Vegas Part 1

Will be in Las Vegas attending a conference (Advances in Materials and Processing Technology AMPT) for about 5 days starting this saturday. Looking forward to spending some quality time indoors attending talks. :) Interestingly, there are a few talks on modeling manufacturing processes, though most are numerically based using FEM. Plan to post on some of these talks once I get back.


This will be my second trip to Las Vegas. Though not a great place to visit in summer what with 100+ temperatures and all. The most vivid memory that I have from my previous visit other than the huge buffets is the "Big Jump", a free fall on top of a tall tower-like casino named "Stratosphere". Apparently, they have now added a bunch of new rides, the whole ensemble is rightfully christened "Insanity, the ride" http://www.insanityride.com/. I am now too"matured" for this insanity! :)

Al Pieda

My daily diet of browsing includes http://www.mediamatters.org among other news outlets. Off late, Ann Coulter seems to be the most "entertaining" of the bunch surpassing "papa bear" O'reilly.

There was this pie-throwing incident some time back. Apparently, some kids at University of Arizona attempted to pie Ann Coulter while she was going about her liberal-bashing routine. They call themselves Al Pieda. Later while being charged, they stated with profundity, "we were throwing the pies at her ideas not at her" ! :) (Check out : - http://tinyurl.com/kztv3 and http://tinyurl.com/5f83j)

Needless to say, this incident fueled a chain-reaction of interviews on cable news networks, its all quite fascinating really! :)

A new warrior emerges...

My husband is very much into blogging and after years of nagging has succeeded in convincing me that I should blog or I shall die. As you can see, I am quite comfy in the confines of my ever so tiny office and am ready to wreck havoc in blogoverse! VICTORY SHALL BE MINE!! :)