My new pets
I own this
Because they gifted me this.
My two new sweet buddies from this Boston Visit. Bhanu Priya ( or call her Bhanu’s home made/Aunty/) and Sizzling Suresh (Urf Champ)
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Separated at Birth ?
Have you ever been told that you are a look-alike of so and so… ?
Recently, one of my colleagues told me that I look like Kumara Sangakkara, and some time back I remember some stranger telling me that I resemble Sanjay Manjrekar.
So I placed all of us next to each other. Do we really look like brothers separated at Birth ? Notice, both references are cricketing personalities and I don’t have a cricketing gene.
Update :
After that comment from Arvind, I am pasting Javagal Srinath into the frame.
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Arvind
Dude! You resemble Javagal Srinath to me:-)
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admin
Hehe. Javagal. Never thought about this connection. Yet another cricketer!
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Manya Soman
Hey….You dont seem to resemble anyone of them!…Forget the cricketing gene! You are no where close to it
hehehhelol….I have known you for ages now….nah…we need to find a better resemblance for u! -
Arvind
Oh Noes! It’s teh Noes!!
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Vinton Cerf, Co-founder, Internet
Vincent Cerf’
Co-founder, Internet.What a designation !!!
Hearing from the person who co-founded internet, an amazing experience.
Internet is 30 odd years old. Only the old man can appreciate how his baby has grown and leaping forward.
He has seen the days when Infrastructure of the internet was getting designed. Now I guess that space is fairly well established and matured.
His interest is in Application space of the internet which excites the end users.Infrastructure and Application. I never looked at internet as two entities.
This generation has only seen the post-browser led internet. So we don’t think much about the work which has gone in architecting the network.Internet will always be a work in progress. As he pointed there are still plenty of concern areas to work on.
For eg: Human errors in routing table, Embedding security at the Processor level, etcFew lines I captured from his talk…
- In future we might have a phenomenon, which might be completely from the internet we see today based quantum mechanics.
- There’s more power in sharing of the information than in information.
- In spite of having enormous computing resources internet might never have a consciousness like a human brain.Talks like this tell me to stop, stay and think about things around me.
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Paulgraham’s Essays
I’m in love with this man’s writing. Simple and a compelling read.
Reason why it makes such a pleasure reading is…it provokes you to think.
Think. Unconventional.
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
I read the review of this book couple of days back.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.I faintly remember the exact words which appealed me in the review.
I did a look up on the net.
This is what sums up the theme of the book in Dawkin’s words.
“I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise.
It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known.
It subverts science and saps the intellect”debauch : Corrupt morally
subvert : Destroy completelySurely my next buy.
There are two other titles, not so serious reading, by Scott adams.
God’s Debris and The Religion War-
braga
funny , I was going through your book section and i noticed that you have read “the emerging mind ” and yet to read “the god delusion” . I read those two books in the reverse order.both are good reads.ramakrishna provides scientific debth , as for god delusion i have never read any other book with so much of science and logic from different fields. hope you enjoy reading it.
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Pleasure of finding things out – Feynman
My blog sub titles does contain this name Richard Feynman. But I never blogged about this personality.
I have read the most popular “Surely You are Joking Mr.Feynman”. That’s when I fell I completely in love with this Mr.
Two reasons why I love him.
He loves physics. He is curious about the world.Mahesh Murthy,had an article in businessworld, year back or so…
I still remember those words.
Feynman could teach brazilians how to play drums, had derived a theorem to date a woman and also conceptualized Quantum Electro Dynamics.I believe that learning, like keeping up health is a never ending process.
More you learn, more you would want to know even more…and so forth.Never knew that there’s a video, so well made when he was alive.
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Kaviraj
I was flipping kannada cine news this morning. The moment i saw this picture it flashed.
We’re in the same college and benchmates. Must have been there together for three months at sahyadri college, shimoga.
This guy, if am correct, joined microbiology division later. And I moved onto engineering college.Kaviraj, is a well known name is kannada film industry and read that he’s given good lyrics to few of the recent films.
Don’t know if he recognises me anymore…
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How to Do What You Love
Paul Graham never ceases to bowl you out with his writing.
here’s January piece on
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am sure you’ll like the simplicity of the whole thing here….m
It feels happy when you read something insightful….
http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
In a specialized society, most of the things you need, you can’t make for yourself. If you want a potato or a pencil or a place to live, you have to get it from someone else.
How do you get the person who grows the potatoes to give you some? By giving him something he wants in return. But you can’t get very far by trading things directly with the people who need them. If you make violins, and none of the local farmers wants one, how will you eat?
The solution societies find, as they get more specialized, is to make the trade into a two-step process. Instead of trading violins directly for potatoes, you trade violins for, say, silver, which you can then trade again for anything else you need. The intermediate stuff– the medium of exchange– can be anything that’s rare and portable.
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GOD’s Debris is available in pdf now
I was after this book some time back. Why I was so desperate ?
Reason 1. It’s by Scott Adams ( Creator of Dilbert )
Reason 2. it’s such a strange little piece of work and you’ll find it difficult to categorize as fiction or non-fiction, religion or science fiction or philosophyDownload your own pdf copy of my book, God’s Debris:
http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/
Jules, 
Niveditha and 3 others are discussing. 
Arvind, 
Manya Soman, and 
braga is discussing. 
Arvind 4:13 AM on November 14, 2008 Permalink
You’re lucky man! But, what’re you gonna do with 5 shuffles? Do mail me one, if you have surplus. Lucky Guy
Bhanu priya 7:02 AM on November 14, 2008 Permalink
Hey ATM house keeping!!! Missing your service here man.
One more thing i miss ur SLOW SLOW SLOW drive.
Njoy there.
A T M 9:50 AM on November 14, 2008 Permalink
Arvind, you need to find a new nick man. Everyone thinks that I am commenting on my own post. By the way, I just have single colored shuffle. The left most.
suresh 2:33 PM on November 14, 2008 Permalink
hey arvind
Wow i like the idea of posting the IPOD pic.. I miss YOU in music gatherings and technology discussions dude..
Infact we both got a very sensible and Techno Geek frnd ..
way to go
Cheers
Suresh
Arv_Narin 4:56 AM on November 15, 2008 Permalink
New Nick?! Done!!
Lucky Guy
Niveditha 9:24 PM on November 16, 2008 Permalink
is she the same Bhanu of Advertising class!?she in Boston!??
A T M 9:57 PM on November 16, 2008 Permalink
illa. not advertising Bhanu. She’s Bhanu Priya, new joinee at Chelmsford.
Jules 5:23 PM on November 17, 2008 Permalink
Hey Arvind,
I’m a college kid writing a paper on the process of adjusting from Indian culture to American culture, and your blog has been really helpful for me. So I was thinking that I’d like to post my interview questions here in your comments, so that you and everyone who looks at your blog could post answers. No one needs to identify themselves of say anything personal, but if you see this, and the questions are relevant to you, your Interview questions
1. What did you have to adjust to?
2. What is your impression of Indians versus Americans on an emotional level? Moral?
3. What do you consider the “weirdest” thing about American culture?
4. Do you find Americans or American culture less warm/friendly than Indian culture?
5. Have you encountered any racism? How has it affected you?
6. Do you find yourself identifying more or spending more time with other Indians than with native-born Americans? Why or why not?
7. Did you always expect to come to America for school? How long do you plan to stay?
8. What was your knowledge of English before coming to the US? Have you had problems with the language?
9. Are the standards for your schoolwork different? Do Americans view academia differently?
10. What is your impression of food and eating habits in the US?
answers would be extremely helpful! thank you so much!
-jules (questions posted below)