Books Currently Reading

Despite my travel plans, I do intend to finish these by the end of November if not December at the least:

1) Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

- hard to put this one down; her "New Yorky" point of view about life is very interesting

2) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

- very beautifully writing; deep and thought-provoking; characters of Lucky and Pozzo do trouble the conscience

3) Other Short Stories by Franz Kafka

- The Judgment, The Stoker, Penal Colony, Country Doctor, Old Leaf, Hunger Artist, The Mouse People, and Before the Law

Some Silly Books:

1) The Morganville Vampires and Dracula (got inspired by Twilight Eclipse)

2) The Social Climber by Pamela Morsi (this was a little bit dull reading)

Books I Finished

The last few months have been busy , but I did get to complete some of the books on my reading list:

1) King Lear by Shakespeare

- interesting tragedy; interesting how Lear's madness leads him to question the loyalty of his faithful vassals, his daughters, and eventually leads to their downfall

2) A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

- i've seen this on stage and now that I read it in entirety, it's even more passionate! (it being his writing of course and the tension between Blanche and Stan Kowalski intensifies more on the pages)

3) Beasts by Joyce Carol Oats

- this is quite a horror novel (or novella rather) but I liked the New England "Parochial" school setting and atmosphere she creates, as well as the character of Dorcus

4) The Metamopphosis by Franz Kafka

- very intense writing; portrayal of Gregor Samsa , the salesman as a dung beetle is quite mesmerizing

Cool Links

Thai Restaurants

Multi-Core Processing with Infiniband

Getting interested in performance of multi-core applications on Infiniband based clusters [while i worked as a performance engineer at Mellanox Data Center]


Some studies performed for Fluent and LS-DYNA computation heavy applications and their published results:

1.Fluent on multi-core infiniband cluster - Desktop Engineering 2008

2.Cluster Environments - Optimizing LS-DYNA PRoductivity

3. Infiniband and scalability of multi-core clusters

Good Children's Books Site

I just bought some Steve Jenkin's books for my daughter - his website has some really good links - check it out at: http://www.stevejenkinsbooks.com/links/

Picture of the house

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Other pictures on Flickr

- Sharpcast photos bought Yahoo! Photos
- Sharpcast no longer supports Photo Albums - Sugar Sync has obsoleted Sharpcast Photos
- I now use Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/56150393@N04/)
- A great article comparing the two photo albums: here

Our New House

Here's a picture of our new house:

Once we're moved in - it's gonna be so much better than this cramped apartment...