Nirmal Jayasinghe

Found this slide on one of my Engineering Management slide shows this morning. Couldn’t suppress a guffaw despite the 4-something pre-dawn yawn time. This is what actually happen most of the time, right?

The chocolate covered ’space’ cake I got for the engineering team. Looks like the ordinary outof Fabulous but that’s just camouflage. Guess everybody’ll be as high as U-2s and singing “Yo ho and UP she rises” by the end of the day. Surprise surprise. Only hope Rover’d be there for ground handling once it arrive. To be delivered pronto now. Let’s see. Hmm.. Just feel a bit nervous but this is going to by fun.

A Rafale from Aeronavale Task Force 473 performs a touch-n-go on USS John Stennis, with PIDGIN in foreground

IMing is not something I do to live, but a subprocess of my day job. But on first day at work I found out all the engineers were connected via Y! IM network so we could talk without leaving desks. Previously I used Google Talk in Web, but since we were in Y! I had to use the Y! Messenger briefly. Then I remembered that old copy of GAIM I used to have on some dusty CD and brought it in and installed it. Since then stuff has been flowless [other than ogling Y!'s Weather feature plugin while I briefly used another engineer's computer]. GAIM sometimes was a bit reluctant with file transfers, especially incoming. Then suddenly and inexplicably I lost smileys. Today I got the newest version of GAIM [I woke up in the morning and thought 'I'm going to get the latest GAIM version today!'], renamed Pidgin apparently due to some lawsuit with AOL. It’s excelent but everyone is stuck with Y!’s messenger I don’t know why. I got the spellcheck feature by accident actually, but it’s cool. The interface is markedly polished, and processes have slightly changed, but Gaim is still Gaim.

My newest boring pastime: collecting Facebook adverts. Here are some.