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OCD Spice

November 4, 2008 - 3:53 pm

To top my OCD; http://digg.com/health/Ewww_GROSS

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The whole coconut.

November 3, 2008 - 9:26 am

I felt like the dog in “പട്ടിക്ക് മുഴുവന്‍ തെങ കിട്ടിയതു പോലെ” (a.k.a the mallu proverb which goes: the canine which had whole coconut; and, well did not do well in ‘having’ it). Bought a copy of Splinter Cell : Double agent from a book shop near my house for 300 bucks and I’ve to wait till I get a copy of Windows XP to play it (I’ve got Windows 2K which was primarily meant for playing games; obviously not doing very good at it). The other ‘coconut’ I had was the real coconut; I had no way of cracking it open or grating it. All this when I am really hungry and badly want to make that chutney. Lot of equipment were tested in the exercise (ranging from car jack handle to swiss army knife).

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LCD display - selection PITA.

October 30, 2008 - 9:34 am

I’m dying to get an LCD display for my home - just that I can’t think of getting the ‘wide’ screen variety which every body is fond of now. Firstly you would find only 0 to 1 model of LCD display with 4:3 aspect offered by most companies and they are too expensive. Viewsonic VP2030b and Samsung 214T cost close to 24 and 50K (!!) respectively. Googling hints me viewsonic is half the price as it uses the conventional panel than those PVA panels (like 50-1lakh prof. LCD displays).

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From an Apple

October 27, 2008 - 3:38 pm

The second apple mac that I am laying my hands on. This one is a MacBook pro. First impression : Nice looks. Tried safari and this blog on it (thought it might look like what IE had done to the face in ACID test 2). To my relief its not bad. A couple of tricks (that put a smile on your face) that the mac does are the magnetic charging dongle (which acts like those freaky alien limbs which hauls itself to the host; though this one just snaps automagically) and ‘white’ screen flash technique for the webcam photograph. The bad part is that “ps -ef” command shouted about wrong option (ps ax works).

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F00d

October 16, 2008 - 9:43 pm

From the looks my cooking learning curve resembles the way I started using emacs. First couple of trials did not get me past the confidence wall (reminds me of first Matrix movie - no one makes the jump the first time). Looks like this time I’ve managed to sustain my interest in making my own dinner for more than 2 weeks. This looks promising.

Also there is this moment when you feel the doubts on your skill melting away, (just a bit faster than the word ‘melting’ might imply). Some of those for me are, the first “for” loop I wrote in BASIC, the first stretch of pedalling a bicycle without support, the first time motor bike gear shifting sounds like the ones I used to hear from other riders, first time you could jump from one position in a text file opened in emacs to another without realinsing it, first time the leg moves from the car throttle to brake just on reflex, and recently the first time my instinct tells me how much ‘masala’ to add to the thing I am making. There are a few people I’d remember always as they were with me on these occasions - Venkitachalam from Chinmaya Vidyalaya (the “for” loop), Sathish, my neighbour in Madras (cycling), Anil (another ‘Anil’ from IBM) - bike, Emacs - Alephnull, Bhagavan - Car (No, not that guy, well, that guy was there all the time but I am refering to a human - my colleague), Srinivas colleague (and friend, I suppose) - Cooking.

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