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Hi there, and welcome to Mrinal Kalakrishnan's home page on the web!
Feel free to browse around. You can contact me using XMPP: mrinaldotnet at gmail dot
com, or via email: mail at mrinal dot net.
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| Coolest captcha ever! |
[28 Feb 2008|04:49pm] |
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| (Don't) Turn it up! |
[25 Feb 2008|09:59pm] |
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As I was listening to my daily dose of music today, I came across a song I particularly liked, and I couldn't stop myself from turning the volume up. This got me thinking about why we humans (well.. atleast most of us) seem to like our music loud. I did some googling and found this very interesting read, "The Seductive (Yet Destructive) Appeal of Loud Music". Quoting from the article:
"In one study, researchers found that loud music activated those brain regions that are associated with euphoria drugs, such as cocaine. There is evidence that music elevates endorphins connected with pleasure centers in the brain."
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| Phone self-repair |
[28 Dec 2007|08:13pm] |
Here are the guts of my Nokia N80, which I took apart in an attempt to fix the on/off switch. Looks like I might even be successful -- I've ordered the spare part which was broken. Putting it back together might prove to be quite a challenge though!
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| Lil' Rush |
[23 Aug 2007|10:03pm] |
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This was the best part of the Rush show which I'd been to last month:
A must-watch for Rush and South Park enthusiasts!
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| Can't sleep... |
[09 Jul 2007|04:42am] |
Every night, I can only sleep after the sun rises. I think I'm suffering from delayed sleep phase syndrome. 
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| My bike... |
[03 Jul 2007|03:50pm] |
...or what's left of it!
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| How to get the most caffeine for your buck |
[18 Apr 2007|11:47pm] |
It's a well known fact that grad students must get their caffeine somehow. It's also common knowledge that grad students are usually a starving, broke lot.
In an attempt to optimize the situation, I present to you the "caffeine per buck" table:
( The table... )
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| Daily rout(in)e |
[16 Mar 2007|12:57am] |
My daily cycling route from home to my lab, as recorded by the Nokia Sports Tracker. Click on the image to check out the route on Google Maps.
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| Random trivia of the day |
[11 Mar 2007|03:39am] |
"Coldplay's song "Clocks" was co-written by Chris Martin, great-great grandson of daylight saving time (DST) inventor William Willett."
-- As seen here.
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| Google Code Jam |
[28 Mar 2005|01:00pm] |
Yay, my photo is on the Google Blog! (sitting row, second from left)
Got some press here too. I placed 23rd in the contest!
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| Music On Repeat |
[11 Feb 2005|03:46pm] |
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Toto - Dave's Gone Skiing |
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There are these days when I listen to a song for the first time, and love it so much that I have to listen to it on repeat for the rest of the day.
Today's the day for "Toto - Dave's Gone Skiing". What a song!
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Happy Birthday ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jd_knight |
[08 Feb 2005|07:18pm] |
Some of the gifts he got today are shown in this picture. Not shown is the pair of fake eyelashes which he refused to wear! ;-)
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| Tsunami Relief Concert, Remembering Shakti |
[27 Jan 2005|11:57am] |
Phenom will be doing a show on the 28th of January, 6:30 pm, at St Johns Amphi-theatre, along with Zebediah Plush, Galeej Gurus, and the Christ College and Mount Carmel College acoustic bands, to raise funds for Tsunami relief work.
Tickets are priced at Rs. 100, and are available at Casa Piccola (Residency Road), Music World, Landmark, Crossword and Coffee Day Xpress outlets. Be there if you enjoy some good rock or acoustic music, or just if you want to help the cause. Thanks!
Meanwhile, we released a few more of our songs - Resurgence and CAP 5101. Get them here!
I watched Remember Shakti yesterday at Palace Grounds, and man, I was blown away, again! The last time I experienced something similar was here. Similar observations - these guys (and Carnatic music in general) have amazing rhythmic patterns and phrasing! All the instrumentalists were absolutely brilliant, and so was Shankar Mahadevan - he certainly added value to the performance. Listening to Indian classical melodies backed by John Mclaughlin's jazz chords was an out-of-this-world experience. I felt the lack of a bass guitarist or a keyboardist to fill up the sound, but that was only when Zakir Hussain was playing the snare and the bass drum, not when he played the tabla.
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| Gaurav's new site |
[17 Jan 2005|08:15pm] |
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After years of being surrounded by geeks... Phenom's bassist Gaurav finally has his own website!
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| Merry Christmas! |
[24 Dec 2004|05:54pm] |
*ahh...choo*
Hmm.. this journal has been gathering dust lately.
Phenom just released one of it's songs - A Little Step, a song about peace and harmony, in the spirit of Christmas! Enjoy, and feel free to spread it around, it's licensed under a Creative Commons license.
Comments would be welcome!
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| Thoughts.. |
[06 Jun 2004|03:01pm] |
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It's certainly not a happy feeling to "be done with college".
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| Lesson learnt |
[23 May 2004|10:06pm] |
I should never leave my terminal unlocked, and my browser logged in to LJ.
And this isn't even the first time!
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| Cryptic's Swansong |
[18 Feb 2004|02:13am] |
*sniffle*
Cryptic, the band I play keyboards for, will be playing its last show on Thursday at Styx. It's been more than two years since I joined the band. In these years, we haven't really been the most active of bands, we never practiced if there wasn't a show coming up (and there rarely was), and we've been the biggest slackers in town. Yet, I feel so attached to the band, and I don't feel like letting go. The memories are flooding my mind now... my audition, the first show, trips to Mumbai and Chennai, winning competitions, sleeping in a recording studio for a week, all night jam sessions, packing Styx leaving no space to breathe, releasing our own underground CD, organizing our own shows with great enthusiasm... great times, memorable experiences. We've had our share of differences as well, but the love for our music held us together, and strengthened the bonds between us. This band gave me the opportunity to interact with some amazing musicians, and I've learnt so much from them. I feel a void in me now, thinking that this band won't be there for me any more. Time to move on now, for all of us. (Here's wishing Durga, our drummer, the best of luck for her studies overseas!)
Do join us in our last gig at Styx, 7:30pm, Thursday, 19th Feb 2004. Read the news article about this on gigpad for more details about the show. A big thank you to all our friends who have supported us over the years!
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