What should I begin with? Keeping with my own old tradition, let me start school and research related things. School’s been going pretty fine and let me repeat - having no classes to take is really a great feeling. Part of Tuesday was spent in tryiing to compile ICECAP on Räma - it didn’t work, [...]

Well, two of the three things that were supposed make me better did happen - for last thing, Pistons beating Nets, I might have to wait till Eastern Conference paly-offs. However, there were other things that made up for Pistons’ loss. A short photographic outing in the snow-melting grounds of McLain State Park (you must [...]

Like I mentioned in the previous entry, it took me nearly three days getting back into routine. I spent few hours in writing a very useful script - to prepare initial files for a 231-step calculation. Other scripts I have written so far for this project were simple in the sense that they required either [...]

As planned, I started from Parsippany (after having Rags’ Upma for breakfast) around 10 am and just like last few days, didn’t miss any exit and reached Baltimore around 2.30 pm or so. I almost got bumped off in BWI - but the Northwest agents put me back on flight. It wasn’t the prettiest feeling [...]

As planned, we (Vathsa and me) started off towards New York City (NYC from now on) and Rags was kind enough to extract a few minutes (from his busy Saturday work schedule) to take both of us to Newark Penn Station (yes, it’s Newark and there is no typo). It’s a whole different story that [...]

Going by Yahoo! Maps instructions and driving at / around the prescribed speed limit (who cares about +20 anyway?), it should have taken just over 3 hours and I should have reached Rags’ latest by 3 pm. Put food, gas in NJ & evening traffic into this equation and 3 hours become 7 hours. Yeah [...]

Just like all through the week, I woke up quite early and reached BCC around 7 am, via Burger King - mostly because I wasn’t able to connect to Days Inn wireless network. Editing few slides and making sure that contents in all slides had the same speed took about an hour and the session [...]

This was another long, intially boring but interesting later. As usual, I got up early, did somethings I had been meaning to do for a while (no, nothing special - just laundry) and headed towards the BCC. After a couple of talks, it was about time to feed myself. So, I headed towards Burger King [...]

Having spent quite a bit of time in vain yesterday night, attempting to use the wireless network in Days Inn, I woke up this morning under the impression that the problem might have solved by iteself — wrong, problem was intact and that forced me to be in the Convention Center way before my usual [...]

Another day that started quite early and I had to be at the Mariott Water Front Hotel before 7.30 for a breakfast meeting, organized by CSWP/FIAP (Committee on the Status of Women in Physics / Forum for Industrial and Applied Physics). People, as usual, were friendly and round-table discussions about general topics with Dr. Amy [...]

Like yesterday, I woke up quite early around 5.30 am and having an early start to the proceedings was fun. Much of the morning was spent in attending talks/presentations and many were pretty good. Some, however, were quite dull and put the audience back in Monday Greys (yeah Grey - Blue is a bright color [...]

Having an early morning tutorial session (or anything for that matter, as long as it’s useful) is a good thing - atleast it made me wake up way before my normal rise time. Days Inn taught me, again, that judging a book by cover wasn’t right. From previous stays at similarly named hotels (i.e., Inn), [...]

It turned out that I didn’t have to wait too long in Minneapolis - the flight was booked just to capacity and importantly, took off on time. I wish I had a bit longer lay-over in Detroit - got just enough time to request an exit row seat and munch couple slices of bread along [...]

Well, this is the first time that I am heading for a conference with an incomplete presentation! Life’s been busy of late, like I mentioned in my previous entry, becoming hectic in the last 2-3 days. We (Ralph and myself) had to get some calculations done as few slides in the second presentation were empty. [...]

Last seven days or so have been quite busy and most of the busyness had to do with school/research work. After exchanging few emails and reading few manuals, I finally managed to run Atomistix Tool Kit (v2.0) on our beowulf cluster. It wasn’t easy by any means and I still have some work to do [...]