Today, I spent the entire day (or well, a good eight-hour slice of it) getting Mac OS installed on Souvik's computer, for which he had made the trip from Chandigarh with his trusty (ok, honeslty, not-so-trusty), big-and-bulky desktop computer. By the way, I can totally see why Intel was in deep shit until now when it came to its main business - making processors. The Pentium 4's and Pentium D's are these incredibly shitty processors that have no concept of power efficiency. They gobble up watts from your power supply as if they were eating a particularly delicious Tandoori pizza and then are basically as productive as a person in the process of eating a Tandoori pizza, which is to say, not all that much. And this is besides the fact that having that thing in the room probably raised the ambient temperature by about 5ºC. However, the story had a somewhat merry ending due to the fact that Souvik's computer in the end had both Windows XP and Mac OS X installed, albeit the lack of functional audio and accelerated graphics (so a ton of software will refuse to run). Also, managed to get Mac OS X on Varenya's computer which proved a lot less troublesome and even has accelerated graphics, though still no sound. Can't have everything. If you really want to run Apple's OS, get Apple's hardware - it's optimized for it and that's how it's meant to run.

Still, it was raining all day and although it did not considerably bring down the temperatures and further helped to increased the already-high humidity, I do like the sound of rain and thunder; it just makes me glad.

In other unrelated news, geek goes to gym. Is this a result of boredom or a general lack of anything productive to do? Is this a result of incessant nagging? Is this a result of the fact that I wouldn't actually mind being fit? I don't know… but the result is that I am making my first concerted effort to becoming less spherical in shape and… I won't exactly say that I am whole-heartedly jumping into this endeavour, because I'm not, but it's not half-hearted either - I guess it's more like three-fourths-hearted. We'll see. Nothing to fuss about.

And one major thing I had forgotten about Delhi out of lack of experience? Not the weather. The insects! Mosquitoes, yes. Of course, I am a favourite target. But since it's begun raining now, there's this plethora of other bugs that buzz and bite and the main problem with bugs in general is that it itches where they bite (humans seriously need to evolve itch-free skin… in the next five minutes). More things to squish and squash, yes; but… I have to get up from my computer to do that. No deal. Also, I hate these bugs that have hard exteriors and which keep banging into sources of light such as bulbs and tubelights with ferocious frequency. They make such a racket that I can't even "let them be" and just have to get up and murder them with newspapers, which is, come to think of it, the most utility I've been able to extract from newspapers in all my life, apart from their weak water-absorbant properties.

&c:

• Another successful conversion to the Mac platform - one of my Uncles and a MacBook. May they be blessed.
• Oh, and Power Outage Counter is up to 4 now, way lower than I expected after more than 10 days. No power cuts due to the rain yet - so unexpected! (yet is the keyword)
• I have started saying the letter Z as "zee" in my head rather than "zed". Is this a sign? I hope not. I guess the zee is just shorter. One optimizes. If I ever say "zee" though, let me know. It's supposed to be "zed" for me and it better stay that way!
  

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