'Do one good deed and you'll get ONLY one back in return.
Do one bad deed and you'll get a thousand in return.'
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Food for thought - 3
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- A drawer full of chocolate coated raisins! YUM!
In My BookCase...
- Deck the Halls - Mary Higgins Clark (August 2009)
- The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans (August 2009)
- Klute - William Johnston (August 2009)
- Last Man Standing - David Baldacci (August 2009)
- Arousing Suspicions - Marianne Stillings (July 2009)
- The Alibi - Sandra Brown (July 2009)
- The Firm - John Grisham (July 2009)
- Master of the Game - Sidney Sheldon (June 2009)
- The Client - John Grisham (June 2009)
- The name of this book is Secret - Pseudonymous Bosch (June 2009)
- Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat (May 2009)
- The Story of Philosophy - Will Durant (January 2009)
- On the meaning of Life - Will Durant (November 2008)
- A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle (October 2008)
- Illusions - Richard Bach (October 2008)
- The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach (October 2008)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (October 2008)
- Oh, Mind Relax Please! - Swami Sukhabodhananda (October 2008)
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach (September 2008)
- Stillness Speaks - Eckhart Tolle (August 2008)
- Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - P. G. Wodehouse (August 2008)
- Chicken Soup for the Soul - Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen (August 2008)
- The Inimitable Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse (July 2008)
- The Prophet - Khalil Gibran (July 2008)
- Celebrating Silence - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (July 2008)
- The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch (June 2008)
- The Secret - Rhonda Byrne (April 2008)
- Hornet's Nest - Patricia Cornwell (April 2008)
- The Word - Irving Wallace (April 2008)
- Postern of Fate - Agatha Christie (March 2008)
- Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham (March 2008)
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (January 2008)
- And Never Said A Word - Heinrich Böll (November 2007)
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (September 2007)
- Marley and Me - John Grogan (September 2007)
About Me...
'Pranjal' means 'pure' or 'crystal clear'. It's a name my father chose for me. I've had trouble getting people to pronounce it right and had my doubts about whether or not I identify with it. Ofcourse, the 'identifying-battle' is long gone. It's my name and I've grown into it.
I was born in a small district called 'Yavatmal' (sometimes spelled 'Yeotmal') of Maharastra, India. You might have a hard time locating it on a map. I was brought up in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. I spent my first 8 years of schooling (Kindergarden to 6th grade) in a convent, after which I was moved to a Central School.
Following most students from my batch, I took up engineering at S. M. V. I. T., Bangalore. Having completed that, and after a brief stint with a Hardware Company, I enrolled into a Master's Program at USC, Los Angeles, USA. I returned to India in June 2005.
I took up a research project at IISc for a year after my return. I was then offered a job with a startup company, of which I was a part for 8 months. Following this, I started out on my own as an Independent Consultant and have remained so, worked as a Freelancer, worked with a big IT company and then went back to stay-at-home-mumma.
Life's been fair so far; I've enjoyed my happy times and struggled through difficult patches. I have a small but cozy circle of friends. I rarely meet most of them and hope to make up for that (...even now...).
I like adventure. I've tried para-sailing. Hopefully I'll get a chance to live all my dreams of travel and crazy sporting adventures. I'd also like to try my hands on photography and playing the saxophone guitar (turns out, my lungs can't hold enough air, and my fingers gave up following my mind a long time ago).
I love animals better than most humans. I've had dogs from when I can remember. I've tried horse-riding. I dream of bringing up cheetah cubs, orangutans, snakes and falcons/hawks. I would love to live in a jungle someday. It would be a 'dream-come-true' to have a family living among the wild.
For now, Bangalore's home Hannover is home. Making the most of 24/7! working from home. Much to catch up on. Life's unfolding itself bit-by-bit!
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Dr. Schambaugh, of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical Engineering, Final Exam question for May of 1997. Dr. Schambaugh is known for asking questions such as, "why do airplanes fly?" on his final exams. His one and only final exam question in May 1997 for his Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer II class was: "Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with proof."
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:
"First, We postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave.
Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, then you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and souls go to hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.
Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant. Two options exist:
If hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose.
If hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over.
So which is it? If we accept the quote given to me by Theresa Manyan during Freshman year, "that it will be a cold night in hell before I sleep with you" and take into account the fact that I still have NOT succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then Option 2 cannot be true...Thus, hell is exothermic."
The student, Tim Graham, got the only A.
Similarly, I think that these wonderful things are said just to keep the 'civilized' human society in control. :(
Maybe so. Although I didn't put it up here to keep anybody in control. :).
It is exactly what the title says it is - 'Food for thought'.
Being a numbers savvy marketing guy, I can't stop from pointing out the lack of a crucial piece of data in here - how good and how bad in terms of results?
Hmm... Let's see, same amount of good - once, and same amount of bad - a thousand times.
That sound fair?
Research in marketing shows that dissatisfied customers share their experience with 3 people on an average while satisfied customers share their experience with only 1 person on an average.
So, while I agree witrh you in principle, there is scope for disagreement with the actual numbers.
"...So, while I agree with you in principle, there is scope for disagreement with the actual numbers...."
...and yet there is nothing one can do about it, is there? So what if one disagrees? That's the way it is - deal with it!
hey liked this 1 lady....
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