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Posted December 17, 2008 by gagan & filed under fun, life.

I had the same status message on GTalk for the last two days (stuck on some song). I was thinking of a new one to keep and I remembered this Big Bang Theory episode where Sheldon asks the same question to his friends.

But as I kept this status message, I got these (honest?) ideas (the best one is at the end, btw):

Ajay Somani (who is going to read is 701th blog post today): food sucks (this one was the answer Sheldon gave)

Srijan: transpose you position twice if you are on the same spot then you are in the matrix ow u are not

Mine: Net speeds wouldn’t suck so much!

(name witheld on request): Stare at a girl’s b**bies for some time continuosly…. If her Br* pops off, then you are inside the matrix, if she slaps you instead, then you are not…

Posted December 12, 2008 by gagan & filed under fun, funny, IIIT, life.

I don’t know what’s gotten into me, but with each passing semester I feel less inclined towards ‘studying’. This time, I didn’t even bother to do any pre-preparation for the exams (yeah, there was a time I used to do that) and just prepared for the exams at the moment.

And what do you do in an exam in which you’re totally blank? Think of answers like this:

Compilers:

If you were purchasing a compiler, what five features would you consider important?

….. It would be a plus point if the compiler is free, instead of having to purchase it.

(I was about to write a propaganda about free software, but then thought better about moving on.)

PR:

How will you make a vending machine that accepts notes as currency. Draw a diagram to explain your process.

Diagram? You got it! Drew a vending machine and wishing I had brought colors. And at the end of the flow graph, guess what? A stick figure drinking a cola!

Networks:

What do you understand by PVC? (I actually lol’ed while writing this )

PVC is a plastic. It is synthesized and synthetically manufactured. It is used for covering network cables (to prevent them from getting cut).

Next exams: Write answers in poetry!

Posted November 9, 2008 by gagan & filed under fun, IIIT, life.

Now this specific guy, let’s call him Mr. X, was a bit high and this other guy, let’s call him Mr. Y, was bothered that X was blasting songs at a loud volume in the owl hours with the ITWS exam due the next day.

Y goes to X’s room to tell him to keep it down. The conversation (would probably have) went something like this:

Y: abe yaar volume kam kar le. kal exam hai.
X: main nahi karunga. main to full volume (turning the volume knob) par sununga.
Y: OK yaar. sun le.

X had turned the volume down to nothing and he continued listening like that.

Posted November 5, 2008 by gagan & filed under IIIT, life.

During the last few days, me, Ejaz, Saransh and others have been reading like every joke on SantaBanta and there was this one joke that we started asking others as a question just for fun. The joke is:

Interviewer: Tell me five ferocious animals you can think of?
Santa Singh: 3 Lions and 2 Tigers.

So, whoever we asked, came up with the most interesting set of members of the cat family (is cat family so damn scary?) – cheetah, lion, tiger, leapord, jaguar and besides that, crocodiles, bears – and for heaven’s sake – I heard someone even said cockroach!

Last night, while going to Dominos, I asked the same question to Sanrag.

Answer: Five lions.

I bow to you dude.

You pwn even Santa Singh.

Posted October 17, 2008 by gagan & filed under IIIT, life.

… I sleep after a night-out I’m gonna do this.

No prizes for guessing whose room is this.

People: Please be considerate that others might be sleeping. Not everyone wakes up, and more so, wants to be woken up, at 9AM.

Posted October 12, 2008 by gagan & filed under Felicity, IIIT, life.

I would write an euology, but Srijan has already done so.

Here is the video on YouTube

For those you who are lucky enough to have a high bandwidth connection, you can watch the HD version on Vimeo. The avi file can be downloaded from there (230MB).

For those who are interested, these are the songs used in the video

Disturbed – Decadance
Fatboy Slim – Right Here, Right Now
Kid Rock – Bawitdaba
Monster Magnet – Look To Your Orb For The Warning
Paul Van Dyk – Nothing But You (Cirrus Remix)
Poets Of The Fall – Fire
Tool – Parabol
Tool – Parabola

PS: Many of you have said that the soundtrack is not good. Will try to improve after these effing mid-sems end which, though, I feel like I am gonna flunk anyway.

Posted August 25, 2008 by gagan & filed under Uncategorized.

When I last blogged five months ago; I wasn’t hoping for myself that I wouldn’t blog for this long. But then, the holidays started and I felt too lazy to write another post. I have grown really lazy over the holidays. I haven’t even set up my room stuff properly (or even improperly ) ever since I shifted to my new room.

Anyway, here’s me making a comeback. And this time (I hope) for good.

My five month tale:

1) Got a project in CVIT under Dr. Jawahar. No sarcasms necessary here, people.

2) Saw loads of movies over the holidays. Saw That 70s Show, The Big Bang Theory too. Saw first two seasons of O.C. Couldn’t continue further because it started sucking. Watching Friends these days.

3) Finally got a single room, which is in a horrible condition right now.

4) Saw The Dark Knight in IMAX. My first IMAX experience. Though the movie did not deserve the #1 slot on IMDB for so long (it’s 3rd now).

5) Bought a new 250GB external harddisk (which is full right now). God, I need more drives!

6) Learnt a lil’ bit of German.

7) Classes are really boring. POPL is probably the suckiest subject this time around. Good thing it’s only a half semester course. Dozed off in a PR class and the prof. tried to wake me up. Didn’t.

PS0: Song of the day – 10,000 Days by Tool. Beautiful song!

PS1: QoTD – erased!

Seeing the fact that only one person blogs from UG2k6 regularly, I tag all the people in my blogroll (Aakanksha, Anshul (his post is gonna be long), Sanrag, Sunanda) to blog about their absence by the end of this week. And keep on blogging regularly.

Posted April 1, 2008 by gagan & filed under Uncategorized.

WARNING: Spoilers might be ahead.

Google always has new tricks up its sleeve for April Fools Day, and this time, it’s a plan to establish a human settlement on Mars. Check it out at: Virgle

Another prank is gDay, which allows you to search web pages 24 hours before they are created.

And another one from Google is Custom Time, allows you to send mail in the ‘past’. Man, I wish I had that feature after what happened yesterday .

Check out NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day too.

ThinkGeek has a nice t-shirt. Anyone for buying it?

Edit/Update: Check out Orkut too. The logo is kind of nice.

Posted March 30, 2008 by gagan & filed under IIIT, life.

One more semester gone and only two posts. One post “copy, paste, few comments” and other one a pic post. Long break from blogging.

But it wasn’t my fault. Ask any IIITian, you would know. The fourth semester of IIIT. That’s right. The semester which is said to be the most demanding for a IIITian. Not that I was studying in the classes or anything like that, but then you gotta blame someone.

Will be back soon.

Posted February 12, 2008 by gagan & filed under IIIT, life.

Felicity ’08 was a hell lotta fun. Enough has been blogged about it, so I’m not gonna talk about anything how good it was, what we can do next time and yada-yada. Just the pics.

(You can view the Picasa album at here and here)