Talk about a crazy way to lose my Intel badge. I was walking into the elevator when it fell down and into the crack between the external elevator doors and the elevator car. What are the odds?
Month: September 2004
I need a Soulmate
I need a soulmate. I think the closest one right now is my buddy Nasser, who pretty much has the same train of thought as mine. It’s uncanny at times. But seriously… I was talking to Vibha yesterday and I said “Do you think you would be interested in finding out about the etymological differences…
DS9
Well anyway, so yesterday I finished watching the last episode of DS9. As I said before, I never got into it while it was showing – mostly because it never showed in Oman. But I downloaded all the episodes and I have been watching them since Spring. All I can say is, what a GREAT…
Sevillana
Today even, I went to this Sevillana dance workshop with Rachna. Sevillana is a form of dance in Spain and is known as the “mother dance” of all Spanish dances. It was complicated initially because I was not used to moving my body in such a different manner. But it was really cool, and it…
Intel and Artificial Life
This is my fourth day at Intel. I think I will enjoy working here. I haven’t done much yet though, and I still don’t know exactly what it is I am supposed to be doing. I tested some 140 chips yesterday, but that wasn’t too much work. My supervisor is out until Tuesday, so until…
Marriage is like a Cake
SuperXam: a lot of my friends are getting married SuperXam: and it’s kinda weird nassmo17: oh i know…not to mention pooja popping a kid out SuperXam: oh yeah that’s just the icing on the cake SuperXam: that is if marriage and having kids was a cake… you know… with icing nassmo17: oh definitely…I’ve always thought…
Absurd amount of traffic
Yesterday, I had trouble accessing my own site from my WinXP machine. It was really slow. It didn’t make too much sense. So I ssh’d to my FreeBSD machine and ran netstat on it. I saw a LARGE number of connections to port 80 (http). I don’t know who all these people were, or why…
Birthday
It is my birthday. I am 23! Yay!