I feel you creepin', I can see you from my shadowWhich is just totally reminds me of a certain someone's butt-spanking fetish. Lmao! That said, it's a kickass track (pun unintended) and listen to it here:
Wanna jump up in my Lamborghini Gallardo
Maybe go to my place and just kick it, like Taebo
And possibly bend you over...Look back and watch me
Smack that, all on the floor,
Smack that, give me some more,
Smack that, 'till you get sore
Smack that, oooh.
- Smack That, Eminem Ft. Akon
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Smack That!
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
NaNoWriMo 2007
Well, it's a couple weeks away and I really want to give this year a shot. After last year's pathetic attempt at a cheesy novel, I thought I'd explore what genre I wanted to do this year. Humor and mystery are both out of the question, cos my aptitude for both sucks. :P
Okay, don't laugh, but I contemplated writing Erotic Fiction, before realizing that it required a helluva lot of pre-reading. (NOT Porn!) Which I'll probably do for next year. *sheepish* I mean, didn't think getting two or more people into bed would be this difficult. Dang.
So I thought I'll write this book called Cherry Blossoms, about life, the universe and glitter. Yeah, the three passionate months and the burning flame included. Whether I actually do finish it remains to be seen. But I, in my usual narcissistic way, think the book will be widely sought after. Sigh...the comfort that complacency affords one.
Okay, don't laugh, but I contemplated writing Erotic Fiction, before realizing that it required a helluva lot of pre-reading. (NOT Porn!) Which I'll probably do for next year. *sheepish* I mean, didn't think getting two or more people into bed would be this difficult. Dang.
So I thought I'll write this book called Cherry Blossoms, about life, the universe and glitter. Yeah, the three passionate months and the burning flame included. Whether I actually do finish it remains to be seen. But I, in my usual narcissistic way, think the book will be widely sought after. Sigh...the comfort that complacency affords one.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
December Diaries
December promises to be a month of good fun. Quite a few trips on the cards and I hope I’ll be going on all of them.
I’ve been wanting to visit a classmate’s village for ages. So that’ll be where I’m heading first this December – to Sethunarayanapuram, which is about three hours drive from Madurai. About 6-7 of us are planning on the trip. And she has over 100 acres of fields and mangroves and coconut groves! So should be awesome fun!
Next will, hopefully, be one of cities I totally love – Bombay! R, A and I (the dumb-c team) have been planning on going to Mood-I forever. That’s IITB’s cult-fest, btw. Also, it’s been ages since I visited my aunt in Pune – so, while I’m at it, I’ll go see her and have famous Shrewsbury cookies. :P
And last is my routine Hyderabad trip to my cousin’s home. Where I spend one whole week being pampered, allowed to be however and generally making the most of a lot of family time.
Happy month!
I’ve been wanting to visit a classmate’s village for ages. So that’ll be where I’m heading first this December – to Sethunarayanapuram, which is about three hours drive from Madurai. About 6-7 of us are planning on the trip. And she has over 100 acres of fields and mangroves and coconut groves! So should be awesome fun!
Next will, hopefully, be one of cities I totally love – Bombay! R, A and I (the dumb-c team) have been planning on going to Mood-I forever. That’s IITB’s cult-fest, btw. Also, it’s been ages since I visited my aunt in Pune – so, while I’m at it, I’ll go see her and have famous Shrewsbury cookies. :P
And last is my routine Hyderabad trip to my cousin’s home. Where I spend one whole week being pampered, allowed to be however and generally making the most of a lot of family time.
Happy month!
Tutroial on TCP/IP
A bit of a background, that you can miss if you are comfortable with the basics.
Computers connected to the internet (or any kind of network) are referenced by IP addresses. An IP address is a set of numbers separated by periods, such as, say, 127.0.0.1 (which is a "loopback address," as it always references the computer attempting to make a connection).
