Dad, mom, and baby boy. All riding together. On a motorcycle. None of them have helmets. This is a common occurrence.
May 23, 2006
This is not me being ignorant, this is you being crazy…
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A4 paper!
A4 paper is great. No more margin fiddling with European conference papers, and I haven’t had any problem with letter-size documents. It is a peculiar assertion of American hegemony, our heedless attachment to letter-size paper.
Also, from the Efficient Uses of Labor Dept: there is a man whose job it is to stand in the copy room, in case, e.g., you need staples, but are unsure how to load them into your stapler. We have a similar job description in the U.S., but it requires decorating your office space with cat calendars. That’s the great thing about India: lots of staples, no cats.
There are also always plenty of workers available to stare at you if, perhaps, after a week on the job, you still don’t know if the main office door opens inward or outward. And they don’t think you’re stupid. Not at all.
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Using Emacs with Cygwin
Ah, getting to know Windows… Installing Emacs on Windows and setting up Emacs to work with Cygwin.
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WikiVandalism
The ApprovedUrls feature more-or-less made the spammers go away, but apparently some jerks can’t help themselves but vandalize an open Wiki. So I’ve added a blocklist. It remains to be seen how well this will work. (Far be it from me to unfairly accuse anyone of IP spoofing.)
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May 21, 2006
Kurkure Red Chilli Chatka
Some intriguing copy on the back of a bag of Kurkure Red Chilli Chatka (with “Extra Chatpata, Extra Mast”):
INGREDIENTS: Rice Meal, Edible Oil, Corn Meal, Gram Meal, Spices & Condiments and Salt.
CONTAINS ADDED FLAVOURS.
A Proprietary Food.
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Man-on-man love
So, there’s a lot of man-on-man hand-holding in this town. Coming at this from a non-homophobic angle: what’s the necessity for it? What does it signify? I’ve always interpreted boy-girl hand-holding and arm-wrapping as a sublimated expression of sexual longing… And, of course, so must the rest of the Western world, since we all agree that heterosexual men should not hold hands, and should only hug at sporting events.
I’m pretty sure I have seen boy-girl hand-holding here as well. How is this hand-holding different from same-sex hand-holding? Or is it all the same, Platonic affection, and my dirty Western mind is leading me astray?
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New photo set: Cubbon Park
Just uploaded a new photo set.
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Comments now enabled
Perhaps part of the reason comments are rare and spamalicious on this site is that I hadn’t enabled posting by non-Blogger users. You will have to prove you can read wavey letters (making you approximately a human being. I actually failed this test about five times in a row when I was signing up for a .NET Passport account earlier this week. Hopefully, you all will do better), but after that you can leave comments anonymously, or under any silly name you might want to invent.
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