Quote of the day
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
-- Lazarus Long</p></body></html>
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
-- Lazarus Long</p></body></html>
Many of these books, like "Guide to Earth, Moon and Space", "Theory of Everything", Sherlock Holmes series, I read along with my friend Avinash and we both enjoyed it together.
Apart from these, there are few technical books, I could lay my hands upon. Note , technical books are not meant to be read, they are to be studied thoroughly and worked upon a number of times. So, I cannot put them in the read category.
I could get chance to work with,
My friend and I had thought at the start of year to compete for the 50bookchallenge. While that was my list of books, I am glad that we got started and next year, I plan to read at least 50 books.
Let me know if you would like to read any of these books, I would be glad to share it with you. You can also have a peek into my online library at books.google.com
Happy New Year 2008 to all!
I often forget the syntax and usage of lambda functions, the following examples should help as a reminder.
>>> def function(x):
... return x*3
...
>>> function(2)
6
>>> func_with_lambda = lambda x: x*2
>>> func_with_lambda(2)
4
>>> (lambda x: x*2)(2)
4
>>>
First, Freed.in Conference.
Next, the fun filled Manali Trip with friends,
And then hacking something at the Y! Hackday.
It was a fun filled week for me.
http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=583
{H,F}ello /. ers!
I will be at my home town, Madurai, on 13th October and I was looking for Slashdot party at Madurai and could not find one, so I decided to host one myself and invite Madurai geeks for the meet.
Location:
Anna Nagar Cafe Coffee Day.
Timings:
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Party Link:
http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=583
If we get going, then we shall:
Have some fun discussions.
Cut the Cake.
Enjoy the evening.
Hope you will be able to make it, let me know if you have some ideas. (Either comment on this post or email me at orsenthil at gmail dot com)
Thank you.
Update
I convinced my sister and my cousin to come along for a coffee and we all went there. btw both of them can be considered geeks as I have seen my sister twidling with computer a lot before she decided to pursue her Dental Studies, and my cousin aged 11 was playing with Nintendo DS lite in full swing. We had good time and had a cake cheering slashdot. :)
Avi, Sanju and I watched "The Chronicles of Narnia" on DVD. It is based on a book, The Lion, the witch and wardrobe of Narnia series by C.S Lewis. It is a fairy tale written for children and has a very happy ending. It is a very nice movie to watch. It is written for children, but gives us a very good outlook that things will always have a good and a happy ending.
Leading author and programmer, Bruce Eckel, posted some of his concerns on Python 3000 stating that python community is missing to address some of the important issues with this major, backward incompatible release. Problems he mentions are concurrency support on multi-core cpus, easy deployment support, a standardized user interface amongst others. He expresses his dissatisfaction at the post titled "Python 3K or Python 2.9?. Guido van Rossum, in a very pragmatic way addresses the concerns with his response to Bruce Eckel and calling out more for developers to contribute to Python to improve it further. Bruce Eckel concludes with his thoughts that he wants his favorite language to be better with his reply to Guido's reply.
I moved to Orange belt on 29-07-2007. My friends moved to Yellow belt to. Sharma is the senior with black belt.
We had good fun that day. Our practice as a team and improved from then on.
If the slide show does not show up, here is the photo link.
My sisters and I called up our school maths teacher, Vijayaraj madam to wish her on teachers day. Also called up my college prof, Dr. K. Ramar to wish.
Its a nice tribute we give to our teachers who have influenced us in many ways.
My English teacher, Mrs. Padmini Vasanthan seem to have influenced me to strive for a patient and organized approach in all activities.
Ramar sir, when I recollect, all I can appreciate is his humility, ability to strive and achieve things, even when somethings presented are above our comprehension. One can learn a lot from this simple person. He is always learning from others.
--- Teachers Day from Wikipedia ---
September 5 is Teacher's Day in "India". It is the birthday of second President of India and teacher Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan. It is considered a "celebration" day, where teachers and students report to school as usual but the usual activities and classes are replaced by activities of celebration, thanking and remembrance. At some schools on this day, the responsibility of teaching is taken up by the senior students as an appreciation for their teachers. The idea is to let teachers sit back just for a day and let the students have a glimpse into the life of a teacher. It is an occasion when a token or appreciation in the form of presents are given to teachers by students to show their love and respect. A central piece in Hindu scripture reads "Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru devo Maheshwaraha - Gurussaakshaath param brahma tasmai shree gurave namaha," which translates as "The Guru (Teacher) is the Lord Brahma (the Creator), the Guru is the Lord Vishnu (the Preserver), the Guru is the Lord Shiva (the Destroyer). To that Guru we offer our salutations."
Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world.
Everyone thinks he has enough.
-- Descartes, 1637</p></body></html>