Ports: It lets more than one connection to be active at any one time (otherwise, there will be chaos in multi-thread programs). Ports are "virtual," meaning, as far as the computer's concerned, they actually exist physically, and are different from each other. Computers have 2^16 possible port numbers (0 to 65535) .
Packets: Are set of data that a computer actually sends when communicating to another computer. They contain the IP of the destination computer, the destination port number, the actual data, and specific things to the TCP protocol).
So here ends the basic tutorial background. Now, the TCP portion of TCP/IP.
TCP
Itself TCP is an abbreviation for "Transmission Control Protocol." It's the general-use protocol, used for things like web browsing, playing games etc.
An interesting thing about TCP is EVERY packet is acknowledged. It also supports the ability to send and receive "fragmented packets," or packets that are too large to be sent at once. In fact, because every fragment of a packet might not follow the same path to it's destination, every fragment packet is numbered, and, once every packet reaches it's destination, the original packet is reconstructed.
Packet Construction
The first 16 bits are used to identify the source port.
Bits 17-31 contains the destination port.
32-63 are reserved for the packet's sequence number (remember the fragmented packet?).
64-95 is the acknowledgment number (if the ACK flag is set, this is the sequence number of the packet the sender expects to receive next).
96-99 is the data offset, or how big the header (the start of the packet, providing information and such, like the heading of a paper) is. This is needed so the receiving computer doesn't think some of the header is actually data.
100-107 is reserved (meaning there's nothing there, yet).
108-111 is where the flags are set (flags are what determines whether the packet is a SYN packet, an ACK packet, and so on).
112-127 is the window field. That basically means how much data can be received before another packet that is sent won't be received, or even acknowledged.
128-143 are the checksum, which is used for error-checking of both the header and the data itself.
144-159 is the urgent pointer.
160-191 can either be options, or the start of the data. If it is data, then the rest of the packet also contains data. If not, the data starts at bit 192.
OK, maybe it's a little bit more complicated than I let on, but, for the most part, you don't need to memorize what each and every bit is for.
Downsides
TCP is very easy to flood. TCP can't handle a large amount of packets. When building it, datastreaming was the only consideration.
Sagaro bole to _ _ . . _ _ . . . . . . . . .
Computers connected to the internet (or any kind of network) are referenced by IP addresses. An IP address is a set of numbers separated by periods, such as, say, 127.0.0.1 (which is a "loopback address," as it always references the computer attempting to make a connection).
Ports: It lets more than one connection to be active at any one time (otherwise, there will be chaos in multi-thread programs). Ports are "virtual," meaning, as far as the computer's concerned, they actually exist physically, and are different from each other. Computers have 2^16 possible port numbers (0 to 65535) .
Packets: Are set of data that a computer actually sends when communicating to another computer. They contain the IP of the destination computer, the destination port number, the actual data, and specific things to the TCP protocol).
So here ends the basic tutorial background. Now, the TCP portion of TCP/IP.
TCP
Itself TCP is an abbreviation for "Transmission Control Protocol." It's the general-use protocol, used for things like web browsing, playing games etc.
TCP connections
Computer A wants to connect to Comptuer B. Computer A sends a SYN packet to Computer B. That SYN packet is a handshake signal. B sends A a SYN/ACK packet, acknowledging the request. Then, because the nature of TCP is to lose as few packets as possible, A sends B a ACK packet. The connection is established, and A and B start communicating.An interesting thing about TCP is EVERY packet is acknowledged. It also supports the ability to send and receive "fragmented packets," or packets that are too large to be sent at once. In fact, because every fragment of a packet might not follow the same path to it's destination, every fragment packet is numbered, and, once every packet reaches it's destination, the original packet is reconstructed.
Packet Construction
The first 16 bits are used to identify the source port.
Bits 17-31 contains the destination port.
32-63 are reserved for the packet's sequence number (remember the fragmented packet?).
