Posts by: Kalyan Varma

Long Drive + No Power + Cold Beer + Stupid Jokes + Even more Stupid Jokes + Good singing + Chocolate mousse = achinis‘s Party. ( rather it was derherr‘s and geetanjali‘s birthday party, Happy Birthday for both of ya)

Finally managed to get my tickets via europe and skip the hk/sg leg. I will be landing in Bangalore on thu night. Wont have the nice personal TV’s like last time and its an extra 2 hours flight coz of the damn war. Just in time for all the weekend parties ( wink wink ;)) As usual the last min things have popped up. Have tons of shopping to do, have shit loads of meeting, need to meet up with people… and loads more. Cant wait to get back …

Finally met the Apple man. Very down to earth, funny and an amazing guy. Turns out he travels around in a Segway.. If there is one person in the tech industry who can be my role model, then its surely woz. Never went for the money, but went after innovation and techonology. And I like him the most for the fact that he used to teach in a kinder garden, when he moved out of apple. We had dinner at this place called the old spaghetti factory. Good food, and the prices are very cheap. I am going to the…

Way back in 1998 I got my 1st pop account, which was kalyan@pes.edu ( which still works btw ;)). That was also the time, when I used to check my mail in the unix box, without popping it off. I did not know anything , and hence started using the command line utility “mail” for everything. For couple of months, I used “mail”, to check mail, reply mails and store the emails. The my mbox started growing, and I realized I needed a better mail client. That’s when I tried pine, and got used to it right away. Also with…

I am going out with Steve Woz tomorrow for dinner. Finally getting to meet the big mac.

I was suppose to have left back for home this weekend. But looks like It ain’t happening. First, there is no travel policy for a while in the company.. but somehow managed to convince them that I need to get back. As soon as I resolve that issues, the SARS virus breaks out. That’s means no flight via HK and SG, and I just cant seem to get any tickets from the other side I’m also kickin myself for missing the Rolling stones concert, which is scheduled this weekend, and also the party at achitnis‘s place. I should know my…

Been, waiting to write a detailed post about it.. but just haven’t found time, and I don’t think I’ll find much more time later this week either. Friday : (photos)Drive to Silver line and California 1 on my boss’s Porsche, Concert at the famous Fillmore in SFO. Saturday 🙁photos) Trip to SFO, from Golden gate to Fishermen’s whart. Its simple an amazing city. Even managed to drive though the crooked street. Sunday : Mexican Party. Lovely food… and more lovely food + Movie in the night

As most of you know, Yahoo! took over Inktomi, one of the leading search engine company. Today there was a party at work to welcome them to our company… though most of the part was food and booze, had a blast towards the end, when a water gun fight broke out.. got drenched in water. There were very powerful and strong water guns… and nice to meet some real nice bunch of people. Too bad, I could not rag any of them 😀

its disgusting – how people try to impress their superiors at work – how they go out of the way to do things for them – how they celebrate their birthdays by throwing a huge surprise party – how they put the boss’s name in the status to impress them – how they manipulate things.. If you work in the some company as I am.. you know whom I’m taking about.

—- Dear Kalyan, We have received a complaint about recurring loud noise coming from your apartment after 10am and as early as 5am. This noise is interfering with your neighbor’s quiet enjoyment of his own apartment. blah .. .blah.. We value all of our residents and hope that we can come to a satisfying resolution of this mater. Thanks in advance — I am hardly home, and whatever little I am, I work on my laptop or watch tv. Don’t know why the neighbor is so anal about it.