BUGATTI VEYRON 16.4

THIS IS IT. THE DREAM RIDE.

CAN ONLY LET DEAR JEREMY TELL YOU ABOUT IT

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Doom

If a game has a mature rating, be afraid to play. Especially a game in which the gamer has only a torchlight worth of light in massive cathedrals of darkness. And even worse, if on sighting the ghoul you press the mouse with all your might, it results in a weak swing of the flashlight, while the ghoul takes away mounds of your avatars flesh and all your sense of confidence with it. You need to have the presence of mind to change to a weapon to blow the ghoul away, but as a result lose the little light that the flashlight provided. And the darkness envelopes you.

Dying a trillion times really affects the spirit. Especially when the process of dying is revealed as a growing peripheral hemorrhage that grows to envelope the screen, which actually pulsates like as if you busted an artery. Doom 3 for you folks.

Any more realistic and nobody will buy their game.

Tennessee

Back from Tennessee. Land where the trees are still green and there’s not a spot of white on the ground.

Nice hospital. What stood out was that they had free food in their cafeteria. And the cafeteria was open 24/7. So the residents there use it like a grocery store. No yoghurt at home pick it up at the cafeteria, they have all the brands. Estimated savings of 16000 dollars in 3 years, if you can subsist on only cafeteria food.

Their call rooms were good to. Mandatory TV and computer, bed always made for you with clean smelling sheets. If you could live in the call room and eat in the cafeteria, your only expenses would be taxes. Imagine that. It takes an Indian to come up with this, that’s why we are admired the world over.

Not going there though, no science going on. It feels to comfy too. Not the place I did fit in. Also too many females. A certain amount is ok more than that the only conversation will be about family.

gaming

‘Gold farming’- people playing online games till they drop for the developed country gamer who isn’t willing to play the initial level of the game and is only interested in playing at the level 60. Basically these are guys who sit around all day play games collect all the gold, weapons, chants etc to make the most formidable avatar to sell to the highest bidder. Hah you gotta love the internet for the way it makes foreign exchange inequalities into money making opportunities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09
/technology/09gaming.html?pagewanted=1

So I’m reading ‘The brothers Karamazov’. Sounds like vodka, reads like premchand ki amar kahaniya.

It was written in the 1850`s. So it’s a classic piece of literature, the type that causes aspergillosis in the reader because of the spores inhaled while taking it out.

He knocks me out every time I read a page. Soldiering through though.

Chicago

I wanted to write everyday that I was in Chicago. But every time I went out, every line of thought just froze out of existence. The only thing that remained was the thought that if I wiped my nose any harder it might fall off.

Beautiful place. Explored their museum campus in some detail. Lakeshore-so exceptionally cold and windy. Spectacular view of the downtown at night though. The Fields museum has Sue –a T rex and the stuffed man-eaters of Tsavo [of Colonel Patterson fame]. Besides this there are zillions of stuffed animals, gems, and artifacts on display. There is this particular group of life-sized bronzes of the Masai alert, spears out hunting down a lion and lioness in full charge. The bronzes seem alive except for the air in their lungs. The Masai stand victorious on the lion in the next statuette, akin to Shakti over Mahisasura.

Ah, the Egyptian exhibit is marvelous. Its arranged as a tomb and you view the exhibits within the sanctum. Several mummies and books of the dead are arranged for perusal. Genuine respect for the civilization is palpable as you make your way through the exhibit. Truth is by the time you view all the exhibits your mind is just so overwhelmed that if Tut`s tomb was around the corner you would probably skip it.

Went to the aquarium round the corner, nice. Saw a couple of belugas. Huge white whales with a perennial grin on their faces. They just keep going round and round the insignificant pool they are enclosed in. Lots and lots of fish in several exhibits- of every color and shape imaginable. The aquarium has sections devoted to species from the Amazon, coral reefs, Rift valley and several other habitats. The Amazon exhibit just takes the cake in terms of absolute size of the fish. Forget piranhas, there were so many big fish displayed that you leave with a sense of wonder as would be befitting the longest river in the world.

You leave with a sense that the world is so much more varied and beautiful than even the most spectacular of human creations. Hope it survives us.