The Great Ganesha

Some time back I wrote a post about the Buddha Machine. Then, around a month later, on Buddha Purnima Sepia Mutiny made another post about it. Well, with the Buddha Machine, you could attain nirvana for $23. But wait. To attain nirvana, one must be tuned into the cosmic consciousness! And how can one expect [...]

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Every year, there is a series of four races that take place across the globe. The only difference between this series and other series is that these are 100-mile runs across four of the world’s deserts. The last one, is called the the Last Desert competition and it’s in Antarctica. Part spiritual quest, part kamikaze [...]

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Looks like they’re really having good weather on Everest this month. This is the third famous ascent with Appa Sherpa breaking his own record of maximum ascents bringing it up to 16. This was the second ascent in the news, with Serena Brocklebank, a British diplomat reaching the summit 70 years after her grandfather’s failed [...]

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Manmohan Singh just inaugurated the Defense Research and Development Organization’s (DRDO) new building in which we are going to manufacture the next generation of soldiers. Yes, you heard right: Manufacture. He’s promised India a robot army. Don’t think the robots will likely be like these S Korean killerbots, but probably more like one large, giant [...]

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Fellow ex-Xavierites, look at the person in the forefront of the protests against the Da Vinci Code movie. …the head of the Catholic Secular Forum has begun a ‘hunger strike until death’. [link] That “head of the Catholic Secular Forum” is none other than apparently not Fr. Joe Dias! Yes, Not the same guy who [...]

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Growing up, Archie Comics were despised by my parents for their lack of literary value ("You should be reading books instead of wasting your time with comics!"), but no less than wolfed down by me. There was nothing like spending an entire afternoon going through a pile of new Archies. In fact, when there were [...]

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Yes – it's been climbed yet again. Only thing is, this time it's by a double amputee. New Zealander Mark Inglis reached the top of the mountain on his two prosthetic limbs. He lost his legs to frostbite while climbing Mt. Cook in 1982, when he and a companion were forced to spend two weeks [...]

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If you’re a fitness freak, then you should already know that muscle soreness is not caused by lactic acid, and neither is lactic acid buildup a bad thing. In fact, lactic acid is actually a fuel and muscles produce it directly from glucose, burning it to produce energy. The understanding now is that muscle cells [...]

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If you’re American and your job was outsourced to some cheap Indian company, there’s good news for you. Not only can you now get gainful employment, but here’s your chance to take revenge by stealing jobs from Indians! Yes, you heard right! Bollywood producers are looking for token goras to fill the white man/woman’s role [...]

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One way is to work hard through your undergrad, develop an interest in a subject, apply to grad schools and get in to a grad school. Once you're there, slog through the coursework, pass your cumulative exams, work hard through your dissertation research, all the while grinning through the frustration of being overworked, underpaid and [...]

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