This article is a list of time saving code snippets;
1. List out all files in a folder using R;
file.list <- list.files('C:/Users/MyName/Desktop/')
write.table(file.list,'C:/Users/MyName/Desktop/files.txt')
2. Creating a bunch of variables without any Manual intervention;
mylist <- c(1:10)
for(i in mylist){
assign(paste('movie',i,sep=''),i+10)
}
I will keep adding more.
Hi,
Here is yet another paper craft item I have created a few weeks ago. This time it is of a marine transport vehicle.
Backstory: The MV-101 is used for quick insertion and exit of micro teams inside enemy territory. The craft can accommodate only one person. This vehicle was never intended for combat. The craft is tuned for high speed in contrast of combat. No weapons installed means lighter weight coupled with high power twin turbine engines give it high speed and nimbleness. Armed forces around the world have customized this craft to add firepower like rockets and mini-guns.
VTOL is short for Vertical Take Off and Land Aircraft. Besides Helicopters certain aircraft have this capability. The sea harrier, f-35 are some examples.
My Version of a VTOL named VT-31 from future.
Backstory: The VT-31 is a single pilot craft with align able boosters to help vertical take offs and landings. Mostly used for Recon this VTOL provides a quick way to enter and exit points of Interest. Although not built for combat, a VT-31 can be used for preliminary defense. Some variants have lock on air to air/air to surface missiles and pulse projectile guns. Few law enforcement agencies use the VT-31 as a workhorse for urban warfare.
Starting today, I’ll be periodically sharing some of the origami/paper craft I do in my free time. Most of the paper craft is fictional material and mostly sci-fi. Hope you find it good.
The first one is of an Orbital Escape pod.
Backstory: Dangers of Inter planetary travel include space garbage, bounty hunters, stellar material. Escape pods are mandatory in all carriers starting from space frigates to Ships. The Orbital Escape pod illustrated below has enough fuel for 8 days of stellar flight and stabilizers to help drifting. It also has laser and radio communication. On board there is one detachable phasor cannon that can be used in flight and on land.
Is it just me or does anyone else send emails to themselves? No I do not have a split personality disorder! I do this when I want to preserve something for future references. I send a lot of stuff to myself like pics, huge amounts of text, Web Links, Work Stuff etc., So, When I look at my email it seems like I can see a chronicle of how my taste in various things improved or degenerated. To me this is a good way of having information lying around.
Ok., Ok. So as you know from my blogs that I dabble in day dreaming and Time Travel and then both, I imagine what would it be like if I could contact my past self through email(Why this can be plausible is explained at the end – Reading that content is optional to avoid bloodshed). So below is the transcript of my emails from my future self to me.
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From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>
Hey,
Just solved the biggest mystery. Will send you details…..
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After a few days,
From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Sun, Dec 9, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>
Hello again,
Built the time machine. It cost me..oops us a fortune. Meet you at our school ground on Dec 9 2015. See you there.
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Few days later,
From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Mon, Dec 10, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>
What the hell,
You didn’t turn up, Are you so lazy that you wouldn’t turn up to meet your future self. All the knowledge you could get from me wasn’t important than your Sunday morning sleep. Lets try this again, all right. Dec 10, its a monday. Be there.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Again.,
From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>
Ok., this isn’t funny. What part of this extraordinary phenomenon don’t you understand. You turned up but saw the ice cream vendor and ran after him. I can’t believe you invented the time machine. Lets do this again, lets meet up at your house on Dec 11. Please make it this time, I only have fuel for one more trip.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Subsequently.,
From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>
OH MY FRACKING GOODNESS!!!!! You went to office on that day….seriously oh my god, how retarded are you.
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After all this I send out a reply to my future self,
From: Myself <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Me <Me@email.com>
I have been trying to reach you. I sent myself a bucket load of emails so that you could see them in future. Didn’t you get them?
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Single line Reply:
From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>
All your mail went to spam folder………
__________________________________________________________________________________________
THE END
Image Coutesy: Live, Nerd, Repeat. Thanks Bro.,
Why this can be plausible: It is known that sub atomic particles in the large hadron collider sometimes move escape into different time due to large velocities. On the information highway, electrons do travel with the speed of light and some packets of data may get transferred although not with the same fidelity. But I will need to test this :).
