Sunday, October 26, 2008

This happens only in IIT ....

Claimer: All characters in this blog are factual and surely exist. All incidents depicted here are absolutely true and I claim it my duty to report it here faithfully.... (welll .... there might be some masala here and there.... cant help it .. )

Scene: Outside ACES Building, IIT Kanpur.
Characters: Childoo, DumDum, TataIndicom, Mucchad (Yours Truly !! )

Mucchad: Abbeh !! ... its 6PM already !! .. the SEL show is gonna start at 8:30 ... there will be a huge queue already outside Audi Grounds...
DumDum: Arre this is too early to go man.... we will go by 7:30 or so...
Childoo: (whining as usual) haan yaar... lets not go so early ... we will waste lot of time there...
Mucchad: But if we go too late the queue would have reached a length tending to infinity !! .. we might have to apply limits to evaluate the actual length then...
(Everyone ponders for one of the possible solutions .. )
TataIndicom: Aaaaaahhhh ... I have a solution !! ... we need to find a perfect time to leave so that we join the queue at the most optimum length ... thus we can still hear the concert though we are standing in queue !! ...
DumDum: Haa ! .. that solution is totally flawed !! ... In that case why are we going to the concert anyway ?? ... we might as well listen everything from outside !! ...
Childoo: See .... no point discussing all this ... what we need is an algorithm !!.....
(All are astounded by this brilliant approach)
Childoo: We will go right now and see what is the length of the queue.... if (queue != threshold_length) then come back else join queue.... (Childoo smiles as if he won the Nobel Prize).
Mucchad: Aha !! .. I have found the bug !! ... the condition should be if (queue >= threshold_length) ... I cant believe you actually code for speech processing !! .. (Mucchad smiles as if he snatched the Nobel Prize for himself)
TataIndicom: Aaaaaahhh ..... no time for all that !! ... lets just go now and we will see what to do ...
Childoo: But wahan kyun hai !! (Poor guy actually meant "wahan queue hai")
DumDum: Huh ?????
TataIndicom: Aaaaahhh?
Mucchad: Kya??? ... kya kyun hai?
Childoo: Haan ... wahan kyun hai naa!!
DumDum: Hes gone crazy man....
Mucchad: Ok guys... lets go to lab and work on this algorithm if we have to catch the concert...

Ahemmm.... well ... what can I say... This is what happens here ....

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Haha!! awesome blog man...shows how confused the so called best brains of India(i disclaim the sobriquet) end up being wen working together. I bet our friday movie selection anecdotes would be even more interesting..

Krishnan said...

nice blog man...
Yeah,many such incidents which make good anecdotes are a part and parcel of our daily lives here..

Varun B R said...

Only tell me how childoo was standing when he said "Wahan kyun hain na?" ;)