64-95 is the acknowledgment number (if the ACK flag is set, this is the sequence number of the packet the sender expects to receive next).
96-99 is the data offset, or how big the header (the start of the packet, providing information and such, like the heading of a paper) is. This is needed so the receiving computer doesn't think some of the header is actually data.
100-107 is reserved (meaning there's nothing there, yet).
108-111 is where the flags are set (flags are what determines whether the packet is a SYN packet, an ACK packet, and so on).
112-127 is the window field. That basically means how much data can be received before another packet that is sent won't be received, or even acknowledged.
128-143 are the checksum, which is used for error-checking of both the header and the data itself.
144-159 is the urgent pointer.
160-191 can either be options, or the start of the data. If it is data, then the rest of the packet also contains data. If not, the data starts at bit 192.
OK, maybe it's a little bit more complicated than I let on, but, for the most part, you don't need to memorize what each and every bit is for.
Downsides
TCP is very easy to flood. TCP can't handle a large amount of packets. When building it, datastreaming was the only consideration.Advantages
When a packet is lost in transit, the receiver can know it and request just that lost packet be sent again. This means actually losing data is extremely rare, if it can ever happen at all.Sagaro bole to _ _ . . _ _ . . . . . . . . .
Sujetski
That is my sister waving her hand like a dumb freak during her Kerala trip. She seems to be having a lot of fun on the jet ski. But hey, here is her Japanese name Sujetski. lol.
I have been to Kerala too, it is a pretty nice place to be in. Mybe next year i will visit it again...
Sagaro bole to _ _ . . _ _ . . . . . . . . .
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Guitar classes
During June this year, I got a Guitar as an early birthday present. I have never tried my hadn in music, but today when I saw the guitar lying there under a bed of dust, in the want of my attention, I decided to go ahead and download some tutorials and learn it.
So after 8 gb of Eddie Van Halen tutorial video download, I have finally learnt to play the Ode of Joy, a music master-piece composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Now that I have one month of study holidays, I am planning on making use of them to learn the guitar. Wish me luck!
Sagaro bole to _ _ . . _ _ . . . . . . . . .
So after 8 gb of Eddie Van Halen tutorial video download, I have finally learnt to play the Ode of Joy, a music master-piece composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Now that I have one month of study holidays, I am planning on making use of them to learn the guitar. Wish me luck!
Sagaro bole to _ _ . . _ _ . . . . . . . . .
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
The Ultimate Frisbee
Being in Chennai and especially close to the beach, I have become and addict of Ultimate Frisbee. This sport is becoming one of my favorite sports. We guys play it every Saturday and Sunday and trust me it is so much fun, that I have bunked a few days of college to play the sport more.
What is even more enthusing is the fact that, we guys are planning to have our very own Ultimate Sport tournament. At present there are about 32 of us, so we can field 4 teams of 7 each + one sub. I am only hoping that the tournament doesn't clash with my exams.
I am also planning to start some practice for the tournament along with my teammates. Now to go find out who my teammates are...
Sagaro bole to _ _ . . _ _ . . . . . . . . .
What is even more enthusing is the fact that, we guys are planning to have our very own Ultimate Sport tournament. At present there are about 32 of us, so we can field 4 teams of 7 each + one sub. I am only hoping that the tournament doesn't clash with my exams.
I am also planning to start some practice for the tournament along with my teammates. Now to go find out who my teammates are...
Sagaro bole to _ _ . . _ _ . . . . . . . . .
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Razor - the deadly robot
I have finally cleansed my 3.2 cc IC engine. Baggy and I got this engine about 2 years back, for Techkriti, IIT K, technical festival, where we were taking part in the full throttle competition. the competition involved building a robot with an IC engine for a drag race. We didn't win of course because that was the first time and we were real kids.
So after such a long time, I thought maybe I should make one again. So I decided on a razor, for the simple reason it is cool and wicked.
Been having a lot of fun making it. Will post the design later.
