Amazing Latte Art Printer
Found this on reddit.
Done just with a plotter bought off ebay.
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Found this on reddit.
Done just with a plotter bought off ebay.
This is a cool effect
Too bad I can't do that here in Chennai.
Today morning which going to work, I saw near Avichi (a school near my place) was the Matha Amrithanantha Mayi's Trust (or Centre) and it seems she has come Chennai for two days. There were some vans parked on the road and some crowd near the place. Sitting in the front seat of the bus, I could see two foreigners trying to cross the road. Infact they were jaywalkng and one girl was afraid to even stand near the median. The other girl was brave and was pulling her away from the safe haven towards the side of the road.
All of this happened with a car and auto trying to have a race of "who would hit the girls first". I was amazed how the girls crossed the road as they probably wouldn't have experienced such random traffic in their country. I also pity the other girl who hesitated as she wouldn't stand a day alone without another local person helping her out with auto fares. That was when I thought that perhaps the embassy of their country should have some sort of training or simulation which the person must pass in order to get a visa.
The training should include things like:
Of course this is only a beginner course, but this should be enough for a brief trip of a week or two. Anyway the real fun is to learn from experience. So, once you come here maybe you can ask some friends for some more tips about living (surviving and not going broke) in India.
Please leave comments if you think I have left out any training or tips.
I was reading Scott Adam's book "Stick to drawing comics, Monkey Brain" and in one chapter he was telling about how some people are so adamant that they wouldn't change themselves for anything. The one way to make them believe the other way is to ridicule/mock them.
Here is his exact quote:
I have a friend who I am pretty sure was human during the 4 years in college. But some days when I am back from lunch, I get a message from her.
It is always this exact three messages and I always get it after 1 PM and I get no reply back from her. I am beginning to worry whether she volunteered in some mad scientist experiment causing her to become a Robot. If anyone knows what happened to her please let me know - I would like to have a pet robot for my own some day.
This has always been a point of argument with me and some of my friends when I walk with them. To understand this, you should have been to some place in India and tried walking on the roads (my experiences come mostly from Chennai). Indian roads are generally known for its bad drivers who has no lane discipline or the need for stopping before the stop line. Add some people walking on the roads and you get a classic problem of who has the right-of-way.
This might make some of you to wonder as to why can't people use the sidewalk (or pavement/footpath). The problem is, India isn't like most of the other countries. The sidewalk is filled with small shops which sell toys, rubber bands, bangles, etc., to the abundant deposit of urea caused by men taking a leak even as you stare at them with disgust. Sometime when the traffic is very high, this space is also taken up by bikes trying to reach the signal before the suckers who use the road. Also only some of the main roads have sidewalk and all the small streets and roads only have to make do with the fine dust laden road side.
So you have a to get down on to the street along with the other bikes and autos. Now that you have a rough understanding of the way Indian roads are used, walking on which side of the road gives you a higher probability of reaching your destination safely?
When I was a child, my father had always told me to walk on the right side of the road as it gives you a clear view of the vehicle which is going to hit you. This gives you two advantages:
When we went to Ahmedabad, I found a nice pair of earphones in the iStore and bought it out as the one with my iPod was all gone (the rubber padding was totally gone). I was very happy with the earphone (a bit big for my ears) but superb quality and good bass.
Then one day at work, someone took the earphone which then went on to someone else. I was constantly thinking of getting the earphone from the person before leaving, but couldn't. All because he chose to leave work a bit earlier and found that I wouldn't see the earphone for nearly 5 days as it happened on a friday and he wouldn't come till wednesday and I was off on wednesday. I atlast got the earphone and it had one of its soft sponge missing. Without it it would be awkward to wear it and also it affects the effect.
I need to make a mental note to self that I clearly tell people that I don't like sharing some of my stuff. Some of the things that I don't want to share are the things are new. Here is a quick list of stuff (not complete - subject to change any time in the future)
Found this on Craigslist (thru reddit):
This is sooooo true. Happened to me so many times with so many girls.
