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Volcanic twister

Avinash Shetty — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:37:02 +0000

Everyone knows the volcano that erupted in Iceland causing havoc for flights across Europe. The question however is does anyone remember the name of the volcano that erupted. Anyone?

It is Eyjafjallajokull. I don’t even know where to begin. There a barely any vowels and fj all over the place. I’ll be calling it ‘kull’ and you better know what I’m talking about.

Update: I think this sums it up nicely

Update 2: Some further digging around tells me that in the Nordic language, eyja means an island, fjalla means mountains, and jökull means glacier. Eyjafjallajökull = mountains with glaciers on the island.

The incomplete unauthoratative guide to bad drivers

Avinash Shetty — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:30:04 +0000

So I’ve considered, for a long time, to writing a post about the correlation between races and bad drivers. I never did because of the touchy nature of the topic, in spite the fact that I get 3 visitors a year to my site.
So instead this will be a car to bad driver correlation. So here is the definitive list

Toyota Prius
Toyota Corolla
PT Cruiser
Any oldsmobile
Honda Insight (old)
Most other hybrid cars

Now, you can just become a good driver by avoiding these cars. It is something that you are born with. For instance, if you hadn’t read this, you’d buy a Toyota Corolla. But just because you did, you go buy a Mini. That doesn’t suddenly make you a good driver. You are just an inherently bad driver. The reverse is also the same. For example, you really want a Mini, but you can’t afford it, so you buy a Corolla. Doesn’t make you a good driver. The fact that you chose the Corolla over the other cheaper cars out there makes you just as bad. You could have picked any Mazda and gone ‘zoom zoom’ or for that matter a Toyota Yaris or Ford Focus; all very ‘good driver’ cars. And in case you didn’t already figure it out, the Mini is the ‘best driver’ car. I’ve yet to come across someone who drives a Mini badly.

A new begining.

Avinash Shetty — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:03:45 +0000

I’ve been talking about making the change out of QA into something more customer oriented for a while now. But like everything else in life, inertia and procrastination ruled.

I’m now a Tech Marketing Engineer with Riverbed. I couldn’t be more excited.

What if God was one of us?

Avinash Shetty — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:41:48 +0000

The life of God is pretty well documented. Their stories are of someone who didn’t behave the way you and I would when faced with adversity. Essentially they teach the readers to practice enormous willpower, strength, patience, courage amongst many such qualities.

If I come across something amazing, I’ll hype it up a little more when I spread the word. The next person who hears my version probably adds a bit more. Eventually the final story is just a super glorified version of the original.

Imagine what happened to the stories of the Gods over thousands of years and millions of people’s interpretations and hype. So was God just really someone between us? Maybe years from now, people like Ghandi might end up being worshiped in temples.

Anisha is here

Avinash Shetty — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:00:17 +0000

Anisha was born Dec 6th 17:50pm. Check out her pics. Hopefully, I’ll have time to keep it updated.

Planned migration

Avinash Shetty — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:12:12 +0000

I’ve been planning to migrate to my new server for months now and it had been pending forever for several odd reasons. I finally have it up and running and the blog has been migrated so its almost fully functional. Some bits are still missing however this will get time as and when I find time.

Highlights of the migration

New RAID 6 server so my data is secure.
Centralized LDAP Authentication system. No duplicate/multiple registration.
Email. Yay! I finally I have own email and don’t need to rely on Google or anyone else.
Space. This is relative to my old server. Currently This is at 2TB after RAID but there is provisioning for a lot more.

Seconds anyone?

Avinash Shetty — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:14:11 +0000

We are expecting baby two. And its a girl. Pictures to be up soon. Due Dec 12ish.

mini thoughts rather than posts.

Avinash Shetty — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:58:42 +0000

I’m gonna start posting mini thoughts rather than full size posts. More twitterish but here since I dislike twitter.

It’s a boy

Avinash Shetty — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:48:48 +0000

So we are at the hospital doing an ultrasound and the doc’s like ‘You sure you wanna know?’ and the two of us nervously nod yes. Then she plays around with the machine for a while and comes up with an image on the screen and says ‘This one is easy, see, its a boy’. Snap! That would be photo 3 from the bottom she was pointing at.

So it is now down to the enormous task of naming the kid and my sis is throwing out the names from some online site. Anyway, listen to some of this. Achutya (poor kid will kill himself before high school) and Achintya (more mockery for him) and Balachandra (which decade are we in again).

Anyway, I think I’ll stick with VinVin’s suggestions. Yashwanth Anna and Balaraj Anna. Both so good, which one do I pick.

Mommy, can I grow a moustache?

Avinash Shetty — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:17:15 +0000

Tom Selleck set the bar for the moustache. Nowhere is it more evident than in Friends when Matthew Perry (Chandler) wants to grow one just to look like Tom Selleck (Richard). I guess if they had a moustache school, Selleck would be the poster boy.

Anyway, my dear friend VinVin is all psyched out about one since he saw Matador. Pierce Brosnan is no Selleck but still VinVin seems to be all taken in. Sooooooo, to prove to him how ridiculous he would look, I took on my own little photoshop project.


Oooh!	VinVin Before	VinVin After

Hmmm.. very interesting. I think VinVin looks really good. I think he should go for it. Heck, I think I should go for it. In my case however, a year would not be sufficient.