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Chalakudi is the new Trivandrum

Russia is at war with Georgia and whenever I hear about some border skirmish or unrest , I open up a map of some sort to figure out the geo-political situation and the resultant socio-economic impact :)

So I opened google maps and while studying the Georgian boundary line, my eyes wandered to India. I was pleased to notice that Google has correctly marked all the important Indian cities with their poiltically correct names like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and CHALAKUDI!!!

To me, Chalakudi is a small railway station to get down at if the ticket collector did not wake you up at Trichur and the irate passenger whose berth you are sleeping in nudges you out of your slumber. But apparently, to Google, it is the most important city in Kerala.

Another idiot guy attempting the same!

Same day , second guy.

Human fly Spiderman strikes nyt

Electronic munimeter at Pasadena ca

Public Image

What do you when you are in a public restroom, aiming to pee and you see somebody's pubic hair on the seat? (I am not going to get into the lifting the seat before peeing argument now)
Here are the options:

a.Blow it away
b.Use some tissue and slide it into the pot
c.Ignore it
d.Pee on it so that it goes away

Usually I go for option c. This one time I chose option b. and when I walked out I saw that my friend's wife was next in line. I missed a Larry David moment by letting go of a chance of having to explain that the pubic hair on the seat was not mine.

I am glad I missed it.

You Pod

*Both iPhone and iPod touch are wi-fi enabled.
*YouTube allows you to create playlists.
*iPod and iPhone interfaces with YouTube very well.
*YouTube has a version(sometimes several) of almost all the songs that I like.

Get it?

Here is a playlist I Like.

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Brooklyn Bridge

Last weekend, we spent some time in the city. The highlight was the walk on Brooklyn bridge towards Manhattan. I have this love for bridges that I inherited from my dad. The Manhattan skyline, statue of liberty, Queens and Verrazano bridges on either side does take away an average tourist's attention from the bridge they are on but that does not make the Brooklyn Bridge any less of an architectural wonder.

The foundation of Brooklyn bridge was built using a dangerous and interesting engineering technique called open caisson. An open caisson is a pressurized bottomless chamber that is sunk into the water until it hits the river bed. There are people inside this pressurized chamber digging out clay and debris until the chamber settles on a solid surface like rock. Once that is done, the workers get out of the caisson and concrete is poured into it thus forming a solid concrete foundation for the bridge.Read more about the bridge here.

D's glee says she wasn't bored at all.

Btw Clinton Eastwood and Murugan lives in Youtube. Watch this one.


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Thats is a very good question!

How often have you heard a person commenting 'that is a very good question' only to find out that he/she considers it a good question because: 1. its a good excuse to change the subject 2. can show off knowledge while answering that one.

Now, seriously, What does a 'good question' mean? Doesn't it indirectly imply that the other questions were bad or were just ok. Do the questioner then have to fight an inner battle to decide if the question is good before burping it out. We all have been told that there are no stupid questions but isnt the 'good question' comment another way of saying that your previous questions were not stupid but can be classified , at the very best, as mediocre.

Is this an American thing or cross-cultural? Is it done in Asia? Europe? If it is, I must've been a master at asking mediocre questions and surrounded by mediocre people since I never heard it while in India.

To me its as annoying as the quote unquote thing done by people using their fingers while speaking since I now have to figure out where the quotes start and end.

On a different note:





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