Shine on You Crazy Diamond

Syd Barrett, one of the founding members of Pink Floyd, died of cancer on July 7th, 2006. Syd contributed to some of Pink Floyd's memorable songs such as 'Arnold Layne' and 'See Emily Play'.

This is my little tribute to him. You'll always be remembered!

You've been /.ed!

OK, this may sound quite geeky (rather nerdy) to ya'll but I just got my first article accepted on Slashdot! Yea!

Here it is.

Footage from the Discovery Shuttle

To watch for the debris impacts, NASA put in cameras on the space shuttle resulting in some of the coolest footage ever. Don't miss this!

Watch for the rocket and booster separation in the one below:

Right Aft Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) Camera

This one has really amazing footage of the re-entry!

Right Forward SRB Camera

Thanks to /.

The 2006 United States Formula1 Grand Prix

Just got back to home from Louisville, KY and I just can't wait to start blogging (or rather bragging) about the GP. Well, the result was as expected (Schumi won), but the best part was the crash at the first corner - which, by the way, I witnessed first hand and captured quite a bit on video.

Me, with the Ferrari flag and one of those air horns which result in half the noise in the stadium (after the cars of course) - man are those things loud!!

NoopsK with the Ferrari flag. Notice his $35 Ferrari cap and $40 Ferrari t-shirt.

At the race track with the Ferrari flag flying high - Hanif next to me

Here's a summary of what happened at the first turn. Juan Pablo Montoya (McLaren) hits his team mate Kimi Raikonnen and then goes ahead and then makes contact with Jenson Button (Honda). Button, from the impact of the McLaren dashes into Nick Heidfeld (BMW Sauber) - you see a little bit of that in the video - who flips a couple of times on the gravel bed. At the same time, Mark Webber, Scott Speed, Christian Klien and Franck Montagny somehow collide together and all of them are out of the race.

More details at the Formula 1 website.

One thing is for sure - this circuit is jinxed!!



The start of the race - seven cars crash out. Notice Jenson Button who actually manages to drive out of the wreckage - He retired two laps later due to accident damage.

btw, If you are interested in last year's videos here they are.

Christian Klein's RBR being towed away

One of the McLarens being towed away

The race comes to an end and here are the podium photos:

Juan Pablo Montoya says hi!

Did the pit walkabout today at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today. The point is you get to see the pit crew assemble the cars for the race, see the men behind the machines and things like that. And it turned out to be pretty fun! The drivers came out for interviews and I was only one screaming out "JP" (the others were calling out for Schumi)! And guess what ... the man looked up said Hi!


Here are the other highlights from today's pit walkabout...


Schumi waves out to his fans!


Turn 13 of the speedway
















Me with the Honda pit crew!

A quarter century - over.

As I finished 25 years of age [yesterday] I tried to reflect on what I've accomplised. Oh, wait...

Dances with PS2

Ashutosh Kendurkar, my roomie, plays the PS2















He lost the game!

The three great roomies

Amit's parents wanted a pic of all of us when they went back to Mumbai. Here it is straight from

Westborough MA

Saving the world ... 9.8 miles at a time


With all the talk about rising fuel costs, global warming and pollution, I thought I'd do my part to save the world. Now that spring is here and summer is just around the corner, I decided to take my new mountain bike to work.

Went canoeing in charles river, newton, MA

Here are the pics.

The Da Vinci Code Quest

I took part in the Google Da Vinci Code Quest and was one of the finalists. Won a limited edition cryptex! See below ...

Heard on 105.7 WROR "Men from Maine" series...

Ephus gets a job with the Maine census bureau and goes to a lady's house and asks, "Ma'am, how many children do you have?". To which she replies "10". Ephus asks, "What are their names?". To which the lady replies "Jebediah". "All of them? How do you call them? ", Ephus asks. "Yes" she says. "If I want to call them for dinner, I just say Jebediah, come home for dinner. And all of them come". "What if you want to call just one of them?", asks Ephus. To which the lady replies, "Then, I just call them by their last name!"

My New Posting Area!

After evaluating tripod / blogspot and other blogging tools, I found this to be the easiest to use. So, more from me .. right here!

btw, you can link to my website here .. The loneliness of the long distance runner