tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65623012012-01-19T19:54:22.984+05:30Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigenLudwighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03710107146505111876noreply@blogger.comBlogger2581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6562301.post-10658805515637811232011-11-04T19:22:00.000+05:302011-11-04T19:23:13.255+05:30

This passage somehow manages to mentally split me neatly into 50-50, the one half filled with Vizag, and the other with New England.One of my most vivid memories is of coming back West from prep school and later from college at Christmas time. Those who went farther than Chicago would gather in the old dim Union Station at six o’clock of a December evening, with a few Chicago friends, already

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The last 5 weeks of enforced eating at home has resulted in the (re)discovery of possibly the tastiest dish in the world. Recipe follows. Prepare, order or get invited to a proper South Indian meal. It doesn't matter which state it is from, I have verified that the AP, TN and Kerala versions all suffice, and unless our Kannadiga brethren and cistern are children of a different culinary god,

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Quiet Night Thoughts         -Li Po Before my bed there is bright moonlight So that it seems like frost on the ground: Lifting my head I watch the bright moon, Lowering my head I dream that I'm home. Untitled         -Hafiz I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known

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In November 1942, General der Panzertruppe Wilhelm Josef Ritter von Thoma was ordered by his commander Generlfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel (who was relaying a Fuhrerbefehl) to fight to the last man and tank. The Deutsches Afrikakorps ground itself to pieces around him and virtually bereft of tanks, he mounted one the tanks attached to his HQ guard unit and drove to the apex of the battle. With his

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Inspired by a Facebook update from the Mami "If Anna Hazare were blue, he'd look like a Smurf."

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This one goes out to everyone I've ever run with. It wasn't until early one chill New Hampshire morning when my nipples started gently bleeding into my nice new white "wick" enable running T-shirt on my third leg of the 200 mile Reach The Beach relay race that it began to dawn on me that things may have gotten out of hand. It seemed like a very hurried and surreal path from sitting on a couch

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In the process of backing up various online email accounts to disk, several old emails/forwards with poetry content have been discovered, and are now presented without comment.Prandial Plaint        - Vikram SethMy love, I love your breasts. I love your nose.I love your accent and I love your toes.I am your slave. One word and I obey.But please don't slurp your coffee in that way.(from 'All You

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Wonder if any of you caught the announcement of the most breathtaking, path-breaking advance in 2D geometry since the day the Elements were a gleam in Euclid's eye? This headline in today's Hindu spills the beans:Five-nation triangular axis mootedAuslin, having done to geometry roughly what Jael (Heber's wife) did to Sisera, is surely a shoo-in for the next Fields Medal.

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This may just be me, but the way I pronounce "Hon'ble Supreme Court of India" (as it is often written) in my head, the image that comes to mind is this:Very weird, no?In other news the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India may have at least temporarily undone one stinking pile of poo. Bravo.

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I have bought 2 Dell laptops. One was in 2004, for a princely $2k types, in the US. Inspiron 8600. Lovely screen for writing code. Another was for the sibling, a couple of years later, also from the US.Both turned out to be pretty delicate physically. Keys pop off, battery dies, power adapter stops working, something or the other gets fried. Dell is reputed for super-efficient customer service in

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Exhibit A2:22-2:36Payyan: gundu malli rendu rubai, un koonthal eri uthirum poo kodi rubaiPen: panchu mittai anju rubai, nee paathi thindru thantetal latche rubaiTranslation (mine, bear with me)Guy: Jasmine flowers, market price Rs. 2; if they are from your locks, Rs. 10,000,000.Girl: Some kind of candy, Rs. 5; you eat half and give me, Rs. 100,000A brief calculation shows that the boy derives joy

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Sean Carroll skims over many, many thought provoking questions in Avignon Day 3: ReductionismOf course it’s difficult to describe people using Schrodinger’s equation, but that’s not evidence that our behavior is actually incompatible with a reductionist description. To believe otherwise you have to believe that somewhere along the progression from particles to atoms to molecules to proteins to

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This occurred to me once on a train.If you take DE JUNC out of ERODE JUNCTION, you're left with EROTION.Go on, say it out loud, like this, "If you take the junk out of Erode Junction, you're left with erosion."Ugh.

