Archive for February, 2008

Coffee Art!!!

Amazing pictures.
at Scorpy’s Vox blog.
Go check it out. [While you are there you could also LYAO over this & this]
Supposedly from a restaurant in Vancouver. Not verified. JMB or SSG can help us out there. Verify and post pictures in your blogs or flickr albums.

Riding A Haretoise.

This wonderful cartoon and the tag line almost tell you the whole story about what a joke high-speed Broadband Internet in India is.

[Image Credit]
With erratic speeds and poor quality of service, high-speed Internet is still like slow torture
The cartoon is from a highly informative article “The Illusion Of Movement” by Arindam Mukherjee in this [...]

Blogiversary 2.

scan man’s notes completes two years of existence and bravely steps forth into its third year.
Though this makes my blog only a toddler in human terms, and the contents reflect that sometimes, it feels like I’m already a grizzled veteran of the big bad blogworld.
I must admit that I got sidetracked into social networking in [...]

A Bomb In The Brain.

A 60-year-old patient presented with left hemiparesis some months ago.
This was what was found on the CT scan of the Brain, which was extended to a CT Angiography …

There is a humongous aneurysm involving the entire Posterior Communicating artery. All the arteries making up the circle of Willis are larger than normal (or ectatic in [...]

My Brain Scan.

Many thanks to Medblog Addict.
How could I resist
Here is my expert interpretation of this unconventional scan.
Though this is an outwardly gloomy brain, there is a lot of enthusiasm hidden under the surface. A word of caution is warranted for the people who dare to engage the man with this brain. You will find [...]

scan man speaks - Episode 3.

The next episode of my podcast has been posted (please go to the site to see some additional commentary) and cross posted here.
scan man speaks Episode 3: Love & Marriage At The End Of The 20th Century
[19 minutes 56 seconds]
As always, comments are welcome.

[Image Credit - The Hindu Magazine article]

The Hindu’s Sunday Magazine had an interesting article titled “Cheers in Chinese” by Pallavi Aiyar in the society section yesterday. I would suggest reading the short article before you read further here.
I found it to be interesting at many levels, not least for the opening anecdote.
“Premier Zhou Enlai [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day.

British Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, The Red Arrows, draw a heart in the sky
[Image Credit]
This Valentine’s Day greeting is especially for the ladies (who far outnumber the men) who have commented on this blog.
Thank you
Wishing all of you a very happy Valentine’s Day
Addenda:
Lekhni & Krish Ashok share some of their Valentine’s Day [...]