Nov 23 2009 in Uncategorized

The week that was - 2009-11-23.

  • down with the damn flu!! #
  • Important development in deciding on a site for the Indian Neutrino Observatory http://bit.ly/8mvoMu .. @gopalakrishnang, your comments ? #
  • listening to senate debate about getting to a debate on health care bill. Rpts say Ds have 60.. so, Joe L backed out of reading phone book ? #
  • Oh i misunderstood. There is a 60 needed to end the debate. Thats the part where phone books come into play. My bad. #
  • In keeping with our glorious traditions, lets appoint a commission to probe into the leak of the Liberhans report. #

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Nov 16 2009 in Uncategorized

The week that was - 2009-11-16.

  • most media groups in india (except hindu+) hav astrology columns/ websites. what should we read into this ? pandering or worse, ignorance ? #
  • with @the_hindu, i remember the sunday mag carrying some astrology stuff briefly.. but I think it got removed. Am i right, @nramind ? #
  • anyway, the bigger point is that occasional hoopla around nobel laureates and isro scientists doesn’t lead to more rational thinking. #
  • Wow! RT @harpers # of US universities that have a Taco Bell Distinguished Professorship of Fast Service: 1 http://harpers.org/x/1989/9/39 #
  • http://bit.ly/nh6sO - before granting Microsoft this patent, the Einsteins @ the US patent office sat on it for 4 years. #
  • the patent describes the action of gud old “sudo”, present in linux systems since .. when.. 1980s ? #
  • titbit for the day : robert mcnamara, as head of ford, was behind the first cars with seat belts. #
  • Just came back from a screening of “Ramchand Pakistani”. Brilliant movie about innocents caught in the crossfire. #
  • The kid playing little ramchand won everyone’s heart. #
  • LOL.. Gladwell doesnt know what an eigenvalue is ? http://bit.ly/3peKIc. #
  • I think I have read half a dozen articles in the last day trying to evoke berlin wall as a measure of “how far back” Nov, 1989 was [1/2] #
  • & all of them were trying to use it to place sachin’s debut in chrono context. Me thinks they should do the opposite. [2/2] #
  • An average Indian audience may need education/reminding on Europe & not Sachin since ‘89. We’ve followed his every breath anyway. #

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Nov 09 2009 in Uncategorized

The week that was - 2009-11-09.

  • Forgotten riots ? Bhagalpur’89 http://bit.ly/24iydr #
  • upgrading my laptop to ubuntu 9.10 now. Also overdue : #touchbook tweaking .. especially xjournal’s pdf anot feature. #
  • Wow.. so happy that my 11.00 class is cancelled today. Go Sachin! #
  • if the powerplay was still there, why try bhajji and waste that wicket ? #
  • FTW!!! .. what now ? Nehra, Piyush and Munaf … hmmm #
  • I was wrong.. Praveen Kumar.. and not Piyush! #
  • Had an interesting argument today.. question : what/whom would you call sublime in american sport (ie FB/BaskB/BaseB) ? #
  • the closest that i could think of is Jordan at his peak. But, even that.. isn’t quite in the nature of Sachin, Zidane or Federer. #
  • While it lacks sublime moments, American sport makes up by giving you so many breathtaking, made for TV twists to the game. #
  • someone take Michelle Bachmann to tribal heartlands of Chhattisgarh for a tour. She needs to know what insurgencies look like. #
  • All hail @kumanna who is now half way into his biking trip from Austin to San Antonio .. ~85 miles! #
  • Mark Shields’ description of the republican health care reform bill : “take two tax breaks and call your doctor in the morning”. #
  • didn’t know John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other - on the 50th anniversary of the decl of independence (J4, 1826) #

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Nov 02 2009 in Uncategorized

The week that was - 2009-11-02.