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Via Facebook via Salil Tripathi via Patrick French, comes this spreadsheet. The important extract is the following:In a convenient graphical form, it is like so:Special mention goes out to Krishnamurthi R Rao, Garbini and Dantavakra for asking an Irom Sharmila question at a quiz, and special mention goes out to Spacebar for being one of the literal handful in the audience who knew the answer.

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An abridged version appears here.A QUIZ IS JUST A QUIZ?The first time I realized that QED was not just an ordinary quiz team any more was at the national finals of the massively popular Landmark Quiz in 2009. The quizmaster, Chennai’s very own Navin Jayakumar, was calling the finalists on stage and the audience didn’t seem to care beyond some desultory clapping. That is, until QED were announced.

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For some reason, this occurred to me when in the shower today.The achievement at Thermopylae was not that a 300 highly trained fanatic clones were able to defend a narrow pass for 3 days; it was that some genius of a quartermaster/s managed to supply and support an invading army of hundreds of thousands, comprised of soldiers from vastly different cultures, and some genius of a commander/s

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After a long, long time. Via 3 Quarks Daily, we arrive at Kenneth Patchen's As We Are So Wonderfully Done with Each Other.As We Are So Wonderfully Done with Each OtherBY KENNETH PATCHENAs we are so wonderfully done with each other We can walk into our separate sleepOn floors of music where the milkwhite cloak of childhood liesO my lady, my fairest dear, my sweetest, loveliest oneYour lips have

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...and says, "Dear customer, we noticed you did not used our service in the recent past. We missed you. Do call us...""Dear Meru cabs, I noticed your driver did not used to use his head and woked me up at 3:00 a.m. to ask for directions for a 4:30 a.m. pickup. Therefore I cannot abled to used to use your service."

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Happy IWD

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This stuff is just all over the place nowadays. From last Sunday's Hindu magazine“Our ancestors saw organic life as wholesome life,” said K. Vijayalakshmi and A.V. Balasubramaniam at the Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, which advises farmers on organic practices and connects their products to consumers. “It's living in peace with nature and other humans, giving back what you take from

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A goodish chunk of one of those soullessly cold New England winters was spent watching, listening, and in general being absorbed by this song.It was a super-duper international hit, of course. At the end of the Inca Trail, the night before the climb to Machu Pichu, there is a camp at Winay Wayna. Where a mixed bunch of very ragged looking tourists spend a night feeling very thrilled that they

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I was on a plane a couple of weeks back, from lovely, pleasant Madras to freezing, gray as the Tirpitz Amritsar. The in-flight magazine had one of those travelogue things, this one about a home stay type place somewhere in the Western Ghats in Kerala, on a cardamom/clove/other spice estate.The family that owns and runs the place apparently used to live in Bombay and this was an ancestral estate

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Tony Judt (who we have had occasion to admire before) has also written 2 superb pieces on the railways. The Glory of Rails starts with this absolutely lovely Monet.The man's prose is just lap-uppable. Bring Back the Rails is a plea to...well, bring back the rails. En passant I learned about Brief Encounter, which seems superb, and also resulted in a half hour spent in desultory viewing of clips

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Whoddathunkit?

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Where we write about turning 10...

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Sorry, typo. Marxist-Leninist.On Why I'm A Martinist-LennonistJohn would've turned 70 today. Imagine. [This post was supposed to go out on October 9. At this rate, it will never get done, so splitting and publishing.]I love the Beatles. I don't know why this is. I do know when it roughly started. In 1995, The Beatles Anthology documentary came out. It was even shown on DD Metro. I didn't know who

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(I)Read this.Which is as good a time as any to remember that the thespian in question, this leader of a large Middle Eastern country with a finger on the nuclear button, is this (YouTube link) fellow.Wonders will never cease.(II)Large poster at Teynampet signal. Beaming countenance, saffron robes, Afro."I am in you. You are in me. Blah blah blah."Hmm.

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Netizens of Bangalore have apparently gathered under the banner of Meterjam. In their own words:ecause strikes need a strike back! We're tired of meter that always reads more than it should, drivers who refuse to ply and demand return fare whenever they want. And if all that wasn't enough, now we have to deal with strikes too, any time the 'unions' decide! Everyone is holding the janta to ransom

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Tony Judt died. His name had registered very peripherally a few times, but I had never read anything by him. The flurry of obits and other pieces over the last few days made me root around for more information.Among the highlights from the New York Times obituary:Mr. Judt (pronounced Jutt)...began as a specialist in postwar French intellectual history, and for much of his life he embodied the

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Have you ever sat alone in front of a blank page or screen trying to coax words out of you, and the ghost of every memorable writer and the shade of every unforgettable piece you've read start showing up somewhere behind your right shoulder, jostling against each other, and start pushing your diffident fingers this way and that?

