Satwik gets hitched!

Sorry ladies. Your favorite synthesizer hunk is off the market. That's right. He is now locked to a new reference frequency. Hopefully he has enough tuning range to stay locked when his new reference clock drifts. Look how upset he is because he cannot please all the ladies anymore.

Why get married now? Simple economics. Satwik did a few calculations and came to the conclusion that he has reached peak dowry power.

He has so much going for him: some MS in America (PhD really, but he is so humble that this does not bother him. What a guy!), some job in America, and that beefcake physique (perfect except for belly size!!!). He is truly a synthesizer stud muffin!

Satwikipeare

To graduate or not to graduate– that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of this graduate life,
Or to take up the sea of troubles that haunts
This industry obsessed with silicon,
Beyond which, nay, they cannot see
And, by putting my mind to this sea of circuit issues
End them. To tape out again, to sleep
No more – and by a sleep to say we end
All noise and non-linearity that circuit is heir to
‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Anti Murphy's Law

The validity of Murphy's law depends on the object on which it is applied. At this point, it is important to identify two categories of people in the world: Satwik Patnaik, and everybody else.* While Murphy's law remains uncompromisingly valid for the latter, the former come under the purview of Anti Murphy's law: "Whatever can go right will go right."

Famous example of Anti Murphy's law:

In the sacred (by virtue of Satwik starting his undergraduate studies at IIT Mumbai) year, 2000 AD, Satwik wrote his IIT-JEE examinations. Understandably, the evaluators did not understand the elegance of his solutions. However, as fortune would have it, the IITs did not have to pay the price for their ignorance. The powerful Anti Murphy's law came to their rescue, and of the 263,473 candidates that took the examination, the list of 3872 qualified candidates had exactly one typographical error, by virtue of which Satwik still got admission into IIT Mumbai [Ref: Satwik Patnaik].

*Such distinction becomes even more conspicuous in the case of an imminent destruction of the world, where only one (obvious) category shall be selected to survive. For further technical information on this event, contact Sudhir S. Kudva.

Quotes about Satwik

- Satwik knows.
~Narasimha

- When it comes to electronics, Satwik is God, and this lab is his altar.
~Sudhir

- Abbe gadhe!
~Satwik to the rest of the world

The hangover

"Why is it so dark in here!"

Summer afternoons at the Analog Design Lab: A picture story

It all started at 02:35:17 pm when Lanka decided to bug me again...

I was, of course, blissfully watching a fascinating Dragonball episode and giggling away to glory. And then, Lanka comes along. Maine bola, "Pain na maro..." [Don't bug me]

Lekin mera kaun sunta yahan pe! [But who the hell listens to me here]

At about 02:43:44 pm, I decided on the non-cooperation movement (Yes, I am indeed a devout Gandhi follower).

I paused Dragonball, and finally began on the paper I had open in my doosra [second] monitor.

Par, Lanka ne phir bhi nahin choda. Photo khinchte gaya, photo khinchte gaya... baapre! [But, Lanka still did not leave me alone. He kept on clicking, he kept on clicking... goodness me!]

Main bhi ignore karte gaya. Pad to nahin raha tha, par socha, at least isse uska enthu thoda ghatega. Magar... [I too started ignoring him now. I wasn't really reading, but then, I thought, at least this would douse his enthusiasm. But...]

My Motivational Limerick

Gym Persuasion
by Satwik Patnaik

There once was a guy named Satwik,
whose last name happened to be Patnaik.
He avoided the rec,
although he was a wreck,
Till Lanka started beating him with a stick.