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منگل 1 جنوری 2008Tuesday, January 01, 2008
New Year
Happy New Year.
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بدھ 5 دسمبر 2007Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Gary Farber Needs Help
Gary Farber of Amygdala needs some help. Please go to his blog and donate. Thanks!
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جمعرات 22 نومبر 2007Thursday, November 22, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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جمعرات 9 اگست 2007Thursday, August 09, 2007
Are You a Feminist?
Another internet quiz. Find out how much of a feminist you are. I wasn't surprised at my result.
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بدھ 4 جولائی 2007Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Independence Day
Today is July 4, the 231st anniversary of the adoption of the American Declaration of Independence.
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بدھ 21 مارچ 2007Wednesday, March 21, 2007
VisualDNA
Here is a fun VisualDNA quiz.
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پیر 1 جنوری 2007Monday, January 01, 2007
Happy New Year
Happy 2007!
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ہفتہ 30 دسمبر 2006Saturday, December 30, 2006
Are You a Control Freak?
Am I a control freak? What better way to check than an internet quiz!
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منگل 22 اگست 2006Tuesday, August 22, 2006
You Are On Notice
Stephen Colbert has his On Notice board. Now you can have one too. Here is mine.
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اتوار 6 اگست 2006Sunday, August 06, 2006
سالگرہ مبارک ابو
اگست کا مہینہ شروع ہو چکا ہے جس کا مطلب ہے کہ سالگراؤں کے مہینے کا آغاز ہوا۔ سب سے پہلے امی کی سالگرہ آئی جو 4 اگست کو تھی۔ آج ابو کی سالگرہ ہے۔ سالگرہ مبارک ہو ابو!
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منگل 4 جولائی 2006Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Happy Independence Day
July 4, 1776 was an important day in world history and the Declaration of Independence has lessons for us all. Happy Independence Day!
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ہفتہ 22 اپریل 2006Saturday, April 22, 2006
Georgia Tech Student Detained
A Pakistani American student at Georgia Tech has been arrested for providing material support for terrorism.
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منگل 18 اپریل 2006Tuesday, April 18, 2006
25 Items Meme
Another one of those memes with lots of questions. I got it from Wayfarer.
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جمعرات 2 فروری 2006Thursday, February 02, 2006
Meme of Four
Another meme, this one about listing 4 jobs, movies, places, tv shows, websites, foods, etc.
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اتوار 1 جنوری 2006Sunday, January 01, 2006
نیا سال مبارک
نیا سال مبارک۔ یہ وقت ہے کہ سوچیں کہ گزرا سال کیسا رہا۔
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جمعرات 24 نومبر 2005Thursday, November 24, 2005
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
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ہفتہ 22 اکتوبر 2005Saturday, October 22, 2005
How Much is Your Blog Worth?
A quiz telling you the worth of your blog.
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جمعرات 13 اکتوبر 2005Thursday, October 13, 2005
More Quiz Fun
It's a new batch of online quizzes: A quiz about my politics, another on religion (am I a Muslim or an agnostic?), another on how I'll die and cocktails of my name and nickname.
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جمعہ 7 اکتوبر 2005Friday, October 07, 2005
Environmental Footprint
Results of a quiz about my ecological footprint. Turns out if everyone consumed as much as I do, we would need more than 3 planets.
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جمعہ 30 ستمبر 2005Friday, September 30, 2005
The Alignment Test
I turn out to be "True Neutral" in this Alignment test.
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جمعہ 16 ستمبر 2005Friday, September 16, 2005
ٹیگ یا ڈوری
کچھ بلاگرز نے مجھے ٹیگ کیا ہے کہ کچھ اپنے بارے میں سوالات کا جواب دوں۔
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جمعہ 5 اگست 2005Friday, August 05, 2005
سالگرہ مبارک
میرے والدین کو سالگرہ مبارک۔ امی کی سالگرہ کل تھی اور ابو کی کل ہے۔
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منگل 7 جون 2005Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Happy Birthday, Munira
Happy birthday, Munira!
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بدھ 1 جون 2005Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Online Quiz Fun
I decided to do a few online quizzes for fun.
