tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56267602009-02-20T19:24:15.426-05:00The title descibes me and what this space is all about!! A confused, contradictory state of mind.The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1069096486676266972003-11-17T14:14:00.000-05:002003-11-17T14:16:20.046-05:00

Thank god they convicted him ever so quickly without too much deliberation. I think he should be shot to death in his own style, like shooting him down when he is least expecting it. Yahoo! News - Sniper Suspect Muhammad Guilty of Murder

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Over the weekend saw the movie School of Rock boy that movie rocked or what!!! Just unbelievable fun. If I am allowed to vote an actor for an academy award Jeff Black definitely gets my vote. I think it is very difficult to make audiences laugh for 90mins, non-stop. He just had so much amount of physical intensity, I don't know how he managed to carry so much amount of energy throughout the movie

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After more than a months break I felt like writing something. I guess just felt that the blog was becoming more like a news databse and my thoughts on the news, kinda felt like a news analyst of sorts:) The whole political commentary thing, I felt it was right from my and my friends perspective but those were just THE VIEWS. I just started feeling like blabbering and complaining about things but

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1064412533965799712003-09-24T10:08:00.000-04:002003-09-24T10:10:58.503-04:00

"Lisa the blues isn't about feeling better. It's about making other people feel WORSE, and making a few bucks while you're at it." that was Bleeding Gum Murphy from The Simpsons. Last night read an article about 100 years of blues then heard a bit about it on PRI. I knew about some blues bigwigs and that's about it. Never really thought about it like how it was born and who were the people who

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1063198789546216512003-09-10T08:59:00.000-04:002003-09-10T11:30:00.193-04:00

A new ruling by the court has changed 9/11 from a mourning day to a glory day for people who can file lawsuits against airlines and the port authority. I don't think it is right, but I guess its part of capitalism or something like that.

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1063113791497229362003-09-09T09:23:00.000-04:002003-09-09T09:23:30.446-04:00

Just read this story the "New Scientist". People like Parag, Mayuresh and all those researchers out there hats off to you for thinking of some unthinkable things. I guess you think of all those weird possibilities and try to make it possible and thereby give out something to the community in someway or the other. I can never even think about a name like "living condom" let alone coming up with

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My best investment since coming to Richmond, a radio clock for my bathroom. It is just so much fun listening to the radio while getting ready. Today Bob Edwards (He is one of my favourite interviewers) interviewed Robert Redford. Mayuresh you might want to note that he is in Washington DC for Nancy Hanks Lecture series on Public Policy. He made a couple of good points and spoke about why he

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1063054294303828912003-09-08T16:51:00.000-04:002003-09-09T08:47:00.063-04:00

This is just in continuation of the discussion that started on Parag's blog by Parag and Mayuresh. I looked at how many countries are there in our world, by considering Taiwan as a country there are 193 else 192. Following is a list of countries where I think their is some kind of civil unrest is going on. The Yes's mean that this country have violence in relation to muslim fundamentalism while

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1063035359601215132003-09-08T11:35:00.000-04:002003-09-08T11:38:57.396-04:00

Another week starts and its just so boring for the first couple of hours. The debate in my mind over whether I should get cable or not got really hot after watching NFL yesterday. But "no TV" is still winning and ahead by a few points. The US Open is ended this week and not so unexpected results. But I guess kudos to the organizers and mainly players, after losing out so many days of no play but

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Back to work after a long long very long weekend. Got off work on Thursdat evening and then next 3.5 days just had too much fun. Did not do anything special but just speding time with Mayuresh and other friends was so much fun. Tried a new drink called Hypnotic. Its a different drink, made out of Vodka and Cognac!!! Sounds tasty right, it was tasty. Over the weekend saw this movie called

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1062076379504168442003-08-28T09:12:00.000-04:002003-08-28T09:12:59.540-04:00

This was supposed to be Pete Sampras's last open tourny but instead of playing he just announced his retirement. Sampras with his tounge out was a picture, which would remind one of a champion eater getting ready to feast. Heard his last interview on HBO with Bob Costas and thought hmmm even after 13 grand slams he is still so humble. I just like humble people, and really do think of it as a

