Mukul Sabharwal's Blog

I'm a student at Iowa State University studying Computer Engineering. This blog reflects my personal opinion about various issues; and is linked to no third party (disclaimer).

To be or not to be - from Hamlet - a "small" rewrite

Ahhh .... conciseness and brevity, so precious :)

Labels: funny, hamlet, rowan atkinsonm house, sketch, to be or not to be

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Where is God?

Clearly, not as far as I thought. See for yourself.

Labels: funny, where is god, wolfram alpha

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Sharam - She Came Along

Retro touch by House genius Sharam. This is She Came Along ft. Kid Cudi, originally sung by Patsy Cline.

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Detecting dyslexia; via programming?

A lot has been written about it (in/outside the medical community); a movie in recent memory as well, but ... detecting it through code? WT..!

I have a few dyslexic programmer/coder/tech buddies and a mistake they commonly make while looping through two dimensional arrays, or such outer/inner loop combos:

for (int i = 0; i < ROWS; ++i)
    for (int j = 0; j < COLS; ++i)
        // pwned

or it's cousin:

for (int i = 0; i < ROWS; ++i)
    for (int j = 0; i < COLS; ++j)
        /* these comments look more attractive */

I'm tempted to analyze the reasoning, rather the inclination for doing this, but I'll refrain.

Curious, how many of you do this?

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लमबी जुदाई (Lambi Judai)

Another great Hindi song, from the forthcoming movie जन्नत (Jannat). It's slightly melo; nice voice though! Anyway, I need a better way to share songs, any ideas?

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लाष्मी नारायण (Lakshmi Narayan)

A really, really funny song from a Hindi movie, One Two Three. The lyrics (if you understand the language) are hilarious!

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Tell Me You Love Me: Hindi Writing?

I've been keeping myself busy (the semester has just started ...) on the weekends (and weekdays) by watching this not-so-conventional drama series, Tell Me You Love Me. I won't digress from the post and tell you details about this series; tune into HBO on your Tele, or view it through other visual instruments ...

Michelle Borth (« that's a link worth checking out), a pivotal character in the show has a tattoo (or something) on her wrist; I did a little capture of it, and I can't seem to understand/make out what clearly looks like a word in Hindi/Sanskrit (alright, it could be any language that uses Devanāgarī) :

Anybody know what it means? (UPDATE: Michelle does say it means to heal, but she in another episode says it's something else, so I'm not quite sure)


Michelle Borth sporting a tattoo with a word written in Devanāgarī script in HBO drama series — Tell Me You Love Me

Labels: Borth, Heal, Michelle, Tattoo

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