Decode The Mnemonic

Hey folks my last puzzle seemed to be not all that difficult for you greats, so this one is a little more interesting (read a little difficult)...



Decode The Mnemonic:

Now I - Even I, would celebrate
In rhymes unapt the great
Immortal syracusan rivaled never more
Who in his wondrous lore
Passed on before,
Left men his guidance
How to circles mensurate.

To give you a hint all I would like to say is "Read the Mnemonic again" and if I had to classify this post then I would do it as "recreational mathematics", So folks, come on, just do it.

In case you’re thinking that why don't I mention the source, I would like to
mention that even the answers are there.
P.S: It took me 11 minutes to decode, so take your time.
P.P.S: In case any one of you wants to post his or her own puzzle, trivia or
question, you are more than welcome.

Yes, The Indian President said It

An Indian teenager from one of the country's most backward states appears to have fooled governments, the media and even the president into believing he had topped the world in a NASA science exam. This is what you all know, but then read this...

When questioned about the incident, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh replied, "Yes, we were fooled to think that a boy from a backward state could have topped the exam. But you Americans were fooled to think that one could be President."

Fashion in Sports

Fashion Glamour and Sports (Yes, Sports) have always been inseparable, Maria Sharapova, Anna Kournikova and David Beckham are just a few example of the above statement.
Be it the nail paints of Beckham, shoes of Zidane(right, even a simple man like zidane), ferrari jackets, tees of serena and the list just goes on...
I would like each on of you to give one example of fashion trend or just any other trend inculcated from your favorite sport or any other trend that you would like to mention.

Puzzle to Puzzle You

Once a Father and Son got injured in a plane crash, they were taken to the hospital, there the doctor could save only the son and not the father, after that the doctor excalimed "Ah! here is my son, alive", now how is that possible, write down your answers, there may be various possible, but the most feasible one will be the best. So, can u crack this?

Did u Exercise your brain today?

Hey we spent so much time and energy in keeping our bodies in shape but do some of us even ever think about exercising our brains, the most vital part of the body.

So, from now on i will be posting some fun, recreational puzzeles for you all to play with, keep checking regularly for updates.

Do Anti-Virus Companies make Viruses?

Hey it may seem shocking to you, that, why on earth would Anti-Virus Companies be making virus, but dear it may be true. See one of the most important things in the business of anti-virus software is trust rating, and they are enhanced by
1) Being the first one to know of the trouble.
2) First providing the solution.
3) Providing the best solution.
And that’s what precisely they can do if they make the virus and distribute it, coz they will know the root cause of the problem before anyone else do. It may be controversial, but then.......

Your Body & Name as Advertisement Space

Sorry for not posting yesterday, a little busy these days, well anyways today I would like to bring "Your Body & Name as Advertisement Space" in the focus.
There have been quite a number of offers on ebay and otherwise for people willing to put a brand name on their forehead for say five years for an amount of money or keep their babies names as a brand name (there was a offer for Pepsi) for a period of time.

There has been a lot of hue and cry over it, especially the name of the babies. Under Law it is absolutely legal (both: forehead and names).

My point is that why the hell are we poking our nose in between, especially for the forehead case. History is evidence to the fact that people have always opposed "quick rich" tricks, mainly because they are jealous.

I agree that keeping name of their babies is kinna wrong, cause the child may undergo emotional trauma from peer group for no fault of his/her. There should be a law, like you can't use the body space or the name till the child is a minor and also without his consent even if he is a major.

But I don't see what’s wrong if some adults are willing to rent their foreheads, if its helps them to earn some money, which might be used for education or healthcare etc, then what’s our problem in it. It’s their forehead after all. So, What do u think?

Video killed the Radio Star

Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
In my mind and in my car,
we can't rewind we've gone to far.


"Giftwrapped Crap" is what comes to my mind when I think about the useless videos being aired these days, for they are there only to titillate you and boosts the sales, or rather generate sales coz otherwise the songs are absolute trash, and no one would ever even think of buying them. Those who suffer are the truly talented but on a shoe string budget singers with possibly less glam bodies. Music needs no supplement, you feel so hurt when you hear some great music on the same channel as these stupid songs are aired also...... To top it all they steal music also in the name of "cover versions". If I had to describe these songs in one word, I would be confused between 'atrocious' and 'ridiculous'.

