Do You have an IDEA?

Following is a typical conversation from my home, in my room, on my IDEA cellular phone.

ring..ring ........ring..ring.

Friend: Hello.
Me: Hey Wassup?

Friend: Hi? How are you?
Me: I am great what you upto?

Friend: Nothing much just watching t.v. What's Happening

Me: Well I wanted to know....[At this point I am talking away and that person is getting a very badly distorted, breaking signal of my voice ] ....if you wanna go watch...

Friend: ....hello ...dude, you are breaking up very badly...hello..hello..
[now I shift my head and torso around where I am sitting, in a very epileptic seizure type motion, trying to get a better signal]...
Me: Now can you hear ....

Friend: ...hello ...you still breaking up very badly......
Me: LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
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[by now my signal has marginally improved]

Friend: Okay stop I can hear you now...[so I stop going LALALALA] ....what were you saying?
Me: Do you wanna go watch "Rang De Basanti"?

Friend: What time is the show?
Me: Can you make the 5 'o clock.

Friend: Well I might be a bit late....

[Now whats happened is that I can hear him totally clear, but he can't hear a word of what i am saying...it's just blank...no distortion.]

Me: Why?

Friend: Hello?.....you there?...
Me: Yes.
Friend: Hello?
Me: Yeah I am listening.
Friend: Hello? Hello.....Heelllloooo.....Heeeeeellllllllooooooooo.....
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllloooooooooooooo... Hello Hello Hello Hello
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelloooooooooooooooooo... Hello Hello Hello
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellooooooooooooooooo...Hello Hello
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellooooooooooooooooo. Hello Hello

[Once again miraculously with my Mohammed Ali like movements the signal marginally improves.]

Me: Can you hear me now?
Friends: Yeah now I can hear you.
Me: So why you gonna be a bit late?

Friend: Because I have to......

Me: Okay so what I will do is that...[now he can hear me, but I have a total blank in my ear...]...book the tickets
[I now realise that I can't hear]...Hello? you there?....[and finally the phone gets cut and I hear two beeps].

That is the end of my conversation of exactly 1:34 minutes.
This happens every day REGULARLY, anywhere in my house.

I have had a few friends come over and go through the same thing...but they don't go LALALALALALA ...they just go Hello? hello ? heeeellllloooooooo.

I really wish they would do something for my area. I have a tower overlap problem. I get upto 6 different, all distant tower signals....Maybe they should just put a tower over my roof....
An IDEA can change your life....or speech impair you....

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Why did this happen?

I was watching Star Gold the other day (and by the other day I mean in my engineering exams, preparatory leave, around a few years ago). I was watching the Neha Dhupia Movie 'Julie', because I had missed it in the cinema and it looked like the kind of movie I would not want to pay for and watch. So I thought what the hell I might as well watch it.

I was watching it and it reached the scene where Kiran Kumar's (I think that is his real name) character makes his indecent proposal to Julie. And just before he was about to make the proposal...the audio for the movie goes away and then there is techno music. I was laughing that Star tv could actually make such a mistake.

I was actually wondering later if they made a mistake or was some of the dialog being blocked by some moral policing policy...I still wonder.

Why show the movie if they are gonna cut the important dialogs....that too the plot turning point dialogs. Also don't they know that proper grown adults are watching!!!

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Some more fun with a Camera

This is in addition to my previous blog post, Fun with a camera

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A Different Perspective.

I am taking part in a Competition in my college for software making. You have to make a software that adheres to the theme "Software that makes a student's life Easier". My partner and I got a nice idea and we started about making the software.

He handles the algorithm at the back end and I am in charge of the GUI. It is specifically like that because of complications...

Well anyway, the task seemed quite straight forward. I started out on my part and kept getting stuck, a lot.
There were so many ideas I wanted to implement but didn't know how to. Some things I looked up on the net and found ...sometimes after 6 hours of searching. Then using that requires understanding, then fitting it to your purpose...which is especially difficult with other people's codes...with limited explanation (very little in some cases). Knowing the stuff and then doing it on your own, requires learning a lot of knowing the language before hand...and even then no book is complete.