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بدھ 18 مئی 2005Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Consistency and Moral Taboos
An interesting quiz about taboos, personal morality and harm. My results show me as more morally permissive and more of a believer in universal morality.
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جمعہ 13 مئی 2005Friday, May 13, 2005
An Atlanta Suburb I Wasn't Aware Of
Georgraphy isn't the strong suit of some people. It seems there is a city in Georgia I wasn't aware of.
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پیر 18 اپریل 2005Monday, April 18, 2005
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Interesting, considering that most of the time I have lived in the US has been in Dixie (however Dixie Atlanta is and that’s a whole another question) and my education was in the Pakistani dialect of British English. Your Linguistic...
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بدھ 2 فروری 2005Wednesday, February 02, 2005
What Kind of Elitist Are You?
You speak eloquently and have seemingly read every book ever published. You are a fountain of endless (sometimes useless) knowledge, and never fail to impress at a party. What people love: You can answer almost any question people ask,...
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جمعرات 6 جنوری 2005Thursday, January 06, 2005
What Muslim Stereotype Are You?
You are a PROGRESSIVE Muslim. You could be from any sect, religious or not, and may have leftist/activist tendencies. Anything goes with you. Everyone else is some sort of fanatic. What Muslim stereotype are you? brought to you by...
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ہفتہ 1 جنوری 2005Saturday, January 01, 2005
Fafblog is the King!
Fafnir comes up with a list of things he will not do the next time he lives through 2004. Here are a few choice ones: Things I will not do the next time I live through 2004 vote for a...
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جمعہ 31 دسمبر 2004Friday, December 31, 2004
Happy New Year
Happy new year, everyone. Hope next year is better than this one. See you in 2005....
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Nerd Quotient
Via Asma Mirza....
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اتوار 19 دسمبر 2004Sunday, December 19, 2004
Atlantan Not!
I thought I lived in Atlanta, but it turns out I do not. I was under the impression that this area of DeKalb county was part of the city of Atlanta. But according to this map of Atlanta neighborhoods, I...
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جمعرات 25 نومبر 2004Thursday, November 25, 2004
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Enjoy your turkey! Last year, I had to fly home to spend thanksgiving with Amber. This year not only are we together, we have got Michelle with us. That reminds me, Michelle was conceived last year over...
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اتوار 24 اکتوبر 2004Sunday, October 24, 2004
Handedness and More
Via Political Animal, here are a few tests to check whether you are left-handed or not. I got the following expected results on the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory. Using the rating method of Oldfield, Laterality quotients range from 100 (right handed)...
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ہفتہ 2 اکتوبر 2004Saturday, October 02, 2004
Self Employment Help Needed
Does anyone know what all is involved in being self-employed? I am particularly interested in the tax aspects. It seems that a self-employed person has to send checks to the IRS multiple times in a year. Is that true? Another...
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اتوار 1 اگست 2004Sunday, August 01, 2004
Personality Quiz
Here are my results for the 20 Questions to a Better Personality Quiz. I think it’s all wrong, but it’s fun. Wackiness: 24/100 Rationality: 58/100 Constructiveness: 66/100 Leadership: 38/100 You are an SRCF–Sober Rational Constructive Follower. This makes you a...
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ہفتہ 31 جولائی 2004Saturday, July 31, 2004
What Type of Social Entity Are You?
Category III - The Regular Jo(e) You are the quintessential standard conjured by the word ‘Friend’. What Type of Social Entity are You? brought to you by Quizilla Via Randy McDonald...
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بدھ 21 جولائی 2004Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Hamilton or Hijabman?
If you were a woman looking for marriage, based on their list of requirements for a spouse, which guy would you choose: Alexander Hamilton or HijabMan?...
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اتوار 11 جولائی 2004Sunday, July 11, 2004
Ethical Philosophy Selector
Here are my results for the quiz. John Stuart Mill (100%) Kant (100%) Prescriptivism (87%) Stoics (87%) Ayn Rand (80%) Aquinas (77%) Aristotle (75%) Spinoza (75%) Jean-Paul Sartre (72%) Jeremy Bentham (67%) Epicureans (64%) Ockham (48%) Nietzsche (46%) David Hume...
