My name in Braille

Blue Owl fully reserved

I wanted to reserve room for 15 guests at Blue Owl in New York City and I was told they are completely sold out. Isn't it too early for holiday parties?

wo wow

how today looks

Some important announcements are expected today. Been wanting to play heatseekers but not getting the time.
Desperate to understand everything related to Latent Semantic Analysis. It's very mind boggling. What's the meaning of meaning after all? What is understanding and what exactly is its relation to meaning?

My birthday is coming up. So yay!

latent semantic analysis

I just received two books I have been desperately waiting for. One of them you see here, Latent Semantic Analysis, is accompanying me to office today. The book is written by Thomas K Landauer, Danielle S. McNamara, Simon Dennis and Walter Kintsch.

Random quote: All grammar leaks.

More Randomness:
- poverty of the stimulus
- Empiricist and Rationalist approach to software development.
- linguistic performance vs. linguistic competence.
- Facebook beacon sucks.

office party

office party

check the moves

my boss at work

thanksgiving in Massachusetts

After my plan to go to Houston, TX got cancelled, I decided to accept my dear friend Taso's offer to spend Thanksgiving weekend with his family in Northampton, Massachusetts. We left on Wednesday evening. Following Taso's car was definitely an experience that I won't forget. The journey itself was a lot of fun. We arrived in Northampton, MA around 10 PM. There we met Bruce and Roxy for the first time. Both of them are excellent hosts. Roxy had made a very yummy dinner (Pasta and Delicious Shrimp sauce). It was out of this world. We (me and Michelle) had decided to stay at a hotel so we won't have to worry about the most demanding princess in the world. Yup, that'd be our cat Garfield. We ended up chatting late into the night. I called my hotel two times to make sure they had a room reserved as it had gotten pretty late. I was told that my reservation was guaranteed till 6.30 AM since
we had used hotels.com to make our reservation. When we finally made it to the hotel, we were told that there is no reservation in our name. Of course, I was like, WTF?. Anyways, long story short, they made us a new reservation and we finally got a room.

Next morning, the thanksgiving day, was awesome. We had a very delicious quiche made by Roxy for breakfast. Then we went over to Roxy's cousin who lives in a breathtaking Victorian house. There we had a very fun time. Later, we got formally dressed and went to Murray and Gail's house. Their family just blew us away with their hospitality. We had a lot of fun and were lucky to be invited at day after thanksgiving dinner. We decided to accept the offer and stayed another night. That day ended up being even more fun as we ended up staying till 3 AM.

Coming back, we were feeling a bit sad. But the good news is that Murray and Gail invited us again for next year. We can't wait.

Big thanks to Taso and Laura for making this all possible. I will miss him not being in NYC.

Say hello to Chinese sub

Just found this piece on Daily Mail.

American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.

By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.

Hacking Wiimote: Finger Tracking

Very cool video from HackADay about hacking Wiimote and using fingers to play games.

Mac OS X Scrolling Zoom

Today, I accidentally discovered zoom using scroll wheel feature in my Mac book as I was trying to fix scrolling screen issue.

MIT unveils Foldable City Car

MIT's City Car can be folded and stacked to park eight City cars in one parking space.

Musharraf to end emergency rule

Pakistan's Musharraf has announced plans to end emergency rule in Pakistan within a month.

NASA's Luxurious Parties

NASA apparently spends $500,000 to more than $1 million on honoring Boeing and other "billion dollar" company employees before each shuttle launch. As they are saying, "NASA knows how to party."

Visa IPO

Visa is hoping to raise $10 billion in IPO. If this happens, Visa IPO will be the second largest IPO after AT&T wireless' IPO. MasterCard, Visa's competitor raise less than $3 billion in its IPO.

AT&T and NSA spying architecture

Found this eye opening post that describes the spying architecture AT&T built for NSA.