Finally, the temperatures are starting to cool down here, with today's highest being 32ºC, which was still hot, mind, but not as hot as yesterday and Sunday. It's pleasant in my room right now, I'm not sweating at all, and in case the weather gets worse, a fan shall be arriving tomorrow. Also, the forecast for tomorrow says that it shall be 28ºC at its hottest, which is pretty good.
Continuing this parade of good news, I also got my bike back from the Campus Bike Shop today. They fixed the brakes and charged me a decent sum for that but at least now I can cease motion at will and the feeling is just plain exhilirating! This also means that I can ride downhill without worrying about getting myself run over by a car, truck or, if the circumstances are somewhat skewed, a train.
In addition to all that, Stanford refunded me a good sum of money (~$500) from the bill I paid for living on-campus during the summer, which just makes me feel so much better than what I would have felt had I paid them a smaller amount initially. That's human psychology for you.
Also, one of my Uncles* in Delhi is buying a MacBook through me, so I might get to use it for a few days on the pretense of installing software, which will be good because I am using a rather slow-ish iBook these days. And it also makes me happy because I'll be spreading the "Mac Love" to one more person. Recently, I've begun to feel nostalgia well up inside me for my five years of living in Mac-dom now and I have felt a great urge to watch Macworld and WWDC keynotes from the past. Thankfully, I was able to rip the Macworld 2006 and WWDC 2005 keynotes from Apple.com using SnapzProX in rather high quality and have luckily found a torrent for the others. I do love the Internet!
Also, went to the Physics Library today in the Varian building. I do like the name "Varian"… although I'd be hard pressed to tell you why. Perhaps because it reminds me of the general Math-Science-Physics thing. Unfortunately, although it is one of the few buildings that remains air conditioned these days (yes, during the heat wave, Stanford has had to turn the air conditioning in most places off supposedly due to the power alert), it had sort-of an unkempt feel to it and was no where even nearly as good looking as the other Techie-type buildings like Hewlett, Packard or Gates. However, I did go up to the library, as I said, and borrowed a book called The Elegant Universe (by Brian Greene) which talks about the Superstring Theory and sounds to me like a book I should have read a long time ago.
* Lightly defined term. Actually means "friend of father's" in the context, though it can refer to any sort of "elderly male chap" in common usage.
Continuing this parade of good news, I also got my bike back from the Campus Bike Shop today. They fixed the brakes and charged me a decent sum for that but at least now I can cease motion at will and the feeling is just plain exhilirating! This also means that I can ride downhill without worrying about getting myself run over by a car, truck or, if the circumstances are somewhat skewed, a train.
In addition to all that, Stanford refunded me a good sum of money (~$500) from the bill I paid for living on-campus during the summer, which just makes me feel so much better than what I would have felt had I paid them a smaller amount initially. That's human psychology for you.
Also, one of my Uncles* in Delhi is buying a MacBook through me, so I might get to use it for a few days on the pretense of installing software, which will be good because I am using a rather slow-ish iBook these days. And it also makes me happy because I'll be spreading the "Mac Love" to one more person. Recently, I've begun to feel nostalgia well up inside me for my five years of living in Mac-dom now and I have felt a great urge to watch Macworld and WWDC keynotes from the past. Thankfully, I was able to rip the Macworld 2006 and WWDC 2005 keynotes from Apple.com using SnapzProX in rather high quality and have luckily found a torrent for the others. I do love the Internet!
Also, went to the Physics Library today in the Varian building. I do like the name "Varian"… although I'd be hard pressed to tell you why. Perhaps because it reminds me of the general Math-Science-Physics thing. Unfortunately, although it is one of the few buildings that remains air conditioned these days (yes, during the heat wave, Stanford has had to turn the air conditioning in most places off supposedly due to the power alert), it had sort-of an unkempt feel to it and was no where even nearly as good looking as the other Techie-type buildings like Hewlett, Packard or Gates. However, I did go up to the library, as I said, and borrowed a book called The Elegant Universe (by Brian Greene) which talks about the Superstring Theory and sounds to me like a book I should have read a long time ago.
* Lightly defined term. Actually means "friend of father's" in the context, though it can refer to any sort of "elderly male chap" in common usage.
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