Fun
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Kill Bill....
's Browser?!?
9:42 AM
This is pretty funny. Read the 13 reasons to switch from IE to Firefox.
Also check out the Explorer Destroyer website. I might put their code on this page.
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Close Encounters of the Unwanted Kind!
12:36 PM
In case you didn't know, Nature publishes short SciFi under the heading
Futures in in every issue (look at the bottom of the ToC). This week's
Future - MAXO
signals is particularly funny.
See here
for more Futures (free, I think). And there's one
by Clarke published in '99
Thursday, August 11, 2005
The Physics of Everyday Life
5:13 PM
Found this fantastic page today: How
Things Work It's maintained by a physics professor in the University
of Virginia. Do check it out.
You can no longer have your own
questions answered, at least not for free, but the ones that are already
on the page should cover whatever you want to ask ;)
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Hey Steve,
11:29 AM
sign up here!
Read
about the Project
Steve. (more links here)
On
a related note, see these comic strips: 1,
2.
(Thanks, Sam!); and of course, thanks to Dubya
for inspiring this post. :-|
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Calling all smartasses!
8:54 PM/. posting this story (Microsoft is working with Ford towards car that can't crash) was just an invitation for smartass comments! Quite a few good jokes in there...
- ChinmaySaturday, April 16, 2005
GoogleMaps Rocks!
4:24 PM
I knew somebody had to have searched for Area 51 on Google maps, and there
are quite
a few! Here's the satellite
image (pan around to see the runways and the buildings...) of the Groom
Lake Facility. Interestingly, if you switch to the maps view, a
big swath is blanked out
The more interesting thing was,
however, looking at the site of the Nuclear
Testing program which is close by (in the blanked out area on the map)
Here's a wide
area view and a close
up shot with mountains, where it's more easily seen that the circles
are craters and not mounds.
Without further ado, I give you Google
Siteseeing! Enjoy!
Oh, and have you checked out the White
House? (Notice that the tops of the buildings are blanked out in the
photo too!)
Monday, April 11, 2005
The GhostMachine
7:18 PM
Took part in a MRI brain imaging study here at Vanderbilt.
Well...
it's as we suspected....
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| X marks the spot | Notice the rich blood flow | That's a wierd shaped head*! |
*The proprtion of my frontal lobe (higer cognitive functions!) to the parietal lobe (sensory perception, language, spacial visualization) to the occipital lobe (visual perception, shape recognition) seems to be off a bit. Of course, I am no brain scientist ;), and everything seems to be going well, so I'm not going to worry...
Here are[shockwave] a few pages about the [more shockwave] human brain . . . - Chinmay
Friday, March 25, 2005
Do try this at home!
6:38 PM
Howazzat!
Used to be that google just showed the URL... but now there's
some excerpt too... Now I suppose I should put in some metatags and get my
nanotechnology connection out there... and, of course, do some good research
too! :)
On a related note, we just sent off a big research funding
proposal to the NIH, which we were working on for the past month or so...
so perhaps I'll blog more now. or not.
Monday, March 21, 2005
HGG trailer
8:20 PM
Do watch the latest trailer for the Hitchhiker's... movie. It's pretty much the best trailer I've ever seen.
- ChinmayFriday, February 18, 2005
A 1000 Mb and beer?
12:11 PM
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Nice! :>
9:19 PM
Monday, November 29, 2004
Things even grad students should be thankful for
2:36 PM
Thursday, November 11, 2004
WTH!!!
3:26 PM
Who the heck is this guy? [Search the page for chinmay]
... Well at least he seems to be smart...
BTW, sokgraphs [NYTimes] are cool [pdf]!
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Stock Market
12:57 PM
So I made up a mock portfolio using the portfolio tracker on Yahoo! India Finance and it (the portfolio) goes up 6% in as many days! Beginner's luck huh? Too bad I blew it on a mock portfolio!
Meanwhile, if you want to learn about investing in the stock market, the Sharekhan School is a great place to start. If you want the articles on the site in a collected form, drop me a line.
Monday, October 04, 2004
My Life
4:20 PM
For the last couple of days I was thinking about the piece below. I guess it could be passed off as standup comedy, provided I'm in a bar full of drunken graduate students... [I've also heard it helps if you hand out pot sometime before you begin]
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Being a graduate student not taking any courses, my schedule is pretty flexible these days. Consequently, I'm now on Hawaii time. Living in Central, that makes my day a little ... different. When I wander into the lab, all fired up, my cheery "Good Morning!" is usually greeted with a dumb silence. If somebody is really pissed of, I manage getting a "Yeah whatever... Let's get this day over already..."
Later when I ask people if they want to go for lunch, most are about to drift off to the gym.. OK OK, to a beer bar... Once in a while, the Really Pissed off Guy will put on an Apu accent and say "ShoulDn't you be having youR afTeRnoon tea?"
