I think

Yay..or is it?

Time hangs heavy

Completed the two long overdue reviews.

Met my deadline.

Changed paper in the kitchen cupboards after many many months.

Drove out the dinosaur from the fridge and stocked it up.

Now I should be relaxed, right?  Right?

To the Sampats

Welcome back home, Terri and family.

Welcome back

New disease

"Hypergraphia".

So THAT is what I suffer from.

Meera

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Meera closeup

For a favorite uncle who celebrates his sashtiaptha poorthi (60th birthday) tomorrow.

Is biomass the way to go?

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Petroleum accounts for over 35% of the world’s total commercial primary energy consumption. Coal ranks second with 23% and natural gas third with 21%. These fossil fuels apart from being a finite source of energy are the main culprits in greenhouse gas emissions, causing global warming, and thus climate change. Biomass energy, on the other hand, is a carbon-neutral, infinite energy source as plants eventually take as much carbon from the atmosphere as they release.

If you are even remotely interested in how biomass can be used as a source of fuel, read here.

Courtesy

It seems there is a tad less courtesy in the world these days than before.  And mind you, I am not talking of chivalry.

Courtesy

A few minutes back (dark enough to be called night), I opened the iron gate of my house to go out.  The 30 pound gate unhinged and fell over me.  With great difficulty, I balanced myself and the gate and for a few minutes was at a loss about what to do next.   The husband was in the room farthest to the gate, with the door closed to aid the A/C, and no amount of hollering out for him would get him. 

Just ouside the opposite house was our news paper delivery guy, waiting to collect his money from the lady of the house.  A 30-something man of good health and reasonable size, and hopefully no night-blindness, fully aware of my predicament.  He chose to collect his money from the lady of the house, mount his cycle and ride away, leaving me holding the gate.  Another young man from another opposite house (apparently a guest), steps out of the house, and while I think he is heading my way to assist me, heads in the opposite direction for his after supper "walk".

Where are we going wrong here?  Agreed, you need not be chivalrous (although, I personally have no problems with chivalry, I am old fashioned enough to consider it romantic), it is superfluous and may even be considered an insult by self-respecting women.  But basic courtesy?  What is wrong in just helping a woman in trouble?  Or just anyone in trouble?  If they had approached me, I would have merely asked them to ring the door bell to have the husband come out to deliver me from the 30 pound gate balancing between my muscle-free hands and little toe.

Anyway, I managed to move the gate into a stable position, ran in to get the husband, who fixed the gate in five minutes. The gate is fine now.  I am not.  My fingers and little toe are bruised, and I am madder than a wet hen. 

Who am I?

Right or left

Sometimes dude can be a horrible distraction. On a Sunday morning, when I should be trying out new culinary experiments , or cleaning the toilet (sometimes the difference between the two is hazy), or even working on that deadline that is less than a week away, I am obsessing over "ga ga", "da da" and "ba ba".

And staring cross eyed at spinning nude women.   If I have piqued your curiosity enough, read about it at  Here.

Spinning woman

An interesting email forward..

Read the sentence below carefully...

'I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness'.

This is a sentence where the 'Nth' word is 'N' letters long.

e.g. 3rd word is 3 letters long, 8th word is 8 letters long and so on....

Aalilai Krishnan

Aalilai krishnan

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Answer this question

How do you answer this question by a four-year-old:

Why do boys swim wearing only a "jatti" (*Panty) while girls have to wear a swim suit?

PS: I tried searching for  the picture of a nice swimsuit to use with this post, but I will pass, for the obvious results that came out of google images.