Life, The Universe, and Everything

My tech blog

2011-05-09T20:13:00.001-07:00

Take a look at my new tech blog: http://rahuldotout.wordpress.com/

Not another visa!

2009-08-18T07:59:00.001-07:00

New note on the office notice board:

"Please do not apply for H1N1. It is not a new type of US Visa."

Resur-face!

2008-11-23T02:18:00.000-08:00

I have been working in the same office, in the same project for over 5 years now. For a software guy this is akin to being dead, since every one of my fraternity does a somersault at least once in a year! Even my company gave me an award for doing my time! They even went ahead to 'congratulate' me, but I felt like being congratulated on your birthday! ( Congratulations buddy, you didn't die! )

Now that you accept me for the Veteran I am (by software engineer standards, which I might add, is poorly low), I can offload this theory of mine which was formulated out of my observations from my cubicle.

The theory: Every face that you know repeats on another person once in three years!

This is something that I have been observing for a at least 2 years now. My pals from my first year in office resur'faced' just after about 3 years. My second year friends made a comeback by the fourth year and so on.

There is an old theory that there are at least 10 people who look the same. My theory augments the old one with a finite temporal dimension to it.

turning up the heat

2007-02-27T21:51:00.000-08:00

hi, my name is miki
i am but another wiki
my name, is short for mc-wiki
if you dont think its too witty
and want to be extra picky
why dont u call me wiski!

:)

project miki to enter the arena...for those of you who dont know what a miki is, its just another wiki! so whats the difference? nothing much really. its just a reason to learn some more stuff. miki is short for mc-wiki. if we want to put it on public domain, then lets change it wiski. Now, dont ask me why i like the name wiski. dont even dare to ask. any more comments on the name are welcome.

Just the word you were looking for...

2007-02-21T08:47:00.000-08:00

Hi World,

Look what I found round the corner. No more of those "you know what?" or a very-long-sequence-of-words-for-what-u-think. Here it goes:

1. chaordic (adj) : a sytem that is simultaneously chaotic and ordered

2. quipamenducious

Adjective: quipamenducious (koo`pa`men`doo`shus)

n. quipamenducity

Lacking breadth of view, tolerance or open-mindedness
Having a rigid and stubbornly fixed view of the world

2007, from Skt. koopamandooka “frog-in-the-well” from ancient Indian parable about a frog stuck in a well.

archaic: quipamenducacious

3. Portmanteau - A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux) or blend is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or parts of words to give a combined meaning. Example: chaordic, cyborg, blaxploitation

2006-09-20T00:44:00.000-07:00

If you are the kind of person who enjoys a bit of sitting alone and thinking, the inescapable ultimate question is sure to have taken some of your time. The quest for the answer to life, the universe, and everything is in all of us.

Humankind (excuse me, for I don’t want to sound sexist with "mankind" or "womankind") had always been on this quest, as the history of philosophy tells you. The numerous potential paths to the answer took varying forms as time went on. Some took the form of philosophy and some came to be known under the broad category of science. And some took its way through religions. Different paths, same intent.

I understand that such a view might not appear natural to everyone and I am very much interested to know your possible views on the matter. That’s why I have come up with this blog, which is more like a forum, where all of you are invited to post your comments on life, the universe and everything.

Fans of Douglas Adams might already know the answer to the ultimate question on life, the universe, and everything - Its 42! .

For the less informed, the story goes like this:

Researchers from a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings, construct Deep Thought, the second greatest computer all time and space, to calculate the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. After seven and a half million years of pondering over the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two"!!

"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"

"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."

And thus begins the search for the ultimate question by constructing an even bigger computer with the help of Deep Thought. But the experiment could not be completed. But all was not lost as Arthur Dent (the hitchhiker, who was part of the experiment) could retrieve from his brain a hint to the ultimate question.

The hint to the ultimate question (the answer being already found out – 42!!) was: “What is six into nine?”

sixintonine is, thus, the ultimate question to the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything!!

Obviously, any one with even a mouse’s brain knows that 6x9 is not the same as 42. There is only explanation to this, as Arthur puts it: "I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe."

Lets find out whether that explanation really has any meaning. Lets explore more!

Cheers!