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Forty-two: April 2012
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Life, the universe and everything. Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Why driving in Bangalore is like war. I’ve been driving a car in Bangalore for six years now and have been at the receiving end of horrible drivers throughout. Why, I wondered do people thrust and parry on the roads! And the answer struck me just yesterday; it is because driving in Bangalore is like war. First, the fight for. The cow that lazes past a hundred mad honkers! Finally, like in war, both victors and victims lose. Both victors an...
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Forty-two: September 2012
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Life, the universe and everything. Monday, September 10, 2012. A f’cking crazy country. Going by the recent controversies over cartoons in India, one might think that the Lashkar is misguided in training armed militia to fight against the country. After all, if a cartoonist can be so dangerous that he is charged under the same section as Ajmal Kasab, all the Lashkar has to do is train sufficient militants in cartooning skills and it can take over the country! Goddamn f’cking state. The Shudras: the Congr...
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Forty-two: Scientific Temper
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Life, the universe and everything. Thursday, January 17, 2013. Scientific temper. n., An attitude which involves the application of logic and the avoidance of bias and preconceived notions. Of the citizen.) I sulked for days on end. Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Were some of the themes of the book. It emphasized that the scientific method conformed to these themes, while unscientific ones didn’t. Why bring it up now? Statistical significance: One girl was raped coming home late in the night. So preventi...
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Forty-two: January 2013
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Life, the universe and everything. Thursday, January 17, 2013. Scientific temper. n., An attitude which involves the application of logic and the avoidance of bias and preconceived notions. Of the citizen.) I sulked for days on end. Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Were some of the themes of the book. It emphasized that the scientific method conformed to these themes, while unscientific ones didn’t. Why bring it up now? Statistical significance: One girl was raped coming home late in the night. So preventi...
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Forty-two: August 2012
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Life, the universe and everything. Sunday, August 12, 2012. Nantu adu heegoo untu. I’m not a big fan of plays and I generally keep my distance from Kannada plays in particular. However, my wife pestered me sufficiently to attend a play with her at RangaShankara – Nantu adu heegoo unte? What happens in the melee? Watch it. It is one hundred rupees (and more importantly, one and half hours) well spent. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Wowzio Live Activity Feed. Nantu adu heegoo untu.
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Forty-two: March 2013
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Life, the universe and everything. Wednesday, March 13, 2013. In the Mahabharata, Yudhishtira was asked by the Yaksha of the lake what the greatest wonder in the world was. Yudhishtira replies promptly: “Day after day countless creatures are going to the abode of Yama, yet those that remain behind live their lives as though they’ll live forever. What can be more wondrous than this? I was in a similar state, until last Tuesday when my father passed away after a hard-fought battle with pneumonia. While it ...
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Forty-two: One word solution to all problems
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Life, the universe and everything. Thursday, January 03, 2013. One word solution to all problems. In my last post I attempted to correct some of the fallacies surrounding the gang rape of the 23-year old Delhi woman. (Seriously, who calls a 23-year old a ‘girl’? In this post, I want to propose a single word solution to this and associated problems. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Wowzio Live Activity Feed. One word solution to all problems. Balbir - Tech Guru. KK - K Infinity.
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Forty-two: September 2013
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Life, the universe and everything. Tuesday, September 10, 2013. 8220;New Rules” for library developers. I love Bill Maher’s show, “Real time” on HBO, and in particular, am a big fan of the section “New Rules” where Bill Maher sets what are typically a new (and unusual) set of rules for his favourite targets. (. Is one of my favourites, and there are more. 1 You will NOT accept a base class type as parameter to a function unless you mean it. Think this is a fairy tale? If ( connection.GetType()! Consider ...
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Forty-two: Missing dad
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Life, the universe and everything. Wednesday, March 13, 2013. In the Mahabharata, Yudhishtira was asked by the Yaksha of the lake what the greatest wonder in the world was. Yudhishtira replies promptly: “Day after day countless creatures are going to the abode of Yama, yet those that remain behind live their lives as though they’ll live forever. What can be more wondrous than this? I was in a similar state, until last Tuesday when my father passed away after a hard-fought battle with pneumonia. While it ...
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Forty-two: November 2012
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Life, the universe and everything. Sunday, November 25, 2012. In 2007, I wrote a post entitled “ Unit of Freedom. 8221; that described India as a mobocracy. Ever since there has been accumulating evidence of the same, the latest being the arrest of two girls, one for posting an innocuous comment on facebook, and the other, for liking it. With protecters of the law like this judge and the Maharashtra police, no wonder people have to turn to Thackerays for protection. I read (well, was supposed to read, bu...
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