to smoke his pipe in peace.You're The Fellowship of the Ring!by J.R.R. TolkienFacing great adversity, you have decided that your only choice is to unite with

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Rent is inflated and this time we are not talking about real estate. Sure it has great music and the cast is talented, but the play lacks direction. It started off pretty crazily, but once we had reconciled ourselves to the fact that our ticket-money would not buy us a visual feast on the scale of The Lion King or even Chicago (where most of the cast was in fishnet body stockings) we noticed that

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I was at a Barnes & Noble in Manhattan on the day that the book was unveiled officially, which was about two days after the book was released by Muggles that muddle these things up. I was there, before you jump to any conclusions, to merely hang out at the Starbucks(TM). The way I see it, as long as I get to read a $12.00 book for the price of a mint chocolate chip frapuccino, I am more than

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Calvin: I've decided we should be "cooler than we are"Hobbes: We're not cool?Calvin: Sure we're cool. But we're not as cool as we could be.Calvin: Cool people wear dark glasses!Hobbes: It's cool to bump into things?Calvin: Cool people don't move, they just hang around.It ain't easy bein' cool...

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I just bought myself a spanking new Inspiron 700 and it is resting on my lap, lightly as a feather, and I can feel the CD purring softly in the drive. I feel like gloating right now, and am trying to distract myself from the hit that my bank account took.But enough about mundane and dully metallic things. No one likes a gloater much anyways, much less one that gloats about little gizmos. Now

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You guys got it. I have merely been adding crappy little snippets that could not respectably pass as posts anywhere in the whole competitive blogging world (assuming there is such a thing notwithstanding that obvious fact that most bloggers are probably self-centric screen gazers who don't give a damn either way... and you know I am not talking about teenage girls that have photologs or write

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new pics on my homepage at www.ece.utexas.edu/~bhadra

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For those of us that are intrigued by the mathematical abstractions of Communications, coming to terms with what the layperson thinks about the term can be quite a revelation. It was in my junior year at college that I decided that I would choose Communications over Circuits, those being the specializations offered at my Department. Almost no one ever took the other option - Power - seriously,

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I finally have an official homepage at the department. Check it out here. Better still, link it to your page and then I will link yours to mine and then we will keep doing this over and over again till almost any word typed on Google will direct everyone to our webpages. That is when we sell space on our webpage to Google ads and bankroll vacations in the Bahamas.

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Do I blurt out a lot? Do you think that I express myself with the effusiveness of a gushing mountain brook? Or do you think I am the more meditative sort? My journey towards self exploration continues. But, the guys at the Dept. of Psychology have shrinked me (online) and this is what they have to say. Check out my blirtatiousness and get your head shrunk too! It is hillarious and quite true. PS

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My new profile

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I was sitting in the International Office waiting for the Imigration Advisor to help me get something out of Social Security when I met Rick Chatterjee again. I had gone to high school with Rick and we had looked in on each other from time to time to recall old jokes with renewed malice. "Hi Rick. Making the leap huh?," I enquired warmly. Rick was graduating this semester and I figured he was

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(...continued from where I left off. Although I NEED to make an intellectual comment here about the inverse structure of a blog - as you read down, you go backwards in time. Sort of like reading a novel backwards. Now that I have justifiably staked my claim as an intellectual, I can proceed to prove otherwise in the rest of this blog). When we left off the last time, I was sitting in a coffee

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Do you have a TV? In case you don't, you should have invested in one like the rest of the sane population, because then you would have been able to see the coffee commericals on the box that talk about how everyone is closing major business deals and meeting up with intelligent people and writing that Booker winning novel. All this over white mugs that supposedly contain only coffee. Of course

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Noorjehan It's a mad mad world already. And Rushdie certainly does not make it any simpler. Re-reading Salman Rushdie's signature Midnight's children for maybe the fourth time, I had embarked upon the quest of matching names, characters and places from the novel to their sources in Rushdie's Bombay (it would take many more years before it became Mumbai). Beyond the obvious references to

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Blog this?

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Stretch out and YAAWWWN Repeat. Ad infinitum till you feel there is not a muscle that you could stretch more, not a sinew that you could wring harder. That more or less sums up my life outside work. That life, incidentally lasts for about a few short waking hours in the evening before I surrender to dreamless sleep and its back to the grind in the morning. I would say that my life at the moment

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Sorry for the really long entry there. I am not rabidly in favour of very long blogs myself, but this was a prose piece that Swaroop and I had written sometime this semester and there was no where else, apart from the Jam magazine, where this would be published. And getting published in the Jam magazine is not exactly a shot at Eternity. So, I put it up here. You think it's too soppy? I'll write

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Through the Looking Glass [ Sandeep Bhadra & Swaroop Venkatesh ] Five years is a long time. IIT has offered us experiences way beyond what was promised by the GCU guideline to IIT existence. As our profs will attest, there is very little to add to our JEE fundaes, and most of us have lost most of that too. Nevertheless, our five years here will remain the most memorable in our lives. IIT from

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Jabberwocky for Space-Time Trellis Codes over Multiple Input Multiple Output fading channels. If this does not get me financial aid, nothing else will !!! ‘Twas trellis and the slithy receivers Did MRRC and CDMA in the wireless-age: All Viterbi were the decoders, And the capacities outage. “Beware the Ungerboeck, my son! The signals that fade, the matrices that form! Beware the Nakagami bird,

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Starting off with poetry in spite of the title of the blog - goes to show how long I stick to my decisions. I wrote this one in the morning as I woke up in my lab watching the simulation scroll down the monitor. I decided to turn towards the bright light outside and realised that I should wake up and see the morning light more often - something people who wake up early get to do on a regular

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