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For quite some time I am being bombarded with TV infomercials on how to increase your height with bad actors, ugly photoshopped images and low credibility products. So, for all those people who think that increasing their height will resolve all their problems guess what, tall people have their own set of problems —
Male pattern baldness is starting to show its effect on me. Every morning I freak out looking in the mirror and wait for the inevitable. But then some days back I ran into this article on Mashable which completely changed my outlook.
Technology is changing at a frenetic pace today. Yesterday it was MySapce/Orkut today its Facebook, yesterday it was Internet Explorer today its Google Chrome, yesterday it was flash drive today its cloud, yesterday it was Sunday today its Monday (okay forgive me for the last one). So if you have used these really old technology and products then please don’t feel old.
1. Windows XP
I upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP (skipped Windows Me PHEW!) and immediately fell in love with its interface. The rounded corners at the window were a new thing back then. So were three themes of blue, olive green and silver. And the default wallpaper called Bliss was probably the most watched photograph in the world! The OS is still so popular that many software support it except for Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer 9.
Here’s my list of things that I loved, hated and didn’t understand about Barfii!. Caveat lector — there may be spoilers ahead so if you haven’t watched the movie then probably its good idea to stop here.
What I loved about it —
1. Ranbir Kapoor, he is simply brilliant. His antics to get Illeana D’Cruz to love him are heart warming. And when he realizes that they are not meant to be with each other his anger and sadness is palpable.
Some time back I saw a moth (at first I thought it was a butterfly) sitting at my door and snapped a picture of it. Nothing special, but it had huge & gorgeous eye spots on itself. This is what it looked like —
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I posted it on my Tumblr blog, and it got reblogged by diglettsinthesky identifying it as an unknown species which was photographed in Central America along with a photograph. You can also find the photograph on National Geographic Stock with picture ID 1246681. While I am no entomologist, but the picture on National Geographic does look quite similar to the one I snapped. Have you seen this kind of moth somewhere else?
Update 18 Oct 2012: Ram (see comments below) identified the moth as Walker’s Owl Moth. For a moment there I thought I had discovered an unknown species and would have my picture on NatGeo Magazine!
Image credits: The picture of moth belongs to me and is licensed same as this blog.
With advent of Google search box right inside browser, I rarely type http://www.google.com in my browser now. But there are some moments when I need to go to Google homepage —
1. To check if my internet connection is working or not. Its the best way. Trust me!
London Olympics 2012 have ended and India has given their best performance by far, in terms medal tally. Though there was no gold this time around but Sushil Kumar became the first Indian to bag two medals at Olympics, back to back. CHEERS! But for a country with 1+ billion population its still minuscule. So how can we increase our medal tally? Here are some of my suggestions –
1. Introduce cricket in Olympics. This won’t guarantee a medal but it sure would give hope lot of Indians (including me). The reason it won’t guarantee medal for us is that, in recent times, Team India’s track record outside Asia has been not so good, to say the least.
Beep… Beep… Beep…… Beep… Beep… Beep…… Trying to find snooze button on the alarm clock, Navin (that’s not me, notice the spelling) woke up at 05:30 AM. With drowsy eyes he went straight to the bathroom, barely avoiding the dining chair, to answer nature’s call. After completing all his regular activities like brushing his teeth, cleaning goop from his eyes and mucus from nose it suddenly dawned to him. This is my first day at my first job. There was a sudden surge of emotions and feelings within him like… “I need to go to bathroom again!”
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He put on his Peter England shirt and Max trousers which he had bought yesterday at the mall.
I am a big fan of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, if you are not then probably you should have a look at Batman & Robin. But is that a reason enough for you to see the movie again. Well read on for my reasons, wait… caveat lector. If you haven’t watched the movie then there are some spoilers ahead. Yes, now you can go ahead –
1. This time, I wasn’t paying for the tickets!
2. Previously I saw the movie in puny 70mm format. But this time, I saw it in gargantuan IMAX screen which was almost four storeys tall.
Image credits: The above image belongs to me. But no one’s stopping you to take your own picture 🙂
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