I'm reading The Inheritance of Loss, the 2006 Man Booker Prize receiver, by Kiran Desai, and I was almost shocked by the phrase below. After the initial excitement was over, it often became obvious that the love was gone; for affection was only a habit after all, and people, they forgot, or they became accustomed to its absence. It was a coincidence, but it's more than true, and that was not the only truth revealed in that book. The quote refers to the reunion with your family or friends … [Read more...]
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Awesome India
What is the connection between India and the following companies? BEA , MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Netegrity Inc., FAST, Oracle, FileNet, SAP, HP, Siemens, IBM, Sterling Commerce, Informatica, Sun Microsystems, Interwoven, TIBCO Software Inc., Mantas, Wavecom, Microsoft are only a few of the great IT corporations that work with the Indian Infosys. [source] In less than three years, 25% of world workers will be Indian. Half the world’s outsourced IT services come from India, … [Read more...]
The Art of Wet Shaving
This short essay was intended more like a pictorial. After the pics, I added the words. The words are dedicated to kids who's fathers weren't near to show them the art of a real shaving. The ancient Egyptians are known to have shaved their beards and heads, a custom later adopted by the Greeks around 330 BC, during the reign of Alexander the Great and Romans after them. The practice was encouraged as a defensive measure for soldiers, preventing the enemy from grasping their hair in … [Read more...]
Cigar Smoking
There are rules in cigar smoking. One have to be a man to do it, as in, let's say, not a parrot, or a monkey. The following image is considered as the example of male potency, especially a cigar smoking potent male. [source] Unfortunately, who doesn't keep the cigar like Tony Montana, is not male enough. Not that if someone smokes like him, would be, but look at this other one, and think what happened with him. [source] Too relaxed, not keeping his cigar like Al Pacino, or … [Read more...]
4 Basic Rules
One rule is that nobody gives money for free. They have not been discovered overnight, by myself. I'm not original, the "rules" in bold fonts are not even altered. I just saw them in a blog post, in a blog I used to love, now struggling to just publish to keep its ranks high. I read the same thing every day, of how the guy is not actually selling anything with his blog but he inserts Amazon links in the articles to be productive, how he's going to debate this and that and sometimes he'll do … [Read more...]
What Does History Say About Blown Glass Beads?
Blowing is a special technique that is used to create drawn and segmented beads. Blown glass beads are made from tubes that air is blown into. It is not clear exactly who created the technique for making these elegant beads. One story suggests that a man who came from Passy, first realized that he could use a special type of guanine that was taken from the scales of fish to make the current beads that he had resemble pearls. During the seventeenth century, the man started coating beads with … [Read more...]
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