In 44 BC, Old Julius was stabbed by Pompeii's statue .

In 1877, Test match cricket was born..

And in 1965, almost two hundred years after independence from colonial Britain, the civil rights movement won a major victory..

I'm finally moving out of this apartment, have had a succession of roommates, spent the better of my grad school years here, yet the only thing I'll really miss is this splendid wide open field opposite this place.. Some random thoughts on moving ( Read more... )

but it rarely gets any more bizzare and ridiculous than this.. There are a couple of things I've been meaning to write about for a while now - cloning and Double Sri, more on those in good time.. I just discovered it's going to cost a whopping $450 to essentially change a lightbulb. The bulb in question is the backlight on the laptop's LCD, and ( Read more... )

Just did something incredibly, incredibly stoopid today - basically hit reply instead of forward.. I've been stuck with a dysfunctional collaboration at work - and was trying to fwd a mail from the said "collaborator" to my boss, but instead hit the reply buttton, had vented some in the mail as well.. Aaaaarrrrggghhhh.. Hope I haven't flushed my ( Read more... )

but that apparently doesn't stem from a paucity of people using condoms

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Have done a lot of things buzzed (including watching the Matrix, sankalpa whither art thou?), but have never really given a scientific talk before.. It was just lab meeting - so nothing earth-shatteringly disastrous, but definitely something everyone in science must do once ( Read more... )

Srinath, my psychotic pal, just got back from pretty psychotic backpacking trip across Europe... He spent one night in a barn along the Autobahn, and says, a lot of German farmers have pastures that span the Autobahn, and so they actually have briges to allow to allow cows to cross the Autobahn!!! Cows are everywhere I tell you..