Gopakumar.C.E (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gopakumar_ce) wrote in pramode_ce, |
I remember that =))
Haha .. Your own "electromagnet" experiment is still very clear in my mind :-). You were in first year of engineering in our Ernakulam house (and I was in 8th standard) and I guess I had something on electromagnets in my text book and you offered to demonstrate how it works. I still remember you puling out some 30cms of copper wire with sticky/damaged rubber insulation and winding it on the thick iron trunk of a usual "wall hole driller" and plugging the ends of the wire into the mains - and ka boom!!! Hahaha .. That was so good. Those days I was so mad about mugging up history and geography in the useless school textbooks that I remember having generally paid no attention to your efforts to imbibe a scientific temper in me, I sometimes wish I had paid more attention to you then :-) and mugged up less of history and geography!!
Interestingly a similar incident happened in my first few days in Cisco. My mentor took me to the lab saying that "let me show you how a router boots up " and pointed me to the huge (1/3rd of a normal refridgerator) Cisco 7500 router and plugged it into the socket - ka boom and some smoke. I thought thats indeed how a router boots up (joking ;-), only lator my mentor discovered that the router was just shipped from US and there was a toggle switch to change it from 120V to 220V =)))
Gopu.
Haha .. Your own "electromagnet" experiment is still very clear in my mind :-). You were in first year of engineering in our Ernakulam house (and I was in 8th standard) and I guess I had something on electromagnets in my text book and you offered to demonstrate how it works. I still remember you puling out some 30cms of copper wire with sticky/damaged rubber insulation and winding it on the thick iron trunk of a usual "wall hole driller" and plugging the ends of the wire into the mains - and ka boom!!! Hahaha .. That was so good. Those days I was so mad about mugging up history and geography in the useless school textbooks that I remember having generally paid no attention to your efforts to imbibe a scientific temper in me, I sometimes wish I had paid more attention to you then :-) and mugged up less of history and geography!!
Interestingly a similar incident happened in my first few days in Cisco. My mentor took me to the lab saying that "let me show you how a router boots up " and pointed me to the huge (1/3rd of a normal refridgerator) Cisco 7500 router and plugged it into the socket - ka boom and some smoke. I thought thats indeed how a router boots up (joking ;-), only lator my mentor discovered that the router was just shipped from US and there was a toggle switch to change it from 120V to 220V =)))
Gopu.
