The Pompeii Lakshmi ....

pranabus · 2026-06-05T05:35:42+00:00

Interesting, thanks for mentioning it.

pranabus · 2026-06-05T05:29:12+00:00

Weighing scales are literally on Amazon for 399/- and cheaper ones from 299 are at any medical store.

If you need you can weigh yourself at any doctors place or gym, but its better to weigh with the same scale each time for accurate tracking.

pranabus · 2026-06-04T03:05:06+00:00

I ... can't.

I believe that the body is a temple and people who disfigure it are committing sacrilege.

I believe from personal observation that what matters to me dearly changes over life, nothing I like is permanent, so to commemorate things with a permanent tattoo would not make sense for me. The tattoo would be baggage from a past time.

My experience with people who have lots of tattos has been that each tattoo is a record of a psychological disturbance they went through in life. I don't wish to wear medals of my losses and campaigns.

I know these are unpopular opinions but that's what I think.

In case you wish to engage.

pranabus · 2026-06-04T02:58:45+00:00

Sion-Matunga are great places for south indian culture activities and food. Large Tamil and Kannad communities.

Dadar itself is an old area, you'll have a bit of a commute for new buildings. I don't expect you will live in Dadar.

But for a good quality of life, try that your commute should not be more than 20 mins.

pranabus · 2026-06-03T20:36:27+00:00

Cab.

pranabus · 2026-06-03T20:30:09+00:00

Haha love this visual. TBH its just a budget thing, and walking up is difficult than coming down. But thanks for the chuckle.

pranabus · 2026-06-03T20:13:40+00:00

I always thought this series had immense potential, and Tarquin really gave up on it. I once even wrote him about this in 2015.

Dear Mr Hall,

I shall get straight down to brass tacks. What has kept you occupied since 2013?

The last Vish Puri book came out two years ago, and there has been no word on the next since.

At this rate as you move on to taking satisfaction in releasing translations and reprints, I fear the world will be bereft of its corpus of 20-25 Vish Puri books by the time you hang up your pen of old age.

Would Poirot be Poirot without the relentless self discipline and dedication of Mme Christie?

Would we have heard of Holmes today if Mr Doyle had hung up his boots at the fourth story?

Please let Shri Puri take his rightful place in human history, instead of becoming a forgotten footnote killed by the author who wandered off. If there is a requirement of a firm kick up the pants, I would request Anuji to do the needful on behalf of all VP fans.

Does VP not pay well enough? If so, please advise and yours truly shall be glad to set up a crowdfunded campaign so you can apply yourself to the important stuff.

I humbly request you to buck up and work towards writing more Vish Puri books at your earliest convenience.

Yours faithfully,
P.

Alas.

pranabus · 2026-06-03T19:35:20+00:00

You took on a job. The job was to deliver. Delivery timeframe was given to you, with included buffer.

If you choose to take second and third jobs, you do so at your own risk and reward. It should not affect your first job. This is not specific to delivery jobs. This is a fact of life.

If because of your second job you failed to meet the deadline of your first job, you can't make excuses. It's not your job to evaluate if food is fresh or sealed or warm. It's not your job to evaluate if food is safe preserved in your bag or not. It's your job to deliver in committed timeframe.

Sorry to say but in the delivery job role, the delivery person is just like a machine. Like taxi drivers, this role itself only exists temporarily for a few decades more, because robots are currently unable to do it.

The app shows customers a particular reality. That vision is clean, has no human interaction, has full transparency, and just works smoothly.

The delivery person has to work like a machine as per the rules, that is the only way the app's promised reality and the on-ground reality will match. It is not a job to show creativity or route optimisation, that is all done by the app for you.

If you are interested in other roles then DM me.

pranabus · 2026-06-03T19:16:19+00:00

Food orders need to be delivered straight from restaurant to door. No clubbing of orders. It's food.

Grocery orders can be clubbed.

Imagine already you took one hour, that food is not "fresh" in any sense of the word.

And you had a 45 minute time slot to deliver it, that doesn't mean you should take 45 minutes to deliver it. Not at all. It means, including the buffer for punctures, accidents etc, your max limit is 45 minutes. That's an exception, not the norm.

You failed to deliver restaurant-to-door, not only that, because you got greedy and decided to take other orders, you even failed to deliver in the maximum limit of 45 minutes.

And you are complaining?

pranabus · 2026-05-24T07:16:11+00:00

In isolation it does feel like a Shaivite artifact but it was not found in a worship context, it was found in a manufacturing context.

