Archive for August, 2006

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Thursday, August 31st, 2006

– double trouble – the taj [this post will self-destruct in a few days]

making a paper aeroplane

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

While searching for some good simple physics puzzles to help out my wife in her class quiz tomorrow… came across a site to build a pretty sophisticated looking paper aeroplane!

when a protector needed protection

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Recently came across an incredible video of a tiger attack – quite an old incident dated June 2004. They were trying to dart a tigeress to move it into a safer place, but obviously it didn’t know that and didn’t like it very much. Here’s the background story… Joymala the Kaziranga Herione Some excerpts…

a lot of posts

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Dear Reader, Posted many things here. Please read it at your own time – not in a hurry. And do speak out your mind whenever you have anything to say. Truth is of course more important than my personal opinions! 🙂 I esp welcome critical views, as I’m always happy to see some perspective that […]

objectionable content on a cartoon channel

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Well that’s what this started with, but it went on into a more broader topic. One of my colleagues was discussing about semi-adult content coming in ad-breaks on a cartoon channel for kids. Another one replied saying no probs… Though time has been throttling my neck nowadays, I somehow created some time to type a […]

an unentertained entertaining cobra

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Saw this snake on two occasions [near Anand Rao circle].

simple tips to save paper in office

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Some general things based on noticing the indiscriminate carnage of trees (indirectly) whenever I collect a printout from the printer in office. Three very simple things…. * Don’t “print and forget” – dont *forget* to collect your printout! * Set your Default Printer Preferences to print on both sides of the paper. * Please think […]

2d meets 3d

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

This is a photo taken at Samarkhand a real hi-fi restaurant on Infantry Road. Really loved this painting* – though the initial idea was mine a colleague took this photo – and I’d say she brilliantly composed it though not being too much of a photographer at all – she was delighted to have discovered […]

how to deal with anger?

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

There is no dearth of philosophy/literature talking about why anger is a bad thing and we must deal with it, and musn’t do rash things that we will regret later, and so on. Its nice to hear about that when things are nice and everything’s fine, but when there’s actually a bad situation then an […]

badideaophobia

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

badideaophobia: the fear of bad ideas 😉 If we have it then its probably a good time to lose it… This is an email from a friend from several years ago that I’ve always treasured, and am reposting it here again in the wake of so many idea related posts off late. Got an email […]