one of those nice mornings

Today cleveland is stunning, I got up early and walked over to my department with mild sun gazing over. Absolutely beautiful.

Getting up early is actually nice and then in the department andrew promised me his timber code so that i can get started with my wood experiments on monday. Anyway i was just consolidating my FEM models.

and here is a tribute to orson welles, accoriding me to one of the best movie makers of the century, not to undermine spielberg, but i feel he is no where near the genre of film makers like Hitchcock, Orson Welles and of course Stanley Kubrick. The lady from Shangai by welles was amazing, even beats "The Third man".

The movie dates back to 1949, when I think of that, it sometimes is irritating to look back at Indian movies of those days (not that they are any better these days), but why did Indian cinema always base itself on emotional drama. The general answer is the public likes that , and i vehmently feel that "the explanation is crap". Who on earth said that indians dont like crime and mystery woven plots, inefficiency on the director's part should not attributed to the taste of the public.

anway thats how it is..............

getting no where

Summer of the 1st year of graduate study where everyone tries their hand at research. well i did not have a great experiance i would say. my thirst for theoretical mechanics went on a high and there i was in the midst of viscoelastcity and plasticity. The abaqus model went begging for a few days and i was enjoy mechanics at its best. of course, i had an elementary model ready. then i talk to a couple of people who have had a lot of experiance on shear walls and they say what you are trying to model is almost impossible. they said i better start getting an experimental setup underway. now there i was at the height of frustration, wasted all summer, of course enjoyed mechanics, but then all my modeling using FEM has gone to the bin.

i guess i better be optimistic to come up with a breakthrough model and also do the experiments to verify that.

anyway my advisor will soon be here to guide me out, i hope i am heading somewhere even though there is something that tells me..................