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Random Specific Thoughts @myrandomspecificthoughts.wordpress.com@myrandomspecificthoughts.wordpress.com ·Rick & Morty
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats“Two for 350.“
When one is listed for 175, it is not a deal any sane person would take. But I am enthralled; somehow, two for 350 is lucrative, a steal; a price worthy of the art but approved by my student wallet.
They are miniature elephants, handcrafted and painted in blacks, greens and pinks; they are products of human whimsy; reality doesn’t stand a chance. And as such, they are dressed up too, in intricate, elaborate, pretty jhools of blue, green and purple.
He’s staring at me and laying out more colours – yellows and blacks and reds, and there is no end to the colours that are spewing out of his arms. I pick a blue and yellow, and he’s still staring; I feel imagined judgement and put them back to pick up a pink and a black. They’re such an unlikely pair, and colours that don’t make sense. But I know, it’s also the only pink elephant I’ll probably ever hold.
I didn’t know then that I’d give them away. But I think about him, the artist who made these, painted these in these ungodly colours and shipped them across state borders. Does he know what’ll come of these tiny artefacts? Perhaps to him, it is sustenance, numbers and today’s ends meeting. But I like to think he has hopes and dreams; that his work, his labour could potentially see more worlds than he would.
I bought them because I saw them and I had this inexplicable urge where I simply had to have them; in all of the multiverse branches, there was no universe where I walked away empty-handed. I would have given a pound of flesh if I had to. But just as surely as I wanted them, I was aware they weren’t mine to hold onto.
Today, the elephants I’ve nicknamed Rick and Morty are with my friend and his mother, oceans apart. One sits with him, the other with her; each a small, ridiculous assurance that the other is happy and well somewhere in the world.
You just know they are where they should be. And perhaps they are happy, too; objects oblivious to life and its sorrows, having found a purpose they will never learn of.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The TempestThoughtfully yours,
D[Featured image: Photo by Alec Doualetas on Pexels.com]
Previously on Random Specific Thoughts:
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Madras Day falls on Aug 22; today marks the 387th anniversary of the city's founding in 1639
I'm reposting my narrative essay 'Finding Madras in Chennai,' on discovering the city through its street names, a fascinating exercise with rewards so rich
.https://medium.com/counterarts/finding-madras-in-chennai-5c9f8855df50?sk=6107d04e395420f5345b515ee9d65e3b
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#History #colonialism #Madras #culture @mastodonindians @mastodonindia #Chennai #India #Britain @rohanv -
Aviation weather for Chennai International airport (India) is “METAR VOMM 170400Z 28011KT 6000 SCT020 SCT100 32/25 Q1009 NOSIG” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/vomm/en #chennaiinternationalairport #airport #chennai #india #vomm #maa #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl
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#Fotovorschlag Dinge die mit O beginnen oder so aussehen
#Oberleitung in #chennai im indischen Bundesstaat #tamilnadu
Das Teil britzelte und brutzelte keinen Meter von uns entfernt, wie wir auf der #dachterrasse unseres Hostels saßen und #idli zum #frühstück aßen.
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Let’s not let the focus on personality-driven politics make us forget the institutional responsibility owed to the taxpayer.
#TamilNaduPolitics #CivicGovernance #Accountability #PublicTrust #LocalBodyElections #Chennai #Democracy
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#India's #DataCentre boom confronts a looming water challenge
Nikhil Inamdar, 9 November 2025
Excerpt: "From #Chile and #Mexico to #Georgia in the #US and #Scotland, serious concerns have been raised around data centres guzzling excess water for their cooling systems and consuming vast amounts of energy at the cost of local communities.
"In an energy starved, water-scarce India, these challenges are even more accentuated.
"According to the World Bank, India has 18% of the world's population, but only 4% of its water resources, making it among the most water-stressed countries in the world.
"India's data centre water consumption, meanwhile, is expected to more than double from 150 billion litres in 2025 to 358 billion litres by 2030, putting further pressure on its water table.
"Moreover, most of India's data centres are concentrated in urban clusters like #Mumbai, #Hyderabad, #Chennai and #Bengaluru which have strong competing water needs."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr417pwek7oArchived version:
https://archive.ph/7QvxI#Datacenters #EnergyConsumption #WaterConsumption #ClimateChange #WaterIsLife #Datacentres #WorldPol
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Mapping Party at Mylapore Market — May 17th
We had a small but productive mapping party at Mylapore Market on May 17th, with three mappers hitting the streets to capture what's on the ground.
