Archive for February 2010

classics, fundoo, geek

Wordplay in Sanskrit

Posted by ego on 02.21.2010 · No Comments

I have a habit of downloading a copy of interesting e-books that are freely available on the internet so that I can browse through my collection whenever I am bored and I don’t have a working internet connection.
This evening, I noticed an interesting PDF document in my collection which goes by the title “Interesting and [...]

Exams, academia, engineering, geek, grad school, programming

JEST done

Posted by ego on 02.21.2010 · 2 Comments

I took the JEST-2010 (Joint Entrance Screening Test) today.
Institutes such as the Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, and now apparently even the Chennai Mathematical Institute shortlist candidates for their MSc and PhD programs based on scores of this test. I wrote the Theoretical Computer Science paper.
I thought that the paper was very easy. The paper [...]

Rants

… and happily we slept ever after.

Posted by ego on 02.14.2010 · No Comments

[I am preparing for a couple of competitive examinations which has kept me from completing and publishing half-a-dozen half-written posts. I shall have more time to resume regular blogging in a couple of weeks]
We like illusions. Our leaders provide it and our media presents it. The real issues are forgotten. And hence they repeat.
We love [...]