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Ever so often there will come along a really good reason for liking ye olde maadar-e-watan. They come far and few in between, for example you find reasons to like Sweden more often than you find reasons to like India.But when they do come, it is bril. I would go so far as to say it is chelpark even. Be that as it may...There is now a weekly train, 6687/6688 that connects Mangalore and Jammu Tawi,

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For those who want to know, this is how I dance (when sober):When not, however, this is how I dance. More accurately, this is how I think I dance:

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It's apparently Ringo's birthday today. He's been interviewed.A few weeks ago the Vatican finally gave its approval to the Beatles. How did you feel about that?It didn't affect me in any way, but I do believe that the Vatican have better things to deal with than forgiving the Beatles. I don't remember what it actually said — it had some weird piece in it, too. That they've forgiven us for being,

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...not too much khed. Regular transmission may or may not resume in a while. Meanwhile, transmission of a sort continues here.

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It's that time again. I present to you, the most thrilling and entertaining football match ever played (Germany v. Greece, Munich).It's good to watch football, because it's so boring and languorous most of the time, with flurries of excitement ever so often. More than anything else, it is a chance to hang out with friends and/or chemists and drink and eat pizza and idiappam and shoot the

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How many of these have happened to you?

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This is among the sadder things I've seen recently. A sign of more such things to come?

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No blogging has happened in ages. Here, anyway. Nowadays time and energy are consumed here, with the occasional update here.Nevertheless, lots and lots of links and "thoughts" have been piling up. So here we disgorge.0Is there an age after which Sergeant Pepper's starts to become more appealing than Abbey Road? If so, it has happened, I think. Not that I like Abbey Road any less now than before,

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Edition #6 happeneth in short order.Date: June 12, 2010Venue: Indian School of Business, Gachi Bowli, HyderabadDetails on the website.

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Last year, I was jobless enough to present a programming version with suitable cultural and historical references thrown in. This time, it's a bit sooner, and it's more like the laws of robotics. Hereby presenting:Law I: Deccan Chargers (DC) win all their games.Law II: Mumbai Indians (MI) win all their games (except when it conflicts with Law I)Law III: Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) win all their games

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toilets; aesthetics ofThanks to a winged friend who shall remain nameless, I have recently come into possession of one book by name of In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki. It is fairly short, more a long essay than anything else. I first heard about it in the preface of What is Good? and the couple of paragraphs that Grayling quotes was enough to whet the appetite and shamelessly ask said

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In which we may have invited judicial retribution...Prelude:In 2003/2004 Sushma Tiwari, a Brahmin from UP married Prabhu Nochil, an Ezhava from Kerala. They were in love. 7 months after they got married, to erase the insult to their caste and recover their honour etc. her brother Dilip and some accomplices murdered Prabhu, his father and 2 children in their Mumbai home, and left 2 others injured.

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The below might be construed as poking fun at short people, disabled people, gay people and poets. It may disgust or offend you, to varying degrees. You have been warned.Last week, That Man Keynes And His Homosexual Intrigues, self and S were lounging in TMKAHHI's house in Bangalore. Two somewhat dissimilar threads of conversation interleaved. On the one hand, all of us had lived in Amherst, MA

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Not stories, really. Links. Hmph.HomeopathyHomeopathy has been in the news lately. Last Saturday, at 10:23 a.m. local time, people all across the United Kingdom stood outside Boots pharmacies and ODed on homeopathic "medicines". 45 died after hours of agony, while over 230 had to be hospitalized.Not.The whole shebang was organized by 1023.org. I suppose the standard homeopath defense of this

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II don't know why this makes me so happy, but I'm so happy this happened. About bloody time, I think.Here are couple of things that are vitally important to know.When the Filmfare award for Best Cinematography went to Murthy for Kaagaz Ke Phool, he was actually in Greece where Guru Dutt had sent him, to learn what he could from the making of The Guns of Navarone!There is a long and lovely audio

