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…
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I'm Vivin. I like computers, reading, latin dancing, singing, playing the piano, and playing the guitar. I'm a software engineer, computer scientist, and Tillman Scholar. I served in the Arizona Army National Guard for 9 years (from 2000 to 2009) and did a year-long tour in Iraq (2005-2006) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I am currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science. I like Star Trek, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
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!
Internet Dating
Friendster has decided that it should take charge of my love life. I got two emails alerting me to the fact that I had received messages from two girls. This itself was rather surprising as I never get messages on Friendster from women. I always seem to get them from guys who want to go…
In Oman
I’m in Oman right now. I feel a strange mix of emotions. I felt like this the last time I was here. “Bittersweet” would be the right word. It feels really nice to be back here – being with my parents and all. Although I wish my sister was here as well. It would be…
Garden City or City of Boiled Beans
Bangalore is known as the “Garden City”, but it was once known as the “City of Boiled Beans”. Legend says that King Ballala of the Hoysala dynasty lost his way in the forest. He ran into this old woman who gave him some boiled beans to eat. So he named the city “bende kaalu ooru”….
India’s Greatness
“India is Great” and “Avoid AIDS”. This is what the lorry in front of me proclaimed. “Horn Please, OK?” it also said.The lorry driver is sure that India’s greatness has everything to do with avoiding AIDS and sounding the horn at appropriate times. Hulk Hogan towers over me on a billboard, advertising a Sari. A…