No more slouching
Got myself one of those chairs with back support; No more back aches.

Having said that color vision test are done usually using patterns made of minor color variation in disks of spots I approached google to make sure.

And I got this shit. Try it if you dont mind being scared with those scary/faces that pop up in those find the 3 difference kinda scary stuff. It checks for color vision but it does check a bit more of some thing else
in the last plate.

Trying to shake it off. I guess too much blood in those gory/scary faces that appear in that is the thing that scares me. There are some which just look like mutated beings; I am kinda used to them from the games. But blood, nope.
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Rain.

I almost got stuck at office today. Non stop rain all day. Out of office at 6:00 but the road goes down into water both ways. Got my bike half deep in water. Pulled over before the engine's gurgling becomes silence. Took a left turn to get out of the mess. Got out of the mess and around 1.5 hours later got home. Found some greenery on the silencer and foot rest from the 'pulling over 'that I did.

Rains are scary. Check this out:
- posted by Anil @ 10:21 AM 1 comments

 
Mouth Shut
Under the influence of ESR's statement about shutting up if one does not have anything to say. Can't dare to look at a couple of blogs down.

Got my hcoop account. Yay !
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Randi's challnge
Its been a week since I checked my yahoo mail. Prasad had mailed me on ideas of putting in someone to prove that homeopathy is indeed a practice medicin.. er.. um.. (I feel like the hobbits when Bilbo said "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."). Anyways here is his mail:

We all know that the government of India is patronizing alternative systems of medicne like homeopathy. But do you know that if one could scientifically prove the efficacy of a homeopathic drug he could win Rupees 44 crores (One Million US Dollar). The Million Dollar Challenge by JREF includes homeopathy as paranormal. If you know any person who you think could prove that homeopathy is indeed a system of medicne please inform him about this challenge. Even if he is not interested in crores of rupees it will atleast keep the anti-homeopaths mouth shut. I've tried in consulting a few 'well known' homeopaths at our area, but they said they had no time to spare for the test :)) They all say that hundreds of people consult us daily and it is the proof that the system works!!!

For details about the challenge visit http://randi.org/research/index.html

The Challenge started in 1964. Though there were thousands of applicants none of them could succeed even the priliminary test.

One Mr. Vanshi from India is into the fray now. The JREF would accept a protocol that simply demonstrated that Mr. Vanshi can tell the difference between a homeopathic solution and a non-Homeopathic solution. If he can do this, he would be the first person EVER to pass the JREF Paranormal Challenge preliminary test.

Regards
Prasad

I did not really get the claim that JREF has in its logs. But I almost figure out that its enough to prove that a solution is homepathic (WTF?). I think I lost it (the actual claim involved here).

Raju ? He appears in my head again.
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Scrupulosity
This has gotten things going.
- posted by Anil @ 10:30 AM 0 comments

 
Robot's Soapbox and Railway scare.
Just read the entry on 'when to leave the job' (mirrored here) by Cristopher wilson. Been there done that ? A handful of my ex-colleagues would agree. I guess the cubicle part needs to be scaled down a bit here (in India) considering the idea behind the usual software-coolie jobs here.

Finally this is in the news. It sure gave me lot of un-comfortable minutes (well actually more than that). I am really bad with the 'gray*' part of life. I guess I've gotta learn it. Gray as opposed to black and white and not gray hair part of life. In malayalam 'Vett onnu thundam randu alla karyangal' a.k.a things don't necessarily follow logic a.k.a one would be required to drop ones philosophy for survival.

I can (Almost) hear Raju telling me that its again the extent yourself you are willing to compromise for the philosphy you live for ('live' for). When one lives for more than one thing things are complicated.

I suggest you not think of asking me what my philosphy is. I think you might not like the
answer. Perhaps you want to know about it more now. Actually I dont have the head to have
any firm philosophical (blogger: oxy[moron] detected) standing ground. But then is that not
an indication that eye (well, *ahem* really wanted to avoid using... you know... the .... letter before J) can really think.

Just skimmed and found like 8 lines with 'I' in them, high time I (*bummer*) got married, eh ?

So what do chr(0x49) do about the whole 'mugging-software-eng^H^H^Hcoolie' thingamajig aroudn in bangalore ? Perhaps I should stop using cell-phones, atm cards, stop carrying money.
Just thought of finger print thingy for everything... Goodnes. The muggers would then be after
your fingers ! Finger print ID ? No thanks. You must be thinking I am a scared cat. chr(0x49) think chr(0x49) am.

You must be thinking chr(0x49) must be doing something better than thinking about what you must be thinking. chr(0x49) think you are right. Bye.
- posted by Anil @ 9:21 AM 0 comments

 
Foo Bar
Did not have any subject, so, guess what, fu-bar.

Had one of my colleages 'comment-in-person' about the description of the blog. He opines that 'being afraid of change' is a bad thing to say about myself in the context of applying for any position in the current /watchamaycallit/ industry. Frankly I've been afraid of frankly talking but then its classically/by birth something to be afraid of. Quite frankly again, I have seen things work for me when I am truthful than when I try to twist things. I guess I am sticking with it. This reminds me of getting caught the first day I skipped my homework in primary school.

I got a gift from Anil - an OCC t-shirt. [I think its mine. any ways its nice and there is no turning back]. Also met Raju (and had one of those sessions - a small one though, I kinda relish it - It puts my head in trace mode ? debug mode or something) and of-course Pavinsh Joseph who is in charge of the situation of the old application (I was working in) at IBM.

Whatever.
[FYI, that 'whatever' wasn't really one of those 'whatever's that you hear while people ease themselves off the burden of thought/guilt/whatever. I mean its quite heavy].
- posted by Anil @ 11:04 AM 0 comments