8 April
2012
Apr 8 run
10K on a gorgeous spring morning in Atlanta. Crisp air, cool temp, mild sun and “Says You” in the ears… — at Big Creek Greenway Trailhead – Fowler Park.
24 March
2012
Help!
23 March
2012
Skymall magazine
Skymall magazine – cover page ad proudly hawks a keyboard that is spill proof and “dishwasher safe”. No less!!! Dishwasher safe! Now, which one of us has not been annoyed by the accumulating dirt on our keyboards and in an inspired moment then flung them for a good spin with our china and silverware into the dishwasher for a grand old rinse and heat dry cycle? We can rest easy now. There is a product for us! Coming up next from the same “21st Century Ideas Retrofitted for the 19th Century Department” – a hard disk that can be cleaned with your vacuum!!! 🙂
16 March
2012
Topsy Turvy iPad
Hilarious!! During my daily call to mom in India, she started talking about the reading habits of her grandchildren. When it came to Niki (my younger one), she was desperately trying to decribe the iPad (on which Niki was reading her books during our last trip to India) – “Sei Je, Niki erokom korey dito aar sob kichu ultey paltey jeto” (roughly translated, “Don’t you remember? she used to do like this and everything went topsy turvy”) 🙂 I had to mute myself for 10 seconds 🙂 That was the most humbling description of an iPad!! No doubt Jobs turned in his grave!!!
14 March
2012
Password
9 March
2012
10 digit number
The number 1210 is unique in the sense the first digit signifies how many 0s are there, the second digit signifies how many 1s are there, the third digit signifies how many 2s are there and so on… 21200 is another such number. Can you come up with a 10-digit number? (first digit shows how many 0s are there….. all the way to tenth digit shows how many 9s are there)
4 March
2012
Nasal voice…
2 March
2012
Was that not Taliban?
27 February
2012
Welsh town names
Upon noticing some Welsh town names as we cruised on A55 in a cab, I could not help conclude that all the broken keyboards with stuck keys and no backspacess are sent to Wales to christen their towns 🙂 An example – “Yr Wyddgrug” – that is actually a town name!! Here is another – “Llanwnnen”. Yet another – “Plwmp”. Go figure!!
16 February
2012
Another 10 digit number
There is a 10 digited number. It has 2 each of the following digits – 0,1,2,3 and 4. Funnily enough, the two 4s are separated by 4 digits in between them; the two 3s are separated by 3 digits in between them, the two 2s are separated by 2 digits in between them… by now you have guessed the rest – the same thing for 1s and 0s. Can you find some of those numbers? (There are multiple answers)