Who Am I ?
Hello!
My name is Gautham R Shenoy (Ranjal Gautham Shenoy, Gautham Shenoy R. Yeah, all these are my names).
I am a Linux Kernel Programmer by profession. While not hacking the Linux kernel, I would describe myself as an avid Reader, passtime philosopher who among other things loves talking, bicycling, listening to good music and tasting good food.
I go by the nickname ego.

More at http://ego.randomwalk.in/

What’s this blog about?
I would like to quote myself from my very first blogpost.
“Life is one hell of a journey, and probably the only one worth writing about.. I had to choose a platform for documenting my experiences in this journey.. That’s why I chose blogging.
I hope to write about anything that even remotely touches me, anything that makes me feel life’s worth living, anything I find inspiring..
I hope to post lotsa tales, lotsa reviews ,lotsa experiences of my own as well as lotsa other interesting stuff which I may find while browsing the web..
I hope, the language wouldn’t be a barrier in translating my experiences into words.
I hope I can translate even the most subtle feeling with minutest details…
I hope….”

Why the name Random Walk of Life?
The idea for this blog came when I was at LTC, doing a night out, working on a simulator of the linux kernel Scheduler during my internship. I was reading about Markov chains, probability distributions and Random walks that time. The term Random walk was very appealing and I wanted to document the whole experience of writing the simulator. Sadly, that particular post never got written, but the name stuck.

Why Ego?
Blame it on Ayn Rand,  Dan Brown, and the boring Economics class The first novel I read in my life was Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead. In my first year at the Engineering college, I used to discuss the “philosophy” of “objectivism” and “egoism” with my friends. Then again, when I had finished reading “Da Vinci Code” I was fascinated with anagrams. Meanwhile sometime during my 5th semester, I was trying hard, really hard to concentrate in my economics class. Sadly, the lecturer failed to hold my attention, and I started working on the anagrams of different names I knew. After a few gems like “A Rapid Peep“, “A Spy has None“, “Hope is thy Need“, I started working on the anagram of my own name. It turned out to be “Hasty Human Ego“. The name Ego, stuck!