In no particular order. With no particular significance.
as i waiteth for this program to complete and generate me some results nice and neat. something that makes them wow and whisper how did he pull off that amazing feat? it is late at night and its been a long long haul i am too tired to shed modesty and tell tales tall. i wish this stupid thing would finish and I could stop and stagger to bed and gently fall....
as the road sped under me, i heard a whisper, beware! beware! don't you buddy go blundering around with so little sense, so little care. the lanes are there for a reason the white lines are not for fun. don't you go swerving needlessly around so late at night, at quarter past one. the light cometh roaring, straight at you, beware, beware, you dumbo wake up. lest you join the bugs and bees in messing the trucker's windshield up....
(in response to a request to be on veho's thesis committee) ahem... more formally? let us see... if thou would give me engraved cards inviting me to the ball. if thou would bring me silk two yards enough for six feet tall. if thou would do this all and more maybe we could be formal. but since it seems so much a chore might as well be normal :) Short answer: yes :)
030192 Anurag Acharya Category theory is a ghost that roams Appendices of theses in search of a home. Few know of it, Fewer understand it, Still fewer have the guts to put it in a poem.
Oct 18, 1990
Sing a song of C structures
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(set to the tune of "sing a song of sixpence" :))
Sing a song of C structures
A pocketful of bits.
Four-and-twenty characters
Packed in a string.
When the string was printed
The screen began to smoke
Wasn't that a deadly string
To put in kernel code.
The kernel was in the mailing files
Counting network hops.
The shell was on the CPU
Hogging MIPS and FLOPS.
The files were on the large disk
No backups, oh well, well...
By came a power glitch
And blew them all to hell.
Oct 20, 1990
Allen had a little Soar
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Allen had a little Soar
A little Soar, a little Soar.
Allen had a little Soar,
Its cycles were oh so slow.
And everywhere that Allen went
Allen went, Allen went.
Everywhere that Allen went,
Soar was sure to go.
Old Mother Coda
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Old Mother Hubbard
Went to her replicated cupboard
To get her poor user a file.
But when she got there
The main server was bare
And the others were malicious or vile.
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:49:12 -0500 Finals are history Quals are itihaas [1] I smile smugly I have nothing to pass. If that sounds a bit like Rubbing it in well. I shall sadly apologize As I grin my way to hell. I hack and write and write and hack. And do it over again. In between I keep me busy To keep from going insane. Now we form a chorus My little doggie and I. May we wish you luck For the final that is nigh.
Wed, 18 Dec 1996 10:45:03 -0500 Thank you, thank you, Thank you my dear. It does make my cross Slightly easier to bear :) Umpteen'o clock in the morning Waiting for sleep to arrive. I sip a little oporto To a few rhymes do I strive. That Misha bloke is fully nuts Totally bughouse. I wonder how he looks in life A lion or a mouse? My doggie looks askance at me "Why does that thing beep? Are you completely nuts?" she asks "Why the hell aren't you asleep?"
Tue, 24 Dec 1996 11:02:50 -0500
>now-a-days u seem to be replying only in rhymes...
>is this a sign-of-the times?
>so is this compu-science...or compu-rhymes?
>so u must b appreciating mi chimes,
"You are old Father William", the young woman said
"And yet you rhyme and chime.
Anyone who sends you a message or two
Gets showered with poetic times."
"In my youth," Father William replied to the girl,
"I was a shiftless bum.
With all the dislike for prose that gave
A poetic chum I become."
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:43:06 -0700 >> Anyways, looks good. Now we really need moonu to keep the >> acharya-student-pipepline full. I hope you realize that 1998 will be >> the first year since 1983 that IITKGP has none of the acharya >> siblings. > ...IITKGP is probably heaving sighs of relief and the kgpians are >having a cooler summer... > not bad...not bad.. little do they know of the calamity that awaits them. without them acharyas compSci falls, and phy and chem. the rest of depts never knew the spring. it is a sad story they tell with tears and hand-wrings.
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:48:30 -0700 > how about giving iitkgp a break ?..for about 15yrs.... and then the >next generation of acharya siblings can move in .... kgp will no doubt get a break or two. one wonders if they will cry a bit or coo? reminds me of macbeth the tragedy of it does. with none of them around of whom shall they make a fuss?
>>saarii raat to sapne dekhe subah ko ye mehsuus huaa >>hamne apnaa sar Takraayaa ik paththar se saarii raat > >Ei-tar maane ki re ? Engriji/Bangla-y parse kore dish. All night long, I dreamt and dreamt; As the dawn broke, I realized All night long I had banged my head On a stony wall hard and wide.
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 12:27:08 -0500 >Are you the brother of Arup Acharya? >I always confused between the two. >Were you class of 87 or 91? One was my junior in CS and teh other my >brother's batchmate and hall mate. >clarify please ;)) Would be fun indeed To masquerade for a while. To see how long I survive with some guile. But sadly enough The desire is weak. I must confess I am not the one you seek. Arup old chap Was a classmate of mine. Swarup was too young, Way back in the line. Swarup is at Brown Striving and seeking. Arup is at NEC Mobiles he is making. I hope I satisfy Thy quest for knowledge. Of those who shared your Hall and your college.
Mon, 06 Jan 1997 08:45:17 -0500 >> If one said >> He had a hot little bod, >> I would understand. >> If one said >> He was bodaciously hot >> Or smartest in the land. > >THIS STUFF IS STRICTLY OUT OF THE MATRIMONY STUFF...RESEARCH HAS SHOWN >MOST WOMEN WANTING TO MARRY GIVE OTHER FACTORS A MUCH HIGHER PREMIUM >....SO I HAVE BEEN TOLD ATLEAST. [...] >> Oracle and H1B are >> Pretty poor wooing. >> Mention of the landedness >> Deserves a bit of booing. > >PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO AGREE WITH YOU WOULD CERTAINLY LOOK FOR NOTHING MORE >THAN ENTERTAINMENT IN MATRIMONIALS...BUT I'VE SEEN THIS KINDOF STUFF >WORKS.. Men have not the monopoly On being silly nuts. Women can beat them easily With no ifs or buts. One small thing to point out. The matrimonials you see Are scanned by parents etc. Here 'tis themselves be. Having said that I must add A lot of things do work. But they remain pathetic no less And there is still a farq.