Horrors of Diet Coke

Today I was in my office, happily drinking away cold diet coke after lunch, keeping the sleep away and concentrating hard on work. It was at that moment that it struck me that diet coke is a artificial thing. Its artificially made, artificially sweetened and then filled with CO2!! So, I went to the net to find out what's up. And there it was the truth about diet coke and most of the artificially sweetened products - Aspartame. Yup, that's your culprit. Its the sweetner of diet coke and it works my stimulating your brain to think that what you are drinking is sweet!! Can you believe it, stimuating the brain directly!! Its like taking drugs, its not sweet, you just 'think' that its sweet. No wonder it makes you feel good about everything else too. Talk about artificial life. So that's the end of diet coke for me.

All BITS photos are up now

(and they are on yahoo ;))
BITS2005
BITS Library

And here is another blog which has more photos from BITS.
http://www.bitstrip2005.blogspot.com/

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams

Just finished another book by Douglas Adams, something about Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Its hard to remember the title itself. And as expected the book is as absurd as HHGG, but atleast in the first reading it does not seem to contain the humour that HHGG had. Its more full of absurdity. Dirk, the detective character has wierd habits like not opening his fridge ever!! Its something to do with different Gods and what they do. I did not get the story line at all. Guess will need to read it a second time to understand anything. Skipped the last few pages, it was just too much nonsense.

BBQ at Golden Garden

As summer is drawing to an end we seem to be trying to make the best of it. Yesterday we had another BBQ at Golden Garden Park. This one sponsored by STP cyclists. Had lot of fun. Food was usual BBQ burgers, chips, coke. Then we started playing ultimate frisbee, but the game was interrupted by a injury. After that we just hung out and then started the bon fire. It was nice sitting by the fire. After making an attempt at trying to play the story building game, we settled on Dumb Shreds. I had ofcourse played it after a long long time, I guess after school. And it was fun. Our team of Sree, Ravi, Vaibhav, myself and well, I forgot the name, totally dominated the other team. We came up with movies like 'Bhuvansham'.... or I think that was the name. Though I very much got stuck at 'Hedalgo', not being able to think of 'hide'. But anyway that's game, the experts guessed it anyway.

more dancing

I cannot believe this. This week after all is turning out to be real fun. Yesterday we again went out dancing, me, Vani and Sree and then Ravi, nema and their friends joined us later. It was lot of fun. A band from India MedivalPundits was playing. It was mostly mix of bhangda with techno. Feet just could not stop dancing on the beats. Hope we can find more fridays and saturdays to do the same.

Dancing after loooooooong time

Yesterday, thanks to Ravi's b'day, we went dancing at Pioneer Square. I realized that its the first time I had gone dancing in this year!!! It was wonderful. We first went to Phoenix. It has a really big dance floor. So that was nice. Although some people had apprehensions that their music is not that good, but I liked it. Then we headed to The Last Supper. It looked like a more fancy club, but dance floor was small. Music was initially good, fast and loud. But after sometime I got somewhat bored, there was not much variation in the beats and you just end up repeating the same set of steps. It was a perfect start of the weekend.

Hindi Keyboard!!!

Type in Hindi Devanagri Unicode Keyboard

Found this great Hindi keyboard. And what's better is that you can change your name in gmail to appear in Hindi!!

Gmail instructions:
go to Settings and look for the 'Display Name'. There will be couple of options, business name etc. Use nick name. Then write your name in the keyboard above, copy it from there and paste in the nick name. That's it.

first long weekend in seattle

well, this is the first long weekend that we are staying at home, and not going anywhere. There is ofcourse a lot of pending work at catch up both in office and at home too, which is enough to occupy whole week, still 3 days of finishing pending home work!! That's definately not something like us. Maybe we will end up going and camping at Mt Rainier. (which i refer to as camping in the backyard)

Spoken like a True BITSian...

what is better way to connect to other BITSians than by their blog. Here is one that Rahul found.
http://camelinthedesert.blogspot.com/
I still haven't read it, but looks interesting.