Life - Sathyajith Bhat (Page 9)

Mission Cooldown: Reign in on the burning Hellforge! [Aka: How I cleaned up the crud off my CPU heat sink/fan]

It's been about 4 years since I built Hellforge. It's gotten some updates: * Replaced Gigabyte 7750 with an Asus Strix 970 * Added on a Samsung Evo 840 256GB * Memory upped to 16GB * Replaced the Logitech K210 keyboard with a Corsair K70 Lux RGB * Replaced the CM

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My Top Artists from Last.fm

♫ My Top 5 Last.fm artists: spinnin' records (8), Armada Music (3), blink-182 (3), First Aid Kit (3) & Phillip Phillips (3) #music Powered by Tweekly.fm

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My Top Artists from Last.fm

♫ My Top 5 Last.fm artists: Pink Floyd (25), deadmau5 (5), The Proper Ornaments (4), Golden Fable (3) & Aerosmith (2) #music Powered by Tweekly.fm

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My Top Artists from Last.fm

♫ My Top 5 Last.fm artists: Daft Punk (6), Gorillaz (3), Barns Courtney (2), deadmau5 (2) & Ghost (2) #music Powered by Tweekly.fm

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My Top Artists from Last.fm

♫ My Top 5 Last.fm artists: Red Hot Chili Peppers (52), AC/DC (7), Sam Feldt (4), Teflon Sega (4) & Foo Fighters (3) #music Powered by Tweekly.fm

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My Top Artists from Last.fm

♫ My Top 5 Last.fm artists: Jamestown Revival (34), Coast Modern (6), Miike Snow (6), Susto (5) & Dawes (4) #music Powered by Tweekly.fm

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A Look Back At 2016

It's been few years since I wrote my year in review, figured it'd be good to summarise what's happened in the past year * Started the New Year with a road trip to Mangalore for a wedding in the family * Travels. Lots of travels. Jo

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Keepin’ busy for a month

So when I resigned from CGI, I thought I'd have to stay through the entire 2 month notice period with the org. However, since there was no dependency on me, I was hoping for an early release and thankfully that did happen. I initially thought of joining the

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In with the new (job)

July has been a month of great changes.. I started my first job in July in Chennai - new city, staying on my own, earning my own money.. but that was about 9 years back. This year again, July is a month of change. After 5 years(and few days)

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The tours and events around the first week of June

I was going through Google Photos' Rediscover This Day feature and realized that over the past couple of years, a lot of my trips seem to have happened around this time frame. 2016 This year I was at Goa for a weekend meet with Jo's cousins Full

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Two years and 16,000km with Rosemary – The Maruti Suzuki Celerio

Two years back, I bought(rather, Dad bought & leased it to me, I'm still repaying him :-D) the Maruti Suzuki Celerio. Why Celerio? I was looking at something within ₹6,00,000 - that meant the Ford Figo(which I bought, [almost took delivery][1] but had

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On to a new life

I had originally wanted to publish this back in late August when I shifted from Borg Cube to Borg Cube Grande.. ie, my new home.. but #lazybhat happened and I never got around to finishing that. Since shifting to Bangalore, I'd been staying in a tiny 1BHK house

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ICICI’s Useless Buy 1, Get 1 offer with BookMyShow & their other farcial offers

I have an ICICI Bank Coral Credit card. Part of the 'perks' that the card provides is something which is enticing to all: Buy one ticket and get the other ticket free, any day of the week, at www.bookmyshow.com. You can book upto 2 complimentary tickets

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Closing the chapter

About a week ago, round about this time, my Mum called me up and and told me a piece of news which I would never in my wildest nightmares would have imagined, would happen to me. She told me that my fiancee's family wanted to break the engagement

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A look back at 2012

Last year, I'd written a 2011 year in review, thought that was a nice way to recap the year. Continuing the same trend, here's how 2012 went by * Welcomed the New Year in a coffee estate/homestay in Chikmagalur with Ashwin, Daaku & Prasad. * Made a

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Reddit’s secret santa and Guinness World Record for most email addresses in To: List

Way back in late November/December last year, I took part in reddit's /r/secretsanta. I found it was pretty cool, to (hopefully) get a random gift based on my barren, lurking reddit account, though a small search would reveal a lot more about me. Anyway, after [Ashwin&

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Being on the other side of the Interview table

Attending an interview tends to be a scary, nerve-wracking event for most, me included. It's like college exam 2.0 - you don't do anything building up to the event, panic & do a splash and dash the previous night(though in my case, it'

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On Contact Lenses and Bausch & Lomb’s Pure View “HD” lenses

I've been wearing contact lenses for more than 10 years now. Switched to contacts from my clunky spectacles when I started my PU(aka 11th). Guess who I am & win! When you use something for 16x7x365 (I won't say 24×7, since the lenses are

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Capping off a roller coaster year

2011 was a roller coaster year. Here’s the year in review, in bullet points * Sold off my iPhone 3G and purchased a Nexus S * Supposed long term US stay [gets cut short][1]. * 3+ years of work on project gone down the drain. On the upside, learnt quite a

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Bangalored…

… for a fortnight, that is. Although, I was not strictly Bangalored, barely a week after joining Logica I was asked to come over for Bangalore for 2 weeks for some training sessions. Now since this was a company sponsored training, my travel and accommodation was handled by them. Reached Bangalore

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Goodbye, 3i

Tweet from @SathyaBhat View on Twitter Tweet from @SathyaBhat View on Twitter I had tweeted these 2 simple sentences, the former about 3 months ago, the latter yesterday. Yep, after nearly 4 years, I'm moving away from 3i. It's been an interesting experience - I'

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Of Thanksgiving Trip, Gadget Overloads, Cancelled Christmas Trip & Back To India

I've been absent in posting here - more because there's hardly anything interesting going on. Well, there's laziness as well. So here's a recap. \** For the past couple of months, my colleague had returned back to India, which meant me having no

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Two months on, I’m soldiering on…

Hard to believe, but it's been two months since [I've been in Austin][1]. Let's rewind back to my flight details. As mentioned in my previous post my flight was due to depart at 04:45, and I would have to reach at the

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You owned and used a Dell laptop until now. Recently you purchased an HP Envy. What factors influenced you in choosing HP over Dell or even Acer, Asus for that matter? No beer for short answer.

Posted as an answer to Ashwin’s formspring me question I had rather definite set of requirements that I was not going to deviate from: – A 14″ screen – Decent graphics card – NO Full HD resolution on the screen – Bonus marks for looking good – Price not exceeding $1200 Let me elaborate

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Heading back to Austin

Well, I'm heading back to Austin for a second stint. Had an amazing time [the last time][1] I was there - was there for almost a year. Learnt a lot - technically & otherwise. Unlike last time when I had a flight from Chennai to Mumbai and