8 October 2014

Puzzle time!!!

Found this interesting problem. See if you can solve this…
Four tanks going in a line on a very narrow bridge encounter four friendly tanks in a line coming from the other side. Unfortunately, they see each other only when there is exactly one tank worth of distance between the two leading tanks from either side. And there is no space on the bridge to go around each other.

Now here is a problem – None of the tanks can reverse. However, a tank can climb over another tank as long as there is space for the tank to land on the bridge after climbing over a tank. A tank cannot climb over more than one tank at a time. (meaning it has to come down to the bridge after climbing one tank). Also no tank can take the weight of more one one tank on top of it. (meaning you cannot have three tanks on top of each other).

How can the two sets of four tanks sort out the problem and eventually proceed their own way?

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6 October 2014

“Raising” awareness for blindness

CBS and NBC reported yesterday that use of Viagra can cause temporary or even permanent blindness. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8004291/ns/health-mens_health/t/blindness-noted-men-using-impotence-drugs/

I was like – Wait a minute. Isn’t that how it works anyways? I thought he pops in a blue pill, loses eyesight, now no more cares how she looks like and the inevitable follows. That is not how it works? 🙂

I feel really sorry for the octogenarians and nonagenarians who had been taking low dosage of Viagra just to stop peeing in their shoes – now they will have no ability to decide which way to shoot. Remember those Haunted Mansion rides in Disneyland? You wait for an hour for a two minute ride in complete darkness? Yeah, they are going to rename that after Viagra now:-)

Evidently this was first reported from Improve Comedy clubs countrywide where small time comedians took Viagra to become “stand up” comedians and soon after getting onto the stage, reported many people yelling from their right side “We are here”!!! 🙂

I personally feel the solution could be as simple as making an eye ointment out of Viagra. That should make everybody look hard 🙂

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5 October 2014

Nikispeak this morning

At the breakfast table, somehow the discussions got started around what Natasha was thinking about her choices of college. We know she wants to follow her heart into journalism and mass communication. I mentioned that a friend of mine had suggested that all kids should think of a second option to follow simultaneously because you learn a lot about yourself as you progress through college life.

Natasha: “Yeah! I am thinking of keeping Business as a major too”

Me: “That is a good idea. The good thing about Business is that it helps you in whatever profession you get into later – engineering, medical, journalism, movie making… whatever”.

And that is when Nikita piped up “What if Didi grows up to be a plumber? Or a street performer? I don’t see how a Business degree can help”.

Uproarious laughter and a little food fight between the sisters later, we left the table 🙂

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5 October 2014

When the student became the teacher….

Showing how to light up a orange peel to a couple of fellow bartending girls. You probably are wondering why would anybody want to light up a orange peel (it is actually the oils that shoot out of the peel when you squeeze it). Well, many – like my wife – do not like the taste of their gins emasculated by the fruity taste of fruit-infused gins. But they like the aroma of a fruit – like orange in their drink.

So, basically, you are trying to create a sense of taking in orange gin without messing the taste of the gin. As you know, what our brain perceives as the “taste” of food is only a small part in what the tongue senses and a big part of what the nose senses. The solution is to let the customer inhale the orange fumes but drink the gin in its native form. And you do that by making a normal gin and tonic (Hendricks and Fever Tree is what I would recommend) and then light up an orange peel on top of the drink before you serve it. [The technique will require some practice though. And I learnt it from the venerable mixologist Bensan Varghese from Mumbai]

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