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January 29, 2009

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"X-ray sheet" technique

X-ray sheet can open locked doors. This is true in France. So, X-ray sheets are not only used by physicians to check the state of your internal organs but also by door specialists to unlock closed doors. Does this surprise you? It surprised me. But then, I have my friend vouching as a witness to this operation and also performing it. Don't worry, my friend is a law-abiding expatriate and he was trying to get inside his apartment after conveniently forgetting the keys inside. This happened twice. When my friend was locked out his apartment the first time, he called up a door specialist. The door specialist arrived carrying a suitcase, which is popular with all workers who specializes in the sundry tasks associated with a house. After the examining the door, the specialist searched his suitcase and pulled out a X-ray sheet. He then placed the X-ray sheet in the narrow space where the door meets the wood attached to the wall. The X-ray sheet was placed in the lower half of the do...

Innovation during quarantine

Eclipse international. Dyson. Thar Process Inc. Ford What have these companies in common? During the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, all of these companies have pivoted and made a different product than initially planned. The term pivot applies when a company makes a fundamental change to its business. Is there a formula to determine how long does it take a company to pivot? If there is such a formula, then I am yet to come across one. This phenomenon of pivoting raises a pertinent question. Why did these companies wait for a crisis to pivot? If you search for articles regarding the companies mentioned earlier, you will learn about how they pivoted in a matter of weeks. They had to design, source, and manufacture. Those are three small verbs to describe a complex intellectual process. In the business as usual scenario, it takes months, if not years. In a crisis, it only took days as these companies adopted an agile approach. What will happen ...

Movie Review: Justice League

Even though we were bombarded with Justice League trailers for what seems to be an eternity, there is no excitement mainly because of the disaster that was Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Even the success of Wonder Woman is not enough to pique my interest. DC characters have been darker than it's counterparts from Marvel. But the characters are not attractive as the ones written in the Nolan trilogy. One of the main difference between Nolan's treatment and the subsequent films was the absence of humor. On the other hand, Marvel has an abundance of gaiety and camaraderie. Justice League has humor, and hence it is more tolerable than the previous installments. It still fails to impress. The film treads a dangerous path. As this movie is the first in the series, it has to show the origin of members and also the formation of the team. Both of the subjects have been done to death in the past. Luckily for us, the film does not waste time on the origin and goes quickly for ...

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