Argumentum ad Ignoratum

Archive for 2007

16 Dec

The light at the end of the tunnel..

was actually a train coming full speed at me. My sister’s wedding was canceled. A few hours before the actual wedding, we got an email from an anonymous source that the groom was already married. This started a 4 hour long intense investigation and assimilation of resources. At the end of it we found out [...]

29 Nov

At home

I am at home after over 2 years to attend my sister’s wedding. This trip is turning out to be quite a lot of fun and challenge than I expected. On one hand, it is pretty cool to meet all my relatives after a long time, on the other I am missing my solitude and [...]

11 Nov

I passed my quals exam!!


01 Nov

Countdown to Quals

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My quals is scheduled for 1.30 PM on Friday, 11/9. I am pretty happy about [...]

01 Nov

Stupid Adsense

Over the last couple of days, I spent sometime optimizing my Google ads, and it worked. The problem was, it worked too well. Google determined the increased clicks to be fraudulent and closed my account. A simple search reveals that this is a prevalent issue. Now how on earth am I responsible if their logic [...]

29 Oct

Confessions of an Economic Hitman

I found a couple of long videos of an interview with the author of “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”, John Perkins. If you have not read the book, I would strongly urge you to. It is either a really good work of fiction, or out right scary.

29 Oct

Exam Update

I still don’t have the exact date of my quals exam. I know it is sometime next week, but nothing more. I sent the dept adviser an email about this and she has promised to look into this at the earliest. I think knowing the exact date would do wonders to bring my stress levels [...]

24 Oct

Dating to Relationship

So a while ago I raised a question as to when does one transition from “dating” to being in a “relationship”? I have given this quite a bit of thought and have discussed this a bit with friends and MAD. Here are a few opinions in no particular order.

When you are sexually monogamous.
When you have [...]

23 Oct

Engagement et. al.

My sis’s engagement was yesterday. I was on the phone with my parents numerous times through out the day just to check in and see how things are going. The whole thing went very smoothly and I got some pics that were taken by my cousin using his cell phone camera emailed to me the [...]

20 Oct

Here for you…

Inspired by PostSecret, here is where you can leave me a message if you ever need someone to talk to.

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