Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

Last updated on 22nd Jan. 2020 Today on my walk, I tried out this Android app. named Pedometer - Step Counter, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tayu.tau.pedometer&hl=en_GB , on my low-cost LYF phone. I think it did a good job. Note that it senses when a step has been made if the phone is in our hand or pocket while walking (or running too, I guess). I started the counting slightly after I began my walk and ended it after coming home (if I recall correctly, the app documentation recommends keeping it on all the time but I don't want to do that). The screenshot below gives the measures. Steps taken is given as: 7727. I have kept the sensitivity (of measuring steps) as the default high. I think the actual steps may be 5 to 10% lesser. Each step length for me is around 68 cm (which is close to the, if I recall correctly, app. default of 27 inches - 68.58 cm). 7727 * 0.68 (m) gives 5,254.36‬ m or 5.254 km which is what the screenshot shows (as expect...

Last updated on 20th Jan. 2020 I found the movie dialogues as well as acting by key figures, to be a superb portrayal of small town community cowardly attitude towards law enforcement personnel who are targeted by pardoned murder convict who was originally arrested and sentenced by them. At the time of the trial itself the murder convict had promised to come back and kill the Marshal (as he had arrested him which led to his trial). I should say that the movie sets seem to be very basic, and the plot does not seem to be a realistic one. However, even if it is viewed as a contrived plot, the dialogues and acting of the key figures portray typical small town issues when confronted by danger. [As an example of a contrived plot, the movie has the Marshal resigning immediately after his marriage as he wants to lead a different life after marriage, and the new Marshal is expected to take over the next day. Then the information about the convict being released and arriving in town in a sho...

Amazon Founder & CEO Jeff Bezos on investing in India & his journey so far | EXLCUSIVE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lojtZUSakA , around 20 mins, published by ET now on 15th Jan. 2020 [Disclosure: I have a couple of Not-For-Profit-For-Author (me) self-published books whose paperback versions are sold on Amazon India (through a (for-profit) self-publishing platform company), and I have an author page on amazon.com.] I think this is the first time I am seeing an interview of Jeff Bezos. Note that this is a friendly interview as it is conducted by a top guy of Amazon India. I have read articles about Jeff Bezos, articles against him and perhaps some articles by him. But never heard him speak till I saw this video! I am very impressed by his words in this interview. My comments in this post relate only to what he has said in this interview. I am not saying anything about other stuff including criticism of him and his company in India and the USA - I do not know eno...

Last updated on 25th Jan. 2020 Today (13th Jan. 2020), I sent a paperback copy of my "Who am I? I am I - Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation",  https://pothi.com/pothi/book/ravi-s-iyer-ultimate-existential-reality-answer-vedanta-god-and-science , book to London, UK by postal mail using Puttaparthi Sub Post Office now located on Chitravathi Road. [To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.] I have earlier sent such packages to USA too. I thought I should put up a post on it as it may help others who find themselves with a similar need. Today I was told by the Puttaparthi sub Post Office personnel that if my small package is to be described as book then the package should have holes in it or open on one side so that the book inside can be seen. If it is completely sealed then it will have to be described/...

A Puttaparthi local person that I know, who has financial challenges and has to take significant amount of medicines regularly (and so has significant medicines cost burden), did not know about availability in Puttaparthi of low-cost generic drugs at the "Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Jan Aushadi Kendra" [Prime Minister's Indian/Bharatiya People's Medical Centre/shop]. The person was under the impression that such centres/shops were there only in Ananthapur city (for this Ananthapur district region). I came to know a couple or so days back about the location of this Jan Anushadi shop in Puttaparthi and conveyed the info. to the person using some pics of the location. I thought that some readers based in Puttaparthi may want to know about this and so I have put up this post. Note that http://janaushadhi.gov.in/StoreDetails.aspx enables us to search for Jan Aushadi shops in any area of India. The Puttaparthi shop address (from above webpage search) is: Shop No-3/1488...