Random thoughts and serendipity

From my meta-blog

• DSCF5289 by ce28nn
  via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/epy5Gw […]
• Peter by TGKW
  Glasgow, 2013. About Me | My Best Work | FAQ | Twitter | Facebook via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/eoD6dg […]
• Changangkha Lhakhang, Thimpu by smdeep
  This temple is especially for blessing children via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/epFwfA […]

Books on my bookshelf

• With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba
  author: Arnold Samuelson name: Sankarshan average rating: 4.00 book published: 1984 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2013/05/23 shelves: to-read review: […]
• Lucky
  author: Alice Sebold name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.71 book published: 1999 rating: 4 read at: date added: 2013/05/23 shelves: auto-biographies, memoirs, non-fiction review: […]
• Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
  author: Stephen R. Bown name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.68 book published: 2003 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2013/05/23 shelves: currently-reading review: […]
• Rebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Reframed My Life
  author: Maria Ross name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.89 book published: 2012 rating: 3 read at: 2013/05/23 date added: 2013/05/23 shelves: review: […]
• Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know about Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections
  author: Patrick Smith name: Sankarshan average rating: 5.00 book published: 2013 rating: 0 read at: 2013/05/21 date added: 2013/05/21 shelves: review: […]
• Bad Pharma
  author: Ben Goldacre name: Sankarshan average rating: 4.11 book published: 2012 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2013/05/19 shelves: currently-reading, non-fiction, science, psychology, business, health review: […]

Shared from Google Reader

• » How I live on $7,000 per year Early Retirement Extreme: — The choice nobody ever told you about
  Note: You can find a breakdown of my $7,000 budget in the frequently asked questions. I have been living on $5-7,000/year for about a decade now. This includes 5 years as a single and 5 years being married. Do you avoid a lot of the expenses that many of your peers spend money on, such as technology and meals out? I would think so. I usually go to the mall t […]
• Hindi and Urdu: Sa’adat Hasan Manto
  This is MUHAMMAD UMAR MEMON‘s translation of an article by SA’ADAT HASAN MANTO. The translation first appeared in The Annual of Urdu Studies. The Hindi-Urdu dispute has been raging for some time now. Maulvi Abdul Haq Sahib, Dr Tara Singh and Mahatma Gandhi know what there is to know about this dispute. For me, though, it […]
• Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary (via Summify)
  Shared by sankarshan Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary http://smf.is/1zILOR (from Schestowitz, and Manish Sinha) Running vim inside a terminal running inside a vim The Vim text editor was first released to the public on November 2, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today. Although it was originally designed as a vi clone for the Amiga, it was […]
• IBM Open-Sources Potential 'Internet of Things' Protocol (via Summify)
  Shared by sankarshan IBM Open-Sources Potential 'Internet of Things' Protocol http://smf.is/1zILP4 (from Techmeme, Glyn Moody, and 2 others) The openly stated goal from IBM is to produce a completely new world-wide web - one comprised of the messages that digitally empowered devices would send to one another. It is the same Internet, but not the sa […]
• Scaling down the Mac Pro (via Summify)
  Shared by sankarshan from Rahul Gonsalves, and 1 other The Mac Pro is a beast. The case is huge. It hasn’t seen an external redesign since 2003 or a major internal redesign since 2006. It’s nearly 50 pounds loaded. It’s only updated whenever there’s a new generation of Xeon CPUs from Intel, which only happens about every 18 months.… […]
• Google+ Now Has Retro Filters
  The success of Instagram has shown that photo filters are very much in demand with the general population. Facebook is rumored to be working on its own retro filters, but Google has beaten it to the punch: today the company introduced a wide range of creative filters to Google+’s Creative Kit. The filters (called “Effects”) include looks that mimic daguerreo […]

What I recently tweeted

What I talk about on identi.ca

• sankarshan: Why does offlineimap work nicely when MUAs get connection drops slurping mail off the IMAP ?
• sankarshan: Yes. Changing the calendar setting to Gregorian solved it though.
• sankarshan: http://bit.ly/zezl4z Openness and appearances - interesting thread from the Mozilla marketing list
• sankarshan: How does one tell Kmail that I wouldn't prefer to see 'Sanivara', 'Sukravara' etc on the UI ?
• sankarshan: Translate "Hello, world!" automatically via the Web browser http://bit.ly/znXQ3y
• sankarshan: ishida >> blog » HTML5 adds new translate attribute http://bit.ly/wTFMHq

Word of the day

• genethliac: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
  genethliac: of or pertaining to birthdays or to the position of the stars at one's birth. […]

Random Quotes

• James Thurber
  "I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm." […]
• John Cage
  "If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all." […]