the higher you are, the harder you fall. (and no, this has nothing to do with nakheel’s bonds or the restructuring of dubai world)
Monthly Archives: November 2009
serious science question
November 30, 2009 – 4:41 am
how many shades of gray can the human eye detect? it was a brilliant thought that occurred to me while watching a b/w flick. to build on it… and how many colours in all? i dont mean the gradient plane. how many individual variants of colours does the human eye recognize?
because when it rains it f*ckin’ pours
November 27, 2009 – 8:25 am
i’ll take some of that lsd you are on.
aw shucks!
November 25, 2009 – 9:22 am
last happy thought for the day, promise. i was throwing a cylinder last night and the chick who comes in to “supervise” me, got up from her wheel and came to watch me work. as i finished the lip of the piece, she goes: “i dont think even any of the instructors here can throw [...]
the language true love speaks
November 25, 2009 – 2:24 am
T2 should be a party planner, i kid ye not. she’s that brilliant at management and details and reading her audience. she was telling me about another booking we’re making and went off saying: “yes but this place has mandatory hotel transfers and bed tax… and do you want dinner included…” and i was like… [...]
WTF #11
November 23, 2009 – 4:09 am
“you are the only woman i know who will convince a guy why marrying you is a bad idea” uh. well. yeah. maybe. kinda. whatever.
conversations that make my day…
November 22, 2009 – 8:27 am
D: werent you getting that done for us? what happened? me: yeah, well… im hoping D2 will do it… D: what! D2 is counting on you… and you are counting on him? me: heh… infinite loop – circular reference*…! D: infinite loop by definition is circular… me: hahaha! redundancy check! *circular errors are my most [...]
if someone quotes “Ghost” at me one more time, i promise i will turn them into one.
November 19, 2009 – 10:15 am
to answer your question about what sort of ”pottery” i did (once upon a december). ive been posting images on this blog time and time again. see here, here and here. Or dont see anywhere, and i will upload the pictures for you here. sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Looking back sitting at this point in time, i realise [...]
witch hunting season
November 19, 2009 – 2:34 am
i saw this op-ed in forbes yesterday, and thought, another one of those ill-conceived, poorly researched, myopic, white-supremacist-islamophobic stories… and forgot about it by the evening. the dude says: Radical Islamists advance fundamental Shari’a law, a system predicated on the forced imposition of virtue according to the Quran. The strength and representation of these radical [...]
monkey see, monkey do… monkey told to see but not do.
November 18, 2009 – 2:14 am
day 1: Obama bans release of photos showing prisoner abuse in Iraq day 2: Obama hits out at China’s censorship I want to give Obama the “WTF 2009” award. and the ones for 2010, 2011, 2012 too. might as well get it over with in one go. *disclaimer: im really sorry for going all political [...]
Job enrichment
November 17, 2009 – 5:48 am
not to be confused with job enlargement. today’s lunch order: 1 gol gappay (paani puri) – wealth management unit 1 bun kebab – marketing unit 2 papri chaat – investment banking unit, wealth management unit 2 chicken tikka rolls – risk management, investment banking unit 7 chicken biryani – one for Lenovo IT guy who [...]
the price of everything
November 15, 2009 – 5:55 am
i absotively LOVE useless statistical relationships and correlations that have no relation between two totally random variables. Like this one. rock music quality vs. US oil production: clearly, oil can be blamed for a lot more than just wars. in other news, the dutch govt has made a great decision which i wholeheartedly support. not [...]
Yes He Can… (Call of Duty 4)
November 14, 2009 – 2:07 pm
Since taking office, President Obama has shown a quiet predilection for drone warfare. He’s been vacuuming up targets. There are two programs in operation: a publicly acknowledged military one in Iraq and Afghanistan and a covert C.I.A. program targeting terror suspects in countries including Pakistan. As Jane Mayer notes… in The New Yorker, “The intelligence [...]