My Project Partner is God …

Thats y Shiben is God…..

U Rock Man …. oops the Girl too Rocks….

I m a Chevrolet ..

I’m a Chevrolet Corvette!

You’re a classic – powerful, athletic, and competitive. You’re all about winning the race and getting the job done. While you have a practical everyday side, you get wild when anyone pushes your pedal. You hate to lose, but you hardly ever do.
Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz. (http://www.tomorrowland.us/sportscar/)

Summarized PG’s Article

How to do What you Love :: (http://paulgraham.com/love.html)
The rule about doing what you love assumes a certain length of time. It doesn’t mean, do what will make you happiest this second, but what will make you happiest over some longer period, like a week or a month.

As a lower bound, you have to like your work more than any unproductive pleasure. You have to like what you do enough that the concept of “spare time” seems mistaken. Which is not to say you have to spend all your time working. You can only work so much before you get tired and start to screw up. Then you want to do something else– even something mindless. But you don’t regard this time as the prize and the time you spend working as the pain you endure to earn it.

What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn’t worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world. When you can ask the opinions of people whose judgement you respect, what does it add to consider the opinions of people you don’t even know?

Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like

Although doing great work takes less discipline than people think– because the way to do great work is to find something you like so much that you don’t have to force yourself to do it– finding work you love does usually require discipline.

There’s another sense of “not everyone can do work they love” that’s all too true, however. One has to make a living, and it’s hard to get paid for doing work you love. There are two routes to that destination:

the organic route: as you become more eminent, gradually to increase the parts of your job that you like at the expense of those you don’t.

the two-job route: to work at things you don’t like to get money to work on things you do.

The organic route is more common. It happens naturally to anyone who does good work. A young architect has to take whatever work he can get, but if he does well he’ll gradually be in a position to pick and choose among projects. The disadvantage of this route is that it’s slow and uncertain. Even tenure is not real freedom.

The two-job route has several variants depending on how long you work for money at a time. At one extreme is the “day job,” where you work regular hours at one job to make money, and work on what you love in your spare time. At the other extreme you work at something till you make enough not to have to work for money again.

Don’t decide too soon. Kids who know early what they want to do seem impressive, as if they got the answer to some math question before the other kids. They have an answer, certainly, but odds are it’s wrong.

When you’re young, you’re given the impression that you’ll get enough information to make each choice before you need to make it. But this is certainly not so with work. When you’re deciding what to do, you have to operate on ridiculously incomplete information. Even in college you get little idea what various types of work are like. At best you may have a couple internships, but not all jobs offer internships, and those that do don’t teach you much more about the work than being a batboy teaches you about playing baseball.

Whichever route you take, expect a struggle. Finding work you love is very difficult. Most people fail. Even if you succeed, it’s rare to be free to work on what you want till your thirties or forties. But if you have the destination in sight you’ll be more likely to arrive at it. If you know you can love work, you’re in the home stretch, and if you know what work you love, you’re practically there.

A Mail to AI list at MIT in 1997

From: Oded Maron
To: all-ai@ai.mit.edu
Subject: GSB — Friday at 5:30
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 21:21:40 GMT
Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? Well, I opened my 1911 Edition of the Encyclopedia Britanica (the preferred edition of Western scholars) and here is what it had to say:

Julius Caesar (yes, the guy from the movie) decided to fix up the calendar, and give every other month 30 days, while the rest get 31 days. Of course, that gives you 366 days in a year, so February was picked to get hosed and it got only 29 days, but 30 on leap years. The calendar looked like this:

1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  12  month
31  29  31  30  31  30  31  30  31  30  31  30  number of days

Pretty simple, right? Well, Julius thought so too and for the good job he has done, he rewarded himself with an $80 million check. No, wait, that’s Orvitz. Julius rewarded himself by naming month #7 after himself: July.

A couple of Roman leaders later, Augustus decided that he too deserved to have a month named after him (kind of like presidential libraries), so he changed the name of month #8 to be August. But now August has only 30 days compared to July’s 31. Does that mean that Augustus is only 97% the leader that Julius was?

Yes. So Augustus made August have 31 days. Now you had 3 months in a row with 31 days and that is unseemly. So September lost one, October gained one, November lost one and December gained one. Now the calendar looked like this:

1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  12  month
31  29  31  30  31  30  31  31  30  31  30  31  number of days

But now you had 366 days in a non-leap year, so February got the short end of the stick _again_ and lost a day. So our calendar is messed up because of that “big stinking dufus, Augustus”.

Good Morning ….

As IV (wat the hell is wrong with wordpress I cant put hyperlinks X-( neways here he is http://appi101.blogspot.com ) said its a beautiful beautiful morning, that mite be becos we share a wall so the point of view remains the same , sunrayz falling on our windows with chirpy birds coming out of their places after 3 days of hibernation, yeah it took 3 days for them (AICC) to discuss …. smthing but finally I m up becos pandey woke me up and not becos the damn speakers were shouting patriotic songs in my ears….ok since I have mentioned patriotic songs…..I just dont think if its rite to allow them to play those songs at any tom, dick and harry occasion. Same abt the party flag …. but well lets not ruin the morning ….

Here is my current desktop, Back in room …. got to configure my system in lab….

Ciao