This one was shot by my friend with over 10 x zoom. It disappeared soon after this shot.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Pic outside our lab
This one was shot by my friend with over 10 x zoom. It disappeared soon after this shot.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Some Movies
Some movies are great. This time I got to watch Apocalypto. It was saddening to watch it and in the end left me with a strong sense of dislike towards human civilization. The next morning I woke up with a bad headache. The one thing that brightened the day is this picture that I came across, on the internet. It's good to see that some mammals get along well though humans do not.
Picture courtesy
1.) juice.box.sk
Picture courtesy
1.) juice.box.sk
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Rambling
Watched quite a few(around 8) of Meg Ryan's and other movies this month. But then two others turned out to be great. Two beautiful movies -"Under the The Tuscan Sun" and "Before Sunrise". The first one is simply great for its maturity and lack of nonsense and the second one for its mixture of intelligent and unintelligent dialogue , which makes it real.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Terrible F1 Accident
If those of you who can't take it....be careful!
Serious F1 accident that occurred recently.
Click here to view.
Acknowledgment
Unknown Source
Serious F1 accident that occurred recently.
Click here to view.
Acknowledgment
Unknown Source
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Happy Mother's Day
Let's see what babies think about their mom and coming out into the real world.
Happy Mother's day, once again.
Acknowledgment
Unknown sources.
Happy Mother's day, once again.
Acknowledgment
Unknown sources.
Monday, April 23, 2007
High Speed Photography
Here are some of the works of Harold Edgerton for his pioneering work in high speed photography, multi flash and microsecond imagery. Some of his works and of others are as below.
Milk-Drop Coronet
This gives an indication on how fast the film moves.
Bullet cutting through King of Diamonds.
Bullet cutting through Queen of Hearts-Ouch.
Bullet piercing through a banana
Bullet piercing through an apple
Water from faucet
Swirls around spinning fan blades
A few more images are available here, here and here. This one with liquid sculptures here is also very impressive.
Acknowledgment
The images are linked from the following websites
1. http://www.middlebury.edu/
2. http://www.cottonexpressions.com/
3. http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/
4. http://web.mit.edu/museum/
5. http://mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/edgerton/www/
Milk-Drop Coronet
This gives an indication on how fast the film moves.
Bullet cutting through King of Diamonds.
Bullet cutting through Queen of Hearts-Ouch.
Bullet piercing through a banana
Bullet piercing through an apple
Water from faucet
Swirls around spinning fan blades
A few more images are available here, here and here. This one with liquid sculptures here is also very impressive.
Acknowledgment
The images are linked from the following websites
1. http://www.middlebury.edu/
2. http://www.cottonexpressions.com/
3. http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/
4. http://web.mit.edu/museum/
5. http://mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/edgerton/www/
Friday, April 20, 2007
Ronaldinho's Sister
Apparently Ronaldinho's Sister performing soccer tricks. Interesting clip. The background music sounds similar to Fur Elise with beats. Sound track from - I know I can.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Friday, April 06, 2007
First of April
I haven't played any big pranks (April fool) on anyone for many years. This time it was different. My unsuspecting victim was my own uncle who works as an accountant in Dubai, has come home to India on vacation. He has an 18 year old daughter and a 12 year old son.
I haven't talked to him for some time and I was sure he wouldn't recognize my voice. I ring him up from my mobile phone.
Me: Hello?
Uncle: Hello.
Me: I want to talk to _daughters_name_
Uncle: Who are you?
Me: I am her boy friend.
Uncle: What!?
Me: Boy friend.
Uncle(visibly angry): I am her father.
Me: Nice to talk to you, can I speak to your daughter?
Uncle: Who are you?
Me: I am _fictitious_name_
Uncle: Where from?
Me: I am from _some_other_place_
Uncle: Where exactly?
Me: Take a left turn from the central junction
Uncle: There are many junctions, which one?
Uncle: What do you do?
Me: Why do you care, I need to speak to your daughter.
Uncle: This is not her house, this is _someone_elses_house
Me: Whose house?
Uncle: This is some_other_girls_house
Me: Can I talk to her?
Uncle: I have 5 daughters and I know how to deal with you.
Me: 5 daughters! What are their names?
Uncle(rude sounding): I have also come after your age, I know what the 'disease' is with you boys.I am a psychologist.
Me: Really? What medicine do you have?
Uncle: I have a caller ID installed. I will find you and get you.
Me: Try your best, we will see.
Uncle: Okay, I am done talking with you.
Me: Wait!
