pro-life voices in cricket!!!

the cricketers for life goes to : aleem dar, steve bucknor and anyone else involved.
amazing scenes today at the kensington oval, Barbados. yet another masterful performance by australia ending in a rather silly pantomine at the end. with 3 overs to go, and very bad light, it is offered to the sri lankan players who seem to take it. ponting and his men start celebrating, many of us including the groundstaff and commentators think the game is over, but none of this for the umpires who mandate the show ^H^H^Hgame must go on. so we get 3 more overs in what seems to be night.
good one from mike atherton "looks like they are determined to have things run their natural course" who manages diss the powers that be as the overs ebb away.

keeping it simple

had a debate in office about multi-threaded vs multi process design. soon morphed into a male/female way of thinking with my mentor arguing that men are like processes, women threads and that with multi-threading being the rage, i should take a hint.
reminds of famous saying:
a man is simple, he wants three things. sometimes he wants a woman, sometimes a sandwhich, somtimes he wants a woman who can make him a sandwhich!!!

dilbert not

i had my first performance review today, luckily no one noticed that i had a shave today morning.
review wasn't dilbertian but far, neither was it devoid of non-substance.
"1.5 person-hours" well spent i guess

poem: raindrops

pitter patter go the drops
falling pearls from the sky
the whole world taking a bath
as i wave goodbye

a wonderous journey awaits me
through the field lush azure
the world filled with romance
fills many a heart with desire

song in my heart, song in the bush
world has just taken a different hue
some people warm cosy and dry
I long to see a rainbow

the rain drenches all, you and I
dirties the cloth but clenses the soul
ill come back home someday
and the world will be made for me

the rain looks like tears but is not
the puddle looks like mud but is not
maybe your sad ,but fear not
a rainbow will shine just for you

zoom zoom zoom

met up with a friend from college and his friends last week. they had got a car and after seeing the sights they got their car from across the husdon and we drove around Manhattan at night, must say 40miles/hours has never felt so fast.(apart from calcutta) had some great shawarmas somewhere on houston street on the east side at 5am ...heavenly.

pet peeves

Programming for a living means one gets to work with different languages and tools, many of which are frustrating in their own way. Today was one such day, out of sheer ennui i entered X sucks in google (where X is what i really really hate today) and got 572,000 results. Suddenly i felt less lonely - guess the human mind looks for company, even in our hells.
Heres a link http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/lang_srom.html

sunday lazy sunday

another lazy sunday. another day when i should have got out and done something.
the pleasures of being a couch potato are too great however; and now you have the internet as well. so you can while away time in a slightly more active way. (clicking and typing is so much more effort than just pressing a few buttons on the remote)
did vacuum the house though.
in other action, placements are on my alma mater. it seems so long ago that i was going through that ringmarole. i just realized how exactly it really was in the end, just like reality tv.

now you see it now you dont

now everyone knows that new york weather is really fickle. i remember it being a "balmy" 16C(60F for the non metric) on friday aftertoon, to just below 0 today, to some predicted -10s tomorrow and day after. today it decided to snow, thankfully after i had gone for lunch. it was a mini blizzard (as some locals put it), however by 5pm i couldnt see any snow on the road; all of it melted away.
i sometimes wonder if this is all scripted somewhere. god and the truman show both flash to mind, intermittently.

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