Geekiest. Maize Maze, Ever.
Star Trek fan Tom Pearcy has planted 1.5 million maize plants to cut the maze, which features images of Mr Spock, the USS Enterprise and what looks like Captain Jean-Luc Picard and a Borg cube.
Check it out at: Maize: the final frontier
Thanks to Sarcasmo’s Corner for the link.
– Suramya
This weekend was interesting and fun.
Friday Night:
Was working till almost 2 am to meet a project deadline. Then read a book and watched TV.
Saturday:
Woke up at around 1 pm after going to bed at 6am. Then drove to Priya Cinema Complex in Delhi to meet Gaurang and Kangan. It was a lot of fun, another friend Anuj also joined us and we spent a couple of hours just hanging out drinking coffee and talking. Then we drove to Gudgaon to Kangan’s place to pick up Kunal and Kangan’s mom to go out to dinner.
While we were driving my car started giving me trouble. It was shaking like we had a flat but when we checked the tires all of the tires looked ok, then we decied to leave the car in delhi and take Anuj’s car instead because we weren’t sure of what was wrong with the car and we were planning to be out really late so it didn’t seem safe to drive it.
We arrived safely at Kangan’s house and waited for Kunal to get back home and then we went to eat dinner at this Chineese place. The food was really good but the service was horrible. We waited for over 45 mins for the food to arrive after we placed the order and we were about to walk out when the food arrived. But it was good food.
Then Aunty went home and we (Me, Gaurang, Kunal, Anuj and Kangan) drove to this club called ‘Buzz’. It was ok, the DJ was bad. All she played for the first 1 1/2 hours was pure punjabi music. One or two panjabi songs are ok but 1 1/2 hours of it is a bit too much. Thankfully later she started playing some decent music. Another problem with the place was the smoke. Clubs in india don’t have a no smoking rule so the place was really smoky and it gave me a headache. But it was still a lot of fun.
Once we got out Anuj dropped me in Delhi and I drove to Noida. Surprisingly the car gave me no trouble when driving home. 🙂 I got home at about 2:30 am and then couldn’t sleep, so I watched the season premiere of Stargate Atlantis and Stargate SG1. They were good.
Also watched a movie called Arlington Road. It is a really interesting move about a college professor who starts suspecting that his neighbour is a terrorist. I can’t tell you more about the movie without giving spoilers but I can tell you that its really interesting and you wont expect the ending.
Spent most of Sunday sleeping. At night I finished reading this book called Altered Carbon which was ok. Its a techno thriller that I sort of liked. Meaning it was worth reading once but not over and over.
Then I saw part of this old hindi movie called Namak Halal that I really liked. Its a really funny movie. Yes I do watch hindi movies sometimes but the ones I like are mostly old hindi movies. e.g. Namak Halal, Satte Pe Saata, Judwaa, Andaz Apna Apna etc. Most of the new ones I have seen are really crap.
Wanted to watch Pirates of the Carrebian II but its not out in India yet 🙁
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.
– Suramya
Found the following website called Overplot created by Google employee Mihai Parparita which maps funny conversations people overheard in New York onto a Google Map.
Below is a sample of quotes from the site:
Dad: All I know is right now, somewhere, an artist is sitting back and laughing at us.
Little girl: Or if he’s in Australia, he might be sleeping.
Subway conductor: Please enter the train as human beings, not wild animals.
Dim bulb: I’d say the odds are pretty good. At least fifty-fifty.
Dimmer bulb: No, they’re not that good. More like forty-forty.
Thanks to Google Blogoscoped for the link.
– Suramya
Ok, havn’t posted on the blog for the past few days as life suddenly got really busy. Deadlines suck. We have a project due on Friday now I have to do crazy hours to finish testing… Haven’t slept for a while so if this post doesn’t make sense you know why.
Finished reading a couple of good books and found some new authors I really liked: Kelley Armstrong: Women of Otherworld Series, C.E Murphy: Urban Shaman Series, Carrie Vaughn: Kitty Series, Kim Harrison: Hollows Series, Laura Anne Gilman: Retriver Series, Patricia Briggs: All her books, Rachel Caine: Weather Warden Series. Yes, thats more than a couple. 🙂
You know Amazon.com’s recomendation system is really good, I especially like the system where people post lists of books they like. Found some really good books that way.
I have given up on Anita Blake novels, they read more like porn novels than actual Fantasy novels… I mean whatever happened to having an actual story? It looks like the author knows that sex sells so her novels are sex with a small side of a story.
Watched the season finalle of the New Dr Who series. It was really good, love they way they ended it. Unfortunately I have to wait till Christmas for the continuation. 🙁 Why do they only have 13 episodes per season? Another new series I have started watching is Blade the Series. So far only two episodes have been broadcast and they were decent, nothing great but not bad either.
The house we are building is nearing completion. It looks great.
Well this is all for now. I think I will go sleep now.
– Suramya
I have posted my article on Converting video formats with ffmpeg in the Linux tutorials section.
This article was originally published in the June issue of the Linux Journal.
Thanks,
Suramya
Found this interesting article on The Register about Cross-cultural dispatches from the gender wars
Below are some that I really liked:
1. Among the Native American Navajo, cultural tradition assigns gender to the rain. Male rain is the brief, drenching, thunderous storms of late summer. Female rain is the long, soft, dampening drizzle of winter. It is further believed that male rain acts as a power wash and drives off whatever bad there is. Female rain acts as a tender rinse and brings forth the colour of the grass and wild flowers of the springtime.
4. The Chamula people of Mexico practice a six-month trial marriage to see if the couple can live together successfully. What makes this arrangement different from what we so often practice is that this trial marriage is without sex.
5. In the remote northwestern desert region of China, there is an oasis town by the name of Hami. It is a customary courtesy for both married and unmarried women to offer themselves to any traveling man. It is seen as merely good manners among a people who highly value good manners in all things (by the way all you men out there, the tour bus leaves for Hami in five minutes!).
– Suramya
Good tutorial on IP Subnetting. Now it makes a bit more sense to me than it used to…
Check it out: IP subnetting made easy
– Suramya
This is a really cool flash application that allows you to create Visio like diagrams using flash. I tried it out and found the system to be pretty responsive. It allows you to share the documents you create for collaborative editing and if you like what you have you can export it as image files (jpg, png) or as SVG files that can be imported into Visio.
I like the idea and will probably use it for personal stuff, however I don’t think I would use it if I ever had to design some sensitive/confidential system layout. I searched for a privacy policy but couldn’t find any so don’t know what level of privacy are they offering. Without a privacy policy they can do whatever they want with your data.. Not saying that they will, just that they can.
Check it out: Gliffy.com – Diagram and draw in your web browser
Thanks to Adam Fields (weblog) for the link.
– Suramya
As some of you probably know I love taking photos but I have always had trouble capturing fireworks, they just don’t come out nicely for me 🙁
The following article’s have some awesome tips on how to photograph fireworks so now that I know the secret you can expect some nice pics of fireworks on my site in the near future 🙂
For Digital Cameras: New York Institute of Photography – Tips on Fireworks Digital Photography
For Regular Cameras: How to Photograph Fireworks
Thanks,
Suramya
My Sister Surabhi, Vinit and a couple of other friends are spending the 4th July weekend in California… and I spent it at home.
They went bungie jumping, I went to visit relatives.
They have to eat out, I get to eat home made food.
They are enjoying the sun, I am hiding from it (its boiling hot here).
Yes. I am a little bit jealous. 🙁
– Suramya
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