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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Wanna Make Wall-E of your Own

Well, I love Pixar and their movies like billion other people on this Earth.


I wanted to make a Wall E Cabinet of my own but I lacked those Workshop skills (coz my instructor told me that "you computer/IT students don't need to learn these", and he did all the assignments for us).

But, russians are hell of engineers !

If you want to make a Wall E for your own, here is the link

http://casemods.ru/section10/item490/

Since it's in russian, you will need online tools such as Google Translator ( http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en# ) or Yahoo Babefish ( http://babelfish.yahoo.com/?fr=avbbf-us ). I assume that you know how to use these tools.

It's a complete guide to make Wall E Cabinet. From steel sheets cutting to your whole Wall E. It has pics of every procedure.

So far as we can tell, this robotic PC even opens up his own optical drive, and he can also send out love letters to one "Eeeevvvaaaaa" without human intervention. A thing of beauty, no?

Update: The link is sometimes down. Try opening it later.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

The World in one picture

Well, try to identify as many as you can in this picture.

I could only identify 19 out of these.

If you could identify more than that, I guess you have nice general knowledge.

best of luck

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Who is educated? English Babu or Hindi Guy


Last December, when I was traveling from Jodhpur to Nagpur, I witnessed a usual happening but the effects were unusual.

I believe all Indians must have faced this. The dabbawala / caterer in the train was selling dinner packs at Rs. 45. It's more than the price fixed by the Rail Ministry but who cares for extra 3 bucks.

I like many others had ordered the food and paid 45 bucks for that. But, there were two people who were unhappy with this. I appreciate their effort.

The Hindi Guy and the English Guy.

The HINDI guy called the TTE and discussed this matter with him but TTE didn't paid much attention because he was speaking in HINDI.
What the heck? In Hindustan where national language is HINDI, no body pays attention to you just because you speak HINDI.

The TTE went away ignoring the HINDI guy.

On the other side of me, there was this ENGLISH guy, I am only guessing but this guy was a service man in Armed forces because it was there in his style of speaking. He translated the whole HINDI guy's words with poor grammar into ENGLISH and TTE was paying attention to him. This time TTE took action, he called the caterer and ordered him to say sorry and return 3 bucks. Then the ENGLISH guy showed off that 3 bucks didn't concern him.

I guess this type of incidents didn't happen only in trains. Everywhere in India, these kinds of things happen. I am not anti-ENGLISH, it's required in profession and you should know that but still it can't be our first language.

People around me use ENGLISH to impress others, to show that they are well educated.
How could anyone be well educated if he/she doesn't have a command over his/her national language?
They show off using this foreign language. And the accent thing is like "Sone pe Suhaga". They tilt their mouth and try different accents but they don't know that this shows.

This is not good.
You will have to come back to HINDI when you are sad, when you cry, when you want to show your real emotions.

My suggestion: Use ENGLISH only in professional things and if other party's first language is ENGLISH. Except those, use HINDI it's accepted everywhere in India. We are the only one who will have to preserve HINDI.