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منگل 15 جون 2004Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Bilingual Health
Who knew speaking both Urdu and English could improve my mental health! Being fluent in two languages could protect against age-related cognitive decline, says a study in the June issue of Psychology and Aging. Researchers from York University in Toronto...
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پیر 14 جون 2004Monday, June 14, 2004
What Kind of Thinker Are You?
No surprise there. You are a Logical-Mathematical Thinker Logical-Mathematical thinkers: Like to understand patterns and relationships between objects or actions Try to understand the world in terms of causes and effects Are good at thinking critically, and solving problems creatively...
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اتوار 6 جون 2004Sunday, June 06, 2004
Looking for Charity Recommendations
We are looking for charities for our regular annual charity-giving. Specifically we would like an organization working to help the poor in the underdeveloped world, preferably working with children (though not necessarily). Obviously, the charity organization should have a good...
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پیر 24 مئی 2004Monday, May 24, 2004
Which Extremity of the World Are You?
Which Extremity of the World Are You?From the towering colossi at Rum and Monkey. Via Randy McDonald...
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اتوار 23 مئی 2004Sunday, May 23, 2004
How Obsessed Are You With LotR?
On a scale of 1-5, 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest, you are…….Level 2 obsessed! You’ve seen the movies, probably read the books, and know that Tolkien is a truly fantastic author, and that Middle-earth is...
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اتوار 11 اپریل 2004Sunday, April 11, 2004
Happy Easter
Happy Easter to my Christian readers....
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پیر 5 اپریل 2004Monday, April 05, 2004
Two Questions
I have two questions, one tongue in cheek and the other a serious question. I might actually regret putting the two together in one post, but here it goes. First Question Most (all?) US currency has “In God We Trust”...
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پیر 29 مارچ 2004Monday, March 29, 2004
Which Revolution Are You?
What revolution are You? Made by altern_active Via Randy McDonald....
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Which American City Are You?
Las Vegas You Shine bright and partake in all the vices. You’d rather burn out then fade away. Take the quiz: “Which American City Are You?” Via Randy McDonald....
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منگل 23 مارچ 2004Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Newton's Laws of Graduation
I read and cried. First Law: A grad student in procastination tends to stay in procastination unless an external force is applied to it. Second Law: The age, a, of a doctoral process is directly proportional to the flexibility, f,...
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ہفتہ 20 مارچ 2004Saturday, March 20, 2004
Nauroz Mubarak
Happy Persian New Year to Kianoush and my Iranian readers.
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بدھ 10 مارچ 2004Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Libertarian Purity
Via Brian’s Study Breaks, I scored 14 out of 160 on the Libertarian Purity Test. It seems not only am I unlikely to vote for the Libertarian party, I am in danger of being delinked by Unqualified Offerings. Deltoid has...
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جمعہ 5 مارچ 2004Friday, March 05, 2004
This is Unacceptable
Do you think I should delink Max over this libelous post? Here’s the news story he’s talking about. You can take the test yourself here....
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جمعرات 26 فروری 2004Thursday, February 26, 2004
The Book Quiz
You’re Loosely Based! by Storey Clayton While most people haven’t heard of you, you’re a really good and interesting person. Rather clever and witty, you crack a lot of jokes about the world around you. You do have a...
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جمعرات 22 جنوری 2004Thursday, January 22, 2004
Which Lord of the Rings Character Are You?
Congratulations! You’re Haldir! Which Lord of the Rings character and personality problem are you? brought to you by Quizilla Via Sister Scorpion....
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بدھ 14 جنوری 2004Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Miscellaneous
Welcome my Iranian roommate, Kianoush, to the blogworld. He has two weblogs, an English one and a Persian (Farsi) one. Also, I have updates to two posts: Israel: 1948 Transfer? Pakistan’s Nuclear Export...
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منگل 13 جنوری 2004Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Which Enterprise Character Are You?
You’re T’Pol. You are very analytical and logical, as any good Vulcan is, but this makes you stick out like a sore thumb. You’re cold and calculated, but there’s a softer side to you that you tend to keep under...
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What Famous Leader are You?
What Famous Leader Are You? Via Foreign Dispatches....