Previous posts

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Music is my Anti-Drug

I am no preacher, but still I would like to think out loud that drugs are dangerous and stupid. They don't make us more enlightened, or interesting or creative, they'll just make us sick and brain dead. That’s why it’s important to have an anti-drug, something that we do instead of taking drugs or to keep us away from it. For example I enjoy music, you might enjoy sports or spirituality or just plain hanging around with your friends, anything that u r passionate about, so whenever u feel the urge just take your ANTI-DRUG. So what's your anti-drug?
Post dedicated to a friend who realized it a little late in his life. :-|

How to Secure your Computer for Free

Hey guys, I spent my last to last new year eve repairing my computer after a computer crash, I was so frustrated that I decided that I have to find a simple, safe and free method of computing. After 14 months of using and testing various products here is what I recommend...

1) Anti-Virus - AVG Anti-virus from Grisoft
It’s free, small to download and as good as the bloated and expensive Norton in every respect, and probably better on its day.

2)Sygate Firewall, don't you ever trust the inbuilt Microsoft firewall, though some people prefer Zone Alarm but I felt that Sygate is faster and more user-friendly, with a very useful incoming/outgoing transfer meter.

3) I always preferred a dedicated anti-spy ware beyond the anti-virus, and Spybot S&D {Search&Destroy} is as good as it gets.

4) It my seem contradictory to the above but its Lavasoft's Ad-aware a good compliment to Spybot especially for the ad wares, spybot specializes in spyware.

Though this small guide is not an example of the genius of mankind, but it should be extremely helpful for lots of people looking forward for safe computing experience. Your suggestions are always welcomed.

Note: All these utilities are free (yes free, not shareware) for personal use, u may consider updating them just once in 15 days, or whenever there is virus threat around.

The age old bench

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Click to enlarge.
Right side is the orignal and left is my version.
Hey guys i picked this image from another blog, played around a bit with a color intensity (red is particular) and contrast level to add that rusty and static for ages look to this picture, but still making it look richer. So what do u think?

Fascinating F1 Trivia

Folks, F1 season is closing in (6th march) so here i am with some fascinating facts about F1, don't forget to add ur own if u wish and tell your friends about it...



01. An F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, if it were assembled 99.9% correctly, it would still start the race with 80 things wrong!

02. F1 car engines last only for about 2 hours of racing mostly before blowing up showing the extent to which the engines r pushed to perform...

03. An average F1 driver looses about 4kgs of weight after just one race due to the prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperatures for little over an hour (Yeah thats right!!!)

04. The brake discs in an F1 car have an operating temperature of approx 1000 degees Centigrade and they attain that temp while braking before almost every turn.

05. To give you an idea of just how important aerodynamic design and added downforce can be, small planes can take off at slower speeds than F1 cars travel on the track.

06. The amount of aerodynamic downforce produced by the front and rear wings and the car underbody is amazing. Once the car is travelling over 160 kph (they travel at over 300kmph),an F1 car can generate enough downforce to equal it's own weight. That means it could actually hold itself to the CEILING of a tunnel and drive UPSIDE down!

07. The refuelers used in F1 can supply 12 litres of fuel per second. This means it would take just 4 seconds to fill the tank of an average 50 litre family car.They use the same refueling rigs used on US military helicopters today.

08. TOP F1 pit crews can refuel and change tyres in around 3 seconds.

09. Race car tyres don't have air in them like normal car tyres. Most racing tyres have nitrogen in the tyres because nitrogen has a more consistent pressure compared to normal air. Air typically contains varying amounts of water vapour in it, which affects its expansion and contraction as a function of temperature, making the tyre pressure unpredictable.

10. Normal tyres last 60 000 - 100 000 km. F1 Racing tyres are designed to last 90 - 120 km.

phew! want to be an f1 racer now?
p.s: btw the image at top was of f1 1966 season.

Your Favorite Movie Quote

Hey friends!
Lets play a simple game if i may call it, you post your favorite movie quotes over here (in the comment section), and ask ur friends to do the same, lets see which quote emerges as a winner.
mine is "hasta la vista, baby" in Terminator 2

Germans go the Nazi way Again

A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing 'sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.

Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners who must pay tax and employee health insurance were granted access to official databases of jobseekers.

The waitress, an unemployed information technology professional, had said that she was willing to work in a bar at night and had worked in a cafe.
She received a letter from the job centre telling her that an employer was interested in her 'profile'' and that she should ring them. Only on doing so did the woman, who has not been identified for legal reasons, realise that she was calling a brothel"

So I guess if a married man is unemployed, he could be forced to become a "boy for rent", or lose his unemployment benefits. Germany is just a step below nazism again.

Human are Smart enough to understand this!

According to a sutdy msot pelope can raed and unadetnrsd any mxied up wrod as lnog as the frsit leettr and the lsat lteter are in palce. This is bcesaue we raed wrods as a wolhe and not as leretts in oderr. So y'oure smraetr tahn you thohgut hhu?"

Gmail Invite

hey ppl! i noe everyone has it but still if neone needs a gmail invite just comment or mail me. i got plenty of them.

F1: Whom do we fight with?

Standing on one foot - this post is about the lack of competetion in Formula 1. Where is the competetion in formula 1, where are my overtaking manuvers, where is that sense of adventure, where is that adrenaline in short where is that sport itself?


Look at it from any viewpoint, what is the point of racing a minardi with a Ferrari, even if u put the worst of the 20 drivers in Ferrari and the best in the minardi, still Ferrari will win.(u may swap Ferrari with McLaren/bmw/honda and minardi with redbull/toyota).

What I feel is that the companies should pay a fixed sum of money to FIA (say 15 million $ per car), amount should be affordable by all the 10 companies (even minardi has a budget of 45 million $), after which the companies can make restricted but critical customizations in their car (tweaking of aerodynamics, wheels etc). This way all the drivers and companies will be on even platform and it will be then when the companies and the drivers will be tested of their real abilities.
And also tracks should be widened to make the overtaking a lot more feasible.
This way we shall be able to witness some real competition at, say maximum 10kmph less max speed but on a much more higher average speed.

Lets some mosley and ecclestone read this blog ;-)

Is Hype around Sania Mirza Worth?

Hi people! in my country that is India, there is a rising tennis start named Sania Mirza who has just got her ranking under 100 (at 99.). Sure she is good and deserves a pat on her back. But the question is the quanta of hype that surrounds her worth? If u look at it objectively (read a little critically) she wasn’t even able to reach the Australian open finals (Australian open was when all this hype started). Day before yesterday she did win hydrabad open, though I won't comment on the quality of players in that tournament. She till now hasn't won a single grand slam, so like what is it that so great about her, is India short of pinup girls, in a country where bollywood resides. No i am not another fan of Sharapova but she is a year younger (17), has got slams to her credit and much more... then there was Martina Hingis who too was young..., i am emphasizing on young coz that is what everyone is saying that she is just 18 and has done so much. And if the media wants to write about indians only (i am talking of my country only)

then why not fill their pages about "narayan karthikeyan" the only indian who will ever get behind an F1 car in an F1 race(this season for jordon), so buddy think about it and comment, wating for your opinions.

Valentine's Day

Hi friends, while reading some articles I felt that this is what some people feel about valentine day - its like on this day that we suddenly remember that we love someone, and we want to express it as much as we can on this day in a fashion which mean that we are compensating for the rest of the 364 days. Oh! dear i really love u, though my busy life didn't give me time to express it for the rest of year is what the message gets across.

well I think that is very pessimistic and kill joy view of life, haven't those people ever heard of something called as reinforcement, according to them we shouldn't even celebrate diwali, Christmas and birthdays and just carry on with our routine life. And if they feel we can spend each day of our life in a manner that we work, celebrate, express and show all emotions on one day itself, i guess they need to get practical.

we certainly need certain stimuli to make ur respond to our feelings in a more explicit(no pun intended) manner, and that is what this day does, so lets enjoy ourselves and this world.........
and not worry over certain issues that don't even exist
bye folks I don't want to waste ur precious time on this day....