Sagaro bole to _ _ . . _ _ . . . . . . . . .
So after such a long time, I thought maybe I should make one again. So I decided on a razor, for the simple reason it is cool and wicked.
Been having a lot of fun making it. Will post the design later.
Sagaro bole to _ _ . . _ _ . . . . . . . . .
Snippets
From the secret journal, per se...
It has all these elements in it – darkness, confusion, homosexuality, lesbianism to be precise, transvestitism and an amazing portrayal of unconditional love and what extent people will go to have it.
Sex just has to be the most important thing in life for him. Well, in the top five anyway. He’s very bloody smart, he’s charming, he’s a really nice guy and a very caring person. I mean, who would want anything more, right?
Anyway, been talking to him every alternate day for hours together. And it’s not even what you’d call a proper conversation. We just end up laughing and laughing and laughing.
Oh, Heath Ledger is Yum, though. Have fallen hopelessly in love with him after Casanova. For now, don’t think am capable of forming functional relationship with weird species a.k.a opposite sex. I guess I know very very few guys who’re worth being in a relationship with, and sadly, I’m not in for any of them. Like, how ironic can life get.
Actually, think about it. It’s vaguely erotic. What if, the thoughts of the different people I’ve known intimately through my life coalesce? It’d be one big, bad mess. Shudder to imagine likes of A’s thoughts mingling without a care with likes of G’s or V’s thoughts. Ugh. Ugh. But, interesting. Say, very very hypothetically, that these people were to meet up and discuss me without inhibition. Quite a ridiculous ensemble of thoughts will ensue, I think. And quite a few people will be shocked out of their minds. It tickles me to imagine the infinite possibilities. I’m so glad that such a frightful situation will never occur!Oh, Bleargh!
Friday, September 21, 2007
Craig Thompson's Blankets
Craig Thompson's always been one of my favourite graphic illustrators. Not only because his novels are so wonderfully sketched and his characters make you fall in love with them. But because he shatters the perception that graphic novels (or more commonly, comics) only depict slapstick humour or over-the-top revenge/action dramas.
Blankets is a memoir, regarded as one of Thompson’s most autobiographical works. It is a story of the many first times of a boy, Craig, brought up in an evangelical household. It details the travails he and his little brother undergo at home and outside. As the book progresses, there’s an element of suppressed desires and depression. But you look at them that way in retrospect. In the course of the book, all you think of are the characters and that what they’re going through is what you went through at some point.
There’s nothing vastly complicated about Craig’s life. Be it the sibling quarrels, Raina and Craig’s beautiful romance or his rebellion against the ideals he’s been brought up with. It’s us, almost. We’ve all been there. We’ve all done that. A simple story painted beautifully by Thompson’s masterful hand and mind.
Of simple joys and profound questions, this coming-of-age novella tugs at your heartstrings and leaves you holding on to it much longer that you’d have thought.
- By my sister, Suraksha
Sagaro bole to _ _ . . _ _ . . . . . . . . .
Blankets is a memoir, regarded as one of Thompson’s most autobiographical works. It is a story of the many first times of a boy, Craig, brought up in an evangelical household. It details the travails he and his little brother undergo at home and outside. As the book progresses, there’s an element of suppressed desires and depression. But you look at them that way in retrospect. In the course of the book, all you think of are the characters and that what they’re going through is what you went through at some point.
There’s nothing vastly complicated about Craig’s life. Be it the sibling quarrels, Raina and Craig’s beautiful romance or his rebellion against the ideals he’s been brought up with. It’s us, almost. We’ve all been there. We’ve all done that. A simple story painted beautifully by Thompson’s masterful hand and mind.
Of simple joys and profound questions, this coming-of-age novella tugs at your heartstrings and leaves you holding on to it much longer that you’d have thought.
- By my sister, Suraksha
Sagaro bole to _ _ . . _ _ . . . . . . . . .
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