A painting coming to life
Fall colors in Vermont were beautiful. More to come soon.
Like this:
Country road, take me home
A very good song by the same name can be found here
The Indian Sweet Trick
This event took place in my lab a few months ago. You may have heard of the Indian rope trick. My grad school lab mate coined a new one : “The Indian sweet trick”.
Definition : Indian sweet trick – Using sweets from India in tricking a person to forget things
Here’s the story behind it. My lab mate, lets call him X, came into the lab to get some coffee and a printout. One of us who had just returned from India offered some Indian sweets to X. With sweets in sight X forgot everything and ended up talking about sweets! Fifteen minutes later, X walked out with a handful of sweets ! Next day, X comes in with the same purpose and was offered some more sweets. X goes to coin “Don’t pull the ‘Indian sweet trick’ on me again” !
Just another a day in a grad school research lab ! 
Social Activists, why do you hate Modi, the administrator ?
I am not going write about Gujarat’s development here. It is a well known fact that Gujarat and Bihar are the two states, making rapid strides in terms of development and good administration. Rest of the country seems to be caught up into political corruptions and scams. Yet it seems to be a cardinal sin to praise the developmental and administrative efforts of Narendra Modi , the chief minister of Gujarat. Anna Hazare, Deoband VC Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi and others have faced the ire of social activists for praising the administration of Narendra Modi. If something is good, then what’s the harm in praising it ? People are not praising Modi’s role in the 2002 roits, rather they are praising the development and progress he bought about in the state in the past nine years. While Modi’s past remains questionable, how long that one event should be used to judge Modi ? Shouldn’t his more recent past and the present be a judging factor ?
But say what you want to, these so called “social secular activists” love to spew venom about Modi. They seem can’t get over 2002. It seems as if they want to keep Modi confined to Gujarat. Its time that these activists start differentiating between Modi the administrator that has been around post riots from Modi, the chief minister during the riots.
Waiting for Spring
Oh Spring where are you ? When will the green replace the white ? When will we see kids instead of empty slides ?
Ganpati Bappa Morya !
Ganpati Bappa Morya ! May the lord bring you lots of joy in the new year ! 
Experimenting with Aperture priority on Canon SX120 IS. This one turned out to be one of the better ones. I am still to get a handle of the Aperture Priority. It will be also interesting how it will effected when I tweak the other settings along with the Aperture Priority.
From tables to 5 star linked data
I recently made a blog post about my research in interpreting information from tables and spreadsheets on our research group Ebiquity’s website. You can read that here. It talks about the recent rating scheme for datasets that Sir Tim Berners-Lee came up with and our research pursuits in generating “5 star linked data”.
Unsung Heroes
Stone Cold Steve Austin, arguably the greatest wrestling superstar, revolutionized the wrestling industry in the mid nineties. People would tune into Monday Night RAW every week just to see what Steve Austin was going to do. His “feud” with Vince McMahon remains one of the most popular “events” in the wrestling history. While we must give due credit to Austin for putting up amazing performance and entertaining us all these years, we often forget an important set of people who have played a vital role in the wrestling industry.
Most of us know that the wrestling is an entertainment show. While the wrestling and injuries are real, the story lines are scripted. WWE and all other wrestling companies have script writers, who write the story that plays out on the screen between the various wrestlers. We always appreciate how good the wrestling was, how good the performance was, but we never really appreciate the people and the brain behind all this. They are the unsung heroes who never get the credit that they deserve. Without them there wouldn’t have been the Austin – McMahon feud, the Austin – Rock rivalry, the character of the Undertaker and his awesome Wrestlemania run, the great and classic matches we have seen over the years.
This holiday season, lets stand up and applaud these guys, with whom there wouldn’t have been a successful WWE – the writers – the unsung heroes !
Tendulkar’s 14000
Sachin Tendulkar achieved yet another milestone when he completed 14,000 runs in test cricket. The live commentary on Cricinfo pretty much sums it up !
26.4 – Hauritz to Tendulkar, FOUR, 51.5 mph, Drum rolls…! The crowd have gone mad in joy. Tendulkar backs away to play a crunchy cut shot through cover point. The team-mates stand up in the pavilion. Ricky Ponting applauds him. Tendulkar raises his bat in the air. The crowd keep cheering him on. A nice moment for this little big man. 14,000 Test runs. He stands alone in that zone. Gavakar is on air and he can’t hide his joy. I remember SMG’s 10,000th run. he had got it with a lovely late cut and he took his floppy hat off when he set for that run. Nostalgia. Back to the present moment- Tendulkar has brought his special landmark with a cut shot