Aah., its that time of the week. Time when my brain prepares it shutdown routines….
I imagine little people working in my brain, akin to a Nuclear Power Plant. Mind you its a private enterprise and not a government run plant(Vanity is my vice). Anyways, I think there are mangers, engineers, support, maintenance personnel in there. Every Friday 8:00 pm a siren kicks off when I press the windows and the L keys simultaneously and on cue the managers ping the support staff to commence shut down activities. The support guys go over the checklists and ping maintenance personnel for the go-ahead sign offs. The maintenance staff calls on the engineers to be on site to oversee the whole thing.
The shutdown process kicks off and people start shutting down the brain. I imagine lots of valves turned, buttons pressed and finally the President and the EVP pull out the keys and high level authorization codes they have in the steel brief cases handcuffed to their right hands(no points for guessing why right hands. Sorry for the potty humor). They enter the codes and turn the keys simultaneously and the brain is shut down. After a small cake cutting everyone leaves. Now all the Executive staff goes home to their families while the young-ins go off clubbing and pub hopping at cerebellum, and the hypothalamus and the synapse chain of restaurants. Every one is just happy to leave my brain. Even I don’t pick up my brain’s phone calls during weekends.
But some medieval Chinese guy said “Every Dog has its day” followed by “Today is not yours” while looking at a stray dog and subsequently relishing a doggy biryani. My brain one-ups me as somehow my Batman Arkham City game pulls me toward it. The brain says to me “look who came crawling back on a weekend”. The staff at my brain is called on an emergency hotline and they prepare for a tough weekend. There are somehow no comp-offs for those guys. I don’t even think they have a decent pension plan or insurance. Yet by the grace of god I didn’t have any meltdowns in the past.
I need to plan some incentives for the guys!!!!!! May be a long morale boosting email would be good….
Whats “Fragship” you say? Its Fragging Friendship…. This is the kind of friendship you see between two gamers or two friends who are gaming.
Every gamer has Fragship stories…….Here are some of mine.
Gaming rocks but friends rock harder……
Thanks Ashu, Nagar, Sravan, Venky, Vijay, Bhanu, Anil and many more….
Would you have Lemonade or Limca? surely Limca, the fizzy bubbly tangy refreshing drink. But why am I writing about beverages. read on…….
Every other day I listen to some movie song, dialogue, forwarded email, Archies greeting or a post on someones FB wall saying listen to your heart, do what your heart wants, follow your heart..Blah blah., But is reality the same? Can you follow your heart without any consequences? It is impossible to do this due to many factors.
Its good in theory but fails in practice. Why? because humans are social beings. We were meant to live in packs, care for each other and this is how we craft the chapters of our lives. We are not loners even if we try to be. Blessed are those who can follow their heart without any consequences or repercussions. Most of us couldn’t follow our dreams due to various reasons. Not that all of us fear risk but sometimes its good to break even than risk something very important.
Now, these movie songs, dialogues have made it a point to say if we don’t listen to our hearts now we will regret it in the future., our lives would be bland and we would be zombies just trying to traverse life of broken dreams. Really.?!! Someone should tell these people Life is what you make of it. I am not an idol, even I have succumbed to the miseries of broken dreams. I wanted to be a fighter pilot but couldn’t due to certain reasons. I moped around in my life for some time but one day I installed YS Flight Simulator and now I am the scourge of the skies. I have piloted everything from the F-14 Tomcat to the Rafale. I have pulled 8 G’s in an F-22 and shot down countless bogeys with mere machine guns during dogfights. If I had been a real pilot who knows if I might have even reached the age 25.
I am not saying that you look for an astronomy simulator. But you can still buy a telescope. Life is what you have made of it and you have an excellent life. Any one else in your position would have messed it up but you have done a darn good job of making it till here. You need to be rewarded. No one will remember what you were or where you were in life once you are dead, everyone has got their own headaches. So, its upto you to enjoy your life. The real fun of the journey is the journey itself, not the destination.
So, finally what I want to say is “Life gave you lemons, its up to you to settle for lemonade or make limca”……
Spread this to all the people who you think should be rewarded for the awesome journey they are making that is the life and to those who need the jolt of reality…………
BIdesi 