Random Observations on Life : Updated

• It looks like 90% of the people on the web speak on relationships. Past, Future. Not present. They have better things to do I guess. This high fraction is a demographic glich as most people who blog are in the 20-30 age. It would be interesting to model this - given a population, demographic segment and age (most important) and some more parameters can you get an estimation of current status and count of past and future relationships. Heh. If, I could do this (which is not IMPOSSIBLE actually), I could make ton loads of money. Sell the software to Shaadi.com. When someone uploads a profile estimate whether there exist bones, skeletons or entire burial grounds in the closet.
• The PhD Comics guy has something wrong with him. He is painting a seriously wrong picture of grad school with all those chaps napping in front of the computer. What he probably didn't mention was that the guy had been at it for the last 3 days. And hence. Grad school is one big game of catch up. You are constantly catching up with all the work you need to do. If you dont catch up, you get run over. Btw, the author Jorge Cham is a post-doc at Caltech after finishing his PhD at Stan. That makes me all the more convinced of the alternate explanation to all the nap shots.
• Career fair time gives you a great opportunity to ahem ahem..stock up on pens, t-shirts and other assorted clothing and stationery. Rumors of 128MB flash drives and USB port freebies have risen. However, the author is yet to confirm these rumors through actual experience. He would like to.
  
• Speaking on career fairs. One should get into finance simply for the taste in food those companies have - kebabs, chocolate cake and iced tea compared to Domino pizzas favored by most C/C++/Java companies
• I find this quite interesting. One gets so ingrained to the pattern of the people in the department that one immediately notices if something is different. I saw some extremely sorority/frat looking people a few days back. A break from the lost-in-thought-google-t-shirt-wearing-laptop-totting crowd one is used to. A art history or some such course is going on. I saw some extremely well developed african american gentlemen and ladies. Well, there is an african studies class on.
  
• There was a funny incident a couple of days back. Microsoft is currently having this line on windows without the blue screen of death. Basically, stable. We have this large screen (7m width, 3 m high) across on of the walls in the main hall area of our department. This usually shows some commercial like thingy about the department. Well what happened is that the system crashed and there was this huge 1mx2m button that said something like 'Windows has crashed. Press Yes if you want to report bug to Microsoft'. Really funny. That too during career fair time. He he. They apparantly recruit max from here.
• I have come to the conclusion that how you feel about life is little correlated to most things that are associated with feeling good about life in the cliched form. Don't want to say more. I would actually like to know what others think about this. I can probably put my thoughts in the comments section after some others have shared theirs.:D.