Not exactly going home – in fact am headed to New York from Boston – but have not posted a puzzle in some time…
Try this…
How many squares can you spot in this diagram (of any sizes)?
It is OK this week to post your answer in the Comments section since you will not be explaining the answer. I will send you a personal message whether you are right or wrong.
Met Amrith last night after a long time! In fact, the last time I saw him was Apr end, 1993!! We studied in the same MBA school, did summer training in the same company (COSL), stayed at the same place while doing our training (Wilson college in Mumbai), took up our first jobs in the same company and even lived in the same apartment for a few months in Mumbai!
Then I lost touch. He was gracious enough to pick me up from the airport and dropped me at the hotel after dinner.
Amrith, among all my friends, is probably the one with the highest number of patents against his name. Here is an interesting tidbit about him – while in Indonesia, he had once hacked into an internal system thru a security hole in the OS of Stratus hardware. When Stratus found it out, they promptly offered him a job to take him off the market!!! Cool!
It was great catching up on a lot of our old friends!!
On a Delta flight to Boston. At 31,000 feet.
Spirits are lifted even higher by Abida Parvin’s rendition of:
“Tu ne deewana banayaa to mein deewana bana
Ab mujhey hosh ki duniya mein tamasha na bana”
You made me a lover,
thus I am a lover today
Now please don’t make me a laughing stock
In this reality-conscious outside world
“Nigah-e-Naaz se poochhenge kisi din ye zaheen
Tu ne kya kya na banayaa!! Koi kya kya na bana”!!
One of the greatest advantage of having a local guy take you around is the little known places that only locals know and no amount of literature reading would give you an idea.
We were on our way from Guanacaste to Arenal when Jorge asked if we would like to see a waterfall. We, of course, had nothing better to do – so we said Yes. An hour later, we exited the road and got onto something that can barely be called a cowpath – let alone a road. After about 15 minutes of driving over a virtual non-path, we came to a stop.
Found out from a guy sitting there that the waterfall is owned and operated by the Board of Education. The proceeds (there is no entry fee – you give whatever you feel like – and they give you a receipt regardless of the amount of the donation) go to building new schools. They have purposely not built any facilities or commercialized it because they feel that the municipality might take it way from the Board!
We walked down for about 5 minutes and came across this virtually virgin waterfall in absolutely desolate nature with nobody around. We got into the water and swam all the way to the fall. Hullor, Chiko, Nikita and I then scaled the rocks near the waterfall and went behind the waterfall. It was a little dangerous – the rocks were too slippery and offered no grip and we were afraid of slipping and hitting our head on the rock. But eventually we made it!!
That was the fun part. Then we realized that we had no towels and no facilities to change!!!! So, to show solidarity with nature, we walked into the forests nearby and changed. Athough, some of us had to scamper back once the howler monkeys started yelling!!!! 🙂
