Typical Parker Luck

Teleportation is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them -  Wikipedia I have always been fascinated by the idea of teleportation. Even more lately because I have moved to Bengaluru as you may have read in my previous posts. The same happened when I moved from Indore to Pune for my first job, and it does not stop there. I have thinking about teleportation since my childhood.  When I was a kid, we used to travel from Indore to Ujjain via train. Indore to Ujjain journey by road is only 45 minutes! But we used to spend around 4-4.5 hours by train to reach there. I wanted a way to reach Nani's house as quickly as possible that's when I started to think about teleportation. Teleportation is still a reoccurring concept in science-fiction and fantasy movies and shows. One of the best representations I have seen is in the Harry Potter movies where the characters apparate and disapparate but my personal f...

 About a year ago I was introduced to Self-hosting. In a nutshell, it involves hosting certain services on your own hardware instead of using other providers who often sell your data. For more information on self-hosting, you can visit  this page. This process requires a piece of hardware (a server) that you run 24x7, which is accessible from outside of your home network also, if you configure it that way. Initially I started with a Raspberry Pi and it worked very well. However, it was not able to provide a lot of power via its USB ports, due to which, I was not able to plug my multiple hard drives in that. To run my Jellyfin instance smoothly, and more importantly have all my collection of movies and shows accessible, I needed a bigger machine. I tried my using my laptop as a server, but that did not go very well as I have mentioned in a couple of my previous posts. Upon researching, I found that Amazon has a collection of refurbished mini PCs that have good configuration an...

The last one I wrote was in March. Since then mostly everything has changed. My job, my city, my bank balance, my understanding of things, my perspective, my health. While there are some good things in there but they are deep down. Mostly all these changes have affected me in a negative way as of now. It all started when we were informed that our project was coming to an end. This stirred up everything and everyone on my team. People started to look outside for jobs, updating their LinkedIn and Naukri profiles and just in a matter of weeks, resignations were everywhere. People had found jobs outside and were leaving. My team was the best part of my job. And when I saw everyone leaving one after the other, it was very difficult. People were going here and there and being the junior member of my team, I was not getting many calls, and even if I was, I was failing in interviews. This coupled with seeing everyone go did take a toll on my mental health. Eventually, I found a job. A good job...

 Recently, due to some personal reasons, my parents had to go to Indore for 14 days so I had to move to my sister's house in Pune. This was something I always wanted and still do. I want to reduce my dependency on my parents. I felt very strongly about this till 9th December and was also in a bad mental condition because this was not happening. On Dec 9, I fell off my bicycle and my parents being here was a huge help. After that, I came to peace with the idea of living alone. There will be a lot of opportunities in the future for that. When I stopped thinking about it, my mental health improved and the opportunity presented itself. Though I was not living ALONE, it still was a step up in my opinion. I won't say I was able to remove all of my dependencies but still, I learned things. The most important part was I came up with a routine of small chores to do when I came back from the office.  It involved washing clothes, picking up dried clothes from the balcony, ironing what wa...

 On 4th February 2023, I finally got the tattoo I always wanted. This item was in my bucket list since I was in school. It is a thumb ring tattoo on my right hand. People ask "how painful was it?". This question is completely useless as different people have different pain thresholds. It was a 6/10 for me but for someone, it can be 9/10 or a 3/10. It depends people!! It was a bitter-sweet experience as a finger tattoo comes at a price. No, I am not talking about the actual cost of the tattoo. Finger tattoos fade. 1 week later, here I am writing this post and I can see the fading already. Technically, its not faded. The ink is light at some areas and dark at some. I was aware of this beforehand. I researched online and it was the case with majority of the people. The tattoo artist warned me that this will not hold up. But I wanted it and I got it. I will deal with what I have now. No regrets. I will be getting more tattoos in future but not on fingers. Even if this one would n...

 Before I came to Pune, I went to my dentist for a routine cleaning. I was also experiencing a little tooth ache especially when I ate anything sweet. He took an X-ray and told me that my wisdom tooth is coming at an angle which is leaning on the tooth before it and causing cavities on that. The only solution for that is removal of the wisdom tooth before it damages the one before it. I did not follow up with him on time and had to come to Pune. The problem started to increase very gradually. I started to have discomfort in eating hard things like chips etc from my tight side so I started using my left side. With the new routine, my habit of flossing reduced. On 2nd January I ate a chocolate from my left side and experienced pain that side too.  That was the point I knew that I am running of sides to chew my food from and its time to pay the dentitst a visit. I did. She told me the same thing. Removal of wisdom tooth from both sides and I did not delayed it any further and boo...

 Its the first day of 2023. Nothing major has happened since the last time I wrote, but I might as well start the year with a quick post to maintain consistency. Here is an update on some of the things I mentioned in previous posts: ZORIN OS: It's been more than an year and I am still using zorin os. It will be my daily driver for a significant amount of time. It also received an update few months ago. I has made me more comfortable with linux and will continue to do so. It is built on ubuntu. Because of this, ubuntu is also now my favourite linux OS. FIDGET CUBE: That cube sits on my office desk every single day. I play with multiple times a day. I take in meetings, randomly start fidgeting with it without even realising it. It also is a great conversation starter. People pick it up and ask what is it. Everyone seems sceptical at first but once they fidget with it, they get it (I hope). People on internet say it helps with anxiety but I don't care if it does or does not. I lik...

  Yep, its been almost an year since I wrote a blog. Now you know I was serious when I wrote that "This is not a consistent blog" in my very first post. Countless things have changed in this period of time. Plenty of exciting things to write blogs about but at the end, laziness won. 10 days ago, I even started a blog trying to cover all the things that happened since last I wrote, but I wasn't able to finish that also. So this the second attempt in doing that. I will only be mentioning the major things (in no particular order) that have happened in the last year in one-liners. Let's start: My real sister got married. I relocated to Pune city with my parents for my job. My cousin sister also got married. I visited Imagica theme park and rode multiple scary rides. I danced a lot at one of my company's events. I visited a resort in another outing and again, danced a lot. Made new friends in Pune (my teammates as they are all amazing people). Learnt to setup my Raspbe...

I have travelled to a handful of places and I was very young at those times so I barely remember anything. It is safe to say that this is my very first trip. I came to know that majorly there are two types of vacations. One is the "Stay" kind where you are relaxed and just want to hang around in the place where you are staying. The other one is the "Visiting Spots" kind where you spend less time in your place of stay and visit different spots that the place is famous for. Although it's a bit early to say given my personality, I definitely am the person who loves the first kind. I have travelled in trains; again when I was very young so will be considering this as my first train journey too. I won't be describing every single thing that happened in order but will focus on things that I found interesting and things that made me realize stuff. Also, all the pictures included in this particular post are taken by my cousins. I took very few pictures, I wanted to ...