Uncle (pauses):
Me: I want to talk to your daughter
Uncle(bangs the phone) and terminates the call.
I call him up exactly two minutes later. He looks the number on his caller id.
Uncle: You again? What do you want.
Me: Uncle, this is Sarad.
Uncle: What, which Sarad.
Me: Your brother's son.
Uncle: It was you, you stupid ^&@#$#! (I deserved that).
Uncle: You scared the hell out of me. I had summon'ed my daughter and was questioning her. She was telling that if it was her boy friend, he would have called her on her mobile phone. Why call on the common phone?
We exchanged some pleasantries and hung up.
I haven't talked to him for some time and I was sure he wouldn't recognize my voice. I ring him up from my mobile phone.
Me: Hello?
Uncle: Hello.
Me: I want to talk to _daughters_name_
Uncle: Who are you?
Me: I am her boy friend.
Uncle: What!?
Me: Boy friend.
Uncle(visibly angry): I am her father.
Me: Nice to talk to you, can I speak to your daughter?
Uncle: Who are you?
Me: I am _fictitious_name_
Uncle: Where from?
Me: I am from _some_other_place_
Uncle: Where exactly?
Me: Take a left turn from the central junction
Uncle: There are many junctions, which one?
Uncle: What do you do?
Me: Why do you care, I need to speak to your daughter.
Uncle: This is not her house, this is _someone_elses_house
Me: Whose house?
Uncle: This is some_other_girls_house
Me: Can I talk to her?
Uncle: I have 5 daughters and I know how to deal with you.
Me: 5 daughters! What are their names?
Uncle(rude sounding): I have also come after your age, I know what the 'disease' is with you boys.I am a psychologist.
Me: Really? What medicine do you have?
Uncle: I have a caller ID installed. I will find you and get you.
Me: Try your best, we will see.
Uncle: Okay, I am done talking with you.
Me: Wait!
Uncle (pauses):
Me: I want to talk to your daughter
Uncle(bangs the phone) and terminates the call.
I call him up exactly two minutes later. He looks the number on his caller id.
Uncle: You again? What do you want.
Me: Uncle, this is Sarad.
Uncle: What, which Sarad.
Me: Your brother's son.
Uncle: It was you, you stupid ^&@#$#! (I deserved that).
Uncle: You scared the hell out of me. I had summon'ed my daughter and was questioning her. She was telling that if it was her boy friend, he would have called her on her mobile phone. Why call on the common phone?
We exchanged some pleasantries and hung up.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Volume
Quote: The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to left.
I really wish that my brother play all his Heavy Metal and Rock Cd's on anything less than full volume on the 1500 watt speakers at home!
I really wish that my brother play all his Heavy Metal and Rock Cd's on anything less than full volume on the 1500 watt speakers at home!
Friday, March 16, 2007
Random rant
The days are more exciting. Got to watch a whole bunch of movies -'Music & Lyrics', 'Bride and Prejudice' & 'Flavors' both Indian English movies, 'Shall we dance', 'Coyote Ugly', 'The Pursuit of Happyness', this is a very good un-orthodox movie starring Will Smith .
More than that, the level of doing useful work has come up from 1% to 10%. That hopefully gives me the right to brag how busy I have become and serve as an excuse for staying out of blog world :-)
More than that, the level of doing useful work has come up from 1% to 10%. That hopefully gives me the right to brag how busy I have become and serve as an excuse for staying out of blog world :-)
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The Euro English
More of those weird e-mail forwards :-)
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Music & Lyrics
From the movie- 'Music & Lyrics'.
PoP! Goes My Heart
Way Back Into Love - Hugh & Drew
Don't Write Me Off
This last one is not from Music & Lyrics. It's from a new hindi movie. I like the way the beats come in and go off. Grab your best headset and play it aloud.
Sajnaji Wari Wari
PoP! Goes My Heart
Way Back Into Love - Hugh & Drew
Don't Write Me Off
This last one is not from Music & Lyrics. It's from a new hindi movie. I like the way the beats come in and go off. Grab your best headset and play it aloud.
Sajnaji Wari Wari
Saturday, February 17, 2007
How things work
Easy way: "Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."
Not so easy way: "It looked absolutely impossible.But it so happens that you go on worrying away at a problem in science and it seems to get tired,and lies down and lets you catch it."-William Lawrence Bragg.
Not so easy way: "It looked absolutely impossible.But it so happens that you go on worrying away at a problem in science and it seems to get tired,and lies down and lets you catch it."-William Lawrence Bragg.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Happy Valentine's Day.
A beautiful Song- Youna Candlelight mix.