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بدھ 7 جنوری 2004Wednesday, January 07, 2004
WTC Memorial
A final design has been chosen for the World Trade Center memorial. In the end, the jury seemed to see the same thing so many people have seen at the World Trade Center site since Sept. 11, 2001: what is...
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بدھ 31 دسمبر 2003Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Happy New Year
Happy new year, readers. May 2004 be better than 2003 in every way. I haven’t been blogging lately. I have been sick, busy and lazy. Also, I am not exactly in a blogging mood. Expect me back when I return...
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بدھ 24 دسمبر 2003Wednesday, December 24, 2003
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, everyone. Enjoy the holidays....
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پیر 8 دسمبر 2003Monday, December 08, 2003
What State Is Perfect For You?
California is where you should live. Unless of course you lied on the quiz which would be stupid. It’s crowded as balls there but the weather is perfect, except for the occasional earthquake. What State Is Perfect For You?...
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جمعرات 20 نومبر 2003Thursday, November 20, 2003
What Is Your Animal Personality?
What Is Your Animal Personality? brought to you by Quizilla Via Ejaz Asi....
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بدھ 19 نومبر 2003Wednesday, November 19, 2003
What 20th Century Theorist Are You?
Apparently, all these years of grad school have gone to waste. Despite being out of undergrad for a decade, I am still one at heart. You are an undergraduate! Your mind has not yet warped into the utter oddness of...
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جمعرات 6 نومبر 2003Thursday, November 06, 2003
Miscellaneous
Found while net surfing: HijabMan Blog: A very interesting weblog of a progressive Muslim in Canada. Here is his post about the issue of women and mosques. Via Half Past Nomad, I found Plug-n-Pray. They have kits for Christian, Jewish,...
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بدھ 22 اکتوبر 2003Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Toll and Speeding
Eric Muller has some interesting thoughts on giving speeding tickets on toll highways. It arises for me specifically in the context of the NJ Turnpike, but it pertains to any highway that gives you a toll coupon when you enter...
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منگل 21 اکتوبر 2003Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Taller = Richer?
According to this article, taller people earn more money than short ones. Apparently, size does matter. According to a recent report by the University of Florida, tall people earn considerably more money than their shorter counterparts throughout life. They earn...
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Graduate School
Brian has some good advice for surviving graduate school. Most people go through periods of wondering if they’re smart enough to be in graduate school. My friend Jordan discovered that most people at her grad school wondered if they had...
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ہفتہ 18 اکتوبر 2003Saturday, October 18, 2003
What I am Reading
I am busy, so no regular posts today. However, here is some stuff I am reading: A New York Times article about the Lackawanna Six, the Yemeni-Americans in Buffalo who trained at an Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. An interesting...
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بدھ 15 اکتوبر 2003Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Not a Genius, Not a Criminal
It seems like my best days are behind me. I won’t be making any major scientific breakthroughs now that I am in my 30s and married. Satoshi Kanazawa, a psychologist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, compiled a...
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منگل 7 اکتوبر 2003Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Not Evil Enough
I am disappointed. Via Al-Muhajabah....
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ہفتہ 4 اکتوبر 2003Saturday, October 04, 2003
I Wish!
I wish our school had stuff like this. Students now get massages, pedicures and manicures at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh, while Washington State University boasts of having the largest Jacuzzi on the West Coast. It holds 53 people....
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جمعہ 12 ستمبر 2003Friday, September 12, 2003
What Legend Are You?
You are a siren. What legend are you?. Take the Legendary Being Quiz by Paradox Definitely not me. But as The Poor Man would say, it’s the Internet, so it must be right. Via Unqualified Offerings....
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جمعرات 11 ستمبر 2003Thursday, September 11, 2003
September 11
I don’t know what to say about the dastardly terrorist attack two years ago. I have no interesting story of where I was. I was sleeping in Atlanta and was awakened by my roommate around 11am because of frantic calls...
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بدھ 10 ستمبر 2003Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Optical Illusion
There are some very interesting optical illusions here. I especially like the “rotating snakes.” Via Uncertain Principles....
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اتوار 7 ستمبر 2003Sunday, September 07, 2003
Arrival Day
The Head Heeb has come up with an ethnic holiday for American Jews. As he explains, 349 years ago today, the ship St. Catherine landed at New Amsterdam carrying 23 Jewish settlers. They were not the first Jews to set...
