The Plucky Programmer

As mentioned in my previous post, I lived for seven days in the Grand Hyatt in New York which was located on forty second street. Of course, this means that every road sign/street sign/other notice I saw around that area excited me to the very balls. [As in the baseball balls i carried around in my hand, to get autographed by president Obama if I met him which I was  [ Read More ]

Write 42 on your hand on an exam day. Not only is this VERY lucky (for those who *believe* atleast), if you keep looking at it during your exam, after a while the invigilator is sure to suspect you’re cheating. Then you can tell him/her about 42, and it PISSES people off. :p

Say hello to the newest chat Facebook emoticon. Its called, you gessed it, FORTY TWO! I don’t know if its Zuckerberg whose a 42 fan, or its someone else from the dev-team, all I know is that ITS THERE.  All you gotta do is type :42: into the chat window. Speaking of 42, I made a Vocab PPT for the assembly in school today. Since I didn’t have time, in order  [ Read More ]

I landed on Earth in the morning, feeling queasy. Never thought I would feel like this after travelling, but 20 Hyperspace jumps would even make Thor reach for the sick bag. My plans were to apply as an English teacher in a smallish red bricked educational institution off the coast of nowhere, called Æ-MÏτÝ ZÅrκÊτ or sumthin. I didn’t find it necessary to change my appearance as the people here, I’m told, could live with unusual  [ Read More ]

It started out as plain old SpaceSet, then it became Space54t, then Space53x and finally SpaceSoLong it was. It is one roller coaster of a ride none of us can forget. The competition is about building a settlement in space like industry professionals. The team is structured into 5 departments: Structural Design, Operations and Infrastructure, Human Factors, Automation and Business Developement. The year is 2060 and you are given a  [ Read More ]