Posted by: Aadisht on: November 22, 2007
My idiot flatmate hasn’t paid the electricity bill and the power’s been cut off. The good news is that this happened during winter in Bangalore, and so this doesn’t lead to much physical discomfort. The bad news is that thanks to another decision by the idiot flatmate (viz., buying a manual defrost refrigerator instead of [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 22, 2007
One of the disadvantages of making a quiz is that the people who’ll attend my quiz tend to also read my blog. So, you can’t link to really awesome stuff you find because it’ll tip them off to your questions, or at least the source of your questions. One such awesome thing which I can reveal now [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 21, 2007
This year, Diwali was not as renumerative as it used to be. This is because I am now a grossly overpaid MBA (who is also no longer forking half his salary over to a Parsi thatha in Malabar Hill as paying guest charges) and noblesse oblige demands that: I no longer accept gifts from grandmothers [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 21, 2007
In his infinite compassion, the Jagadguru will now enlighten us not only on Politics, but on all our sundry queries of day to day life. To gain His darshan, you need only to email dearjagadguru AT aadisht DOT net. The Jagadguru will answer your queries in SCF(w)O’s new agony aunt column: Krish on Love, Sex, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 16, 2007
Namy Roy wrote in and asked me if I’d read Niranjan Rajadhyakhsa’s column on Bangalore and the Coase Theorem, and suggested I blog about it. I had read the column on Wednesday itself, and thought of mentioning it in a post on kids in aeroplanes. Since I’m busy making the quiz, I won’t be writing [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 15, 2007
I’ll be conducting my first ever quiz for the Karnataka Quiz Association this Sunday. It’s a ranking open, with a History, Geography, and World Culture theme. (The World Culture has been thrown in for the sole purpose of letting me sneak in general questions in case I run out of history and geography fundaes). Before [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 15, 2007
Realised this just yesterday. I’ve been saving my old chequebooks just for the record of cheques. This has been adding to the clutter in my cupboard for no good reason. I can happily copy all the chequebook entries to Excel. This will let me write even more detailed narrations, slice and dice my chequebook data, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 14, 2007
Over SMS, BJ asks: Aaloo paratha is to a punjoo like curd rice to a tambrahm agree? Not really. As TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan pointed out, for TamBrahms curd rice is both necessary and sufficient1. However for Punjews aaloo parathas are only sufficient2, since they can be replaced by mooli parathas, gobi parathas, or makki di roti. [...]
Inconvenience Regretted
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 25, 2007
This website is under heavy attack from spambots. I’ve turned off comments and pings on all posts for the time being to see if this has any impact. Until me or MadMan are able to figure out what’s going wrong, comments will remain off. Sorry about that.