tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:34:52 +0000we are all about pointless, blatant and unfounded generalizations. that, and a lot of judging. oh, and we don't do uppercase.http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)Blogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-6264818661905558447Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:24:00 +00002007-11-30T12:13:14.107-05:00herehttp://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/11/we-have-moved.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-1299238911639628284Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:13:00 +00002007-11-14T22:31:11.524-05:00I have often wondered what compels me to write about trains. I just went over some of the material I have written, mainly prompted by this, and I realized that they seem to pop up in the strangest places. Odd enough as it may seem to you, it has never been a conscious choice.If i delve little deeper into the weirdness that lies within, I could probably come up with flaffy psycho-analytical http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-i-write-about-trains.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-8939148369693057274Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:00:00 +00002007-09-03T11:00:57.490-04:00http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/09/life-is-beautiful.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-869376265012029317Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:56:00 +00002007-08-28T20:00:10.767-04:00Stalagmite, Postojnska Jama, Slovenia (August 2007)http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-favorite-flavor-of-ice-cream.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-1413972437960275709Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:08:00 +00002007-08-08T19:25:30.809-04:00A suspected confirmed tornado hit the houses on my block this morning. You can see a report here. I live about a hundred feet from where the reporter is standing.I was awake and in the loo. It roared for about a minute and water poured in through the bathroom window like someone was spraying it in with a hose. The house shook.A few houses on the street lost their roofs. My roof is intact.I went http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/08/amongst-other-things.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-4391819633490687028Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:55:00 +00002007-08-06T15:57:17.636-04:00"Hey, I see you a lot around these days. What are you working on?""Something completely useless""But publishable?">Laughter<"You know, when I was at Lehigh, we used to say that a drug is something that when injected into a rat, produces a paper"http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/08/overheard-in-elevator.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-6356683449798058672Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:23:00 +00002007-11-23T10:35:27.537-05:00Here's one that I first told the night before Holi eleven years ago, at a tin-roofed chai shop, over hot chai and chhota gold flakes. At the time, I was a sophomore at SWITBEI (Somewhat Well-known Institute of technology in Bumblefuck, Eastern India).**SWITBEI is located, amongst other things, at the site of a former political prison where freedom-fighters were tortured *and* the place where the http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/07/story-for-pgp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-4018974118534644424Tue, 22 May 2007 02:42:00 +00002007-05-21T22:48:10.195-04:00 http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/05/lightwebs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-834620379616252611Tue, 15 May 2007 18:35:00 +00002007-05-15T14:46:50.761-04:00* ^ ) & > :Untitled (2007)By randomly choosing symbols from an array of special characters, the artist becomes a selector - a mere agent of nature - thus breaking http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/05/minimal-symbolic-art.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-4144849757500071068Fri, 11 May 2007 17:28:00 +00002007-05-11T14:33:35.721-04:00The shattered water made a misty din.Great waves looked over others coming in,And thought of doing something to the shoreThat water never did to land before.The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/05/once-by-pacific.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-2077078210338228366Sun, 06 May 2007 16:33:00 +00002007-05-06T16:03:03.589-04:00In response to BM's this here tag, and after a lot of coaxing1. I talk in my sleep. Not just babble, but carry out entire conversations in seemingly logical ways. It's cause for much consternation amongst people who attempt to do it, especially gfs attempting pillow talk.2. I am mentally playing some beat or the other, and consequently tapping my fingers on something all the time, or tapping themhttp://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/05/tag-tag.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-6179595333730663881Wed, 02 May 2007 16:23:00 +00002007-05-02T12:32:25.153-04:00This thing - it has gone on for too long. It makes me disgusted of myself and irritable all the time. Every day when I look into the mirror, it's not the bloodshot eyes or the stubble that hasn't been trimmed for weeks that bother me - its this thing i have to face as I stare at my reflection.It happens to me from time to time, you know. It's easy to not watch out and keep track of what you are http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/05/time-to-act.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-4006594021987944948Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:25:00 +00002007-11-15T19:15:39.474-05:00In response to the tag by revealed:1. Pick out a scar you have, and explain how you got itScar across my chin. Picked up in a fight that involved an argument over the color of a pumpkin. After much debate about whether a kaddu is orange or green, was decided to settle the issue with a fistfight. Tables were overturned, bottles broken - all Amitabh Bachhan and Vinod Khanna in Amar-Akbar-Anthony http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-first-ever-ever-tag-i-lie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-8625288205321491567Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:18:00 +00002007-04-17T16:45:56.249-04:00 XYZ: When are you posting? Heh heh: Can’t think of anything. How about a pic? XYZ: fine Heh heh: ok, i'm sending you a pic. please to suggest a suitable caption. And i want it done pronto XYZ: ok i'll try and think up something dirty :) Heh heh: i doubt you will, once you look at it XYZ: oh no is it something deep? Haven’t we discussed my allergy towards all things deep? Heh heh: http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-ruin-good-picture.