peedy's log Nov 6 2010, 2206hrs
Today morning I had to go for a routine Pooja at the temple nearby and so I got up early today. It was a personal record for me as after almost a week I saw how the world looks like before 0800hrs. Following the Pooja, I indulged myself in killing time by surfing the interweb about idiotic things. That includes exploring the complications that I’d be faced while installing GNU/Linux on my Mom’s HP Mini 210 2011TU. I shall enlist them below for the record.
1) Broadcom drivers would be required to get the 802.11 working.
2) Hack /etc/sysfs.conf to fix the ‘fn’ key problem.
At around 1000hrs, when I went down to read the newspaper, I decided to go out for a movie. I sought permission from Mom and called up Mrugank. I left for his place. However we could not get any seats. The early afternoon was spent in killing time and fruitless calls to Airtel DTH for activation of the free DTH connection that came along with his new LED TV.
We then decided to freak out at Aditya Bungalows as the house was empty (Grandparents on vacation). We got lunch from ‘Gandhi Bakery’ (The food was okay but anything would have sufficed at that time as I was famished).
We spent the afternoon and pre evening watching “The Big Bang Theory”. After listening to Obama’s speech (He is on tour to India), we left. I dropped Mrugank home and left for home.
When I reached home, Mom was out for Meditation. I then watched “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”. I really enjoyed the movie. I found that Spock’s character in the movie had reached the maturity and was concrete. The ending was undoubtedly ‘not happy’. Spock is dead!; That is a real shock but I know what happens next (Thanks to Memory Alpha and I have also seen the next movie , Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, directed by Leonard Nimoy himself). My knowledge of knowing what happended next actually hindered the experience.
“If you know the future, there is no mystery and there is no hope”.
I think that right now I am suffering with some kind of a block. Neither have I completed my term work (4 Java programs and seminar documentation) nor have I studied anything lately. I also want to start working on iSee but nothing is materializing right now.
