so a lot has happened since i last updated this blog...
07-20-08 : diya turned one! (wow!)
07-21-08 : mom-dad went back to india
07-23-08 : neha went back to india
07-24-08 : diya started daycare again
--somewhere here diya started walking--
08-09-08 : samaj picnic was fun
08-18-08 : i turned 31 (huh?)
08-21-08 : i officially was sworn in as a US citizen (yey!)
well, not much of a blog entry, but thats the best i could come up with my busy work schedule... more next time.
The Isthmian Games
The ancient Greeks tell of a man named Sisyphus, a once mighty king of Corinth, who founded the Isthmian Games in honor of his fallen comrade Melicertes. Homer was fond of saying king Sisyphus was the wisest and most cunning of the mortals.
Today’s Isthmian Games are a series of difficult puzzles that some say solving is not unlike Sisyphus’s legendary struggle to roll a rock up a hill, only to see it fall before reaching the peak. Most who compete in the Games push their rock uphill only to see it fall back time and time again. Only the tireless few will eventually triumph and win the coveted Melicertes Award.
Each puzzle created for the Isthmian Games is painstakingly crafted, taking months—sometimes years—before it’s completed. The puzzles produced for the Isthmian Games are unique and complex challenges created for that narrow strip of humanity that enjoy burning a little fat off their souls through adventuresome puzzling.
Time is only a factor in that you’re racing against the world’s most devoted puzzlers to be the first to successfully solve the challenge. Some challenges end quickly; others may take years before they’re solved by a single individual. In the absence of an official winner the challenges remain open in perpetuity.
Wanna try?
too many people have been and still are astonished when i mention that i'm an engineer but not IT or software or hardware.... its almost like them asking me "then why are you in the US again?" guess a 'structural marine engineer' just aint cool enough...
so this is for those people who are really interested in what i do... click!
my company Heger Dry Dock, Inc., designs floating docks, like the one you see in the video, with the 2 cranes on it, the one that floods down to launch the submarine.
Added 05-06-08
Floating Dry Docks are steel structures (sometimes massive) that consist of machinery (pumps, valves, controls) and ballast (water) tanks. By flooding the ballast tanks the dock can be submerged to dock a ship and then dewatered to lift the docked ship out of the water... vice versa to undock the ship.
last night i found a good deal on this Dyson Slim DC18 and decided to take my plunge into the expensive but good vacuum cleaners... assembly was a breeze and a trial run on our rug resulted in collecting dirt and fuzz i didnt even know was in the rug... especially after my Bissell had been on it just few days ago.
this thing is pretty light and fancy looking for its performance, power and price... check it out online hereso, after months of brain racking, hair splitting and price tracking, i finally bought a camcorder. behold my new Canon HG-10!
its pretty nice, small size, easy to handle and some very cool features... a big upgrade over my Sony Hi8 version. this one's got the famed Canon Digic DV II image processors, cool 40GB hard drive to store almost 10 hours of video in the latest AVCHD format! oh, did i mention its a full HD (hi-definition) camcorder? yeah! 1920x1080 resolution HD baby! other cool features include 24p cinema mode, one of the very best optical image stabilization, 2.7" LCD display, and ofcourse still photo grabs from video.
haven't shot any real video clips yet... deepa and i are still tryin to figure this gizmo out along with all its bells and whistles. will upload some, hopefully soon. some more pics and reviews here.
