compressed mail.
Jul 1, 2008It is 22:00. bhOndOO is very hungry and busy. His experiements are not giving good results. He has been trying various alternatives since three days now, but all he has achieved is getting fed up. After missing dinner, he wishes to eat now, but has no enthusiasm to walk. He does not know what to do. At such a notorious time, bhOndOO receives an email from a junior:
hi!!!!!
m ur junior in be :)…… rmmbr??????
hw r u?????? me fin…… jst doin sm tp thse dayz J
hey! cn u temme wch profs in cs tk up prjctees :)……
need 4 reco hehe…… applin 4 ms nxt sem… J
lemme no……
chalo ciao……bye……tc……
At the first sight, he thinks of the mail as a spam and is about to delete it, but then understands that it probably isn’t. He takes two hundred seconds to read and comprehend the mail. At the end of of it, he is not sure whether what he has comprehended is correct. He gets irritated and decides not to reply to the junior.
He makes himself understand that there is no other choice, and starts walking towards T-board. At least after eating, I will feel better. I can then try increasing the number of hash functions and see whether I get better results.
bhOndOO reaches T-board to see it closed. Somebody tells him that it is closed because of sudden strike by the Employee Association of IISc. bhOndOO is frustrated and angry. He curses five of them: Employee Association, T-board, IISc, his advisor and his decision to join for PhD. His current condition can be described in two beautiful and frequently occuring words in the research life: give up.
bhOndOO comes back, unlocks his terminal and sees the mail from the junior. He gets more angry. The junior becomes the bakra (victim) of bhOndOO’s frustration. bhOndOO writes following email to him:
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