Its written by a Satyam employee:
At a time when almost 90% of my Satyam friends are cribbing about the fraud and betrayal by Ramalinga Raju, I have a slightly different opinion. It's bold of me to write this in black and white but this comes straight from my heart and experience. Let me start by quoting an example of 2006. Most of my friends were unemployed with 50-60% plus marks in BTech, with a degree from an average University and hunting madly for a job. Whether people accept it today or not but the truth remains that Satyam was the ONLY saviour and the only mass recruiter who was ready to accept students who had back logs but had cleared them and also it did not put a very strict minimum marks criterion. And this was true not only for my small college at Lucknow but also those across India . Satyam is the fourth largest in IT in India. Looking at India's population I really want to thank Raju for giving some 54000 Indians jobs atleast for all these years . He was the reason for the revival of confidence and the reason for the bread and butter for many a families. Satyam training was renowned all over India. Their STC training centre created numerous love stories and unexpected rekindling of a youthful environment where girls and boys were more indepenent than their college days . I remember most of my Satyam friends felt that they made better friends at Satyam's three to six months training than those in the four years of BTech. Unfortunately people forget to thank God in sad times . I understand that what Raju did is deplorable and unpardonable. He should have treated business more formally and not dealt with it like a family affair . He should have been strict a couple of months or years before itself. Why did he hire so many non potential candidates and keep them on bench? When were the managers and the team mates last told that if they dont work hard, they will lose their job? Business cannot be run lousily. I have been staying with some 200 odd girls for the last 2 years and many of them are from Satyam. Moreover I network a lot and I have lots of male friends at Satyam . I have seen how people tail gate to Satyam, how they give their swipe cards to others to swipe it on their behalf , how female employees have gone home sharp at 6am irrespective of when they landed at office, how employees sit at home for months at a stretch, prepare for all kind of post graduate entrance exams and still enjoy a full month's pay, how often they went for movies at local theatres at office hours, how often employees went to office just to sign on registers in the morning and at evening, how often they faked their certificates , how often they put unlimited fake medical and house rental bills. How can we blame just one man when EACH AND EVERY person was disloyal ? How can we exclude Auditors like PwC ? How can we exclude the Board of Directors who have washed their hands off so clean? How can we exclude banks who gave hefty loans without true verfication? How can we exclude the Chief Minister of AP who allowed leniency for Raju's fellow businessman? How can we exclude managers who were never able to trace which bench employee under him had been away from office for how long ? Yet how can people forget this is the same man whose ideas and potentials gave them an identity for the past several years? How many couples found the right match at an IT industry , courtesy Satyam and how many Andhra farmers benefited from their crores of investments in Satyam shares .How can people forget that Satyam launched its offices right at the doorsteps of a residential colony, where people can simply walk to work ? The most gruesome experience that I can recollect was when a Satyam tag wearing person was waiting to attend an interview and I overheard him saying that he was in a business meeting at the My Home Satyam ( Madhapur) office when he was sitting right infront of me at a totally different company. When employees themselves show such a lousy attitude and dont care a damn for the brand that they carry around their neck, how can they expect others to care? I am not saying that ALL Satyam employees are bad. I have known very dedicated people too, but my point is very clear, before pointing fingers at others, introspect .There are thousands of people who have completed certifications at the cost of Satyam, got trained at Satyam. Satyam made several freshers stand on their feet to get better jobs elsewhere across the globe and attain onsite exposure through Satyam. What Raju did was to keep the business of Satyam going at any cost. I see a very smart man in him when he understood that he should rather accept his mistake than be caught by the USA laws . I see a selfish father in him too that he put a lot at stake for Maytas. However, he resigned with a lot of dignity and his letter of resignation shows humility. It takes a mammoth amount of courage to accept your mistake in public at a time when the media is ready to blow everything out of proportion. If humans dont make mistakes who else would ?
My last salute to this man is for creating such mass employment in India for 57k employees and 57k families when even opening a beetle(pan) shop in a lane in India is a challenge !! Thanks to him for creating income for all the thousands of families who benefited through food chains, the tiffin wallahs, the transport people and all those who made money by renting their houses. I read he donated Rs 12000 crores from his personal pocket to give the January salary of his Satyam employees. Today Satyamites call Raju a FRAUD. The true and loyal Satyamites surely have all the reasons to say this word. But all the rest who sucked every rupee out of Satyam without doing any value addition need to understand - who was a bigger fraud.
A software engineer in Chennai, India. Want to be an entrepreneur.
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