Posted on November 15, 2009 by K. M.
Several (most?) Hindus engage in ritual fasts to propitiate various gods. Apparantly (via my sister), when they travel abroad, they have a problem. They don’t know when to start or stop their fasts. What timezone do Hindu gods live in?
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by K. M.
From the latest post in Rico Mariani’s series on the history of Visual Studio
Debt is a great way to think about trade-offs: every time you make a choice that isn’t right in the long term, any short-cut, accumulates some debt. Any bug you choose to defer, that’s debt. Some debt you should write-off, that fix [...]
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Posted on September 27, 2009 by K. M.
I have been very busy at work lately and have fallen behind on my usual reading schedule but I took the time to read this piece by Prof Hornstein (via Ayn Rand in India). It is a good analysis of the significance of the two trials in ‘The Fountainhead’. Definitely worth reading.
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Posted on August 28, 2009 by K. M.
Via Buyer Behaviour,
…Rituals give us a felling of power. They are one of the very few things, perhaps, in our control, and therefore, so important to us.
- Sumaa Tekur, The Power of Rituals
I have never understood why so many seemingly reasonable people accept and carry out mindless rituals, mostly during religious ceremonies. The quote above seems [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2009 by K. M.
Take a look at another hilarious post at Let’s Put DA. I liked the one on Mamata Bannerjee the best.
Old Mamata B went to a farm. Eeya Eeya O.
And on that farm, she saw a plant. Ayyayyayyo.
With some protests here,
And some violence there.
Here a speech, there a speech,
Everywhere a screech screech.
Old Mamata B caused great [...]
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Posted on August 22, 2009 by K. M.
I always enjoy reading Eric Lippert’s posts but this one is better than usual. I would like to learn to write like that.
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Posted on June 9, 2009 by K. M.
I recently read Jeffrey Archer’s novel “A Prisoner of Birth”. The novel could have been much better if it had an original plot – instead of borrowing the plot of “The Count of Monte Cristo”. But this post is not about the novel. It is about an interesting issue that I thought was worth pondering [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2009 by K. M.
I chanced upon this post at “Truth, Justice and the American Way”. Go read the post. Then read the comments. Then read this quote
I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2009 by K. M.
For some time, I have been thinking of writing a series of posts on “Atlas Shrugged”. What I took away from it, why I was so influenced by it, why I enjoyed it. So I was delighted to discover the comment thread on Aristotle The Geek’s post Dry Humor that featured an excerpt from “The [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2009 by K. M.
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