Friday night passed off, helping setup Karthick’s new acer laptop and getting Vista in it into shape. And while Vista was installing and the acer software was setting itself up, i was busy dumping my collection of documentaries and movies into the spare hard disk.
i spent the weekend seeing the Heroes TV series. Some how without much logic i got hold of the series, and started seeing the series on saturday morning. After spending Half of Saturday night and the rest of Sunday till 8:30am, i had finished 20 episodes of the series. As you are imagining i was fixated with the series, from the cinematography, story, screen play and so on each department was differently handled and well thought out. I finished the series on sunday evening.
I have always had this fascination for story having the super-natural and human spirit as their central themes. After the sleepless night i spent seeing the series, i can say it was good experience. How the world sees India, and what India has to offer on the above topics. The Indian/Hindu connection - Which in recent has had a large presence in most of the TV series.
Like most of the series i have seen till now, the season one of the series held my interest, but then knowing how much a waste of time these TV series can be, i will closely watch the second season before i can vouch for it or even see the complete length of the second season.
So that was how the weekend was spent doing nothing much more than staring into laptop monitor.
Yesterday night i finished playing Bioshock on PC. After having finished the game i can give opinion that the game was great and all as touted by the review and the makers. The game had some amount of randomness and repeat playability included in it, which was pretty evident within the first level. During the complete game play i stuck to the role of rescuing all the little sisters i encountered and held of the temptation to see how harvesting the little sisters would have been.
Now that i am finished, i plan to go through a few levels and play the more greedy and sadistic role of harvesting the little sisters and see what difference the game has to offer.
Coming back to the game play, the attention to details was immaculate and awesomely done. i guess these focus to details and effects of water, on the environment and on the player, led one to get completely immersed into the story that, you never know the turning point (if one can call it) coming. And the turning point plays out well, and rest of the game after that is not that long a stint as it was in getting to “andrew ryan”. By shortening the length the player has to go through at the end the experience is all the more sweet. But somehow the final Boss fight was a little too easy for my liking. I found the role of protecting the little sister harder, as i nearly lost out on keeping the little sister alive (you will have to go through the game to understand what i am writing).
It was an excellent game to start off after a long time of not gaming, and i am definitely going to try the other path before removing the game.
I was going through the various GNU auto tools available for building projects, and came across this;
A physicist, an engineer, and a computer scientist were discussing the nature of God.
“Surely a Physicist,” said the physicist, “because early in the Creation,God made Light;
and you know, Maxwell’s equations, the dual nature of electromagnetic waves,
the relativistic consequences…”
“An Engineer!,” said the engineer, “because before making Light, God split the Chaos
into Land and Water; it takes a hell of an engineer to handle that big amount of mud,
and orderly separation of solids from liquids…”
The computer scientist shouted:
“And the Chaos, where do you think it was coming from, hmm?”
— Anonymous
At-least that explains some of the inactivity in the blog. So i am off to create some more Chaos. 
I recently finished a poster design done for a Indian cultural celebration called - Colors of India - in Helsinki. This event is conducted by a NGO called aarambh.
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