YuviSense: Codin Kid

[Note: This post does have a lot to do with a dream about Steve Jobs and MacBook Pros. Hold on tight]

I completely redesigned my blog yesterday. In this context, completely redesigned involves downloading a popular theme and making so many adjustments that it still looks like the said popular theme. But, this redesign involves two very major super-exciting improvements which I would’ve not even thought of three days ago:

1. It promeniently features this picture of me!
   The White blowout on the left ear (or is it the right?) is to give the appearance of a strong light source behind me, despite the reality that it’s there simply because I’m a crappy photographer who can’t choose his lighting source.
   Update: This really isn’t an update, but how do I look in that photograph? Dad says I look like a drunkard, so I need to convince him that I am not. So, would you please come out and comment on how I look and feed my ego in the process? Thank you.
2. It promeniently features another photograph of me, this one a smaller version near every post’s title: Please note that it’s a very original idea, and I swear that I did not steal this idea from anybody. I swear. Update: In the course of writing this post, I changed my mind and this second highly original idea of mine would not make it to the complete redesign.

How do I look?

Note that both photographs make me look like I just finished reading through all the comments on Slashdot about Windows Vista without any filter, but that’s just because reading our textbooks is almost an equivalent to that torture. Also, another reason might be that my camera is not that good at photographing the person holding it, because of some personality problems which Sano (my camera) asked me to keep secret. And, it might also be because I’m just a (gasp) teenager! kid, with hormonal changes!

Note that my face usually does not look like the one pictured abouve, and the expression was concoted specially for the occassion to make sure that I won’t scare away any people who might dare visit this blog, ‘coz seeing my other photographs would have been the pictorial equivalent of someone coming next to you and repeating Blood. Blood. Blood. Bloo… It would be that scary.

Steve Jobs

About two days back, I had a dream while sleeping. No, I mean, real sleeping on the bed, with a pillow and all, mainly ‘coz I don’t have Chemistry classes now because I’m having exams. It starts off with me into a very heated technical argument about something I can’t remember right now. And, it’s in a store. The argument might be with an employee, but I’m not so sure. Right in the middle of the flame war, in walks Steve Jobs. I’m sortof silenced for a moment, but something makes me continue the argument with Steve Jobs. And somewhere, I say something along the lines of “But hey, I don’t have any app that does that”, to which he responds by asking one of the shop attendants to give me that app, whatever that is. But, I respond with something like, “But hey, I don’t have a Mac to run that on! I don’t even have a laptop!”, to which Steve replies something like, “OK, give him a Laptop!” And then, I woke up, and my first thought was, “I look nice”

Okay, most of the details are a bit fuzzy, but hey, it’s just a dream, not an XBox 360. Infact, the only words that I can remember having heard very clearly are the “OK, give him a Laptop!”. He said Laptop, rather than Mac Book Pro, maybe hinting that they might preload Windows into their Laptops sometime in the yet undetermined future. Infact, I said it’s a MacBook pro simply because that’s what I felt when I woke up. And, it might also have been an Apple store, but since I have never seen an Apple Store’s inside (heck, not even an outside), I’m not sure.

I was pretty perplexed after this dream, considering that

1. I have never seen Steve Jobs. Never. Not even a photo or video. Seriously.
2. I have never seen a Mac of any shape, provided the ancient mac at the school(which is used as a paperweight(for around 8 years now)).
3. I’ve touched a 3 year old laptop some 2 years ago, and haven’t seen one since.

So, I’m not completely sure why I had that dream. Still, it was quite cool.

Looks?

If you know me, and know me really well, you’ll know that I had an inferiority complex about my looks. But, after that dream, that inferiority complex vanished as if it was never there! That rocks, ‘coz I think that Steve Jobs’ RDF(Reality Distortion Field) can actually cure phsychological diseases! Yikes!

So, thanks to the cure, you’ll find a very badly photographed photograph of me both in the first part of this post as well as my Blog Header. This is different from how I was before that dream, when I uploaded my photo to Zooomr only because Timo bugged me into it.

(Also, note that my writing style(if I ever had one) might have changed, slightly because this is 1 am and my first pseudo-all nighter to watch a cricket match (and also maybe because I spent too much time reading through Rory Blyth’s Archives and watched his videos(He deserves a place in my history book though))(did I close all the braces?)