And the Geek Shall Inherit the Earth

Yes, my dear ladies and gentlemen, it is true.

Yours truly has managed to make the cut. My application was selected to participate in this year’s Google Summer Code.

I think ecstatic would about cover what I’m feeling at the moment.

I’m so plussed, I’m gonna borrow a toon this time.

O happiness! our being’s end and aim! — Alexander Pope

The fingers were now rebelling against the cruel overkill. It was now exceedingly difficult to keep the eyes from wandering towards all those free souls outside, waiting, oblivious to  the  exertions  of the gray muscles within the hall. Every heart beat of the wrist watch seems to be egging me on to leave. I run my eyes over the feeble , but brave, attempt to answer the questions posed; Theory of Computation seems to be a bit beyond my grasp, after all. ‘Enough is enough’, unless God manifests himself in the form of a cipher to all the gibberish on the question paper in the next ten minutes, my answer sheet that looks like a disarrayed battlefield is not going to benefit of staying in the same room as me.

One last prayer and I tie up my answer sheet and step out- into the LIGHT!. Bliss!. Sweet oblivion.

It has finally ended. The novel manifestation of capital punishment- Examination- is now officially come to an end.

It happens so that every year I find my hands crammed with things to do, stuff to get, places to be and EXAMS!.

It is that time of the year again, and invariably I am in the midst of a hustle. The FOSS meet at NIT-C happened to coincide with God’s favorite form of torture – University Exams. It also very conveniently seemed to fit into the two weeks that google chose to listen to the Summer of Code hopefuls.

And when all roads lead to NIT-C, I am left behind. Trying to cram my head with concepts of Theory of Computation and while spell checking my third Summer of Code proposal.

So away from the masses, I gave up my laptop to my friends for the day. And for the first time since its advent, the machine has had MS Windows XP running on it. Rather than being disappointed, I decided to write this post using XP. Check out the toon I made using MS Paint. I use KolorPaint to make my toons usually.

And in another fork of events, Blog Mania has hit the Men’s Hostel. You can see people cracking away at systems, writing new posts and uploading pics, thinking up innovative names for crazy blog concepts. I’ve added two of them I think will outlast the surge of a sudden rush of creativity on my blogroll. Check out Ajmal’s and Ajith’s Blog.

Cat, Rat and Kid !

This is the cover design I made for Pramode Sir’s book- “Adventures with Neko“