actuality.log

It’s odd. As I had mentioned earlier, housing issues have been quite chaotic over the past few weeks. I did plan to best (ab)use the situation to my advantage of course, as usual.
So, ads were put up, people came, saw and all that jazz, and I had pretty much made up my mind to say [...]

And in an unexpected turn of events, I am actually busy today. Not so busy that I don’t have time to blog. But so busy that today’s entry won’t be more than these two sentences.
Update: I wasn’t entirely truthful. I’m just lazy to think or really type. Limited the google box in the main site [...]

During some hard core site update time, I actually read through the stuff on some of the pages after ages. I realized one page in particular, about me had the worst title in the world. It’s not about me in any sense of anything. Then thought about it a bit, and realized how hard it [...]

Put in a lot of work on the stupid site today. My god, this horrid template and scheme of things is insanely complicated to handle. In the end, just ended up horribly breaking the entropy page. But it has to be fixed soon since I made that and the other broken resume page live.
Sux.
On the [...]

Recently there was a mail on an FSF India mailing list from a person looking for Debian GNU/HURD CDs and he’d cc’d RMS. So here is the mail, Srikanth’s response followed by Stallman’s. :D
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there anyone here who has Debian GNU/Hurd cd’s? (preferably the K4
>> release). I have tried the vendors listed [...]

I suddenly remembered about it and thought I had missed “Mars Earth come closest in 60,000 years and hence see the red planet with your naked eye” day. Rushed to find Divya’s mail and re-read the article. (Yes, you will note that it’s linked to the print version of the article and like every good [...]

I mean literally. The sun never really did come out. It’s been drizzling lightly all day. The university is still closed. Oh, how I miss my broadband. Now I know that’s something I HAVE to order ASAP. The budget and things can go to hell.
Also, been alone at home for most of the day. I [...]

Power’s back. Woohoo! :D
But I shouldn’t be celebrating should I? The damn thing shouldn’t have gone in the first place. Few hours ok, a DAY ok.. MORE? First world nation, G7 member, yeah right. No food, no water, no power for over a day, life was complicated. People turned into cannibals and so on.
Ok, that [...]

Ahh yes, it’s that time of year where housing plans (uncertainties?) cause unnecessary confusion in our otherwise quiet lives. It all started some time ago when my current roomies and I decided (or so I thought anyway) that we wanted to stay in the same apartment next year. Easy enough decision, this is a nice, [...]

Professor to two students: Ahh yes, I say we vote on whether we meet tomorrow.
Students A,B: (Nod)
Professor: I vote no, and my vote counts 3 times as much as yours A, or B’s.
Students A,B: (Nod)
No meeting the next day. Ah yes, democracy at its finest. :D
(Of course, it seems funnier when you go through this [...]

[voice of the stupid oven mitt from the Arby's ads]
It’s the end of the internet. No, it’s the end of the world!
[/voice of the stupid oven mitt from the Arby's ads]
Google is not pinging. Noooo…
UPDATE: Oh, it must have been some problem at my end. It’s up and all is well. Nothing more to see [...]

I was talking to someone earlier today, and some really stark, not so nice, realizations hit me. To condense these and put it bluntly, I don’t think I can deal with failure very well.
The reason why I say, “I don’t think I can deal with failure very well”, as opposed to saying, “I don’t deal [...]

In major (enough) life news, I appreciated the opportunity to become a TA, but (I think quite skillfully) declined the offer.
My Free Software apparel’s been coming in slowly and steadily. I now own this shirt, and this one. Finally got my blender hat from the blender shop.
Now, for some debian apparel and my geek clothing [...]

OK, now that I have your attention, let’s look carefully at that statement above: “I MIGHT be getting married soon.”
I might also be climbing Mt. Everest sometime soon, or perhaps, be curing AIDS.
I think you see what I am hinting at. Humble reader, let me introduce you to the power of words like might.
The central [...]

Here is an excerpt from a conversation I had with a person a long time ago regarding Free Software. Free software is good for me, you, and society. This log is longer than it ought to be, but you just have to deal with it. The color coded html is how gaim stores its logs. [...]