Man, that was one [bleep] lecture!!!! Why doesn't anyone shoot me? < shakes head >

urped by gumz @ 1:42 PM

My beloved has a friend named FunkelDink!!! should I be worried? 8-} No one uses text emoticons in their blogs:-/. why? :-? who put that rule?

urped by gumz @ 12:52 PM

Tertiary Education is a huge contradiction - at least when it comes to the sciences in any Sri Lankan University. They tell us that University Education horns an individual's thinking capacity, that it trains them to think out of the box, that it widens your horizons. What nonsense! It's just an extension of the 'System'. It's a high throughput factory producing average quality automatons; Nothing more. If you take the state sector Uni's, throughput cannot be called high either. Widening Horizons, my foot; I find myself struggling to think of a more limiting experience.

The crux of the matter seems to lie in the fact that learning experiences are equated to the ability to use existing methods and theories. The validity of the status quo is taken as gospel truth. And the status quo survives; why? simply because it is not challenged. An epitomization of the focillization of theorems is the Dragon Book - For 50 years it has remained the authority on compiler design. Compiler theory is by no means as fundamental as, say, The Theory of Relativity. But, for 50 years we've found no alternative.

And whenever we do question things, it's mere trivia. For example, What's with these programming language wars? Java trying to usurp C++, C# attempting to dethrone Java. What drivel? There is no fundamental difference between a C# compiler and a C++ compiler. How can you expect a language to be so different if it's compilers are more or less built on the same principles?

The 'Evil of the Day' that's being passed around seems to be, Industry Focused Education; I can think of a synonym - Brainwashing.

But I degres. So, why am i aiding the perpetuation of this atrocity? Well, I try not to. But the rot runs deep. No one wants to explore, No one wants to criticize, No one is interested. The role of an instructor is to point out the horizons, it should be the students' duty, nay his passion to explore! Sadly,students expect instructors to play the role of a blind persons guide.

Yes you lot - I'm talking about YOU!

urped by gumz @ 6:11 PM

Here I am, well past the witching hour, and not entirely sure what I'm at. It's all because of that fricking walk! Thursday's walk triggered a spurt of mental activity that I have not experienced for some time; it had the predictable effect of driving away any compulsion i had for ahem... lesser important activities, such as the stuff i need to slave over to put food on the table - hey, hold on! we don't have a frickin table, and it's been a while since we've had any food of the rice & curry variety in what i now call, the Cavern. It's heaven to have parents living close by, to provide you with an endless supply of food and clean underwear < touch wood >.

So, maybe i don't need a day job... hmmm

Anywayz, Project Metal Pot plods on. I hope someone comes up with a better name.

Damn, I can't exactly blog the stuff i want to because the [bleep][bleep] read this stuff. Meurt!

What to do? no one on MSN or yahoo, i guess i'll fill in my orkut profile...

urped by gumz @ 2:51 AM

G: Oi, I'm writing a concept paper for what we talked about?
X: What thing? < puzzled look >
G: That User Interface thing...
X: < puzzled look increases >
G: Generating GUI controller code ...
X: < dazed expression >
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< many memory proddings later >
X: Oh!!! we're actually going to make that tool! < expression changes to that of maniac programmer > < scary, almost >

G: Weeeell, it's not the tool really that matters, it's the concept - the tool will be just an implementa......
X: < cuts G off in mid sentence > Concept, Tool ... Who cares as long as we build something.
.......

I sometimes wonder whether he's posessed by Lady Lovelace.

urped by gumz @ 9:46 AM

Thank god for Pyjamas! If 'ol archimedes was into mundane old pyjamas and not those kewl robe thingys, he wouldn't have had to go through the embaressmemt of over 2 millenia of human beings knowing about his little faux pas. I say again, Thank God for Pyjamas.

urped by gumz @ 8:42 PM

And suddenly, at 21:00, Thursday July 21st, in a slightly dusty bedroom in the far corner of the galaxy, the walls came down; Life decided to change. The twin adverseries, depression and indirection stepped back, saluted, and were gone. The storm siezed. The skies cleared.

Procrastination huddled by itself, under a footstool; beaten but not yet vanquished; But without his bullies he seemed almost naked. I ignored him.

Ah at last... At long last, An idea! An Idea!!! Struttura Del Legare - I salute thee. sot - I salute thee.

Exit. There are thoughts to contemplate,... things to do.

urped by gumz @ 5:40 AM

For anyone else who's confused out there - I am NOT bloody into fricking Love Songs, ok!!!!!!! How the devil do you get Launchcast to work for you anyway? It's a plot, I tell you! for every song I can actually enjoy, I have to listen to a dozen or so bloody love songs. It doesn't help changing stations - and i can't be bothered setting up my own. It's a bloody plot, I tell you.

It's aliens, I'm sure, yes that's what it is. They've taken over yahoo - their master plan is to lull everyone into a muuushy mood, and then Wammo!! Or maybe, there are subliminal messages in there programming us to do god knows what... hmm, some of the guys subjected to Launchcast around here have been acting mighty strange... <switches back to good old winamp>

urped by gumz @ 8:22 PM

urped by gumz @ 9:40 AM

Late dinners at deli france must upset the PH balance in my blood or something - I'm in OPS Mode(organise, plan & schedule), a highly unnatural state to be in, beleieve me. I'm a great believer in entropy - it's nature at its chaotoic best. entropy rules!!!!!!! yeaaaaahhhhh.

