Month: June 2015
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[jog-journal] Streaks
Streaks are very important. For today, I’d not have gotten up had it not been for the streak. Yes, the 2 day streak is the most difficult. And not just that. I didn’t even think while running today. I was testing the efficiency of my method to achieve runner’s high. And it is pretty much…
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[jog-journal] Is Runner’s High Just an Energy?
Ever since finishing VJ James’ Nireeswaran yesterday, I can’t get rid of the idea that every thing in the universe is just energy. Our body is made up of molecules of various kind. But inside, they’re just subatomic particles in different configurations. And protons and electrons and neutrons apparently have this wave-particle state. Everything is…
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Standing up to be Happy
Woke up to a dream today, like the last few days. Ran to surgery ward where we discussed deep vein thrombosis – Virchow’s triad and more. Try this question: A very young girl (13 or 15 year old), comes to emergency room with acute abdomenal pain in the right iliac fossa. What do you do/ask/investigate?…
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Turns out there’s a reason why people love Surgery
Reading someone else’s blog is a great motivator to write one’s own blog. I just went through some of the very first posts in Lamya’s blog. And the idea of documenting one’s day/week in excruciating details still fills me with enthusiasm. The reader deserves to know. They can’t be left hanging off the cliff. Every…
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Beautifying GNOME with Paper theme (Material design)
Last night while I was searching for alternative window managers I discovered this wonderful GNOME Shell theme called “Paper”. After installing it, I’m enjoying looking at my computer screen. Here’re some screenshots. Applications Overview. Look at the menu menu on the top right. Nautilus with folder icons Tweak tool showing the wonderful checkboxes and the…
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[jog-journal] The mind game
If you sleep late, you wake up late. If you sleep early, you still wake up late. That’s why they have invented alarms. About one week since I last woke up early enough to go jogging. The body clock is so unreliable. Woke up to my phone’s clock. Two snoozes only. Today, my plan was…