homecoming

Visiting Stanford for a few days. It feels good to be back here. For a change, Devasree is also traveling with me -- sweet. The lab is same in some aspects, and different in others. Difference mainly stemming from new members, getting to know the new kids. Went down to pg with Ren yesterday. Felt good to be back on the wall, did a couple of 11a for a change. The bouldering was good, but nothing spectacular. The Stanford gym was also a nice change, tons of memories, but all new faces --- only knew Ekin! May be meet Jared one of these days. We go for a drive today ....

whats cool about cuil?

So what's the big deal with cuil? Is there a big deal? Is this going to be the next google? Here's what i think: its too early to make a call. The current trend on the web (reddit, and other news gathering sites) is people are not happy, there are screenshots of unacceptable search answers, or keywords which fail badly. Well what else do we expect? Even though I believe that the system was tested for some users (depends on the numbers of users), but when such a system is opened to the world, and get PR as top newsites, it's expected that the system will crash, bugs will be found! So may be we should just wait for sometime before passing a judgment like this is stupid, retarded, or this is awesome, great. Playing the devil' advocate, who knows what the top search companies are up to --- it is in their interest that such a new search engine (hyped or otherwise) is killed at the infant stages. So I will just wait and see how the game unfolds. Its difficult to trust any source these days, like how much can you trust this (biased?) opinion?

tarka et al.

campus loop + gndx2 -> 33mins

found a cool shortcut or rather a narrow alley through kalu sarai. suddenly malvia nagar looks much closer now. also we found this tiny (?) food place (tarka) in kalu sarai, a good option for a lazy evening. the food is not spicy, at least the ones we ordered were almost home-cooked!

imf

was there one more time. it rained quite a bit in the afternoon, so the big(?) wall was closed. the cave was open, and the holds were mostly lying on the ground. had fun setting up a couple of nice routes, and also trying some of the comp routes! may be head back on wednesday ... wishful thinking?

i ran

campus loop, 25mins.

ran today

campus loop (short) 20mins.

an evening at imf

Yes I finally made it to IMF. It was a typical muggy Delhi evening, the heat was not too much just the humidity was high. I had a great time at IMF bouldering cave (more of a mini cave) and then spend sometime on the wall. It felt good, though the routes (specially those on the wall) felt difficult. The roof was tricky, but in a few more sessions I may cross the lip ... lets see. Got the annual membership. Hope I can make it one more time this week! The way back was funny, I got into a share auto for the first time in Delhi -- which meant I had a quick trip back home.