back to charlotte

bus finally started...
thought i was on my way to atlanta finally ... got on the bus n dozed
off... woke up back in charlotte. apparently something wrong with the
bus... driver decided to swap buses. so after a further delay at
charlotte i was away.

got to atlanta finally at 6 30... maybe missed my connection to st louis?

already late

my first greyhound trip n the bus is late... waiting round for the
atlanta bus to show up....

funny thing is there is no wrtten communication at any greyhound station.

Leaving towards Unreasonable

Am boarding a Greyhound tonight on a long journey to Denver, Colorado, where I shall join the team at Unreasonable Institute. Excited! 

Also, apparently, I am making history: I am the first fellow ever in UR's history to arrive by bus :P 

Also, in another first, this is my first initiation into Riding the Hound. 

I have been warned: But hey, I've been a regular long distance bus traveler in India -  can't get a better education than that! 

Can handle uncertainty - check

Can handle random schedule changes - check

Can keep an eye on luggage at all time - check

(not that I have much to keep an eye on!)

Can sit for hours in tight cramped spaces - check

Can rough it when needed - check

All my bags are packed and I'm ready to go. No jet plane, but a hound...

ANOTHER change of tone

Well, turns out there's not much funny about the IIM FPM! :P ...
Also, I am traveling about at present, so have decided to convert this
into a travel log of sorts.

Will be posting periodically from various places in the US (some
random, others not. All posts, however, will be random).
Most of the time, will be using my kindle to post. So brevity shall be
the soul of wit from here on...
:)

Change of Tone

I'm back.
I've decided to bring this blog back. Except that there is going to be a change in tone. From now on, it's going to be more "observational humour" - if not my own, then contributed by folks at IIM still in the program.

I am moving

I am relocating to my micro blog at my homepage

Interesting as it has been to write long(ish!) posts on here, my new job does not give me time to do the same anymore. Besides, I have kind of bought into the whole Less is More philosophy.

So cya all at http://www.myshk.in/blog

An Update

I have been guilty of not thinking too much about the repercussions of my initial findings in Wikipedia's network analysis, covered by my doctoral work. This was a natural consequence of a very interesting project called "The Copenhagen Wheel" that I was collaborating on, with the SENSEable City Lab at MIT. However, I believe it is important that I carry forward the train of thought I had begun with my findings from Cebuano Wikipedia. Towards this end, I have been running the same process on the revision history dataset of the Bosnian Wikipedia. Why Bosnian? Well, apart from being relatively easy for me to process on the fly, I was genuinely curious as to how volatile external conditions would affect the interaction network structure. As it stands, I believe the structure is remarkable similar to that of the Cebuano Wikipedia. I am not sure whether this is entirely a good thing, as far as my expectations go. Differences would have been interesting! BUT I need to do some more analysis to find out for sure. Will post up the results soon.

...oh, and 2010 is here!