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I do not know the exact source of this comic.
Many thanks to my friend Pankaj for sharing this with me.
Note:
Thanks Arunn, I uploaded the image through Performancing using the FTP add-on that you suggested.

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I realized a few days ago that I am in the twilight zone between being blessed with a child, and being cursed with parenthood.
I overheard my seven-year-old daughter telling her best friend and classmate who was visiting, “But my Dad doesn’t know Anything!”
I thought I had a few more years.
Oh Well…
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I posted this to test [...]

While watching TV at home on Sunday night, a news item in our city’s local TV channel got my attention.
A group of activists from a political party had hit upon a novel idea to protest the poor condition of the roads in their locality. The images on TV were priceless. I regret that I have [...]

I firmly believe that when it comes to trying out cool new stuff in blogs, no one can beat Moof.
It looks like I was the first to try out one the toys that has been in her blog for some days now.
She has a plugin (with instructions) in her right sidebar (see picture on [...]

Arunn, Thanks for posting this.
I took the test because I just can’t resist tests of this kind.
Not because I wanted to know if I’m nerdier than others.
I just found out that I’m not too much of a nerd.

I am 60% human
I have a doubt though.
How is that I’m “nerdier than about half [...]

A lazy Sunday afternoon spent lying in bed with nothing on my mind but stray thoughts slowly fading away into the mists.
My eyes grew heavy, my mind went wandering.
Eyelids closed, the insides better for pondering.
- Steven McDougal (A Postprandial Exegesis).
A random electrical impulse in the repository of semantic memory1 brought a few lines of a [...]

One of the few remaining bachelors among my medical college classmates invited me to his wedding yesterday.
He gave me a small elegant card with the obligatory image of Vinayagar in front. When I unfolded the card, I was most impressed by what was on the page facing the details of the marriage.
Neatly printed in gold [...]

I was a few days late in reading Arunn’s excellent post on plagiarism and shoddy scientific research, which I think is widely prevalent in our country.
My apologies Arunn. If I had read it earlier, I would have incorporated (not copied without credit :)) some of your ideas about Open Access into my previous post.

A tempering [...]