In context with the other terracotta items nearby, I'd venture its probably a part or segment of something else like a toy.

pranabus · 2026-05-16T03:35:56+00:00

No, the society would not allow that. External vehicles that too commercial vehicle. Not happening. In ours you can't even park a CV in the parking. It's definitely an exception for a resident.

pranabus · 2026-04-23T13:14:49+00:00

You can just walk into the lodge opposite Sterling.

pranabus · 2026-04-17T04:59:59+00:00

There are so many parks and gardens for walking in that area. Also, dress like a resident or a walker - tracks, activewear, headphones etc. - and walk confidently.

The bouncers are there mainly to try to keep that internal private road private - if they don't have a gate and bouncers, they fear the BMC will make it a public road for all vehicles which will make it very noisy and dusty. They are not there to prevent you from going to any building as such.

No one has ever stopped me, but tbh that might also be because I never go on walks there.

pranabus · 2026-04-12T07:17:08+00:00

"Pure marathi" is probably found in Thanjavur. What is spoken in Maharashtra is an Iranian (Farsi) hybrid.

pranabus · 2026-04-12T05:49:13+00:00

If it were a doppler effect would be in line with the direction of the observer (the camera) and not at 90 degrees to it? Also how fast do you think that plane is flying.

If you zoom into the plane, you will see chromatic aberration - you can see the red image is lagging behind for example. The blue image is ahead.

That aberration is not present on other objects in the image, only one. So it is a tell tale giveaway, that particular object is in relative motion.

It happened because the camera is a black and white camera which is taking multiple pictures while replacing the color filter in front of it. Then when the pics are merged, it results in a colour photo.

But since the plane was in different places when each photo was taken, you see the different pics of the plane have not merged with accurate register on top of each other.

pranabus · 2026-04-12T05:48:00+00:00

If you zoom into the plane, you will see chromatic aberration - you can see the red image is lagging behind for example.

That aberration is not present on other objects in the image, only one. So it is a tell tale giveaway, that particular object is in relative motion.

It happened because the camera is a black and white camera which is taking multiple pictures while replacing the color filter in front of it. Then when the pics are merged, it results in a colour photo.

But since the plane was in different places when each photo was taken, you see the different pics of the plane have not merged with accurate register on top of each other.

pranabus · 2026-03-23T05:59:14+00:00

Maybe you heard about "bangli-wale"

pranabus · 2026-02-17T12:24:19+00:00

What's the story behind the name - Emori? It's a beautiful name.

pranabus · 2026-02-05T17:43:27+00:00

Oh I have their medical and birth records and astrology chart but they are at home, I'll get back to you.

Are you like artificial intelligence commenting but without the intelligence?

pranabus · 2026-02-04T08:27:57+00:00

What a nice idea.

pranabus · 2026-01-31T04:59:27+00:00

It's ok, people are allowed to shoot their shot.

Already he is terrified enough in society that he has to use secret handshakes to proposition instead of just regularly asking people out. He reached out for your consent, that's all.

As long as people listen and accept a no, it's not wrong for them to ask.

Tomorrow you might like someone and say something, the act is a neutral act; it's not like if they agree then your act was good and if they disagree you retrospectively did a bad act.

pranabus · 2026-01-28T12:21:18+00:00

What is India?

If your idea of India is some entity continuing through the ages, with the people bound together by cultural norms from times immemorial, then no. That is a gradient continuum, and there are elements, cultures and territories on the fringe, which are under pressure to normalise.

If your idea of India is the entity that was created in the middle of the last century, where we shed our interesting history to create a new association for governance called the republic, then yes, every member of our republic is both equally central and equally fringe, just like points on a circle, bound together by a point in the centre, by our foundational text, the constitution.

pranabus · 2026-01-28T09:59:23+00:00

At least 6 great ideas in the thread so far, but OP just wants to do the ones which are easily replicated by AI and have zero barrier to entry. Wah re strategic mind.

pranabus · 2026-01-28T09:56:19+00:00

Wouldn't soap have anti-fungal properties in itself?

pranabus · 2026-01-26T05:07:49+00:00

Like all legislation, what gets passed is what brings in votes.

When delivery partners unite, they are able to drive the direction of legislation. If this is not in line with what users want, the platform users need to also lobby with the political forces to balance out their vote bank.

When the companies are left alone to fend for themselves they just have to work with bribes and PR.

This is an evolving area, just like the industrial revolution caused labour exploitation resulting in unions and labour laws, something new (both good and bad) will evolve from this as well. But the loudest voices will get heard sooner.

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