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About Me


Staring at server console error messages and writing scripts to parse stuff...that's the stuff i live for. Everything below this is what my profile used to be a year back. That's right. I hadn't really updated my profile in a year and I think I have evolved fairly as a human being since then, so let me use this to describe myself as of right now. I dislike myspace so you can say that this is my obligatory token profile. I dislike myspace for how unabashedly commercial it is, for how much spam i get on it and how badly it's designed. That was not the possesiv pronoun, hence the apostrophe. Unless I am going insane. Oh...btw - do not trust anything else that you read about me on this profile. Most of this stuff is so hopelessly out of date and I haven't the time to update it.Am a hardware design engineer that designs software... Am a personality Z type individual with an interest in computers, chess and the weather. I've been in Austin, Texas for five years now and trying to dismantle the existential constructs of my inner being. When I am not deconstructing aforementioned existential constructs, I like to place-and-route deep-submicron vlsi things, conjure riddles, consume infinite mochas and whisper sweet nothings. I believe in affirmation. I like high fidelity, consuming curiosity and intellectual abstractions. I dislike tedium and non-determinism. I am not motivated by conventional rewards such as social approval or money or sex. I am attracted by challenges and excited by interesting gadgets and toys. I like to inhale the contents of thick reference manuals and swiftly upload them to my brain. I claim to have a brain. I like punctuation and correct spelling and grammar. i don't possess any flying zebras but if you give me coffee, no one will get hurt.Writing about myself in the third person clearly sucks monkey posterior -Das decided to write a little bit more about what it is to be Das. Das is programmed to be awesome. Das did not know that he was awesome before he found a bunch of friends that were awesome and they told Das that Das was awesome. Anyway, since then, Das just magically became awesome. And that's all the stuff that Das has to say about Das.Economic and Political Views - Das believes in Richard Stallman's social, economic and political views and they are outlined in this interview with Znet magazine - http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13& ;ItemID=9350To summarize and to quote Richard Stallman's own words - I'm not for equality of outcomes. I want to prevent horrible outcomes. But aside from keeping people safe from excruciating outcomes, I believe some inequality is unavoidable....which brings us to the word - "big picture". Whether that be the magical extrapolation of a somewhat confined set of ideas or the exceedingly blatant exploitation of niche markets, the overtly overall subversion of the mind's wanton delusions is an exciting quest to embark on, howsoever, transigent that may be. You may not know how much beauty there will be until you can picture it and you can verbalize it, but if you can verbalize it...and not barring the cliche about talk being cheap...what stops it from being real....and that's the word...Das is not your average retard. Das is a super-retard. Das is bipolar. Das writes about himself in the third person.

My Interests

computers, puzzles, challenges, german, gnu, linux, guitar, mysteries, ironies, paradoxes, tragedies

I'd like to meet:

the passively physical objective extrapolation of a seemingly subjective pseudo-reality.

Music:

fall out boy, something corporate, weezer, dashboard confessional, ben folds five, burning bright, deathcabforcutie, early november, ani di franco, beg to differ, blink 182, bob schneider, bree sharp, cruiserweight, dave matthews, midtown, muse, my chemical romance, over it, ozma, modest mouse, postal service, smog, notwist, radiohead, smog, green day, saves the day, el gato, lifehouse, taking back sunday, strokes, interpol, jimmy eat world.

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine, I Heart Huckabees, Science of Sleep, The Hours...

Television:

PBS, Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, BBC

Books:

1) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 2) Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger 3) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 4) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 5) Animal Farm - George Orwell 6) Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 7) The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy 8) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 9) On The Road - Jack Kerouac 10) The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck 11) Pretty much any book by P G Wodehouse

Heroes:

Clouds of chemicals that were reacting and I was the by-product of, as and as they started sparking off chain reactions.

My Blog

Thou Happy Now

And god cometh and talketh to me and God sayeth...And thou shall write illustrated mythologies...and thou shall write blogs...and thou shall write code for videogames such as thine XBOX and thine Nint...
Posted by Das on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:05:00 PST

what's left to say is this

now...now...now...what's left to be said after everything's been said and done. that you wish to take back what's yours and claim it? well...just go ahead and do that, why don't you?
Posted by Das on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:09:00 PST

Melancholy

This is a story about a day in the life of Dakupoto. Dakupoto isn't your everyday average person that you would meet on the street. I guess it's because you get so used to meeting average people durin...
Posted by Das on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:29:00 PST

Thou Shalt Least Rememberest Thee

Enchantest thou, thine lips thou sweet, thine smilest thou, thine frail thy feetForgettest thou, thy love doth breed, as thou shalt least remembrest theeCoarseth thou, thine blood thou vein, thou thor...
Posted by Das on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:56:00 PST

Thinking in recursion

Thinking in recursion...this is a simple exercise in thinking in recursion...By thinking in recursion, I am only attempting to think recursively. I am only trying to take the output of a process, a co...
Posted by Das on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:48:00 PST

And to want....and to find...and to be

It was the way things shouldve been. The way I thought they might have been. If things wouldve been the way they couldve been. But thats not what this is about. This is not about me and my precious la...
Posted by Das on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:07:00 PST

The Operational Art of Global Domination - Chapter Twelve - the predictor of all things magic..

as the one who feels that he is the predictor of all things magic - i feel i can see things beyond the today and tomorrow of it....i want to be the giver, not the receiver - i can't live with myself u...
Posted by Das on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:53:00 PST

The Operational Art of Global Domination - Chapter Eleven - Intellectually Adequate

At long last, I could finally say that I found myself intellectually adequate. I don't know what I had done that made the people that I cared for respect me and respect what I had to say. But given t...
Posted by Das on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:56:00 PST

what do people want? why do people want? how do people want?

a) people have many opportunities to make people happyb) people don't take these opportunitiesc) because they choose not to??d) because they don't want to??e) what do people want from people?f) do peo...
Posted by Das on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:19:00 PST

jargon

the kernel modules have been patched with the production build from the beta version of the dev fork and the binaries for the ui are still being recompiled using the gd script....but the xml validatio...
Posted by Das on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:36:00 PST