Signs of things ahead
Saturday, August 26, 2006
A funny story as told by road signs. :LOL:
Uni has started, first week has gone by and the reports are in.
PSY 240 (Social Psych): Looks good, havent really started any course material yet but I believe it will overlap with the social psy course I took in AUS so that should be good news...yea right :P.
ECE 369 (Discrete Math): Ok the prof is a crazy mofo with even crazier grading policies and homework submission policies. I've had one lecture with actual coursework and everything, I repeat everything just flew over my head. The course seems to be geared towards programming so I just might have dug mself a deep hole here. Pray for me! :(
ECE 495V (Vertically Integrated Projects): Im in a team called E-Trans(portation). Our teams goal is to allow cell phone users with upto date traffic reports and images from intersections around the campus. This is useful during times of football games. We will work with major carriers and in built traffic sensing technology to supply the data and will also be responible for using a van loaded with tech gadgets to check the roads for potholes and other hinderances and notify the correct authority. Im more towards the web applications side which means I will be helping out in making the backend of the cell phone pages. The course seems interesting but I will have to learn some MySQL and PHP (web programming languages) to be competent enough. I think I might enjoy this course...still pray for me ;).
ECE 402 (Senior Design Project): Ahh, the big one at last. The project is very much like the one given to students in the previous semsters but with added challenges. A team is supposed to build a system which can correctly identify 3 cubes made of steel , aluminum and plastic and sort them accordingly. Also if the cube is aluminum it has be detected for cracks. All this is done in a non contact manner and is video controlled. One interesting aspect is the hacking of a black and white video signal to make it display a specific color for each material on the test display. Involves digital signal processing and what not. It seems intimidating right now but if the alumni are to be believed it gets interesting to the point of obsession. But you can still pray for me :D
Well thats about all, hopefully I *will* graduate this semester (just scared about that math course, damnit).
The agony I tell you
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Alas! I have no more will to live. I have been classified as one of the lowliest creatures to roam the planet. A few days ago the Blogger.com administration sends me the following email:
Dear Blogger user,
This is a message from the Blogger Team. In order to maintain a free,
high quality service, we use an automated classifier to identify spam
blogs.
This system has detected that your blog has characteristics that
resemble spam. Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is
probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and
we sincerly apologize for this erroneous result.
You won't be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your
site and verify that it is not a spam blog.
Me, me of all people, a spammer!! how could you blogger...I gave you everything, everything damnit! *sniff*
Ok so that was a lil over the top but I was surprised to say the least. What in this evil and vile world made my utterly neutral blog look like a spammers paradise?! Was it my outrageously bad writing skills or the so-so photography. I wonder.
Needless to say I did verify my blog since I'm posting this piece.
In other news, I miss the whole of my vacation; from the sizzling and happening Dubai, to the cool Swiss Alps, from the nostalgia loaded Nagpur trip to the fun filled Chikhaldara trip. I miss some of it so much that I lit up the hookah yesterday and made some cold coffee to go with it coz thts wht I did in Nagpur at a Cafe Coffee Day outlet with my cousins. Damn, why do good times have to end.
4 days to the onset of Fall depression.
Last of Dubai...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Laptop's back, unformatted, time to rejoice! It actually back in a better condition than before apart from the booting problem. After its first stint at toshiba's repair center last year the external LEDs for Power and hard drive werent working but they are now...woohoo! (Nerdy, yes please)
Some more photos for my thousands of fans. I love you all!...wait what was that..only 5 u say..well I love u 5 to bits.
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and jo-incidence is coincidence with a J
Thursday, August 03, 2006
My laptop's dead... for no good reason apparently...I returned from India and it refused to boot...I believe its got something to do the old and really bad X-ray machines at Nagpur airport...damn them. What is worrying me is that I gave it to the dealership and they seem to not care about the gazillion photos present on my hard drive (why should they) and might just wipe my entire hard disk...everything...gone...I will be sad :(.
Whats funny is that it died about the same time last year...and that was worse...atleast I'm here in Dubai so my loss isnt a very drastic loss. I mean to say that I still have access to other PCs and other forms of entertainment in general.
I bought an extended warranty last summer when I realized some laptop probs are just beyond my geeky domain, so hopefully I wont be stuck with a huge bill for the repairs. Toshiba was nice enough to let me knwo that if I didnt have a warranty they wudve charged my some 500 odd dollars..I dunno what it will be now.
If anybody is still wondering about the post title, watch more F.R.I.E.N.D.S, its good for your health ;)
edit: Double jo-incidence, my earlier post linked in this entry also makes a reference to F.R.I.E.N.D.S, makes me wonder on the way my brain works..hmmmm...
