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How charming am I for Google to say so? Am I really? ;) Or was that a sarcastic note, letting me know, on how to be charming? :(

You gotto say.

Reading Books has become a thing of the past. Now its all blogs, the stats are here:

Src: Google Reader

Looks like a dose of my life, getting stronger from Monday to Sunday. :) And, I tell you, thats awful number of craps on Saturdays.

Two things, I tried hard to do, today:
1) Not to watch even a single movie.
2) Read something out of a book.

Both are well done. I deserve a sound sleep now. :)

Every bloody thing in America is bigger than the sizes I’m used to.

Roads: No explanations.

Direction Sign Boards: They are so big & very clean with big letters.

Traffic Speeds: People in freeways travel here at big speeds; the near max would be 120 mph. Yep, you got it! Thats 193.12128 kmph.

Trucks: They are really huge & travel at about 65 mph. The only things that’ll scare you on roads.

Parking Space: Everyone owns a 4 wheeler & to make them come to your shop, you gotto to offer a space for their vehicles. The parking spaces spans acres of land even when the shop is just about 50×50 feet.

Days: They are longer too. Theres daylight even at 8:30pm in the place I live. The sun gets up early by 5 am.

Moon: Some 2 weeks back, we had a full moon. You won’t believe, the moon here is about 20% larger than what I had seen. Did they do something to the Moon when Apollo landed? Weird.

Crows: Its very uncommon. Even if you spot one, you’ll see the difference. Its the all-black (is it male?) one in a XXL size. Its the Raven here.

Living Spaces: They are never cramped. And the communities are very spacious.

Burgers: When I buy them, I specially instruct to cut into two halves. One enough for the lunch & other for the dinner.

I’m just thinking, does India have anything majestic/adorable/to-be-proud-of apart from what our ancient kings had built?

Update #0:
Tomatoes: They are like apples. You know how the onions & potatoes will be. Yes they are. :)

People: Both the White & Black are huge.

Land Spread: Should be the only country to have more than 4 time zones. Keep aside the confusions because of it.

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Creating mashup names is fun. Lemme remember what I have done with them.

SoundingBytes:
Its my final year project, I did it in college. Its about a new way of data communication using sound. We took a lot of inspiration from the works a professor named John from Univ of Florida & his team. We implemented this at a data rate of < 5 kbps. Feeling very stupid about it, now.

SawtoothLicks:
Supposed to be the name of my creative media company. Did a lot of stuff with Photoshop & Flash, again in college. Sprouted because I loved that thing. Had even a catch-line, “Green out of Blue”. :) Does it suck?

BetterButter:
Named something with a lot of hopes that it’ll help & better my life. Later, it turned out to be a BitterButter. The butter just melted away. But the bitterness stays.

SparklingSpikes:
Spike is my wannabe nick name. And the sparkles here just adds glamour to it. :)

BornToAmaze:
This was my kinda brand which lost its branding now.

ScreamCast:
My 1st blog had this name. Its about screaming & casting.

TracePoint:
Another blog, I started to save my daily activities. One can pin point what I did at a particular day of a week. If I could re-run my life in Debug mode, TracePoint would be its possible output. Now its gone, untraced.

BufferCache:
Some digital electronics. Some embedded software. Something to Save & Store. Now its all empty.

FullTank:
Sort of a personal wiki. The pumpset isn’t functional yet.

BigBucks:
A knowledge reserve to reap big bucks. The knowledge here is just like a few molecules of sand from the shore, I hold it in my hand.

On a not-so-related note, when I was in school, my uncle had his 1st child, a boy. He came & asked me about a name, he could give his son. That time, I had two Sathish-s in my class & they  both were my friends. I smiled at my uncle & said, “Sathish”. Now the boy is “Sathis“. Hey, the missing “h” got into my name. >:O)

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Savings Accelerator is a credit card product from American Express. Whats intriguing with this is, with each card comes a savings account. And the money to save is from the card itself.

Yep! Every 1% of the spendings is deposited in the savings account by the card company. The savings come in the form of spendings & grows at a high yield interest rate. Isn’t it good marketing?

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