Grown Up...

There is an interesting thread on reddit titled: “When did you realize that you were an adult”. I still feel that I haven’t quite reached that realization yet. I’ve come close though. During 2nd year into my master’s, I was guiding a tour of the University’s Robotics lab for middle school kids. After wowing them with some cool robots, I let them play with some of them. One of the little girls came up to me and asked shyly  Sir, Can I shake your hand?...

November 19, 2010 · 1 min

Is it just me....

… or do most men have trouble keeping track of their wife’s conversation.She started saying something that probably sounds exciting in her head, because I completely failed to see the cause of excitement. The story took 4 different related jumps and I lost track of the thread. Of course, I had to voice my thoughts: Honey, do you realize you are all over the place? I have no idea why you are telling me this....

November 16, 2010 · 1 min

I hate meetings

I hate them with a passion. When I see people sitting there trying to formulate sentences for no apparent reason but just to fill the void of silence, it just boils my blood. I was reading an article titled “Why Google can’t build Instagram” and I came across this quote how Larry Ellison actually got efficiencies from teams. If a team wasn’t productive, he’d come every couple of weeks and say “let me help you out....

November 15, 2010 · 1 min

Dinner and BSG

Yosh and I have been planning to do a BSG (Battlestart Gallactica) marathon for a while now. Finally we broke down and decided instead of doing a marathon, we’ll just one episode at a time with our dinner. Here’s to the beginning. We had vegetarian Chili, Garlic Bread, Hash Browns and Beans with sesame seeds. ◀ 1 of 4 ▶

November 14, 2010 · 1 min

Cows and Bulls == Master Mind

I found out during my Utah Python meetup that the game I created called Cows and Bulls is actually called MasterMind in the US. It’s a really simple game. The computer thinks of a 4-letter word. You start guessing that word and the computer will give hints along the way. Cows - Number of characters in your guess that match the original word, but placed in a different location. Bulls - Number of characters in your guess that match the original word, found in the exact same location....

November 13, 2010 · 1 min