Fire in the hole

 

My shopping spree just doesn't seem to end. I bought Bioshock the game. I heard it has achieved quite a bit on the graphics, gameplay, strategy etc. Apparently won the game of the year as well. I also love first player shooter games and the ones which are not exactly too fast like Doom, UT etc. Bioshock's got the perfect concept.

Sorry, I can't type anymore. Gotta try the game. . .

New Cam -Sony W170

Got the next machine into my arsenal.Its a brand new Sony Cybershot w170. Its a whole lot of cool featurs. I bought the cam and a 4GM memory stick totalling to $294. Quite expensive, but indeed worth the deal.

Few of the noticeable features are as following.


=> 10.1 Mega Pix
=> 5X Zoom
=> Auto smile ditection ( with child priority)
=> Macro mode - Good for people having a good sense of photography.
=> Red Eye correction
=> Camera shake correction
=> 3.5 inch wide viewing screen

Baby! Do I have a toy!

"Rock On" - A good flick

I recently got to watch the movie "Rock On" and I really loved it. I know I sound like just another unfortunate individual going through corporate trauma. The movie doesn't have any out of the world acting skills or direction. It was a real simple movie with some fantastic soft rock ballads. I was surprised when I was told that the music was made in just 3 days. Whoah! That's kool enough!

 

The most catchy concept of the movie is the memory of those old days in college. Definitely not all of us were rock stars back in those enigmatic days of life, but each one of us would have had a heroic stories to remember. With the thumping hormones and freedom - each one of us where rulers of our own worlds. I need to say this, I really pity those who spent their college lives in front of the books. They really missed the best part of their lives and will never have anything when they look back on themselves. I was warned by my brothers that college life is gonna be the most amazing part of my life, and damn yeah!!!! They were bang on spot!

 

I believe it would be the corporate guys to whom the movie would mean the most. That is where the second concept of the movie comes in. I am sure each one of us long sometimes to just yell and feel that freedom deep inside. I definitely do!! I kinda feel like dancing in the middle of nowhere. It is that feeling of freedom that we all miss. Tied down by corporate ties of deadlines, higher managements, messed up habits -- We all wish that sense of freedom. Wounded by the corporate ties we end up forgetting our loved ones and basic facts that makes homo sapiens - the social human. Blinded by the luring paycheck we might not realize it at this point of time. But it would be too late when we eventually do. . .

Warcraft III

Warcraft has been my favorite game since day one I played it. The pre-medieval theme with demonic clans and everything is so damn sexy. I love the whole game and it's plot. Well, I admit that I used to be playing it in India without a valid licence. This time I really bought it. The WARCRAFT III BATTLE CHEST!!! The case itself looks awesome. I right away installed the game and played it continuing from the point I had left in India. Check out below a snapshot of the Battle chest.

The battle chest contains.

1. WC 3 CD with key.
2. Frozen Throne CD with key.
3. WOW online gaming free 14 day trial DVD.
4. Official Battle Chest guide for Reign of Chaos.
5. Official Battle Chest guide for Frozen Throne.
6. Game manual for Reign of Chaos.
7. Product catalog.
8. A small book on Reign of Chaos.

All together it is superb!!

Firing up db2 9.5 on Hardy Heron

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Hardy Heron on XPS 1330

Ubuntu has been a fantasy for me for around 2.5 yrs. But I was always falling short of the hardware to actually leverage the best out of the GUI entities of the OS. Well, this time things were different. I did the same thing as I used to do in India. Went to the Ubuntu ship-it web-page and placed an online order for the latest Ubuntu CD - Hardy Heron. Got it in a week in my mail-box.

I was really impressed by the installer itself. The partitioner recognizes your windows partition and lets you drag a bar and adjust the space to be shared between Vista and Ubuntu. Lovely!. Once I was done with the installation, I used the compiz package to enable the eye-candy. It was just awesome. In terms of the eye-candy I would say Ubuntu is way ahead of Vista.

New Bike

Me and my roomie got ourselves couple of bikes. Each costs $85. Damn expensive. We grew impatient and couldn't wait for some sale to come up. Ironically, we bought it from Target store. The bike's got a lot of mechanisms which I am still yet to figure out. I still love those huge Atlas cycles with the bent handles. Here goes a pic of my new bike.

Settling down

I am still putting myself together in yankee land. Bought a table and chair for $100.  Its pretty cool.

Also cooking is going real great. I have been playing around with Indian delicacies and they all came out pretty well. But ironically I still haven't cooked a single vegetarian dish. The closest I got to Vegetarian dish was by cooking Egg Bhurji. Well, now that I am pretty good at it, I am thinking of considering an alternate profession. Especially in the US were Indians colonize, an Udipi mess, andhra mess or Kerala mess would be an excellent idea.

 

Hmmmm. . . . I am thinking. . . . .