  • ran into an article that casually used “vishnu blue” to denote a color.. is it common usage ? #
  • RT @vikasbajaj My story on Reva: The Tiny Leader of the Pack - http://bit.ly/2kUKg #fb #
  • RT @svaradarajan a moving tribute to Mughli, mother of one of the 1000s of Kashmiri boys who have ‘disappeared’ http://bit.ly/27NqsL #
  • RK Dhawan on reasons for emergency “All these opposition leaders were there..” http://bit.ly/1eOG69 #priceless #
  • talking tough to those with arms is all nice and easy..but how abt taking note of something like this, Mr.Chidambaram ? http://bit.ly/4sTRv8 #

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Nov 02 2009 in Uncategorized

The week that was - 2009-11-02.

  • ran into an article that casually used “vishnu blue” to denote a color.. is it common usage ? #
  • RT @vikasbajaj My story on Reva: The Tiny Leader of the Pack - http://bit.ly/2kUKg #fb #
  • RT @svaradarajan a moving tribute to Mughli, mother of one of the 1000s of Kashmiri boys who have ‘disappeared’ http://bit.ly/27NqsL #
  • RK Dhawan on reasons for emergency “All these opposition leaders were there..” http://bit.ly/1eOG69 #priceless #
  • talking tough to those with arms is all nice and easy..but how abt taking note of something like this, Mr.Chidambaram ? http://bit.ly/4sTRv8 #

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Oct 26 2009 in Uncategorized

The week that was - 2009-10-26.

  • Outrage can be the only reaction to this..http://bit.ly/2IW4Wp, a @thenation report from Ap 08 about justice for victims of rape (in KBR). #
  • and when the US senate passed an amendment reg the forced arbitration .. 30 Repubs duly opposed it. reason ? “keep govt out” #
  • cases like these actually make glenn beck’s craziness fade away. He is a talk show host who shouts a lot.. but senators ?.. i am appalled. #
  • so, if this was 1995, the “gingrich repubs” would have ensured Jamie Jones and Dawn Leamon fought in vain ? #creepy #
  • french for old math paper hunting: “hors serie” => “out of series” .. so i should have looked at end of shelf.. instead of chrono order! #
  • RT @gopalakrishnang join the efforts to save nature at Tada in whatever way you can http://bit.ly/40QDO, http://bit.ly/13GwW3 #
  • awaiting news of the next chintan baithak, “winter session” maybe ? Its kinda like parliament for bjp : nothing gets done, people walk out. #
  • http://bit.ly/AMYsM - Indha Raja kaiya vecha.. adhu romba wronga thaan pogum. #
  • In other news, I got my GWave invite this evening.. I have barely started waving though. #
  • http://bit.ly/24ouw - trafficking in women, a report in @AmanpourCNN. #

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Oct 19 2009 in Uncategorized

The week that was - 2009-10-19.

  • sorry, this is on the front page of the science section ? http://bit.ly/3ObuGM .. or am i seeing things ? #
  • kudos phone spammers!! .. they managed to find their way to my google voice number. #
  • In trying to understand the maze of health care bills, I found this really helpful : http://bit.ly/1HPKiT #
  • Gladwell asks “Well, all of you made a ruckus with Vick & dogfighting..don’t you see something violent every Sunday?” http://bit.ly/36ilB7 #
  • Thats not an exact quote..just my short summary. Why is this gladiatorial streak persistent ?.. is it prominent only in the US ? #
  • http://twitpic.com/lnb1e - Preliminary attempts at taking notes with my touchbook.. not so bad, but hard for long sessions. #
  • First tweet from my touchbook! .. just got my wireless dongle by mail. #
  • http://twitpic.com/lt61j - Happy Diwali! #

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Oct 12 2009 in Uncategorized

The week that was - 2009-10-12.