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-5767692704360325981Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:16:00 +00002007-04-17T16:54:59.984-04:00This is one my favorite pictures, taken about half-way down smith's rock (the rock-face to the left), a volcanic formation in Oregon - a lone climber standing at at a cliff-edge directing his friends who are climbing up this 800 foot free-standing spire of rock called monkey face (what you see here is the head - the 'face' is to the other side). Monkey face, the rock and the climber are framed inhttp://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/04/love-and-gloom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-1948534106689808136Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:58:00 +00002007-04-05T16:01:39.468-04:00Ladies and Gentlemen,I'm off to another one of my week-long hikes - will come back with pictures. Blogging will be restricted for the next week or so.Meanwhile, you can enjoy this pic of her royal highness.http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/04/service-interruption.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-6462715707129497496Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:08:00 +00002007-04-01T04:46:31.843-04:00Down by the gates to a well known institute of technology in eastern India is a railway line with a single track. It is not used much - two or at most three sluggish freight trains tugged by a couple of straining engines pass by every day. But this is a special railroad - going beyond the shacks that line it to the left and a crumbling wall to the right, you are transported into a land of paddy http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/03/another-railroad-story.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-4109987245026343464Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:56:00 +00002007-10-24T19:22:52.461-04:00Do you ever wonder about that place-where-forgotten-memories-go? I imagine it to be like an old age home where the elderly sit around the dining table - complaining about children who never visit. Elated when we revisit them after years of neglect, only to have their hearts broken again as we, unable to resist the seductive pull of a future full of uncertain possibility, leave for a place far, http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/03/old-pictures.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-6978695551028121967Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:44:00 +00002007-03-23T04:56:46.783-04:00http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/03/please-tell-me-im-not-losing-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-118057279204994744Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:31:00 +00002007-03-20T00:11:46.440-04:00Cricket is the only sport (apart from basketball) that I actually *care* about. Part of this has to do with the fact that like any self-respecting Maharashtrian, I grew up playing gully-cricket. (I bowl a mean googly, and my straight drives are quite respectable). But a large part comes from many years spent with my cricket crazy Nana (maternal grandfather).On days on which India played a game, http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/03/cricket-and-old-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-4370902465005235052Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:21:00 +00002007-03-13T16:30:23.252-04:00inspired by revealed and TR's comments on this post.http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/03/you-cant-teach-them-no-tricks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-1995000737121542741Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:48:00 +00002007-03-11T23:27:29.162-04:00A new amigo's joined over at my bagelerie. As bagels go, my place makes some of the best and finest bagels in Noo-Yawk city. It's a sunday ritual for me - i wake up all bright-eyed and head over for breakfast. Now, if it's a normal sunday, steve-o behind the counter knows what I want, so as I a make a light and sweet coffee for myself, he slices a freshly made bagel down the middle and chucks ithttp://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/03/gaaah.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-9031250516811439687Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:02:00 +00002007-03-09T00:16:09.147-05:00Meet L, my foster-dog. She loves nothing more than having her chin scratched and her tummy rubbed. Apologies for the crappy picture quality. It's a camera-phone snap.Ok, now, collectively, 1... 2... 3... "Awwwww"http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/03/most-beautiful-girl-in-world.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-8905084402450361109Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:09:00 +00002007-10-22T03:01:50.118-04:00at the foot of the wall, a figure sits hunched over a paper-plate containing some rice and daal. Impossibly thin, sinewy arms poke out of a threadbare blanket thrown around its shoulders to keep the winter morning chill out.He has a stubble and a bony head that makes him look ancient. A few tattered rags cover his wispy white hair. Thick dirty glasses dominate the face - their frame held togetherhttp://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/03/post-with-picture-missing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610138.post-6731105041115057281Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:21:00 +00002007-02-25T17:51:38.609-05:00This blog is all about the nonsensical. We have talked about troupes of dancers seducing mongooses, tricks you can do with a kielbasa, and spitting cobras turning up on power-point slides. We have sung ditties from 80's indian television commercials (with translations to boot!), and we have described strange nightmares full of howling dogs and hummingbirds. We have even prescribed optimal bender http://mentaldeviation.blogspot.com/2007/02/remembering-rsj.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Heh Heh)18