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منگل 2 ستمبر 2003Tuesday, September 02, 2003
Are You a Neocon?
An interesting quiz. Surprise, surprise, I turn out to be a liberal. Liberals… Are wary of American arrogance and hypocrisy Trace much of today’s anti-American hatred to previous US foreign policies. Believe political solutions are inherently superior to military solutions...
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بدھ 27 اگست 2003Wednesday, August 27, 2003
I Have A Dream
From a Slate article, I learn that tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech at the March on Washington. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the...
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جمعرات 21 اگست 2003Thursday, August 21, 2003
A Good Reason to Exercise
I guess I should start exercising regularly. :-) A new study offers an additional reason for men to exercise: It could add years to their sex lives. Researchers hope men will learn from this, and exercise to protect their potency...
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بدھ 20 اگست 2003Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Extinction of Men
Well, it seems men will be extinct soon. MEN are doomed to extinction, victims of the decaying human Y-chromosome, the only piece of DNA men possess and women do not. So says Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford...
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جمعہ 15 اگست 2003Friday, August 15, 2003
What Movie Do You Belong In?
Lord of the Rings! What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!) brought to you by Quizilla Via choco-bean....
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جمعرات 14 اگست 2003Thursday, August 14, 2003
Power Outage
You have probably heard of the power outage that hit us an hour ago. Power was gone in our apartment for 10-15 minutes. Being from Pakistan, a power outage like this can simply be ignored. Even though the places I...
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بدھ 13 اگست 2003Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Left Handers Day
Via PhotoDude, I find out that today is left handers day. We are more artistic and more talented than our right-handed colleagues…Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were left handed. We’re not bad at sport too…Maria Navratilova, John McEnroe and Jimmy...
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ہفتہ 9 اگست 2003Saturday, August 09, 2003
Personality Test
Via Brian Ulrich, I took a personality test which gives the explanation for my results here and here. Here are the results: Your Type isISTJIntrovertedSensingThinkingJudgingStrength of the preferences %8918911 You are: very expressed introvert slightly expressed sensing personality very expressed...
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منگل 5 اگست 2003Tuesday, August 05, 2003
Arrival Day
The Head Heeb (who I had nice dinner and great conversation with yesterday; thanks, Jonathan) plans to celebrate 349th anniversary of the arrival of Jews in America this September 7 with a blogburst and an offline celebration. Arrival Day commemorates...
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جمعرات 24 جولائی 2003Thursday, July 24, 2003
Boring Porn
I can understand the woman’s reaction, but what kind of porn puts a man to sleep?...
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جمعرات 3 جولائی 2003Thursday, July 03, 2003
Happy Independence Day
I’ll probably not be able to blog tomorrow, it being a 6 hour flight and all. So happy fourth of July to everyone. Go read Justice Robert Jackson’s July 4, 1941 address at Eric Muller’s blog....
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پیر 30 جون 2003Monday, June 30, 2003
Katherine Hepburn and Muslims
You might have heard the news that Katherine Hepburn died yesterday at 96. But do you know what her death has to do with Islam? Via Tacitus....
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ہفتہ 28 جون 2003Saturday, June 28, 2003
Do not Call, Telemarketers
Yesterday, the Do Not Call Registry was started. More than 735,000 people registered on the first day not to receive any calls from telemarketers. Their website was difficult to access all day because of the high load. Another problem cropped...
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پیر 23 جون 2003Monday, June 23, 2003
Eric Rudolph Visits
Wow, I got a visit from Eric Rudolph himself to say: i didnt do it Am I important or what? And then there’s Bobby who thinks I am a judgmental nutcase who judges terrorists like Rudolph or Bin Laden: Sounds...
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بدھ 18 جون 2003Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Country Quiz
You’re the United Nations! Most people think you’re ineffective, but you are trying to completely save the world from itself, so there’s always going to be a long way to go. You’re always the one trying to get friends...
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پیر 16 جون 2003Monday, June 16, 2003
Brain Persuasion Test
Following Zack, my Brain Persuasion Test had the following result: Your Brain Usage Profile Auditory : 66% Visual : 33% Left : 47% Right : 52% Ambrin, your hemispheric dominance is equally divided between left and right brain, while you...