Well of course as you would expect I did run into a lot of trouble but slowly and steadily I did figure things out and get things working.

During that time I realised how easy some things can be ...and how difficult others. This is of course after someone else has already made the basic functions and libraries inside the language, for you to use.

It made me realise the kind of work that goes into making software. It made me realise how important design is in Software Engineering.

I can actually now appreciate why big corporations are so hell bent on anti-piracy. To work so hard...so long...make all the sacrifices of time, money, sleep...and then not get your dues....really frustrating.

Am I anti-piracy? Well not completely. But I will think twice the next time I have a chance to get pirated software...then one more time after that ....and get back to normal after that ....

I guess I will try to buy it whenever possible.

I would be totally anti-piracy if that meant prices would drop a great deal so every one can buy software and no one has to pirate....That will be the day.

You have to read this

This has got to be silliest, funniest ...and yet the most detailed and technically sound...website i have seen.
I was laughing like crazy ...read http://members.tripod.com/~menakas/moskilling.html  
[Update: Link is dead now]

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Fun with a Camera

Ever since their invention, cameras have captured many a shocking and fun filled moments. Now they can sometimes even be very intrusive in celebrity's lives....well that's the way the cookie crumbles. I always wish I had a camera near by to capture those moments in life which you may or may not remember, and did not have a camera handy.

Anyway, I was with some friends one day and we played around with the phone's camera...these are the funny photos made from it.

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... warnings from PIFF

As bad luck would have it, 6 out of the 8 movies I saw today were REALLY REALLY atrocious. All the good ones I missed...due to many reasons...If you want reviews and also to know which were good read this

Anyway moving along.

Italian Movie:- 3 Days of Anarchy
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Well this movie REALLY REALLY sucked.
The title (and even the synopsis which I got) are totally miss leading. No story, No Sense. Please avoid this.

Kontakt
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I missed the first half hour of this movie. The rest was okay...a bit funny. I would say watch it if there is nothing better.

Brazilian Movie Silver Salt.
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Another nonsense movie. It started well....was pretty good till halfway....and then just went nowhere...really fast...and I didn't even realise when or how...

French Movie The Piano Teacher
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Turn around ... AND RUN, RUN, RUN to save your life, save your brains, save the food in your stomach...and anything in your life that has even the most devoid meaning. This movie is by far the worst movie I have EVER seen. I am totally off FRENCH Movies thanks this distasteful master piece...... I really should have watched fish Defacating in the Sea and it's related intricacies, instead.

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Pune International Film Festival (PIFF)

I went for 4 movies today in the Pune International Film Festival, or PIFF as they call it.
The movies I saw were :-
A French Canadian Movie called "Looking for Alexander",
An Australian movie "Three Dollars",
A Malayalam movie "When it Rained hard",
A French movie "A Real Man" (the names are translated names in some cases and has not been done to protect identities).

Here is my short viewing opinion of them all, more like a very rough suggestive guide for you.

Looking for Alexander
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This Movie was pretty good. It raised some questions by the end of it which were unanswered. The basic plot is quite decent. But the people in it act quite weird sometimes.....very contrasting behaviour within 2 minutes.
Not bad watching though.

Three Dollars
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This Movie was utter NONSENSE. Nothing made sense and nothing was relevant. The story is wavy with no direction as such ...and the way the flash backs were done were a bit confusing from time to time.
All in all, DON'T watch this crap.


When it rained hard
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This movie had a decent story idea. I think they could have done more with the story. I think it was made quite badly.....the background score is very, very ANNOYING and IRRITATING (actually irritating, in every sense of the word).
The movie is worth a watch even though I felt it was executed badly.
Nice idea...bad execution.

A Real Man
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This one is like Three Dollars...although I did like it a little better because there a few laughable moments....other than that ......CRAP.


That's all for now will put more on the rest of the movies that I do watch.