March 17, 2009 • 2:13 am 4
Long long ago, before Claude Shannon modeled the distribution of English Words as a Markov process, before Larry and Sergey modeled the Random Surfer as a Markov Chain on the Graph of the Internet, before SciGen made Markov Chains the legend of Slashdot, before even Monte-Carlo and Metropolis-Hastings, there was Jonathan Swift.
Filed under: Books, Computer Science, Dublin, Mathematics
February 13, 2009 • 3:57 am 0
Smock Alley Theatre is a special place and the performance of the stage actors in “The Death of Harry Leon” is something else. Conall Quinn’s script itself is not the high point of the play as much as the magnificent intensity that the cast brought in. The backdrop is against the oh so familiar 1939 Europe with an imaginary twist of Nazi occupation and a Ghetto in Ireland.
Filed under: Dublin
February 9, 2009 • 12:00 am 0
There are numerous literary artifacts and references in Dublin life that you tend to take them for granted after a while. One of the houses where James Joyce lived is less than a minute from my place. While Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Beckett, Sean O’Casey and William Yeats loom large in one form or the other when I have to go to the SuperMarket or the Theater.
But the DART is apparently not so high on nationalistic fervor. Here is some interesting Welsh poetry I found on the train today:
Transcript follows. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Dublin
July 18, 2008 • 11:38 pm 5
I am desperate ! The Dark Knight has been released in every place where I have a friend who is a Nolan/Bale/Batman fan and it doesn’t release in Dublin for another week. I am sick of hearing why this is the greatest movie of all time and how everybody is going gaga over Heath Ledger’s role as The Joker.
So here is the deal – The Dark Knight releases here on 25th July and is sold out for the weekend in every theater apparently. If you are a Dubliner, I have an extra pass to a special invite-only event, also on the 25th. In return I will accept a ticket for the movie and even pay for it in full. Deal ? Leave a comment with your email filled in – Its not visible publicly.
P.S: No harm in trying. I got a job in Google thanks in part to this lousy blog. Why not a movie ticket ? 
Google Reader Items
Recent Comments