Muses of Murari

Life · Opinions · Technology · Books

Muses of Murari header image 4

Random musings

October 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Random

I find it amusing – names of some of the Indian Nobel laureates. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan. And also surprised to see this year’s Nobel peace prize winner!

[Read more →]

Tags:···

Virtual lectures

September 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Random

In his insightful article about virtual education, Robert X. Cringley wrote on these lines : …. It’s that whole “degree from MIT” thing that allows that school not to worry about sharing its lecture bounty, because in the education system lectures are viewed as worthless unless they lead to a degree. Why is that? My [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:··

Views on “Outliers”

May 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books

I should say this book is output result of good research about the successful people and how they happened to be at right time & at right place and many a time, they are given right opportunities that made them successful in their fields. Case studies given like Bill Joy and the series of events [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:······

Feel like “Good & Bad”

January 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Random

Riding my red bird, on a highway like road, in a cold morning is a special experience. I am getting this experience everyday, on my way to work place. I take Outer ring road ( in Bangalore ), from KR Puram railway station to Devarabisanahalli (near Bellandur), not a picturesque route though, but gives a [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:···

Door closer using Water bottle

August 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Random

Interesting door closing mechanism deployed my north Indian roomies . Follow the pics below. This simple but innovative mechanism need no explanation of its working. I have captured 30 sec video, just to make things clear.

[Read more →]

Tags:

Avy – feel like God

July 28th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Random

My 25th Birthday is proving to be lucky . I bought new Bajaj Avenger 200 cc , last weekend. I got the bike delivery two days after I paid the full amount, due to some RTO internal issues (I was told) & Bangalore bombing. I was not fully satisfied with customer support at Khivraj, Indira [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:···

This and that.

July 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Random

It’s been a while I had last posted.  There were some special things happening over the past week. I had completed 25 years of my existence last Saturday (19th July). I was surprised to receive lots of gifts from my family and friends. This “lots of” is very subjective set-of-words, since I had virtually not [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:···

Captain’s Effect!

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Random

Though DC team has great players, it failed to win matches. Before IPL , I expected DC to win all the matches hands down. It failed to deliver. But in its last match with CSK , it won comprehensively. What’s the change in the team? – It’s Captain. Same as the case with Mumbai Indians [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·

Power Life!

May 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments · Random

Imagine yourself in a dry frying pan (God, what is that? it just came out!) after a hard day at work. That too for a whole night. This was the situation I was in, day-before yesterday. Not only me, but also couple of hundreds of people in my locality did experienced the same pain in [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:··

From underdogs to front runner

April 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Random

I totally underestimated this team. I used to tell my brother, that RR has worst chances to make it. Only two teams – DC and CSK, I thought would make it thru with all matches in their kitties. But the team DC, which has number of talented star players, failed miserably. RR, I never ever [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:··