Ah... but I must betray thee, for the mixture of frappee mocha, expresso and amaretto has created an imbalance ( or is it balance, since most people insist my ground state is one of imbalance - but then ground states are relative are they not) and i must subjugate myself to the whims and fancies of my inner chemical being. Btw, the chicken Perri Perri sucks.

Just for today, Order reigns supreme. Intended victims - notes, lecture slides, Rose Models, Project X, superviseees (Muaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaa < evil shifty toothy grin > blog, < shock > how could i forget my desk!!!!!!! prepare thyselves for state transition.

Note the excessive use of the word state. I'm in love with state diagrams; state diagrams rock ! I would french kiss any state chart diagram that crossees my path.

My navel is developing an itch ......

urped by gumz @ 10:22 AM

< dream >
Names rolling....

<pre-dream> : early early morn on the OT exam day....after studying over night.....had fallen asleep for less than an hour with the "UML user guide" at chapter 31 models and views
</pre-dream >
i am at < censored >....near your desk....probably because i didn't think i studied enough

you give me a box

saying that if i want to do well in the exam i have to go thru it and that you have given each of the students one of those boxes

so me take the book

i mean box

next scene : me at home

kept the box in my bed

opened it

and out came all these poisonous spiders, bugs and a couple of snakes

they were crawling out

so i had to put them back in one by one

last one was the snake dude...

he looked real poisonous...

but i was not scared...(so i guess it was not a nightmare)

it was like i expected it

thne i picked him up from the head...(like in discovery channel)

and thought....what if this guy gets out of the box while i go to sleep....

then you appear out of nowhere

takes the snake away from me

and says....

if you can't deal with this.....(ponting at the snake)...don't even think about sitting for the exam...

me sad...

fade out...

names rollin
< /dream >

This dream is published with the full consent of the original dreamer.
The identity of the dreamer will be withheld on grounds of lunacy. < smirk >

urped by gumz @ 2:48 PM

And all this time i thought it was only I; there are other non lyrics persons out there ED. It was a blog seen too late though, since convinced of my own weirdness, I've put actual effort into looking up lyrics, and continue to be flabbergasted. The Latest surprise Scorpions - Rock you like a Hurricane. For years I thought there was a Pretty Lout (pretty loud) in there. I play it again - nope I still hear that Lout.

< gets disgusted by own lameness >

Nope, I never did see the point behind lyrics - I thought one was just supposed to enjoy the music - if one really needs to read one could get a book, maybe... But unfortunately, I'm addicted now.

Has anyone watched Roger Dodger - horrid horrid movie - it is so void of meaning that it would beat a vacuum anyday! Oddly enough it's also compelling - watched it thrice. void of meaning & compelling hmmm... what does that say? maybe i'm just dense and didn't see the point - very high probability of that - I wish i had a movie identity.

I've mentioned seeing the point twice already - What is that expression anyways? Isn't it Oxymoronic taken in context of normal usage? Since any decent point would be only a couple of atoms across, and given the resolving power of a human eye, no one would actually be capable of seeing a point. Does everyone else know this and use the phrase like "I see the point, yeah right?" or is the english language getting back at us for the abuse it has endured through the centuries?

I'm blithering.......

blither blither blither...... there's something therapeutic about that word.... (is it a word?)

To end things,
My beloved wife complains that i don't have a jawline....
I'm missing the last button of my shirt.....
And my pants are holding up my belt...

urped by gumz @ 11:57 AM

I feel ludicrous in exactly 3 ways! ludicrous ludicrous ludicrous..... that word makes u feel worse than ridiculous.

urped by gumz @ 7:14 PM

Irony of Ironies... the very same reason that drove me away from the blogosphere compels me to..... (how the devil do i finish this sentence?) Arggggggghhhhh!!! Anyways the blogaboycott does not seem to have solved ANYTHING (Darsh I should have listened to you....< bows humbly before Darsh. >

<attempts to isolate problem >

going to sleep early + getting up late = arriving at work late(10ish) + no preparation for 11:30 lecture => miserable feeling... (I pity the poor beggars, i really do - On top of listening to my drivel they have one of my assignments to submit.)

Miserable feeling lasts till end of lecture, at which point the brain goes supercritical and all faculties of rational thought are purged.... The mind goes totally blank and starts responding to whatever external stimulus..... which unfortunately for me is an open blog window.

my attempt to isolate the problem is going awry < gives up >

Blurfing is soothing and for a while all is good..... ( There are some reaaaaaly kewl bloggs out there)

Realization dawns that MY bloggs are uber pathetic < sigh.. >

feelings = boredom + directionlessness ( is that a word?) + depression

And just when things are at this jolly little stage .........

Dr.M dumps answerscripts on my desk...

hunger kicks in .... (Good timing or wot?) Too lazy to go down to the car to get lunch thing...

reconciles self to the terrible terrible fate of < shudders > marking....

urped by gumz @ 1:57 PM