Being a vegetarian, I'm in trouble when I haven't packed my lunch. The school cafeteria is out, of course (Hey, it's one of dem vegetarenians! Do we have any salad left?) and going to Hardee's and asking them to remove their precious Angus beef from the burger will probably just land me on the street.. ear first. So I just go to Taco Bell.
"... and Can I have beans in it instead of the beef please?"
'tap tap tap' .... "anything to drink?" [see! nobody cares!]
"A glass, I think I'll have some water" [No way I'm paying them a dollar for something that costs 3 cents!]
Once in a while, I switch to Subway. They actually delight in making a vegetarian sandwich! Considering most are run by Patels, I guess not a big deal. Still, they've saved my life more than once. Now you might wonder, if I like them so much, why don't I always go to Subway? Well.... the problem is, with my accent, there's an equal chance of getting either a Veggie sub, or getting my "clothing wedged between the buttocks"! I had to stop ordering the 12" subs, satisfying as they might be....
Anyway, don't think I'm vegetarian because I'm a sissy or anything! Far from it.... In fact, I've killed so many cockroaches in my apartment, I now have a cockroach version of Fatwa on my head. I have to spray myself with bug spray every night before going to sleep! And I hear now mice too [whom I've also killed, as you no doubt guessed] are teaming up with the roaches!
One day I'll fail to show up in the lab, and they'll just find a few bones scattered around my room...
"He was OK, I guess. Never talked to him much"
"Yeah.. but I hear he messed with the 'Roaches"
"gasp!"
Monday, September 27, 2004
A limerick
11:12 AM
There was once a thing called environment;
thoughtfulness was its primary requirement.
Then we discoverd Oil
and put an end to toil.
But also created a lot of disheartenment.
Choose one - Christian/Science
12:28 AM
Those looking to the US for technological innovation and scientific leadership in the 21st century [OK, enough with the 21st already, we need a new mirage to chase!] can stop now. It's not gonna happen. Trust me.
Via the pages of one of my friend's advisor* and his advisor* [--- more fun links here!] I reached this amazing page - Fellowship Baptist Creation Science Fair 2001.
Elementary school kids won prizes for such amusing projects like
"She tried to feed her uncle bananas, but he declined to eat them... conclusively shown that her uncle is no monkey"
and "how specifically complicated pine cones are and how they reveal God's design in nature."
Middle school children were far more scientific and demonstrated that
"life cannot come from non-life through natural processes - placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. No life evolved." 'Elementary', Holmes would have said!
High schoolers, of course, with their superior ability for rational thought, greater knowledge of the physical sciences, and apparently, greater ability for brutality, tackled such mind numbing concepts as "Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria" [Christians for Untreatable Diseases?];
"Maximal Packing Of Rodentia Kinds: A Feasibility Study" [No, you'll never guess what that means, our minds just don't operate that way] - "The Rodentia [using fancy words makes stuff more scientific of course; I know I've done it!] were placed in a cage with dimensions proportional to a section of the Ark.... Although there was little room left in the cage, all Rodentia were able to move just enough to ward off muscle atrophy."
and
"Thermodynamics Of Hell Fire" [Now that's something I can't even imagine how to start thinking about. By a long shot. My brain will probably crash if I try that!]
There are more links on this page that promise to show you "a wonderful scale model of a section of Noah's Ark made with popsicle sticks" [Yes, it's a little mentioned fact, but the whole sentence goes - 'On the seventh day He rested; and set up a popsicle factory.]
*Before you not visit the Advisors' pages and form a negative opinion of them, let me clarify that they are actually against this stuff too. They probably laughed as hard as I did too. So there is still hope, though perhaps only a fool's hope.
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Sunday, September 26, 2004
Hilarious!
2:43 PM
ThingsMyGirlfriendAndIHaveArguedAbout.com - It's a Loooooooooooong list, but very funny, [let me rephrase that - it's rip-roaringly, outragiously comical] and perhaps, if you take it the right way, educational. :)
Via BoingBoing
Edited on: Sunday, September 26, 2004 4:18 PM
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Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Victory Begins at Home
4:32 PM
Bill Maher's Victory Begins at Home is a mandatory viewing if you are interested in either of = Standup Comedy, America, Planet Earth
Do watch it.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Must See!!!
5:49 PM
I can't believe I've not mentioned this before! Red vs. Blue - The Blood Gulch Chronicles has finished its season 2, so it's about time you watch it. Of course, even the low resolution [which is pretty acceptable, by most standards] avi's total a respectable 796 MB [Trailer, Episodes 00-38, and Episode 28.5, plus 9 miscelaneous clips], so it's not a easy to get. You could buy the DVDs, but where's the fun in that?
The best way is probably to go to the archives pages and download the episodes.
Also, PhD Comics moves on... Slackenerny is now in 'The Thesis Zone', which will without doubt be rather funny...