  • Obama just won the “Speak your way to Oslo” contest. #
  • fork the prize if you want.. swaying from lifelong humanitarian work one year to populist hope-giver next year leaves a confused lgcy #
  • Hmm two talks already this semester and one more in Nov.. if I manage to stuff one in Dec, that’ll be four months on the trot! ;) #
  • Office back in form this week & parks was good as well.. also caught with Stewart and Colbert.. and this Nobel thing .. so much laughing ;) #
  • no wonder i love friday afternoons! #
  • http://twitpic.com/l6uyy - what better than a rainy day for a drive to the dam. #
  • amidst last week’s chaos, i finally got my #touchbook ! but as luck would have it, the wifi dongle was missing. so, crippled as of now .. #
  • the only thing funnier than obama’s nobel is the american right’s reaction to it. #

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Oct 05 2009 in Uncategorized

The week that was - 2009-10-05.

  • RT @ultrabrown Vanity Fair on 11/26 (via @yesnosorry): Barkha Dutt broadcast hostage locations, and Pakis… http://3.ly/EB6 #
  • RT @chemingineer Challenge to Indian tweeters - Can we make Gandhi a Trending Topic Today? #
  • Here is my contrib : http://bit.ly/48JyN4 - a short talk by bipin chandra on #Gandhi ’s views.. makes an effort to demystify some notions. #
  • interesting, for example, are some of his quotes about #Gandhi ’s softened views on violence due to protestors. (near 15:00) #
  • btw, the speech is Prof.Chandra’s lead up to a talk by Rajmohan Gandhi (excerpts from his bio of #Gandhi).. that shd show up in rlt videos. #
  • “shiva sena attacks iitb campus for using the dreaded B word” - a possible headline for the future ? #
  • http://bit.ly/1ayjss - hmm.. whoever cared about political experience? grass roots work is already a bad word for many. so, no surprise hr #
  • but then, if you asked me if a nyt article on a senate run will evr lnk to a WWE vid that goes “kane tombstones [senator2b]” , i’d ve sd no. #

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Sep 28 2009 in Uncategorized

The week that was - 2009-09-28.

  • Sen Reid to Paulson & Bernake : “[..] It takes me forty eight hours to get the Republicans to flush the toilet” #
  • Bush to P&B : “Someday you guys [should] tell me how we ended up with a system like this” #
  • all that and more in James Stewart’s 24 page article in new yorker about the famed week in Sep 08. #
  • wow! .. justine henin is planning a comeback. wont be surprised is she wins a slam or two.. esp the french. #
  • the leadership is fighting.. but its foot soldiers are up to what they do best http://bit.ly/1j5u1i #
  • RT @varunkumar India launches seven satellites today — http://bit.ly/Akyik #
  • cool overcast and a lil breezy. awesome climate …. #
  • the media is totally confused on the iit faculty debate.. when sibal is arguing about the issue with faculty troubles .. [1/2] #
  • i suppose the three research papers in question will show up @ http://bit.ly/qhxVg at 2pm ET today. #moon #water #chandrayaan #nasa #
  • RT @anantha RT @arrahman The music of my first Hollywood comedy is unveiled! What do you think of it? http://bit.ly/gbQcb #
  • kudos to isro on the M3 probe results.. given the resources, its history is worth being proud of. #
  • and I feel much better when events like this act as a vehicle for science popularization.. #
  • very often, the defense side (read kalam et al) kinda gets too much attention. #
  • slightly cold this morning. first in line at the dps office … will hopefully be done w this tdy #
  • finally!!!.. license holder. was advised against being over cautious.. otherwise, test was OK. #
  • british balancing corporation ? http://bit.ly/17KWT6 #
  • missed the game today.. a repeat of WC (out in groups) is nw likely. S Malik comes gd agn w india and sehwag and yuvraj missed, i guess. #
  • ashutosh gowarikar wanted to make a movie..then thought of turning it to a musical..but ended up stuffing both into one. WYR is that long… #
  • RT @PBSNationalPark If you watched The National Parks and want amazing parks images for your desktop, visit http://bit.ly/LPEP2 #

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