The Plucky Programmer

I have been gaming a bit lately, and I have seen that many-a-times there are these nagging voices in my head that keep saying, “this simply cannot happen”. In a normal shooter or action game, you manage to kill atleast a 1000 enemies (humans, chimera, assorted bosses) in one play through, controlling usually only one lone character blessed with superpowers, super weapons or just really big balls. Infact, assuming the godlike  [ Read More ]

Upon arrival at John F. Kennedy Airport, when you hear on more than one occasion people singing out loud Empire State of Mind unabashedly, you can pretty much guess that this city is not like the others. And yes it isn’t. My purpose in New York was the UNA-USA MUN (a model united nations conference for those unfortunate enough never to have participated in one) We arrived a day before the opening  [ Read More ]

PS: The elevator, like most ones in India, really had no music, it was all in my mind. Yesterday, I had gone to Amity Gurgaon Sector 43 for their techfest the Cyber Buzz, for a Flash designing event. The events of the event itself are comparatively not as eventful; as what happened in the event of leaving the event was a much bigger event in itself. The folks in sector 42 43  [ Read More ]

Two monitors are better than one This was the wise, insightful statement made by some smart guy many years ago. However, he got so busy playing stuff on his dual monitored rig, that he forgot to write it down. Ergo, no-one’s heard of it. There was this old PC lying in my house. It had a cheap, 20″ AOC (an unehard of company) LCD monitor (wasn’t very high res, though). Since  [ Read More ]

As you would’ve guessed by the mysterious changing colours of everyone’s face, its HOLI time! Time to bring out those balloons, packs of pakka colours, gulaal, mud, eggs, and all the other, toxic, hazardous stuff thats easy to apply on others faces out of your nearest cupboard/drawer/local vendor/street/gutter/cesspool/poultry farm/hiding place in your knickers and USE it.  And after you’re done with the mudslinging and knicker-wetting, get yourself some awesome food,  [ Read More ]