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Note to Self: Get wine. Lot’s of it! ;)

This saturday, I will be leaving to Sweden for work. It will be an exciting two months! Hopefully, I will have some time to enjoy and experience a new country, and chronicle the (mis)adventures there! For now, here’s some music. This song has followed me around for the last 12 years, and when it is time for me to go away, I hear this song playing somwhere. It’s corny, but its nice. ...

In the wild days of 1996, when I got my hands on a computer (it cost about a year’s worth of my Dad’s salary, and nothing that I am would have been possible but for that sacrifice he made), I was enamored by the ease of content consumption on a computer. In one year, I went from knowing nothing about the world, to interacting with hundreds of other people across the world, talking about different things, and experiencing new content every day. Ideas in the form of text, video (granted there wasn’t much back then), music. That desire to learn new things, and to “consume” content has not abated in the last decade and a half. ...

If you are in a hurry, and need something tasty yet easy to make, this one is for you. The prep time is about 5 minutes, and the cooking time around 10-15 minutes. If you have a small rice cooker – the kind that plugs into a wall sockets – you should be able to get the rice done in about the same time. It is also the perfect curry to cook for smaller portions. If you are like me, and have to cook for 1 person, aka me, all the time, it is a no-frills and no-freezer required recipe. ...

It’s my mom’s birthday today, and as I scoured the recesses of the internets for something nice to say, I came across this most beautiful poem by the author of “Joy Junction” about his mom. As most of you who know me know, I’m not much of a poet, but I am enough of a romantic to steal “borrow” someone-else work to express what I feel (I know – lame, right?) ...

Forget perfect pitch. I’m so thankful that I can experience a large range of frequencies, and that I have enough hearing ability to distinguish timbre, and tone. Watch the video below, especially at 7:00 minutes. We all must be thankful that we can hear as well as we do. I can’t imagine what life would be like without the ability to sense the warmth of a viola rising up in the Brandenburg concertos (BWV 1046) movement 1, or the horns in the 3rd movement of the same. ...

When in doubt, take a poet’s thought to your heart. They are, invariably experienced beings, that have spent a great deal of their lives, exploring the heart through the mind. Strong Mercy by Rabindranath Tagore My desires are many and my cry is pitiful, but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals; and this strong mercy has been wrought into my life through and through. Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple, great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked—this sky and the light, this body and the life and the mind—saving me from perils of overmuch desire. ...

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I just watched the last 30 mins of the movie “The green mile”. What a beautiful movie! The last few lines was particularly well written. “we each owe a death; there are no exceptions; but, Oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long. But if he can make a mouse live so long, I wonder what is in store for me” Don’t we all! The sun is out in Vancouver ! Time to get out! ...

1. Assuming an average car weighs around 4000 pounds 2. Force required to move such a car (neglecting friction): F = ma As per the above, m = 4000 /2.2 kg [approx. 1800 kg] a = 1 m/sec^2 => F = 1800 N 3. Since it would be next to impossible to get a rare earth magnet that produced that kind of force, we would be, better served trying to use a solenoid. The formula to get the force generated by a solenoid is given by: ...