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1061822975826178552003-08-25T10:49:00.000-04:002003-08-25T15:50:54.086-04:00

This is scary stuff, this is outragous. Kinda like two different types of emotions at the same time. On one hand I am sad and scared for people, my parents, my friends but on the other hand just angry about this whole issue. Just hate it. I hope now there will not be any riots or that kind of crap killing more innocent people. I don't know why you want to kill people for a stupid building. Why

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Its funny how whatever that happens in USA is given so much importance. The media feeds people not only in USA but through out the world with some crazy pretty uselss stuff. Somebody at work told me the real acronymn for CNN, it goes as "Crazy/Crappy News Network". The weirdest stuff I heard was they had some guy from India, talking about how Indian electicity system is and kinda how screwed up

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1061405270520458962003-08-20T14:47:00.000-04:002003-08-20T14:48:01.156-04:00

I have been listening to Pink Floyd for quite a while now, thanks to my brother for introducing me to some great music and mainly some great lyrics. Was listening to Final Cut while working and just realized how close the lyrics are compared to the things happening aroung me, us. The album was released after Great Britain had the Falkland war with Argentina. Following are the lyrics to the last

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1060885712757892322003-08-14T14:28:00.000-04:002003-08-14T14:33:04.863-04:00

This is India's 56th year being an independent country. Lots of things have changed, even more drastically in last 10 years or so. Last week's India Today had the latest results from the biggest census survey ever done in India. Some results were baffling, some were amusing while some were just astonishing. We have changed a lot as a Nation but some of the root causes of the problems we have been

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1060614384861631612003-08-11T11:06:00.000-04:002003-08-11T11:18:22.290-04:00

Had a very fufilling, satisfying weekend with Parag, Vaishali, Aaji and Ashwini. Ashwini gets the "and" status because she is special. She has become like the biggest star attraction in a very short time. The rented car had "Sirius" satellite radio. Just loved it. Too much entertainment too many good channels to choose from. I used to be or may be I still am a TV freak. I never realized it

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1060263335317311862003-08-07T09:35:00.000-04:002003-08-07T09:51:23.553-04:00

This is shocking!!! German Automakers including Mercedes, BMW and VW have been downgraded in a reliability survey by a british consumer magazine Which? The list of car makers fared better thane these German giants is unbelievable. Japanese cars (Honda, Toyota, Mazda) are acceptable, but actually Korean (Hyundai) and American (Ford) were found to be more reliable in the survey. That is weird. The

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1060183548698645152003-08-06T11:25:00.000-04:002003-08-06T11:28:24.920-04:00

Yesterday had gone for a blood donation drive thingy. A person donating beside me was donating for the first time. He was telling me to be calm and all before they started taking blood. I didn't know why he was saying all those things. But I realized it a little later, when he passed out looking at his own blood. What weird defense mechanism, asking others to calm down to calm oneself down:) I

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1060091452655405662003-08-05T09:50:00.000-04:002003-08-05T09:53:55.843-04:00

This is a free country, anybody can do whatever that they choose to do and all that. But I guess as long as your choice does not bother others it's ok I guess, atleast that is the condition for me. Anyways Hummer the mammoth car, is truely in all senses a white elephant. (BTW white elephant expression comes from Thailand or some other asian country where the kings down there used to gift white

The_Opsimathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626760.post-1059588851903541992003-07-30T14:14:00.000-04:002003-07-30T15:41:59.546-04:00

After 58 years no more new VW Beetle (The orginal one of course) will be produced. The final number of Beetle's produced 21,529,464. A very interesting article about the same on NYTimes.

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Yesterday was listening to an interview with Tyler Hamilton, another American riding in the tour-de-france. Everybody knows that he finished most of the tour with a double fractured collar bone (OucH!!!!) He was talking about how hard it was in the beginning, then he made a very interesting statement. He said that he just accepted pain and he got used to it. One can accept pain but what do you

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Starting from scratch, making a new beginning, Shri Ganesha et all. The first blog that I created sucked big time real big time!!! Tried making some customizations and just screwed it up to the extent that it became easier to kill it and start anew. The tennis tourny that I was blabbering about started y'day and guess what the very first day was ruined by thunderstorms, real big one. Rained hard

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