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RantIt's been an age since I cribbed about the abuse of English. Maybe I'm an older, kinder, wiser, more forgiving man now. More likely I'm just a lazy bastard. To compensate for this horrifying neglect of language rants, I present the misuse of the word "would" as the #1 candidate for Most Misused Word in Indlish.The thing is, "would" can be used correctly in many contexts. As far as I can tell,

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In which the title of the post is a conBrachevarevaruraSeeing as there was a Facebook meme going on a couple of days back about this subject, this may be relevant.Not for the weak of stomach. The essay describes how a "surgeon" removed a tumor from Abigail "Nabby" Adams' breast in 1811, without the use of anesthesia. You have been warned. Thanks to Orac for the link. This is how it was

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Friends are moving. See below if you're in Chennai and want to pick up any of the below.I am moving from Chennai to Mumbai in the next 3 weeks. In that context, we are planning to sell off a few items from here before we go. If interested please email me at choultry [AT] gmail [DOT] com Moving Sale (All items to go by Feb 1 2010) - Mylapore, Chennai Please also find below the list of products

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Cannot be bothered to bring forth original content all the while, so we'll do with industrial quantities of links.Group Gives Up Death Penalty Works. Via Veena.Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it.Astonishing pictures show how a Devon

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Every few days or so, I go walkabout around T. Nahar to see that which is to be seen and learn that which is to be learned. The other day, one train of thought came, on Platform No. 3.Anyone who knows Madras knows that at all T junctions, there will be a small shrine to Pillayar a.k.a Vinaayakudu, Ganapati, Vighneshwara, Vishwaksena (depending on geography, caste etc.) The P. man will be facing

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DrankDanced (using a very very generous interpretation of the word "dance")Wrote a little bitSlept wellMade breakfast at homeWas driven in a car......to a delicious home-made lunchWatched a little TVTook a train......to Mambalam and drank filter coffee in Pondy BazaarGot some work doneTook a bus......to a katcheri......and into the bargain discovered what seems to be a rather nice templeContrary

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What is Good? - The Search for the Best Way to Live is not a bad book to finish on a December 31. Or a bad thing to write about on a January 1. A.C.Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, reviews the answers to this quite profound question that various Western philosophers tried to come up with.Grayling starts with the classical Greeks - Socrates, Plato,

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A happy conjunction of conjunctibles is able to giving rise to this post on rivalries.I. Cambridge v. CambridgePaul Samuelson died. The world lost a great textbook author. Apparently he was also a great economist. RIP.[Aside: As Abi has pointed out, Subramanian Swamy wrote a tribute to his guide and mentor. Curiously, the Rediff version has a few choice not-so-nice things to say about certain "

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This was in the mail today.Dear customer, On December 31, 2009, the WorldSpace satellite radio broadcast service will be terminated for all customers serviced from India. This action is an outgrowth of the financial difficulties facing WorldSpace India’s parent company, WorldSpace, Inc., which has been under bankruptcy protection since October 2008. The potential buyer of much of WorldSpace’s

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A muchly shortened, much more tourist friendly, and much less mawkish version of this ramble appeared in this month's Outlook Traveler. Thanks due, per usual, to the Vyas (Sr.)About 15 years ago, a news magazine carried a cover story on the 'Tier 2' cities of India that they thought were poised to break into the big league and become the metros of the 21st century. Poona became Pune and more or

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Issued in the public interestDate: Saturday, November 21, 2009Time: 1 pm - 5:30 pmRegistration: 12:30 pm Prelims: 1 pmFinals: 2:30 pmVenue: C.E.S.S (Centre for Economic and Social Studies), Ameerpet, HyderabadQuizmasters: Nitish "Seedha" Khadiya & Diwakar "Paapi" PingleParticipation Fee: Rs. 5000/- for one team or Rs. 4,000/- per team if there are more than 2 teams from the same

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Some semblance of service may be restored here. The thing is, while rooting around among the unpacked boxes at home over the last few days, I found a diary/journal circa 2000. Terrifying glimpse into the idiot I was in those days. The good thing about it is that it means instead of generating original content here, I can simply read and type and inflict. So enjoy.7th October 2000, Harvard

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Trying to get an education...

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...if he's not going to do it, I will.Loot from proceeds of Landmark Quiz, Chennai - 2009Bad Science, Ben GoldacreProphets Facing Backward: Postmodernism, Science and Hindu Nationalism, Meera NandaThe Music of the Primes, Marcus du SautoyCardus on Cricket, Neville CardusThe Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation, Granville AustinWhat is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live, AC

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The 'shack', actually. The Coffee Shack vending machine is fixed, citizens. Pick up a mug and join the line.Respectfully, yours.Ludovic.

