The signs of spring are definitely here. All the snow has melted away. Had first of our spring showers last night and gardner’s friends are out in full force. And shoots of our tulips and daffodils are peeking out.
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Today is 152nd birth anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the best post-impressionist artists. He suffered from a mental illness and committed himself to many sanatoriums to cure it. His illness and treatments had an effect on his perception and drawing. Here are two paintings made by him over a period of one year. Although the subject of both the paintings is the same, the differences in style are astronomical. The one on left is “Starry Night over the Rhone” from 1888 and the one on right is “The Starry Night” from 1889, one of his most famous paintings. He painted the second one while he was in mental asylum of Saint-Remy.
   
He committed suicide about 13 months after he painted “The Starry Night”. The last year of his life was very productive. He did 150 paintings during that period; 70 in last 70 days. He died a pauper but, his paintings are priced at tens of millions of dollars today.
Both the photos taken from WebMuseum
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Thousand salutations to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, on the occasion of his 375th birth anniversary
Photo taken in Jan2005 at kille Raigad, which was the capital of his kingdom.
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Happy Birthday, Sujit!!!
Wish you many many more, brother….
Don’t let the Indian cricket team’s poor performance dampen your day. Have a blast!!!
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Tendulkar becomes India’s highest run-scorer
What is the use if he couldn’t save India from a pathetic loss?
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India lost the last test match to Pakistan in Bangalore by 168 runs. It was just disgusting. Pakistani batsmen were playing as if the Indian bowlers were a bunch of school kids and our stalwarts except Sehwag, couldn’t even play through the day to end the match in a draw. Kumble could score 37 and Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman together make 37 and Ganguly was out on 2. Smacks of match-fixing. Or was it some political play? Be nice and don’t beat Pakistan, our loving brothers, in two test series in a row.
Whatever it was… it was fu(&ing disgusting.
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There have been hundreds of hits on my blog through Google and Yahoo searches for “Terry Schiavo Pictures”. Till now, so many people who come to my website, got disappointed when they didn’t see any pictures of Terry. Here are a couple of photos for them….
Here are a couple of links where you can find all the information about Terry Schiavo case…
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/11/05/schiavo.case/
http://www.terrisfight.org/center.html
p.s. PseudoFreud, I know you wanted to see this post.
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If you live south of the Mason-Dixon line, you may not be able to watch IMAX movies like Volacoes of the deep sea, Cosmic Voyage and Galapagos in the IMAX theater at a ’science center’ near you. Several IMAX theaters in the south decided not to screen Volcanoes as it mentions evolution and proposes that life on earth may have started in the ocean around the volcanic vents. These theaters are predictably in Texas, Georgia and Carolinas. The operators didn’t want to screen the movie because most of their audience believes in creationism and would get offended by the mention of evolution.
Same reasoning applies to other two movies: ‘Cosmic voyage’, which talks about big bang as the beginning of the universe and ‘Galapagos’, which of course is about Darwin and evolution.
I just can’t believe that there are so many people who reject evolution in the face of ample evidence that supports it. On the other hand, there is no real evidence for creationism except that it is written in the bible. Interesting, eh?!
Thanks, Amit for the link to CNN story
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I have been very lucky about getting free songs in bottles of Pepsi products. In last two weeks, I bought two bottles of Sierra Mist and found free song codes in both of them.
| Money paid: | $2.50 |
| Money received in songs: | $1.98 |
| Money received in bottle deposits: | $0.20 |
| Final cost for 2 bottles of Sierra Mist: | $0.32 |
I should quit while I am ahead in this game. I used one free song code to get ‘Candyshop’ by 50cent. Would appreciate any suggestions for using the second free song code.
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Last December, we decided to draft a living will and other such documents this year. In light of the recent Terry Schiavo case, it becomes very important that people take care of this. Anyway, even if something happens before I sign on that piece of paper, I am confidant that my wife and parents are sensible enough and will not get involved in a situation like Terry Schiavo.
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