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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
A little stopmotion
I was watching Coraline the other day and decided to do a bit of stopmotion animation myself. This is where you take a lot of photos, moving things little by little, and after a hell lot of time and a severe backache, run them quickly one after each other and watch your 3 hours getting [...]
Genealogy
I have been wanting to trace my family history for a long long time now. The reason for this is as follows: I am perfectly aware that there is no such thing as the golden age of humanity, and neither was there ever an innocent generation devoid of all malice and hardship. Human struggle and [...]
Haircut et. al.
Haircut is one of those things which never seems to have been done well. It's like a photograph which inadvertently makes you wonder what the reason was for your dumb expression. You always feel that something in the photo is not quite right and things could have been a whole lot better if only you [...]
Boston
I spent this past weekend roaming around the streets of that beautiful city Boston. Pavan, Ravi, Tanmay, and Amitesh wanted to meet as part of our now annual ritual and the general consensus was about meeting up for some outdoorsy activity. But I had never seen Boston and had heard so much about it from [...]
Soccer and Cricket
I have been following the soccer world cup with a certain degree of regularity over the last few days. Now, I have never been as ardent a fan of soccer as a lot of my friends have been but I have been sucked into the maelstrom by the waves of passion which must necessarily exist [...]
Gulf Oil Spill
It has been 50 days since the Gulf oil spill started and the news media and the internet have since then been inundated, often confusingly, with various estimates of the amount of oil leaking into the ocean every day. We heard 1000 barrels in the beginning, then 5000, then 12000-25000. I was watching CNN today [...]
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Neutron stars, sugar cubes, and squeezed humans
The wikipedia article on Neutron star says the following, 'The density of a neutron star is approximately equivalent to the mass of the entire human population compressed to the size of a sugar cube.' I hope we can all agree that whoever came up with the idea of measuring the density of stars in the [...]
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Feynman
If I could have one wish fulfilled, listening to this man in person would be at the top of the list. Above world peace and unlimited chocolates!
Bishop's gambit
Throughout the last 4 years I have been fortunate enough to have had the company of friends who are not only smart people but have an intelligent and curious outlook towards the world. I think that it is relatively easy to be good at something, anything if only you start early enough and work relentlessly [...]