Postcards from Rishikesh, India – 2007

Ten years ago, in 2007, I went for a Dhyan Yatra in India with Isha Yoga. It was an interesting journey and one to remember. A dedicated article about this experience and trip will ensue sometime in the future.

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The thoughts of people at a wedding

  • The groom: I am the happiest and luckiest person on earth to have found my wife
  • The bride: Finally, after a long wait, I got to get married
  • The bride’s mom: One married, two more to go
  • The bride’s father: He fell into the trap
  • The groom’s mom: He chose this fate for himself
  • The groom’s father: How cheap this champaign the parents of the wife brought!
  • The friends of the groom: Too bad, we lost him!
  • The enemies of the groom: He deserves this fate!

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Divorced Barbie Doll

 

A father leaves work a little late one night and, while on his way home, he remembers that he has not yet purchased a christmas gift for his young daughter. He quickly parks his car in front of a toy store and asks the salesperson:

“How much is the Barbie in the window?”.

With a convincing voice, the salesperson replies:

“Well, we have ‘Barbie goes to the gym’ for $19.95…

‘Barbie plays Volleyball’ for $19.95…

‘Barbie goes Shopping’ for $19.95…

‘Barbie goes to the Beach’ for $19.95…

and ‘Divorced Barbie’ for $265.95…  

The surprised man asks: “What? Why does the divorced Barbie cost $265.95 when the rest are only $19.95?” 

Salesman says: “Sir, the ‘Divorced Barbie’ comes with Ken’s car, Ken’s house, Ken’s boat, Ken’s furniture, Ken’s computer, and one of Ken’s friends.”

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Zipping all files in a Git repository

Hello,

This is a quick / reference post illustrating how to archive (zip format) all the files in a branch in a Git repository.

From the command prompt, type:

 
git archive --format=zip -o files.zip master

Explanation:

  1. The “–format” argument lets you specify the archive type. I used the zip file format
  2. The “-o” argument lets you specify the output file name
  3. master” is the name of the branch to be archived.

 

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One theory about why numbers are written the way they are

Many years ago, I was reading in Thiaoouba Prophecy book by Michael Desmarquet. A very nice book.

Anyway, in that book, there was a mention about numbers and why they are written the way they are. The alien in the book explains that the numbers are written like this because of the number of angles each number have:

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Futurama: Bender – Robot Grace – or the Geek’s prayer

If you are a fan of Futurama, and Bender the bending robot in particular, you might like this audio clip where Bender says grace before eating:

In the name of all that is good and logical, we give thanks for the chemical energy we are about to absorb. To quote the prophet Jerematic, one zero zero zero one zero one zero one zero one zero one… [Time lapse.] Zero zero one… zero one one zero zero one…two.
Amen.

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Life is Short – Forgive quickly

It is always cheesy when I enter a shop and find those cliché quotes hanging on the wall! 🙂

I like it, except for the “break the rules” one. I would encourage you to be responsible if you want to break the rules

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The girls from Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded

If you’re a fan of Leisure Suit Larry, then you might recognize those ladies from the Larry Reloaded version:

 




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Time: The most precious commodity

It does not take a movie, or reading a book to realize that our most precious asset or commodity is time…

I ran into this viral video about the topic of time scarcity:

I loved the metaphor in that movie. Here’s the full transcript:

Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400.
It carries over no balance from day to day.
Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to used during the day.
What would you do?
Draw out every cent, of course?
Each of us has such a bank, its name is time.
Every morning, it credits you 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off at a lost, whatever of this you failed to invest to a good purpose.
It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft.
Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day.
If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no drawing against ‘tomorrow.’
You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and health.
The clock is running.

Make the most of today.

 

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Did you like the Wonder Woman’s theme? Here’s why!

After Wonder Woman’s first appearance in Batman vs Superman movie, Wonder Woman theme was first revealed in the last battle against Doomsday. That theme was so awesome that I loved it immediately.

Little did I know that the theme is not very original, in fact it sounds similar to other songs and in particular the one from Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant song.

In all cases, this video explains all of this better than me:

 

Watch the theme performed by the fabulous and most talented Tina Guo here:

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