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Here.

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Which is about music.

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Bleah.

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The Greenko Hyderabad Open Quiz, i.e. Come.

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Which is possibly very boring...

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Well, probably not. Haven't read that much. There's another one we rather liked and paraphrased once. But this is also very special.Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here

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The saga of the Three

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Lyrikkule nenu paadalla?Mikellu Jacksonnu blahblahblah...

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It's hard to make up my mind whether this Iranian government video is funny or scary. Is this their equivalent of

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A seminal work in the biological sciences field...

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Man.I need to stop writing this serious stuff and let my hair down one of these days.

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Here

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1. Upon My Word2. Bangalored!

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The kid being, yours truly. Read the below carefully. Several announcements of engrossing interest follow.1. ACE 2009 is on, baby!! It's the 5th edition. It's bigger. It's better. More teams, more media coverage, more everything. More kozhambu, damn it. Please participate in vast multitudes! See this too:2. This blog is moving!!!!!!!! Sort of. Actually, it's trifurcating. This is a word normally

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This surely comes a little too late, seeing as semifinal #1 is about to start in 4 minutes time, but what the hell. Here goes.if (Chargers.areKnockedOut() != true) {    support(Chargers);} else {    if (Daredevils.areFinalists() == true) {        support(Opposing South Indian team);        Saroja.saamaan(nigaalo++);    }}if (2nd semi final) {    support(CSK);    System.out.println("I see your

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Really. Pay attention.Really.

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Seems to be a good day for random readings:1. Genius: The Modern View - David Brooks finds out what goes into the making of genius....In the view that is now dominant, even Mozart’s early abilities were not the product of some innate spiritual gift. His early compositions were nothing special. They were pastiches of other people’s work. Mozart was a good musician at an early age, but he would not

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"We're back, we're going to whup the Higgs' ass." says a press release from CERN. Woohoo.The Daily Show does a "scoop" on the LHC story.The Particle Adventure - The Fundamentals of Matter and Force, seems to be a good source of basic info for the layperson.See how small we are... (click on the picture to expand)

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Tucked away in the midst of the quotidian in today's newspaper, was an interesting picture. Is it our imagination, or is the Bay of Bengal fomenting a nice and juicy cyclone for Coromandel coast consumption?We've spoken about the weather before at the Choultry, more specifically the obsession with cyclones and the monsoon, so we will not rinse and repeat the experiment. We merely wish to record

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They are being insufferable all over the place. As suspected strongly.I am sure at least 5 more posts will follow in approximately 13.76 picoseconds and those last 5 pathetic words can also be elevated to the ranks of hyperlinks.Hmph.

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Have seen Rakesh Sharma's documentary (with axe to grind, doubtless) "The Final Solution". Excerpt:More available on YouTube, see the "Related Videos" link for the above.The BJP variety of "cultural nationalism" is really vomit inducing, as these types of -isms tend to be. A sick vomit, full of sadness and despair. Lumps of undigested history, chunky and chewy; bile distilled from grievances real

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These (more or less) used to be the views from my (corner) office (on the 13th floor of 5 Cambridge Center in 2003-2004.View Larger MapThis is view from current office.View Larger MapO Fortunavelut lunastatu variabilis,semper crescisaut decrescis;vita detestabilisnunc obduratet tunc curatludo mentis aciem,egestatem,potestatemdissolvit ut glaciem.This lament is more familiar to us from childhood

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There be monsters hereA survey of monsters (i.e. blogspawn) has been in progress. Sample size: 2. Images highly grainy owing to cell phone.I. Spaniard has already posted about her's. Since it is after all a Spaniard child, we should call him El Cid, neh? All we have to add is photos of Glide Airlines, with the founder excavating pasta and drinking beer ('ginger' silent) in the

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Came across Umberto Eco's most brilliant, but perhaps least known work about his frustrations with his grandfather clock. It's called 'Fuckall Pendulum'.Hee hee.

