Double D Tapes

This is about double sided tapes. Useful little things these. Stick one side, peel of the tape of the second side and stick it to the wall. They say when something is good it either is sinful, wasteful, illegal or atleast fattening. Maybe these tapes are one exception.

But like Fulghum writes, these can be dangerous like "...matches in the hands of a five year old...". My department was putting up some reading light in every cubicle - someone came up with the idea of fixing them to the filing cabinet using double sided tapes. I asked the guy who was putting the lights up whether this would hold - he said that he had tugged and pulled and stress tested one experimental anchorage. It looked neat and no mess fixing them up.

The next morning I come back to my cubicle and find the damn light across my keyboard - yeah - the tape had given out. Damn near broke my monitor.

If double sided tape was not used I wouldn't have trusted the setup and moved my monitor to a safe distance. That's why it is doubly dangerous. But you know what would be good - if they find some way to use the Big D - yeah - duct tape. Apparently D tape was used on some US satellite to anchor some air filter - and made it all the way up and down.

Interesting videos

Some nice videos - off google and other places.
1) Utopia for the worker
2) You know they say that the heat generated by processors is steadily increasing. Nothing like this to drive it home. Effect of Moore's Law
3) What old people do for fun.

Yenjay!!

Math Tutorial

A professor I know used to tell me about how one of his students submitted every assignment with the inscription "From the laboured desk of X". Well I guess I understand what the student was talking about.
No I am not doing lots of work, just a little more than what I normally do. The reason I feel the way I feel is because I am here, working on a Saturday. Not that it is so bad in itself. But coupled with the fact that I am trying to integrate a huge multipart function which is not, as my professor says, "cleanly integrable" - well. And math, especially calculus is not one of my strong suits. Neither is Matrices, come to think of it, and without these two, I have no business doing anything in engineering. Ok lets not talk about such cold hard facts, let us switch to something warm and fuzzy - like comfort food.
I spent the better part of an hour searching for some site to help me with integration. I found a good PDF guide to some complex integrals. I also found this beautiful tutorial by some blessed instructor -Paul Dawkins - wonderful stuff. I am providing the link here. Yenjay!!