Leisure cycling: 72km a day to start with

Wowwww! I did it! I did it! Yes, I pedaled my bicycle  60KM + 12KM today!

   It was early morning 5.30am, when i started my journey from Bangalore towards my native which is located at foot of Nandhi hills. It was a 60km ride, and took almost 3 hours and 24 minutes! Thanks to my boss, who advised me to carry few bottles of Getorade's, lots of water, these guys really saved me from dehydration.

Graph: Speed and Elevation

#cycling Stats

    Some beliefs wont change, after reaching home, i took my cycle to a temple to perform pooja to cycle just like we do to every new vehicle we buy. Actually, for me my btwin RockRider bicycle is no less than my Honda bike. This temple was 6Km away from home, my legs were already tired but still had another 12Km of ride.

  It was fun for me. I believe, when we are young, the more we work-out in a field, the more stronger we become in that. One should maintain a good health, no matter what field he works for.

Business versus engineering

Today I submitted my first document of plan. I got a nice feedback from my team about my plan. It was engineer's plan rather than business plan. I was given with example of hotel business plan and plan of hotel building. I don't forget this example. One thing that became clear to mind is: even the most awesomely built systems can fail because of not having good business plan. Yes, I am engineer, and I don't want to build systems which are not useful.

I got a new bike: btwin RockRider 5.1

Yeah! I got a new bike,
     Its b'twin Rock Rider 5.1. I love my cycle. In childhood, I used to ride cycle to reach school. Now, its an MTB from btwin. No, i am not here to write review about cycle. I know its a good quality one.

    As my boss said once, - "The problem with software guys is that, they(should have been 'we') earn good amount of money, they eat good quality food, but they do less physical work". Its true, one should have a good health.

    Before coming to software industry, i used to get sufficient physical exercise by doing some sort of work(son of a farmer, before all!). My life has changed much in past one year, as Life of a software engineer.

    My Honda bike is pretty good but it does not give me sufficient exercise. I need some physical exercise. I need to write lots and lots of useful code for that i need to maintain good health. From today, I'll use my cycle to commute to office. Its healthy, eco-friendly, and has much more benefits.

Here comes: 12-12-12

Here comes 12-12-12,
Was totally Lost in work, relocation from few weeks!

How i learnt threading in python

Today is one of the awesome day so far. I did no work at office! Then what did i do from 10am to 9.30pm ? It was all the fun stuff. I played with lego nxt robot. Yesterday we converted humanoid robo to car like robo so that it can easily move on wheels. Using android phones paired to nxt robo, i played like a kid playing with his lovely toy!

    I was supposed to program lego, so I searched for knowing how to. Finally, I decided for Nxt-python. Though i had written few thousands of lines of java code so far, python is new to me. I studied the sensor's behavior to know how to make use of it. The toy robot has an ultrasonic sensor to detect obstacles, couple of touch sensors - one at front and other at back- to detect accidents with any wall or things. A pair of servo motors attached to wheels to give movement. They all worked, but it was not proper. When i rotate servo motors to move front, back, left, right i was not able to read sensors at the same time to sense objects.

    I was frustrated, i wanted to read sensors and rotate motors at the same time! I got an idea. I  created individual threads for each sensor and then a separate thread to move motors. I faced new problem, that is synchronizing. When a servo motor thread is turning motors and if touch sensor detect an accident my program was crashing because of lack of synchronization.
 
    I let the robo to travel all over office. Ultrasonic sensor detects obstacles, servo motors to move and change direction of motion. Programming a toy robo in python and uploading it over Bluetooth, it was really fun thing for me to do. Wish somebody should have given me a toy robo when i started to learn programming.

Remembering my college days

An holiday. Relaxed... traveled to chikkaballapur sitting in back seat of my brother's vehicle. Returned back in public transportation bus. It is the same bus that i was using during my college days. It is the same last row window seat that i was more happy to sit. Exactly, this was how my college days were. Sometimes when i get very comfortable free time, my past memories attack me like a flood.

Police love my bike as i love overspeed

   Got a total of 145KM bike ride today! From Nandhi Hills to office in the morning and in the evening, back to home for Diwali celebrations for tomorrow. Day began with awesome mood, but somewhere in the middle of journey to office, Bangalore Traffic police stopped me for over speed and billed a fine of 200Rs. I remember, its 3rd time paying fine to them in past 2 months.