Between 3 of us, we pushed 57 changesets across the area. Shops and places got the most attention with 96 edits — names, types, opening hours, whether they still exist.
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Governor Shrinks Convoy Amid Austerity Signals
Chennai Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar reduced his security convoy from 10 to 4 vehicles. This follows PM Modi's call for fuel saving.
#Chennai #Governor #FuelSaving #Austerity #Modi
https://newsletter.tf/chennai-governor-cuts-convoy-fuel-saving/
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The Governor's convoy is now 6 vehicles smaller, down from 10 to 4. This shows a commitment to saving fuel.
#Chennai #Governor #FuelSaving #Austerity #Modi
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On the 19th of April, the #OpenStreetMap community of #Chennai held a mapping party in Pondy Bazar, Thiyagaraya Nagar.
https://osmcal.org/event/4713/
A total of 98 features were created across 41 changesets, including -
29 shops
21 man-made features
17 amenities
16 roads and road-related features
3 healthcare features
3 public transport features
1 officesOur thanks to all 8 participants, and to Āilaysā (https://www.ailaysa.com/) for sponsoring the food!
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Part Two (29th and 30th April 2026)
The train. Got on alright, enough space for my luggage
The half bogey I am on has Cabins A to H. This is supposed to have 22 berths. I know for sure G & H is a coupe (2 berths).
F has 4 berths. A to E i am not sure.From when i last traveled some very minor changes.
Bedsheets are pink, a waste basket, better 3 pin sockets (one for each berth). Better switches. Same berths.
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29th April 2026
Chennai Central Railway station (A Terminus)
Managed to, barely, make it to the station after a fast speaking, rash, distracted uber driver got us lost.Could barely spend time at the station hence blurry pictures on the run.
Train to Delhi , about 34 hours.
In the past, have done this journey many times in almost all classes .
But doing this trip, now, after 8 years
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Rates Dip to 623% Following #Iran Ceasefire Extension -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-capitals.html#Harrisburg#Ranchi GSTAT Bench Begins Hearing Cases, Easing High -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#IndiaWho Will Control Identity in the #AI #Internet? -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#32#Iran threatens to open Pandora's Box through chaos -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#IranActor Suriya, Jyothika cast their votes in #Chennai -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/cities.html#55aView all the Continents news https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-news-from-continents.html
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I also plan to explain how this revolutionary system shifts the paradigm for servers and workstations, embedded Linux etc and how it avoids system drift and make things reproducible and reliableHow it's the best distro for developers, DevOps, Platform engineering, IT and Server administration etc
See you all at the event.
🤝Always love to connect with curious and passionate people#nix #nixos #FOSS #chennai #conference
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Always searching for a good cup of south India filter coffee.
The best ones, of course, are the ones, made at home, in which the coffee is carefully chosen (grind and combination of coffee), meticulously brewed, hand mixed, & lovingly served with a side of some tasty snack ( or not)
The ones in the picture would be among the better ones available to buy. One is strong, another is medium. Also aesthetically pleasing.
#FilterCoffee #Chennai #SouthIndia #Food #WoodlandsChennai #Coffee
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Chennai International Airport - Chennai, India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/12.990005/80.169296 -
Vertical Land Motion And Human Exposure Across India's Coastal Regions
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL120539 <-- shared paper 🔗
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https://www.indiaspend.com/climate-change/indias-coastal-cities-face-heavy-flooding-risk-due-to-sea-level-rise-970906 <-- shared media article 🔗
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#SeaLevelRise #Subsidence #India #InSAR #radar #Postdoc #GIS #spatial #mapping #inSAR #LandSubsidence #remotesensing #coast #coastal #coastline #India #earthobservation #subsidence #rise #urban #city #SLR #ClimateChange #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #marine #ocean #water #hydrology #risk #hazard #humanimpacts #flood #flooding #model #modeling #floodrisk #infrastructure #damage #costs #economics #verticallandmotion #VLM #ESA #Sentinel #Ahmedabad #Chennai #Amaravathi #Kochi #Kakinada #Kolkata #deltas #estuary #demographics #population #coastalsubsidence #landuse #planning #mitigation #farmland #agriculture #foodsecurity #groundwater #pumping #extraction -
www.chennaipenshow.com #Chennai #FountainPens Ends today at 7pm.
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Chennai International Airport - Chennai, India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/12.990005/80.169296