The same song by Bryan Adams.( The original).
The same song by Bryan Adams.( The original).
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Math Class
This is about my first math class where I'm presently studying. I have taken a coursework on discrete mathematics. A lady teacher was assigned to teach us. Since it is the first day, I jovially hopped off to university. I look up the notice board, find the class room and the course timing.
The discrete math class is to start at 11:20 A.M but at that time, the hall is occupied by the previous class and the teacher is still teaching. Another ten minutes pass, she is still on with her class. I decided to find out what's taking her so long. I go ahead and knock on the door.
Math Teacher: Yes?
Me: Could you please come out? I would like to have a word with you.
She comes out.
Math teacher: What do you want?
Me: Mam, the math class is at 11:20 A.M?
Math teacher: Sorry, but the time table was revised today, I had started the math
class at 10:30
me: Okay, thank you.
I wait outside till she finishes her class, she finally comes out and sees me waiting. I take out a piece of paper on which I had written my timetable and told her that my math class was colliding with some other class since she had revised the time table.
She thinks, it is my teaching time table!
So, she decides to take me to the course co-ordinator to sort out the time table,
another faculty in charge of time table's. However, the co-ordiantor was not at desk.
Math teacher: Do this, talk with co-ordinator and call me.
She first gives me her mobile number and then her home phone number :)
Some how, on that day I am unable to meet the course co-ordinaror. In the mean time she meets the Head of Department (HOD) and tells him that there is this other teacher(me) with which her class is colliding.
The HOD is totally at loss in identifying the other math teacher and finally tells her not to alter her time table.
The next day...I was in another class when the math teacher rings me up on my mobile phone. Since I am in class I am unable to attend it. Once the class was over, I returned the call.
Math Teacher: I called you but you didn't pick up.
Me: I was in class. ( She thought I was teaching the class. )
Math teacher: Sir, I met the HOD, my schedule cannot be revised.
I wondered why she was calling me 'Sir'. Certainly, I have not been knighted. At this point,I realize that she had mistaken me for a math teacher!
Me: Mam, I am not a staff but a student.
She doesn't say another word for the next 5 seconds and then she hangs up.
I call her two minutes later.
me: I am a student, I would like to join the course you are teaching.
Math teacher: Alright, you can join.
Later she told that she was in a hurry that she misunderstood me for a math teacher.
A student mistaking a student for a teacher, quite possible. A teacher mistaking a student for a teacher :-))
The discrete math class is to start at 11:20 A.M but at that time, the hall is occupied by the previous class and the teacher is still teaching. Another ten minutes pass, she is still on with her class. I decided to find out what's taking her so long. I go ahead and knock on the door.
Math Teacher: Yes?
Me: Could you please come out? I would like to have a word with you.
She comes out.
Math teacher: What do you want?
Me: Mam, the math class is at 11:20 A.M?
Math teacher: Sorry, but the time table was revised today, I had started the math
class at 10:30
me: Okay, thank you.
I wait outside till she finishes her class, she finally comes out and sees me waiting. I take out a piece of paper on which I had written my timetable and told her that my math class was colliding with some other class since she had revised the time table.
She thinks, it is my teaching time table!
So, she decides to take me to the course co-ordinator to sort out the time table,
another faculty in charge of time table's. However, the co-ordiantor was not at desk.
Math teacher: Do this, talk with co-ordinator and call me.
She first gives me her mobile number and then her home phone number :)
Some how, on that day I am unable to meet the course co-ordinaror. In the mean time she meets the Head of Department (HOD) and tells him that there is this other teacher(me) with which her class is colliding.
The HOD is totally at loss in identifying the other math teacher and finally tells her not to alter her time table.
The next day...I was in another class when the math teacher rings me up on my mobile phone. Since I am in class I am unable to attend it. Once the class was over, I returned the call.
Math Teacher: I called you but you didn't pick up.
Me: I was in class. ( She thought I was teaching the class. )
Math teacher: Sir, I met the HOD, my schedule cannot be revised.
I wondered why she was calling me 'Sir'. Certainly, I have not been knighted. At this point,I realize that she had mistaken me for a math teacher!
Me: Mam, I am not a staff but a student.
She doesn't say another word for the next 5 seconds and then she hangs up.
I call her two minutes later.
me: I am a student, I would like to join the course you are teaching.
Math teacher: Alright, you can join.
Later she told that she was in a hurry that she misunderstood me for a math teacher.
A student mistaking a student for a teacher, quite possible. A teacher mistaking a student for a teacher :-))
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