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Have I ever told you about the Strange Maps blog? An source of endless diversion. The post that made me want to make sure that all and Sundari are informed about this blog is the latest one on maps fighting World War II. Absolutely brilliant.The map fighting thing reminds me rather of the brilliant Izzard's flag video:While we're at it, Abstruse Goose ROCKS!! Your inner physicist/programmer/

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Randomness:I. The Secret of HappinessSurrender at the feet of the Lord.Heh. Yeah, right.If you're able to read this blog, you really don't have a reason to complain, do you? If you are Indian and reading this blog, you are one amongst the 5% or thereabouts who (i) belongs to the right economic and social class (ii) has the necessary level of education(iii) has the right kinds of freedom (from

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Alive and well, pretty busy over the last week or so. Couple of things that may be of interest to public.1. Ram uvaacha:Dear All,If you or your company can donate some old laptops (in working condition of course) to Puvidham it would be a lot of help. I have finally started using computers as part of the school here in Puvidham and I find it will be of use to the children in their learning

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der aaye par durust aaye?1. All hail loose, pubgoing, forward women.Long live the Pink Chaddis. Jai Ho. Hope everyone had a suitably talli day. We had a steak.2. Via a piece over at Nirmukta, we come to know of a piece, over at The Independent. Johann Hari wrote something called "Why Should I Respect These Oppressive Religions". The Statesman in Calcutta re-printed it.A bunch of Muslims protested

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This one is thanks to Shweta, who reports that she sounds like this gentleman. Rudimentary knowledge of Tamizh cinema is helpful.If Kamal Haasan played Luke Skywalker in a Tamizh version of "Return of the Jedi", what would it be called? Vader Magan

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0. We've generally been known to be somewhat (uncharacteristically) cynical about The One. "What's the big deal?", "How would things be any different if Hillary had won, or for that matter any Democrat?" etc. type koschans have been used to needle people their warmfuzziness about Him. However someone (who will mysteriously be referred to as The Giggler, on account of apparently uncontrollable

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But there are ways of dealing with it, if you want to. Highly readable post at Siva's.Happy 2009, all.

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In which we blog from the Hyderabad Express, somewhere between Sullurpeta and NelloreThe revels are now ended. 3 days of hobnobbing and meeting lots of old faces, though not all the ones we would've loved to. Highlights2 runs, one on campus and one off, in the company of Kenny, her friend (now nationalized), and the Nitwit. Much fun, and very high speed. The flesh is capable of more than we had

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Got in this morning. Getting out tomorrow evening. Salient points:1. Freezing.2. It's unbelievable, but Malleswaram does not seem to have a single darshini style eatery. Was ravishing when stepping off the train, full of anticipation of pongal and suchlike poisons but, to quote J. Krishnamurthi once said, "Malleswaram is an idliless land." Positively reeks of business opportunity.3. Bought milk.

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Everyone knows WTF this is about, no?A revisit to the group hug homepage reveals that the page in question has disappeared! Voila! Instead, we now have For the Family.The theme for the Family track for this year's Global Conference is "Sampoorna – For the Whole Family".In a reasonably clever move that prevents the raising of further blogical fingers, it says:(All delegates to the conference, and

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Which we post mainly so that we don't lose this poemOn Living         - Nazim HikmetLiving is no laughing matter:You must live with great seriousnessLike a squirrel, for example -I mean without looking for something beyond and above living,I mean living must be your whole occupation.Living is no laughing matter…I mean, you must take living so seriouslythat even at seventy for example, you’ll

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Seen today in the Q&A section of a prominent Indian portal:Iam loss more than one lakhs in intraday trading, in 5 months there is possible for refund that money?So these are the sorts of people who invest in the stock market.Ans: "Dear Sir, of course it's possible to get a refund and I can help with the same. There will be a small downpayment of Rs. 50, 000 for which you can pay me in cash. Also,

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Exhibit AThe book is (thankfully) back. Phew. Excerpt:I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.On cold days I guess I think a little about how cold it is. And about the heat on hot days. When I'm sad I think a little about

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Pre-requisite: Knowledge of Dravidian tongue, preferably TamizhKing Pandu: Oru maadiri feeling..."Heh.

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Of course, a whole other gigantic post is waiting. Long time, no post. Long to post, no time. In lieu, and mourning the demise of Worldspace in advance, we present 5 a few Indian film songs which we would've loved to dance to if we had the talent, necessity, insobriety, etc. In no particular order.Song 1Almost any Shammi song, of course. This one is merely one of the genre.Song 2For a movie of

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