A window to heaven

After two light hearted posts lets get a bit closer to God and ourselves, here it is poem, originally by my sis

A WINDOW TO HEAVEN

hazel eyes can only see
a world imbued in melancholy

no reason
no scenes
no thought
no means

can wipe off the emtions
freezed in memory
that are to melt in eyes
that submerged deep down in oceans
come about in truths and lies

no betrayl
no love
no kinship
no curse

suffice to form the pearls
that are to form in the folds of eyes
that are prayers in disguise
that are a window to heaven

no saint
no church
no sun
no earth

connnects as these pearls connect
to Him up there
ambition,wish,hope,regret
all snowball
in these pearls
that are a window to heaven

no smiles
no glory
no past
no story

shall make Him come alive
in the mind as they do
to give the push to sart afresh
feeling better,feeling new!

that is why they are
a window to heaven

Intellectual Property - Shiti Rastogi

Blog Syndrom

Guys are u aware of a deadly disease spreading around the world faster than the most destructive computer virus ever ? Well, its called the BLOG SYNDROME:

Symptoms:
*) While sleeping u see a wonderful dream and u think of cliking 'blog this' or 'publish'

*) Your net is not functioning and u start looking for a cyber cafe in way a person in desert looks for water to read ur blogs and blog your own

*) Faliure of the above leads to withdrawl symptoms similar to the ones associated with drugs

*) You get up in the morning and carry your laptop to the loo, so that u can blog even over there

*) you read this and while smiling u r thinking of CONTRIBUTING UR OWN SYMPTOMS IN THE COMMENTS.

next part will be on the treatment of it...

Intellectual Property - Nishith(Subiet) Rastogi

Old but Gold

"Once upon a time there was a shepherd looking after his sheep on the side
of a deserted road. Suddenly a brand new Porsche screeches to a halt. The
driver, a man dressed in an Armani suit, Cerutti shoes, Ray-Ban
sunglasses, TAG-Heuer wrist-watch, and a Pierre Cardin tie, gets out and asks the

Shepherd: 'If I can tell you how many sheep you have, will you give me one of them?'

The shepherd looks at the young man, and then looks at the large flock of
grazing sheep and replies: 'Okay.' The young man parks the car, connects
his laptop to the mobile-fax, enters a NASA Webster, scans the ground
using his GPS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with logarithms and
pivot tables, then prints out a 150 page report on his high-tech
mini-printer. He turns to the shepherd and says, 'You have exactly 1,586
sheep here.' The shepherd cheers,'That's correct, you can have your sheep.'
The young man makes his pick and puts it in the back of his Porsche. The
shepherd looks at him and asks: 'If I guess your profession, will you return my animal to me?'
The young man answers, 'Yes, why not?' The shepherd says, 'You are an IT consultant.

'How did you know?' asks the young man.
'Very simple,' answers the shepherd. 'First, you came here without being called.
Second, you charged me a fee to tell me something I already knew, and
third, you don't understand anything about my business...
Now can I have my DOG back?'"

Help-Telethon

in my country, india, today we are having what they call a simulcast across 17 leading television channels of a performance by the indian television and film association in order to raise money for tsunami relief, my question is why is it that we have to be entertained for us to shell out money for such a sensitive cause, why can't simply all the channels donate the money earned by commercials in that 4 hours slot while running their normal programs only, i may not be able to express what i want to but i hope u get the idea

Annual Examinations

24th is when my final exams will start (the mother's international school, class xi), therefore i might not be regular in posting. studies are going much better then before, monday is the atomic struct assgn., in the morning i read about british prince too, wonder what so relevent about it to our country that it got splashed on the front page as the main headline, should have been in the world page only, well bfn, got to study, and i also hope that my url redirection in www.subiet.co.nr doesn't get cancelled, i will correct it after the exams.

Student Council : The Mother's International School

So, we finally have a new student council, its a wonderful council according to me, comprising of siddharth kothari, purva chawla, ishaan parekh, aditi uberoi, khazanchi, monisha, savyasachi. i too competed but lost, ofcourse the ones who are selected are better suited than me, no grudges, best of luck council
love&luck
subiet

Update

updated my site, and made it look more pro: www.subiet.co.nr

First Post

Here i am, with my perpective of life....... feel free to comment