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Ashwini’s new playset

May 31st, 2005

Last few days, I have been busy building Ashwini’s playset. It arrived in about 90-100 wooden pieces and other parts. There were hundreds of nuts, bolts, screws and other hardware. After about 8 hours of work it looks like this…

Here is a little movie (2MB), showing various stages during the construction.

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Hope…

May 29th, 2005

Saw this on a roadside sign yesterday:

Man’s way leads to hopeless end
God’s way leads to endless hope

Make your choice. But, think about it… what good is just hope if it doesn’t realize into something real???

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Quiz…

May 27th, 2005

Can you tell a serial killer from a computer programmer? Take this quiz. I guessed only 5 out of 10 correctly.

malevole – Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

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Stories at the barbershop…

May 26th, 2005

Went to get a haircut yesterday. This old man hacks my hair as if he is a butcher, but, he tells interesting stories. This is what he entertained me with yesterday…

We were talking about kids (this is what I talk about everywhere I go these days). He is 73 years old. Has 5 kids and 13 gradkids. About 3-4 years ago, he found out that he had fathered another son 50 years ago. He met a woman that he used to date 50 years ago at a reunion and she told him about this secret. She was pregnant when they broke up but didn’t tell him about it. She went ahead to deliver a son. Her parents adopted her son. The funniest part was that this son grew up with what he thought as his older sister. When he was 25 years old, he was told that his older sister was actually his mother.

Don’t know if this is a true story or not, but was quite enetertaining the way he told it.

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Work/Life balance

May 25th, 2005

Over the last two days, I came across two items in the media that talked about work and life balance. Both are diagonally opposite views. Very interesting…

ONE:

TWO:

An op-ed in NYTimes by Matt Miller. Click on the link below if this one doesn’t work.
My favorite quote:

Tell your boss you have to deal with a drinking problem and you’ll be fine; say you want more time with your family and you’re on the endangered species list.

Read more…

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

May 24th, 2005

I have been reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. This is Mark Haddon’s first novel and it turned out to be an excellent one. It is a wonderful story written as a first-person account by an autistic young man, Christopher. I don’t want to give away the story but, it reads like a blog. It has a lot of interesting facts, illustrations and puzzles. It is a fun read. Very different.

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Winged Migration, II

May 24th, 2005

Got my own copy of Winged Migration. Ashwini and I watched it for a few minutes (given her short 10-15 minute attention span) yesterday. She was totally fascinated by all the birds. There was a scene where a baby seagull takes a plunge from a high cliff and flies for the first time. She made me rewind that scene and watched it over and over.

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Bride and Prejudice

May 23rd, 2005

* silly and stupid. was expecting better from Gurinder.

* aishwarya spoke in a weird accent that was very annoying.

* the songs were awful. just like the broadway musicals.

* story was trashy. couldn’t imagine those parents that were almost hawking their daughters to any man they could find. they were acting more like pimps than parents.

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Good soup

May 22nd, 2005

Roasted red pepper and tomato soup from Pacific Foods is most excellent. It is organic with all natural ingredients. So easy to make: pour, heat and eat. :) It is one of the best soups one can buy at a grocery store. I buy it at Whole Foods, but, it should be avaialble at other places too. Other soups from Pacific Foods are also good, but, ‘roasted red pepper and tomato’ is the best. I highly recommend it. I add a dash of crushed red pepper to give it a zing.

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What? come again…

May 20th, 2005

India announces Rs 650 mln aid for Palestinians

Such foolish waste of money…

Indian government should think about balancing the budget or maybe use this money to improve the electricity shortage situation, instead.

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