Reading on 30th Dec

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/futurecar/

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00065442-09C2-13AB-896383414B7F4945 (saw it)

http://www.techreview.com/InfoTech-Search/wtr_16098,308,p1.html

Shantanu's pic

?

আমার বৌ আসছে?

Message from a Lonely planet

আমার বৌ আসছে...

Two pix

Seek

....And thou shall find.

Ran 3 km in the morning. Then when I was resting after skipping, this thought came to my mind. If I run 3km@6days, I run 18 km per week and that will take 100 weeks approx two years to reach Haldia from Bangalore. Now you understand why you needed a horse or, at more advanced level, a wheel.

I also ranked the most disgusting persons. Right now top in the chart is our landlady. Then the girl in where I work. And then the guy in Bainan who used to rent out Hatchaks(!). Ujjwaler baba.

And you shall really find what you want. Just go out and seek

Run baby run

Practising in Holi in KGP

Half Marathon cracked

The Impossible Run

Bangladesh II

The Greatness of India

My Volleyball Team

Whole lot of my teammates are here in Bangalore. Neeraj, Abhijeet,Prabhash and Krishna is in Chennai.

Inter-IIT

KGP finally won the Gold medal in Volleyball.

Congratulations!!
-loser

Marathon

Another dream came true. I ran JSW Foundation Half Marathon and completed!! It was fun.

Bangladesh

Good reading

Mechanics I

For a long time, I got thrilled by the word "Holonomic" and it was demystified only on day before yesterday. When you have constraints in motion of the bodies and the constraints can be put in terms of equality condition its holonomic.
Otherwise its non-holonomic. So a bead sliding on a string is an example of holonomic dynamics. Because its location has to be on the string all the time. Thats a equality condition. Gas molecules inside a box is an example of non-holonomic dynamics. Because the molecules' position can't be greater than the box's length or width.
You can derive lagrangian dynamics equations in holonomic system considering virtual work done by the constarins is zero.

My shoe's blog III

Dear Shoe,

Congrats!! You came back. 3 km. Tuesday was a mistake. It was not a weekly break. There is no break in life.

Hasta la vista baby

Amar Kabita

Quote

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939

My shoe's blog II

Congratulations, my little lovely shoe. You just finished one full week of running.

• Sat - 2 km
• Sun - 3 km
• Mon - 3 km

Keep the tempo!!

My shoe's blog

• Tuesday - 53 minutes
• Wednesday - 2 km running + 2 km walking
• Thursday - 3.5 km running + 3.5 km walking
• Friday - 4.5 km walking + 3 km walking

Life is not passing an exam. Its not Madhyamik or getting into IIT or getting your first job. All the time challenges are there. Its never going to end. So dont rest on your laurels.

Dont break the habit. Once its broken its VERY difficult to get it back. So dont get overwhelmed over three days running. Make it a part of your life.

Three articles

First one is introductory article from Nature Sept 2005 about advances in Surface Science.
Second one is about quantum chaos

I read one interesting article from Scientific American India in the train to Jajpur.

bhalo kabita

Taito Ratri

by

Kalidas Bhattacharya

from NabaKallol Poush 1412
(Bhalobese kara. Copyright niye problem thakle sariye nebo.)

Postcard from Ulm

Panto in Kolkata

And Me Mac Cellular Automata Conciousness Mathematica Traffic Jam

Three friends after three years

... at a coffee shop in an old city

Orissa trip

• I proved I can become more dark
• Konark is awful
• Puri...Oh Puri. I love beach
• The guy who cheated in the train
• The hotel wallah who cheated in Puri
• The child hawkers, Tea and jhalmuri on the beach
• Jajpur Keonjhar road station
• Suryansh
• Hotel Presidency and the wonderful marriage
• Oni-da
• Jagannath temple
• Bedwin
• And Madhu

From Deutsches museum

I would have never known this. Sooooo much goes into the landing gear of aeroplane!!

Run for Life

Cant believe this myself. Ran for 53.some minutes in the morning!! Hope I could finish the Half Marathon on 18th. Ganesh Siva Akash and Ravi are also joining.