Haha…Jeph just posted the ‘Booty Dance‘ strip. Lovely.

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Taking a stock of the first casualty of workload.

Toronto Comicon - I won’t call myself a comic addict (Dilbert and QC are the only regular ones I follow now), but this Comicon would have meant I get to meet Jeph - author of my favorite comic that I’ve been reading since late 2004 - QC.

Too late when I noticed. Decided not to go now.

Next time.

I’ve been updating some other journals, so this one’s been neglected.

I’ve posted lots of photos (not on flickr though), but 3 pics make me happy with what I got:

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Habit: Using a wireless mouse

Side Effect: Grabbing your phone lying on the desk and trying to move it as if it’s a mouse.

Psycho Effect: For the first 2 seconds, you’re wondering wtf happened to the cursor.

Toronto

• No matter whether it’s Toronto or Delhi - slow moving traffic at peak hours still frustrates a lot, specially when you can’t even read something alongside.
• It’s easier to get things done in Banks than I thought.

Books

• Now that I don’t have to worry about huge shipping costs (comparable to the cost of books) to India, or someone’s schedule of India trips, my Amazon.com wish-lists (long) are in danger of depletion soon.
• I carried more weight of books (non-Indian editions) than clothes with me. No, the ones I wash and wear again are clothes.

QC

• QC carried these gems of comics recently - I cleared my backlog of reading today, so here they are:
  • 857
  • 858
  • 860

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There are some topics that trigger off the Argumentative Indian, who still remains argumentative and doesn’t do anything else about it.

Imagine you’re shopping in a store, and suddenly you see an AutoRickshaw stopping over and some guys in it trying to pull in a girl walking on the street. She’s resisting it. What do you do?

Apparently, some people did one thing - nothing. This is in the latest post in Blank Noise Action Heroes blog - here.

Although there’s a lot that the girl underwent (read about her thought process about not going out in a saree for a long time), what’s interesting is the way the ‘lesson learnt’ part comes about. The post says “It was a big lesson learnt that people don’t have the time to help other people and it is up to you to take care of yourself!”

Of course, we all know, it’s not about the bloody time, but the attitude. You have to help yourself - yes. And you can easily predict that the proud urban Indian who becomes a sher when cheering vigorously for India in a cricket stadium will not raise even the meekest voice when such a thing happens in front of you on the street. OK - that was over generalization. But hey, what the heck? The people in that Auto wouldn’t have tried the vagaries on a street had they expected the passers by to raise alarm, if not rush to help the lady. But the general public always rises to the occasion to ensure the confidence in their inabilities is upheld.

And no, it’s not a law-and-order problem, although that may be a contributing factor. You are a part of this society, and you must help the situation by virtue of being this part, if not anything else. Projects like Blank Noise are helping to wake people to this realization, but it will require a transition to the next generation at this pace to achieve a mass-attitude change (I am optimistic that it will happen). Until then, yeah, keep your expectations from society to zero and learn to take care of yourself. Any incoming help is a bonus.

What does this post achieve - again, one thing - nothing.

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So…do you need both?

…isn’t Cowardice the Confidence in your inability?

…isn’t Confidence the Cowardice to accept your Corwardice?

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The reason I don’t underline interesting sentences, phrases, paragraphs in books (owned, not borrowed)…

• isn’t that I want to keep books neat. I used to think about this, but later realized any such attempts served no useful purpose.
• isn’t that I don’t want to come back to the books. I usually flip pages of books I had read long ago.
• isn’t that it sounds too student-ish. I *am* educating self.

• IS that I usually mess up the sentence below while trying to draw a straight (under)line.

That’s why I find highlighter pens more convenient. Escapism.

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Note to self: ‘AllowOverride‘ should be the first thing to check when mod_rewrite suddenly doesn’t seem to work after a conf update.

Another note to self: A diff in time can save a lot of time.

Yet another note to self: If you’ve spent more than 10 minutes in braindumb state trying to figure out what’s wrong, google it fast.

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I had never tried to find out how many others are using the same phone-camera on Flickr. Today I did.

Apparently it’s been a downhill trend this year.

And the new leader in Sony Ericsson phones used for Flickr photos is the K800i. Notice the sharp rise:

I am still browsing - the photo sources trends can provide an interesting influence into future purchase decisions.

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