Entries blogged in November, 2007


Nov'07
24

Trip to the Holy Land

Last few days I’ve been excited all the time. Ask me why. Ok I’ll tell anyway.
Thats because this time next month I’m going on a trip to Israel sponsored by my b-school. I’m a part of an elite team ‘chosen’ by the school. We are supposed to go to Tel Aviv, whip our magic wands, […]

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Nov'07
23

Highway 407 solution

Previous post had a picture puzzle. Unfortunately nobody could precisely spot the thing I edited, although your responses might have been influenced by the effect generated by the edit. So, if you said ‘horizon’, then you get a passing grade
This is what I edited. A light pole in the middle of the picture. […]

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Nov'07
20

Highway 407

407 Express Toll Route, going East-West just North of Toronto
Highway 407, a 107 km long route, is one of the better-designed freeways in the province of Ontario because of its recent design. This road opened in 1997 and is one of the few freeways in Canada that are privately owned. Users have to pay toll […]

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Nov'07
19

Tag again

I thought I was immune to tags, until Celine pointed her tag gun at me. Here it goes:
Two names you go by (besides your given name):
1. final_transit (virtual name)
2. Puku (पुकू) (thats what everyone calls me)
Two things you are wearing right now:
1. underwear
2. errmm… hey! its almost bedtime
Two longest car rides:
1. Some car trip that […]

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Nov'07
18

Hidden in the Taser story

On October 14th, a newly arrived Polish immigrant died at Vancouver International Airport after being Tasered by the police.

Taser is an electroshock weapon that is used by the police to fire a high-voltage electric shock at the victim in order to subdue his muscles. “Electroshock weapon technology uses a temporary high-voltage low-current electrical discharge to […]

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Nov'07
17

Reading the sounds

Oemar posted this video on his blog sometimes back, prompting me to write this.

Wikipedia defines subtitles as ‘textual versions of the dialog in films and television programs, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen’.
Subtitles
Subtitles can be (a) Translation, or (b) Caption – text version of events on screen.

Here in Canada, Hindi movies shown in […]

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