Vik and his Thinks

Adios!

vikasreddyenti — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:54:01 +0000

I finally have my personal website and blog setup at www.vikasreddyenti.com and I would like to officially announce the move. I shall no longer blog on this site.

Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds to my new website.

Thank you for following me so far and I promise to deliver more real content, more often hereon.

Macbook pro. For real.

vikasreddyenti — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:02:25 +0000

Now there are four beautiful women iny life.

Macbook Pro

vikasreddyenti — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:35:40 +0000

Marriage, it’s all about knowing when to laugh. I think we’ll be fine.

Chaiwala

vikasreddyenti — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:38:10 +0000

I’ve been long contemplating on starting a professional blog to discuss my opinions on robotics, design and accessibility. Maybe I’ll get to it within the next month.

Until then, here’s a sneak preview for the robot I’m developing. We’re calling it Chaiwala, after Slumdog Millionaire.

Using Word Clouds for a Name Card

vikasreddyenti — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:48:11 +0000

I’m working on a concept for my personal name card and I’m envisioning using a word cloud on the back of the card to illustrate my various interests and qualities. Think of it as a resume of sorts.

The inspiration for using word clouds comes after creating a few aesthetically pleasing word clouds from Wordle – an online project originating from IBM. It has an amazing collection of really good free fonts and the intelligent layout code produces great results as shown below. You can also have Wordle go through a certain document and generate wordclouds to create a summary of the document.

I exported the above wordcloud as a pdf and then imported it into Inkscape. Using Chaitu’s color scheme, I was able to recolor the wordcloud and also rearranged it to give it a cleaner look.

I’m currently looking for namecard printers in Singapore and am also considering registering a domain name. More updates coming up.

Calendar 2009

vikasreddyenti — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:08:15 +0000

Finally it’s done. Look out for it in your mailboxes, should be shipping out in a month

Adapt for Seniors

vikasreddyenti — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:39:49 +0000

It just amazes me sometimes the kind of attention we get at Cornell MineSweeper, sometimes cause of the work we do and other times, well see for yourself.

I am a 73 year old woman, and my husband is 75 and we really like minesweeper for keeping our ability to focus fine-tuned, but we need more time in the learning phase of the game. Right now, we don’t make errors, but we run out of time before we can win a game. I wonder if you could set it up so that we could adjust the time allowed. That way, we could make progress in two dimensions: time and accuracy… Of course, if not, we can always just keep at it, until we can do it in the time that you allot.

Learning new things and doing things that require intense focus is so important as we get older, that it would be great to be able to do it in a game that we like —and win once in a while.

Thanks for considering the suggestion.

Judy & Phil

Maybe it’s time we changed our name?

How to design a self-sufficient city to survive 200 years?

vikasreddyenti — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:10:10 +0000

I watched City of Ember today and I was amazed at how they portrayed the foresight of the ‘Builders’ in designing a underground city to be self-sufficient for 200 years. Before we get to the city, let’s ponder a second as to why would humanity need an underground city. Moreover, if these ‘Builders’ had such great foresight, why did they not prevent mankind from reaching such a predicament?
Albert Einstein has been attributed to saying-

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them

TO DO: Finish this

Keepon Dancing..

vikasreddyenti — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:22:41 +0000

I want to have my own music video one day.

Source: http://beatbots.org

Dancing by the lake

vikasreddyenti — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:14:54 +0000

Here’s to surviving me for a year and lots more to come.

Love you dearly Pappu.