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Random musings from a class… guess which one

“Depreciation, block of assets, purchase value, residual value, scrap value, kick-ud the bucket of the beenis… I wish you could able to understand.”
“Don’t you need to make an adjustment.”<- this is NOT a question.

Now with all these ever-increasing acronyms denoting various forms or levels of profit thrown at us everyday, I have decided to coin the mother of all profit acronyms, the ultimate profit acronym… PBCODIT: Profit before CoGS, Operating Expenses, Depreciation, Interest and Taxes… go figure.

feeling amortized,
Hypnos

This was a post I had written over four years ago in the earlier version of my blog. Though it’s more like an IIM Indore internal thing, I still enjoyed reading it again today.

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Bad 2009

The year couldn’t have had a worse start. Truly.

When I started writing this post I was going to talk about JPG magazine closing down because of lack of sustaining funds. And I kept thinking if such a reaction is worth it. I mean so many things could have happened that could be worse than a favourite and inspiring magazine closing down.

And while I was thinking of that, I got a SMS from a friend, telling us that another friend has passed away.

It was in the papers. I wish I believed in souls, the afterlife and prayers so I could speak to Nikhil and pray for his soul.

Now this year has officially started on a very bad note.

I already cannot tolerate people who drive without caring for their or other people’s lives. They’ve given me another reason today.

I can’t think of words to tag this post with.

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More Celebrations!

Happy Almost New Year

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Festivities

Merry Christmas, Festivus, Season’s and Reason’s Greetings, Happy Hannukah, Solstice and Wintereenmas to all of you.

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The Emperorโ€™s New Clothes

New look. Like it?

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Published… not quite :)

klueLESS gets an article in The Economic Times on Nov 21.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Features/LiveITUP/Unravel_the_Klued_In_code/articleshow/msid-3738933,curpg-1.cms

The game does not need recognition like this… since it has got its own recognition its own way – the current version is the fourth avatar of the game, but well, for an old-timer like me, seeing the name of something I created in ET is big news.

And then I’d like to thank Chandoo for the awesome name. After three years, only his contribution is constant, the content of the game changes with every avatar ๐Ÿ™‚

Oh, and the not quite part. Understandably, the article is about klueLESS 4 mainly, so none of the original team gets mentioned. Big deal ๐Ÿ™‚

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8 days to go!

The biggest ever Commonwealth Youth Games is coming to Pune, in another 8 days.

Have you booked tickets yet?

And have you checked out the merchandise?

Oh, and don’t forget to say hi to and become a fan of Jigrr on facebook.

You could also see Elephant’s page about the games’ design.

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Plagiarism?

Thanks to Prasad who pointed me to the following graphic which appears in Digit magazine‘s August ’08 issue DVD

Now I’d request you to see the following animation:

Do you notice something?

This animation was made in 2005, by three of us: Jhasketan Sethi, Sanchit Shinghal and me, Amit Sharma, for our institute’s management fest. I’m sure neither of us, nor the current managing team of the festival have been contacted by anyone related to the magazine for this.

Do you think it’s legally and ethically acceptable for such a reputed publication to copy steal creative content?

Related links –ย http://kidakaka.com/blog/2008/09/12/plagiarism/
http://jainuine.blogspot.com/2008/09/plagiarism-by-digit.html
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Geek, net, new apartment

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This strip posted on xkcd today resonates with me so much, what with me trying to rig up a wifi router with my broadband connection so I can sit in any corner of my flat with a laptop and be connected.

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Something wrong…

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From the legendary xkcd site.