Archive for May, 2008
Arbit Esoteric PJ
Posted on May 27, 2008 - Filed Under blog
…about what a character in a Rudyard Kipling novel would say in reply to a question about what his name was, were someone to pose that query in Sanskrit.
As an addendum, a certain Simian also said that this was similar to asking James Watt his name.
Another Wikipedia Gem
Posted on May 27, 2008 - Filed Under blog
In what is another documented case of wikipedia vandalism, here is something funny that I chanced upon while checking out the wiki page for Solan, a picturesque town in Himachal Pradesh that my family and I had visited when I was in class 7.
That visit seems like a gazillion years ago, but the fond [...]
Playing by the Book
Posted on May 27, 2008 - Filed Under blog
A school kid has had many a trick to rid himself of the ennui that filled up the space between two consecutive rings of the bell that signified the time period that comprised of a boring class. Of course, not all classes in school were dull and dreary, as the kid found out later on [...]
Read More..>>Barney’s Blog
Posted on May 23, 2008 - Filed Under blog
I’ve previously LJ-ed about how I really like ‘How I Met Your Mother’, the hit sitcom where I somehow really relate to the protagonist in more ways than I’d like.
The references and the following for that serial is fast catching up as I see more and more people I know following it, and I just [...]
IRCTC Rave
Posted on May 23, 2008 - Filed Under blog
Indian Railways online ticket booking rocks. I’ve always been a fan of train travelling since I’ve been a kid and ever since I moved to Bangalore, I have been reasonably frequent in travelling between the two cities, raking my train miles up.
However, the one thing I despise is to stand in the long queue that [...]
Podcasts Ahoy!
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under blog
After much ranting on about how iTunes doesn’t support manual management of content on the ipods post the release of version 7.0 and onwards, words that I ate when I found out that its not entirely true, I have now discovered another reason to love iTunes.
I recently discovered the iTunes store, and subsequently, podcasts, of [...]