Monthly Archives: September 2005

Me Flattered

There is a blog named after me( and Dougal). Imagine my surprise when that turned up in a random search. Thank you, Amalia, for making a bored graduate student’s life bright for a moment

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The Night So Empty

It is so unbelievably silent outside. I am at the department, it is late in the night, but not too late. Yet another Friday night spent wrangling with MS Word. I hate Fridays, unlike most other people, since it is … Continue reading

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High Maintenance Existence

Am I the only one who thinks eating is a chore? I have to drag myself to subway in the afternoon, and in the evening, have to put up with eating – something I try to put off as much … Continue reading

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Nice Gesture from another Student

Some lucky guy was writing his Master’s thesis on something related to Blogging. He’d sent me a mail a while ago, and requested me to complete it. I did, for some reason. So now James has graduated, and was kind … Continue reading

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A different kind of Sharma

The “rock” star. If you are wondering, like I did about whether there really are Sharmas in America, other than the kind that walk off of planes, it looks like the family was given their surname (last name) by a … Continue reading

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When the Keyboards Talk

So someone has written a paper on how to listen to someone typing on a keyboard and convert that to the text that was typed. I read about at freedom to tinker, via Podz. The concept being that if you … Continue reading

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Trivia – Dubrovnik

[[Dubrovnik]], or “Ragusa” as it was formerly known is a city by the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. It has the moniker, “Pearl of the Adriatic. Certainly a place I wouldn’t mind visiting on a long vacation (I should really keep … Continue reading

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links for 2005-09-12

Windows Key Finder Finds the Product Registration Key for Windows – in case you forget it. (tags: windows utilities software microsoft free)

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kennedy

kennedy Originally uploaded by Carthik. For posterity – this is the cover under which I was born (like one talks about the “Star” or “Sun Sign” one was born under)… Question: was Ted Kennedy the first senator to have a … Continue reading

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The POPULATION problem

The POPULATION problem Originally uploaded by Throat Wobbler Mangrove. Found this from Sameer’s Blog. Click through and see the other pictures in the same set on Flickr – fascinating!

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