December 26 03
Christmas! Great christmas at Holly’s place! Am too tired to write anything more, but I just have to post some pictures of the food My radioactive play-dough alien… Sharon’s amazing miniature neighborhood… Pat and Sharon posing for their canon moment
December 25 03
Going..going…gone Next week, same time, I’ll be sitting at home (hopefully)… watching telly, and eating my mom’s awesome food.. This past one and a half years has been the longest I’ve ever been away from home. I’m dying to go home and have to do nothing for a change.. no deadlines, no exams, absolutely nothing. [...]
December 17 03
The Brain’s Alphabet! If you have ever wondered how the brain manages to store so much information, here’s the answer. Some researcher with a lot of time to fool around found that the brain actually uses English! The entire alphabet can be seen here. Tonight I’ll sleep an enlightened guy.
December 15 03
“How do you know she is a unicorn?” Molly demanded. “And why were you afraid to let her touch you? I saw you. You were afraid of her.” “I doubt that I will feel like talking for very long,” the cat replied without rancor. “I would not waste time in foolishness if I were you. [...]
December 14 03
Okay, I have to mention this.. In a fit of subconscious narcissism, I’ve put up a photoblog here. That is, till I find a better place to park my pics. The title says that it’s been created with a camera phone, but fear not – my phone camera is as bad as yours.. the pictures [...]
December 12 03
Baaaadd Santa! “Bad taste is better than no taste, as style empress Diana Vreeland said, and “Bad Santa” spreads it freely and honestly, like fertilizer. You see, love actually is all around, as long as you know where to look.” Salon has a glowing review of the extremely irreverent movie. The movie revels in its [...]
December 11 03
On the insanity of the patenting system There was this particularly ‘insightful’ post on a slashdot discussion about insane patents about obvious stuff like Amazon’s ‘search inside the book’ feature (Hell, it isn’t an innovative idea – no one could manage to convince publishers or have the resources to do it – there are plenty [...]
December 11 03
Kipling’s six honest men.. “I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.” In an interesting article, Ronan Nugent describes his experiences as a young engineer in an firm trying to achieve ISO 9001 certification. Often frustrated by the [...]