Category Archives: Hobbies

Venturing into digital art

As part of learning how to use digital tools to create art, I created my first digital art using Adobe Illustrator, a few minutes back. I was very happy with the results. Although I have more stuff to learn and get better understanding of lighting Also enclosing two animations that I created a few days… Read More »

My new year gift

It’s a new year. And what better way to welcome the new year, than to gift me something special ? So this year, I decided to gift myself an audio recorder, this one by zoom. It is H4n pro by Zoom. The going rate was almost 15,000+ even a few weeks back. But when I… Read More »

Painting my bedroom

Select the shade your like from the paint website : https://www.bergerpaints.com/virtual-colour-painter/interior-living-room Install the color picker addon for chrom and select the color from the page Google for the color and select complimentary color from the site http://www.color-hex.com/color/76b82c

Microscope 

I got microscope as a gift from Kayeen, when he came home yesterday. We talked for several hours about bacterial motility and cell division. Had burger from MacD Today we went to his college at Bannerghetta. AMC college. Met other faculty : Anjali and Vidya. Met students as well. Saw onion cell as well as… Read More »

Microscopic discussions with Kayeen

TEM : Transimission electron microscope – Hitachi HD 2000 STEM microscopic view of bacteria Lytic cycle of viral replication Lysogenic cycle : https://socratic.org/questions/what-are-the-differences-between-a-lytic-infection-and-a-lysogenic-infection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hexn-DtSt4 http://www.ebay.in/itm/Microscope-adapter-tube-for-NIKON-D3000-D3100-D5000-D90-/272400707393?hash=item3f6c58ef41

This is what I am made of

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open_projects While going through some old posts in this blog, I came across the link for Google groups. And guess what ? I stumbled across the groups, which I had created more than 10 years back. Among them, I clicked on the open_projects group It was as if, the posts were screaming back at me… Read More »

First long drive alone

Today was my first long drive, in our car, Maruthi 800, alone. I can see that I have come a long way, from the days, I had trouble remembering what was clutch or break, learning the first lessons of car driving from my dad in the play ground, near our Ponganam kadu house. It was… Read More »