Archive for April, 2007

In Memoriam.


Ahem!

I wonder if anyone has noticed this….

I saw this yesterday and was shocked.
A quick peek at my TTLB account today shows an Inbound Link Score of 69. Up 200%.
I’m deeply grateful to whatever error or screw-up that allowed this to happen
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This post ought to be filed under “fishing in others territory.” This is the kind of stuff that one reads in nanopolitan & Nonoscience. I claim absolutely no knowledge about what follows below. All of it is from a layman’s perspective. Okay. That takes care of my disclaimer about matters scientific.
An article in the sunday [...]

Tag Lines.

Sign over a Gynecologist’s Office: “Dr. Jones, at your cervix.”
In a Podiatrist’s office: “Time wounds all heels.”
On a Septic Tank Truck in Oregon: Yesterday’s Meals on Wheels
On another Septic Tank Truck: “We’re #1 in the #2 business.”
At a Proctologist’s door: “To expedite your visit please back in.”
On a Plumber’s truck: “We repair what your [...]

R & R Break.

I’m taking the weekend off (the weekend starts on Saturday evening for us) for some well deserved rest and recreation.
It’s a boys only getaway to Bangalore, which features some of the crew from this episode.
I’ll be back to work on Monday.
Something might be posted about this R & R episode if it isn’t too unparliamentary [...]

Talk during today’s morning walk turned to the Virginia Tech Shooting.
Suresh agreed with the sentiments expressed by Mathew Scheeberger (in this article). The fact that Scheeberger is from Cleveland, Ohio would anyway have found favour with Suresh as a former resident and a student at CSU.
I had just learnt from the article that [...]

The Virginia Tech Massacre is shocking at many levels: the utter waste of so many lives, the awful security on campus, the failure to inform students about the extant danger, etc.,
And it affected someone too close to home…
G V Loganathan, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who graduated from IIT Kanpur and completed [...]

What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Science/Math Nerd

(Absolute Insane Laughter as you pour toxic chemicals into a foaming tub of death!)
Well, maybe you aren’t this extreme, but you’re in league with the crazy scientists/mathmeticians of today. Very few people have the talent of math and science is something takes a lot of brains as [...]