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جمعہ 13 جون 2003Friday, June 13, 2003
Left or Right Brain?
I am left-handed for most tasks except playing cricket (I bowl and bat right-handed) and eating (probably the work of my parents). I am, however, almost ambidexterous in that I use my right hand quite often as well. Also, I...
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Miscellaneous
Does anyone know of any politically-themed Pakistani bloggers? I know of a number of personal ones and a few Islamic themed ones, but none blogging on current affairs and politics, domestic and international. For HTML gurus, what code do...
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منگل 20 مئی 2003Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Pitch for Money
Since I have moved into new digs which cost money, I think I should make a pitch for donations. If you like my weblog, please consider donating. Any amount is well-appreciated. The links for Paypal and Amazon Honor system are...
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جمعرات 8 مئی 2003Thursday, May 08, 2003
I am going to Hell
According to the Dante’s Inferno test, I have been consigned to the seventh level of hell. Few go lower. The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell! Here is how you matched up against all...
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بدھ 30 اپریل 2003Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Hiatus or Not
I haven’t been feeling much like posting anything recently. There are a number of things I want to write about, but just haven’t had the energy to blog. Plus work and errands have kept me busy. I am also moving...
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بدھ 23 اپریل 2003Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Which Country of the World are You?
Switzerland - A neutral power for as long as most can remember, it has avoided war for several centuries. However, it is still considered highly advanced and a global power. Positives: Judicial. Neutrality. World-Renouned. Powerful without Force. Makes Excellent...
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پیر 7 اپریل 2003Monday, April 07, 2003
Miscellaneous
If you are wondering why the posting recently has been sparse. Wonder no more. Spring semester winds up May 2. My teaching assistantship is more demanding work during the last month of the semester as the project is assigned and...
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جمعرات 3 اپریل 2003Thursday, April 03, 2003
Endorsement
Andrew Northrup for President in 2004....
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پیر 31 مارچ 2003Monday, March 31, 2003
SARS
The major signal processing annual conference has been cancelled due to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). The 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) scheduled for 6-10 April in Hong Kong has been cancelled due to...
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Light Blogging
I haven’t been blogging much recently. Real life has interfered. I am working on my research, preparing a presentation and will be doing some grading this week as well. I’ll try to post as often as my schedule allows. I...
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اتوار 30 مارچ 2003Sunday, March 30, 2003
Political Quiz
Where do you fall on the liberal - conservative political spectrum? (United States) brought to you by Quizilla (Via CalPundit)...
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ہفتہ 15 مارچ 2003Saturday, March 15, 2003
What language are you supposed to speak?
Dummkopf! Vei shpiek ju not GERMAN? Ju mast komplei and tschensch jur kurrent Lenkwetsch reit nau! What language are you supposed to speak? brought to you by Quizilla...
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United States: What's to like and not like?
At the end of her moving post on torture that I referred to earlier, Emma of Late Night Thoughts says: If Americans are to be believed, America is a nation with a special dispensation from God. The shining city upon...
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جمعرات 13 مارچ 2003Thursday, March 13, 2003
The Dog Can Bite
The Talking Dog described each blog (more than 200) on his blogroll in glowing terms. But now he shows that the dog can bite as well as it can talk. U.S.S. Clueless is the eponymous blog of Steven den Beste...
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بدھ 12 مارچ 2003Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Laptop Recommendations
I am thinking of buying a laptop PC. My requirements include maximum compute power, lots of RAM (at least 512MB), at least a 40GB hard disk, a CD-RW/DVD combo drive, 100-Base-T ethernet and wireless networking, 1 or more PCMCIA slots...
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Which Political Stereotype Are You?
Democrat - You believe that there should be a free market which is reigned in by a modest state beaurocracy. You think that capitalism has some good things, but that those it helps should be obliged to help out...
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پیر 10 مارچ 2003Monday, March 10, 2003
Census Data
As CalPundit pointed out, there is a lot of info available about your neighborhood on the Census website. It appears though that he has made a mistake in reporting the data (122 people) for his census tract. According to the...
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بدھ 5 مارچ 2003Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Definitely Broken
You are 33% geekYou are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job...
