2009/3/31 Venkat Inumella <[email protected]> > Hello! > > Having lurked sufficiently, and recognizing, barely in time, that this > is (was?) introduction-month, here goes: > > Like every self-respecting engineer who graduated this century, I > served time at Infosys (for Finacle, the banking product) before > moving to eLitmus, the little start-up I'm with now, a couple of years > ago. Work involves plenty of 'business' stuff, but I continue to be a > geek first and foremost. I live in Bangalore, and am headed to the > University of Chicago this fall to, inter alia, study business > management, hibernate, accumulate large amounts of high-interest debt, > and generally further the cause of world commerce with suchlike other > activities. > > While at Infosys, I dabbled in C, Java and Python on several unixes, > but have now discovered peace and joy in Ruby. Kubuntu Intrepid with > KDE 4.2 runs on both my desktop and my laptop. I have done a stage1 > Gentoo install and karma-whored on Slashdot, both when I was younger > and naiver. > > I enjoy running and swimming. I have run a 52km ultra-marathon, and > have grandiose plans of doing a triathlon next year. I listen mainly > to rock and rock-and-roll: from the Velvet Underground and Allman > Brothers to Steely Dan and Dave Mathews, and perhaps only a little > beyond. I have watched a pitiful 86 of the IMDB top-250 - a situation > I intend fully to remedy this year. > > Needless to say, good to be here! Thanks for reading; I will now > promptly get back to lurking. > > Cheers, > Venkat
Welcome. If you're shooting for finishing the IMDB top 250, I might be able to help you if you have a region code hacked dvd player and lots of time. I can also help you if you are found of Kiarostami, Bergman, Kieslowski, Truffaut et al. Some other top movies lists I found to be quite good are - http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/the_complete_list.html http://www.empireonline.com/500/1.asp Kiran
