Asperger’s test

Of course you can’t really test for something like this in just a couple of questions but it’s still interesting.

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Consider the following probes:

Wow

This looks as though it should be a film special effect — it’s not, it’s a falling meteor.

As good a place as any

I don’t have a personal web page so this is pretty much the only place I can put this:

A billion here, a billion there…

Sooner or later it adds up to real money…

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Crunching the inflation adjusted numbers, we find the bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures — combined:

“And things like that”

It was bad enough when it was just a lot of the folks in our Bangalore office. It was worse when it started to end almost every sentence said by my colleague Jane. Then today it was not one but two professional webcasts and a news broadcast.

It’s everywhere!

How the other half live

I stayed up all night to watch the election and I have to admit that I too got a bit teary eyed during his speech — although I suspect that was just top quality rhetoric.

I’m with everyone else that of course this is a very good thing. That said having built up this much promise (a-la…

Heroes

Not of the TV kind this time (which is getting much better again in season 3 — if only they’d listen to me and kill off Peter) but an actual real new hero of mine. This time it’s Peter Diamandis who, apart from getting undergrad and postgrad degrees in aeronautics and an MD from Harvard and setting up more than a…

Two kinds of people

I’ve always been the sort of person who likes to divide the world into two kinds of people based on random momentary criteria (as opposed to the other sort of people who don’t — but we don’t like to talk about them).

Anyway — there will be some people on my flist who will get why this movie…

Another Obama update

From electoral-vote.com (with my highlighting):

“Barack Obama will be the first President completely plugged into cyberspace. He uses his Blackberry for everything. When a staffer prepares a report for him, it is sent to the Blackberry. Unfortunately, while Presidents get their own fully…