Archis is an aspiring Jedi Knight documenting his experiences throughout his struggle to learn the ways of the force…
At the moment he works at Microsoft in Redmond, working on the Windows Live team.
He spends his time coming up with new coffee recipes, aging books, and tinkering with engineering projects at home that involve lots of electricity, heating stuff, burning stuff, and generally making things that blow up.
He is on a quest of pure awesomeness 24/7/365, so if you have something that’s awesome, and need company, just ping him!
To answer the big question on everyone’s mind, what the heck does Archis mean, and why do people sometimes call him Archishmat? Archishmat is his legal name though not many know that. It’s a sanskrit name for one of the (330 million) Gods from Indian Hindu beliefs, who goes by the more common contemporary name Vishnu. For the uninitiated, this name is as wierd and unheard-of in India as it is anywhere else, so he’s quite used to raised eyebrows and probing questions.
He claims to be a liberal who doesn’t believe in religion, although one who believes in ethics, morals, freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, and above all an expectancy of consistency from people.
Finding him on campus is a rare occurrence?
Haha
Except at 4AM
Comment by Mahesh S. — July 9, 2009 @ 6:45 pm
what are your thoughts on “simian crease” or “simian lines” ?
Comment by Prashant — August 9, 2010 @ 4:34 pm
I had no idea what simian lines were frankly until you asked me. I was pretty sure they were some kind of mathematical construct until I Googled for them and found they relate to Palmistry.
I am pretty clear that for me astrology and all that kind of stuff is entertaining so I don’t discourage it or dismiss those who talk about it (I’m not the anti-astrology cynicists who get into arguments.) I find it quite amusing to get my astrology readings and do feel they have a nice “placebo” effect. If someone says, “You are going to get a promotion this year.”, I’m sure it affects my behaviour in a positive way making it very likely I will get one. I’ve met many counselling psychologists who’re into astrology and find it a very effective tool (though not sure if it fits in their ethical frame.)
Will I ever believe in astrology/palmistry/etc.? No.
I do believe, however, in deductive reasoning. So suppose you find my hands soft and therefore make an assumptions that I have never done hard-work in my life, yes. You could say a crease is pretty deep and therefore probably the person has twitchy hands, implying the probability that he is nervous, and I might buy that explanation.
Comment by archisgore — August 10, 2010 @ 12:21 am
hey, Archis.
this is Kyoungjune from south korea (nuclear physician, we met through couchsurfing)
how are you?
i am back to korea now.
yeah, i have to go to work tomorrow morning
had nice time in the evening on that day?
do you have facebook id?
if you have, add me, (ilikechopin@nate.com)
Comment by Kyoungjune — June 12, 2011 @ 8:26 pm
Hey, just need to contact me and I can supply some C snippets for interfacing to the Pendant EEG thru a virtual COM port.
bruce
PN
Comment by neurobe — November 10, 2011 @ 7:21 am