What Do You Like About Your State or Country?

Michele of A Small Victory asked her readers to send her comments about their home states: What is so great about America, anyhow? What makes it such a wonderful place? What would you tell a foreigner about your home state? Pick a state, follow my example, provide links. Leave it in the comments and I’ll… Continue reading What Do You Like About Your State or Country?

What Number Are You?

I am π Everyone loves pi what number are you? this quiz by orsa

Sleep, Drive, Sleep

I was so tired on friday that I slept for 17 hours. Then I drove for 14 hours to home. And went to sleep again for 8 hours. Now I am fresh and blogging would start again soon.

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Work, Lack of Sleep, Spring Break and Blogging

So finally the report is done, the project design is almost complete and under testing and spring break is on to us. There are two problems however. I am really tired right now because of lack of sleep. I have slept only 4 hours the last two nights (and I usually need at least 8… Continue reading Work, Lack of Sleep, Spring Break and Blogging

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Nigerian 419 scam takes a life

A Nigerian diplomat in the Czech Republic was murdered by a man who was fooled by the famous Nigerian email scam. A notorious e-mail scam has resulted in the murder of a Nigerian diplomat in the Czech Republic. Fifty-year-old Michael Lekara Wayid, Nigeria’s consul in the Czech Republic, was shot dead by an unidentified 72-year-old… Continue reading Nigerian 419 scam takes a life

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Blog Talk

Some time on friday, the 5000th “unique visitor” read my blog. That’s after approximately 3 months of making the blog public.

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Busy

Blogging will be light until March 1 as I try to design a project for the VLSI class I TA and work on a research report due next friday.

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Eenie, meenie, minie, moe

One learns new things every day. Via Eve Tushnet, I found out that two African-American women have sued Southwest Airlines. The reason is said to be the reciting of “Eenie, meenie, minie, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go.” This apparently has some racist history in the US. When we get around to having kids,… Continue reading Eenie, meenie, minie, moe

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Part of Pi

Our names are represented within the first 4 billion binary digits of pi (=3.14159…) if you encode the alphabet into 5-bit binary numbers. Here are the results: search string = “zack” 20-bit binary equivalent = 11010000010001101011 search string found at binary index = 1514694396 search string = “ajmal” 25-bit binary equivalent = 0000101010011010000101100 search string… Continue reading Part of Pi