tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58980472011-04-21T21:27:22.227-07:00navelarchRantings and ravings of a wandering mindRajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1087998812494697612004-06-23T06:52:00.000-07:002004-06-23T11:46:21.250-07:00My first post in months and great timing too genius - leaving for India in 6 days with your future uncertain.
Anyway, I got an email from a Portuguese guy (a professor maybe) mistaking me for Prof.K.R.Rajagopal. This was the first time it had ever happened and I am surprised it hasn't happened more often.Rajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1068403878431683862003-11-09T10:51:00.000-08:002003-11-21T08:47:24.623-08:00Fidel saves the day for Windies
What the hell are Windies doing saving a Test match by the skin of their teeth against a depleted Zimbabwe?. Good god!. Lara wanted the Windies to perform better overseas. Good start genius. Maybe he should have stuck around for a lot longer than 8 balls or whatever he faced yesterday before falling to Heath Streak. What the hell is happening?. Fidel Edwards had Rajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1068402888740867552003-11-09T10:34:00.000-08:002003-11-10T11:59:52.733-08:00Bloodbath of epic proportions
Holy cow!. OU beat A&M 77 to nothing. 77-0!!!. No one could have imagined such a thorough domination of a team supposedly playing the same level of football. I only saw a few plays during lunch at the Union in the UT campus (I was in Austin for the TRASH tournament - see previous post) and good thing that happened. I am not sure how depressed I would have been if IRajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1068401870929713872003-11-09T10:17:00.000-08:002005-05-20T10:13:16.276-07:00TRASHy day at AustinI went to Austin yesterday for a TRASH quiz tournament with Chris, Candy and Tyler. It was great fun. We might qualify for the TRASHionals. I am not sure if I am going to be around for that (Feb, I guess) but if I am I would love to go. A&M also had 2 other teams lead by Rachel (End the politics guys).The winner was the undefeated Battle Planet team (from OU) - they were Rajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1067963491854576702003-11-04T08:31:00.000-08:002003-11-05T09:07:39.300-08:00iTunes rocks!
I love iTunes, the jukebox type software from Apple now available for PC's too. It plays mp3 files and also allows access to the Apple iTunes music store to buy songs for 99c. But the best feature for me is the online radio stations it has, a' la Real One.
The radio stations cover a wide range of genres from classical to classic rock, americana to world, 50's pop to electronic, Rajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1067963143314779352003-11-04T08:25:00.000-08:002003-11-04T08:55:49.730-08:00Racist '...Accomplishment..'?
I wish I hadn't mentioned Charles Murray, the author of Human Accomplishment..., in one of my previous posts. Turns out the racist has previously written a rather unscientific book called The Bell Curve in which he makes the outrageous claim that blacks are somehow genetically inferior to whites. The Slate article I had linked to in the original post does mention Rajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1067885456757031972003-11-03T10:50:00.000-08:002003-11-04T08:54:58.713-08:00Ah, that missing winning feeling is back
A welcome win for the Aggies against Kansas (45-33) after a couple of forgettable losses. But the defense is still porous with Barmann, the freshman QB, throwing for 4 TD's. Barmann had his redshirt taken off after Bill Whittemore, the starting QB, went down with an injury - Mark Mangino must have been agonizing over that decision but it was probably the Rajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1067745761979901292003-11-01T20:02:00.000-08:002003-11-04T08:54:09.400-08:00Kid in the candy store
I was like the proverbial kid in the proverbial candy store today. A friend (Abhijit) is leaving the US and going to India (or Germany?) and brought over a bunch of old and used books. The books include a history of the Vietnam war, a history of the Jews, Satanic Verses and more. The icing on the cake however was the GUITAR he left. God bless him!Rajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1067630303539921542003-10-31T11:58:00.000-08:002003-11-10T12:01:55.216-08:00Addendum to the All Star Physics dream team
This is a codicil to the previous post. In hindsight, I have missed some obvious names from consideration.
John von Neumann, George Stokes, Hamilton, Euler (?), Biot, Lagrange, Christiaan Huygens, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Ernest Rutherford (saw it on the list from the book), Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, Marie Curie (two Nobel prizes - whatRajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1067619987288741322003-10-31T09:06:00.000-08:002003-11-04T08:53:01.653-08:00All Star Physics dream team
There is a new book out called Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray. He has an all time all-star physics dream team with a list of 20 physicists.
I tried to make my own list (I saw a couple of names before deciding to make my own list first and then comparing it with the one from the book. So myRajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1067444342211869782003-10-29T08:19:00.000-08:002003-11-04T08:52:03.123-08:00Hoops is back, baby!
The NBA season started yesterday and the Lakers pasted the Mavs without Kobe. It is way, way too early to question the Mavs yet, but I expected a better effort from them and a closer game. I did not watch the game but apparently Kobe was sitting next to Shaq and was all buddy-buddy with him. Guess Mitch Kupchak and Phil Jackson got to him and asked him to stop going nuclear Rajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1067377215412319472003-10-28T13:40:00.000-08:002003-11-04T08:50:58.670-08:00Growing pains or a program in decline?
Two more bad losses - 48-12 to Nebraska and 38-10 to Oklahoma State - put the season record for the Aggies at 3-5 with 3 more tough games to follow. Aggies should win comfortably against Kansas this weekend and will in all likelihood lose the last three games @Oklahoma (get ready for a major kick in the rear, Aggie faithful), @Missouri and against Texas at Rajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898047.post-1065390963207905002003-10-05T14:56:00.000-07:002003-11-04T08:49:42.483-08:00A Texas sized massacre
I wanted my first blog to be a positive one but I still haven't recovered from the shock of Texas Tech destroying the Aggies 59-28 at Lubbock last night and can't think of anything positive to write about. Texas Tech put on a passing clinic and the Aggies showed how not to play defense against a passing offence. Why Coach Fran kept rushing only 3 all night long is beyond Rajagopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670432820966241636noreply@blogger.com