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پیر 3 مارچ 2003Monday, March 03, 2003
What Do You Like About Your State or Country?
Michele of A Small Victory asked her readers to send her comments about their home states: What is so great about America, anyhow? What makes it such a wonderful place? What would you tell a foreigner about your home state?...
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What Number Are You?
I am π Everyone loves pi what number are you? this quiz by orsa...
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How Evil Are You?
How evil are you?...
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منگل 18 فروری 2003Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Part of Pi
Our names are represented within the first 4 billion binary digits of pi (=3.14159…) if you encode the alphabet into 5-bit binary numbers. Here are the results: search string = “zack” 20-bit binary equivalent = 11010000010001101011 search string found at...
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جمعہ 14 فروری 2003Friday, February 14, 2003
Valentine Poem
Kieran Healy, posting from the future, has a neat poem from the blogger to his Valentine....
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منگل 11 فروری 2003Tuesday, February 11, 2003
New Readers
Welcome. If you are following a link from Burt Lum’s article in the Honolulu Advertiser, the post he refers to is available here. While you are here, please go through my weblog. I have quite a few interesting posts about...
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جمعرات 6 فروری 2003Thursday, February 06, 2003
SUVs
I really liked the “That’s Quite Interesting to Mo Rocca” on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Here are some quotes: “SUVs: They are big, they are bold and they consume ungodly amounts of fuel. In short, they embody America.”...
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اتوار 2 فروری 2003Sunday, February 02, 2003
Columbia Tragedy
My prayers for the families of the seven astronauts, Rick Husband, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, William McCool and Ilan Ramon. May they rest in peace. When Challenger blew up, I was in the 10th grade and...
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ہفتہ 25 جنوری 2003Saturday, January 25, 2003
Keep Your Tinfoil Hat On
An interesting area of research: Just by pointing his supermagnets at the right spots on your head, Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone can make you go momentarily mute or blind. He can disrupt your working memory or your ability to recognize faces....
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بدھ 18 دسمبر 2002Wednesday, December 18, 2002
A Brief History of the Future
Jim Henley has a very interesting post describing future trends tied in with Science Fiction....
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پیر 16 دسمبر 2002Monday, December 16, 2002
Military Punishment
Can the military punish killers among its soldiers? Specifically killers of innocent civilians on the side of the enemy. Obviously, we cannot look at the record of illiberal and fascist countries for guidance in this matter. However, looking back at...
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منگل 10 دسمبر 2002Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Which Hogwarts Student Are You?
Which Hogwarts Student Are You? Found via No Point of Reference...
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پیر 9 دسمبر 2002Monday, December 09, 2002
Smoking or Sex
According to a survey in Europe, Nearly 80 percent of British smokers, almost 70 percent in the Netherlands, France and Germany and more than 55 percent in Belgium and Spain would forgo sex rather than live without cigarettes for a...
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Amazon's Clothes-Wearing Clean Underwear Buying Customers
What’s up with that?...
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جمعرات 5 دسمبر 2002Thursday, December 05, 2002
Infidelity is Bad for Your Health
Finally, a reason not to cheat on your spouse: Graham Jackson, a heart specialist at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, found couples in long-term relationships were far less likely to have heart attacks while having sex than those having affairs...
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اتوار 24 نومبر 2002Sunday, November 24, 2002
Welcome
Welcome, new readers. Ah well, who am I kidding. I didn’t have any readers before the weekend. I hope you like my blog and visit again. I started this blog in June but other than some test posts and venting...
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جمعرات 21 نومبر 2002Thursday, November 21, 2002
What Christian Theologian Are You?
“Sin is incurable by the strength of man, nor does free will have any validity here, so that even the saints say: ‘The evil which I do not wish, this I do.’ ‘You are not doing the things which...
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Who am I?
I am a graduate student in engineering at a public school in the Southeast US. My research interests are in image and video analysis, computer vision and graphics. Other than research and teaching, I like to camp and hike, travel...
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پیر 11 نومبر 2002Monday, November 11, 2002
Which Founding Father Are You?
Which Founding Father Are You?...
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اتوار 30 جون 2002Sunday, June 30, 2002
Test
This is my 1st test post....
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