Do listen to this song.. it made me sad, but in a good way..
This is a cover, but still good. Song is “I’ll follow you into the dark” by Death Cab For Cutie
I changed the title of my blog while being continuously amazingly multi-talented and *brilliant* Mr. Richard P. Feynman. I have had many a person ask me who in God’s name that is, but I’m surprised whenever I hear of an engineer or a physicist who has never heard of him.
Not only was Mr. Feynman a God of Physics (winner of a Noble prize, shared the invention of the atomic bomb and the father of Quantum ElectroDynamics), but he was also a good painter, biologist, drummer (bongo) and safe cracker. He had a sense of humour surpassed by very few. Oh, and he was also considered the father of quantum computing and nanotechnology
You have to read his books to understand who he was, as a person. The best place to start is to read “Surely you’re joking Mr. Feynman”. After that, the internet and wikipedia are your sources.
We decided to go out this weekend, and carefully (maybe not) planned a trip to Sinhagad with Rahul. We managed to take off from ground zero at around 3:30 in the afternoon.
Someone should have told us well meaning folks that it was a suicide attempt to mount that hill on a Sunday afternoon. We made it to the bottom with no problems at all, but there we hit our first (and only) technical snag. There was a lot of traffic on the hill, running into 3 hours of delay to get to the top. The cops were asking folks to turn back and not add to the mayhem.
We chose to head back. Had some really awesome Kanda-bhajji on the way, but that was it.
It was truly hilarious to see myself fighting with a stapler once I realised that there were NO pins to be found in the copy room. I was kinda pissed since the only other source of pins was to sneak into someone’s cubicle or walk up one floor to my own.
That’s when the engineering brain kicked in. I went through the paper trash box and found a single pin. I straightened it out, and artfully placed it in the stapler, tilting the it one way and the other so as to ensure that the pin is standing up (no pun intended) correctly. I then delicately closed the stapler and aligned my sheets and attempted to staple it…..
The weekend was fun, with a trip to Mumbai (drove myself up and down in my Alto) and some good times with cousins. The drive itself was okay, considering I had some really good loud music to keep me company on the drive down.
Mom had her cataract operation about 10 days ago, and had caught a viral fever right after. We were all on high alert as she is prone to asthmatic attacks when unwell. She pulled through and was well within 2 days, and there was relief all over. The doctors said that the humidity levels in Mumbai might accentuate her asthma and so I went over immediately to bring them both to Pune.
An old friend set me up on facebook and have been having fun since. It’s a fairly interesting place to be For some reason the site also re-ignited my love for photography. I shall be posting a lot more of those on there soon.
All this aside, a lot has been happening of late. I have been reading a lot of books, literature, management material, as well as core competence stuff. I want to break free!
I plan to move my hosting from 1and1 (which a’sucks) to dreamhost soon. They are offering a hell of a lot more space, and amazing bandwidth. Not to mention, they have Ruby on Rails support, which I really want to get into, going forward.
Things are fine otherwise, and coming along. Som managed to put up a cat fight pic on his blog (see comment in the previous post of mine), though I don’t know if I’d be able too.
Another friend (IK) has asked for pictures of children. Let’s hope I manage them today.
So here I am, sitting and waiting for my flight out to India, and there is this woman near me who is literally panting in to the phone.. some excerpts:
Ahhhh.. Ohhh.. that must have felt so good…..
Ohhhh… that is SO good.. I’m so happy for you.. Ahhhhh that is great….
I don’t think I can do justice to it unless I’d recorded it.
It was funny as hell, and everyone around was looking at her but I doubt if she realised what the problem really was with the way she was talking. Carrramba!
