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Thursday, February 4. 2010

casio's g-shock watch

New entry at my site - a review for my watch, Casio's G-Shock MT-G Atomic Tough Solar Watch, which I love. Read more here

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Friday, January 29. 2010

I had a very weird dream tonight. I saw that I was a space traveller and we came in contact with aliens who could live in 17 dimensions. These aliens did not try to kill us off, but they made us humans well aware of the inadequacies of living in "just" 3 dimensions. These guys looked similar to humans, but I do not remember what other things they could see that we could not.

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Monday, January 25. 2010

realization

I arranged my closet and I found out that I have more shirts than t-shirts. Luckily, I have only one pair of pants and 6 pairs of jeans, so I am not handing back my geek badge anytime soon

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Thursday, January 21. 2010

Why did Snape ask Harry to look at him

The most touching scene in the Harry Potter books is the death of Snape.

"Look…at…me…" Snape whispered.
The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish

Snape wanted to look into Harry's eyes because Harry had Lily's eyes,the woman he's loved in life and in death. I was lucky to get this the first time I had read the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows" book and with his dying wish, I was able to better appreciate Snape's bravery and his character.

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Sunday, January 3. 2010

Higher Order Perl

I am in love with the book Higher-Order Perl, especially the technique in the Chapter 2: Dispatch Tables.

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Wednesday, December 30. 2009

word of the day: proscribe

Proscribe: to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.

This word seems closely related to the word Prescribe, but I could not find any source which would mark proscribe as the antonym of proscribe.

Posted by Raj Shekhar in geek stuff, today at 17:40 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Saturday, December 5. 2009

Sliders

This is a recommendation for my fellow geeks who enjoy sci-fi series. You should check out Sliders. The premise of the story is that a college genius invents a machine that gives him the ability to travel between dimensions. There are infinite number of worlds and there are an infinite number of story-lines to go with it. With his friend Wade Wells and Professor Arturo, Quinn (the college genius) decide to take a spin round the universe and due to some accidents, they are not able to get back to their home.

We see universes where alternate outcomes to world changing events have happened and things are different from what they are "back home". The pilot episode deals with the possibility where communist ideology has won the cold war.

One of the episodes that I enjoyed was "Eggheads". This is a world where intellect is prized and nerds are heroes. You have billboard of Einstein modeling for Gap in khakis, and a sports guide written by Stephen Hawking. The best part of this episode were the "bad guys", who threatened using Latin phrases!

I am still on Season 2 (netflix disk 1). Go check it out.

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