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That should scare most of them away (the rest I'll take care of personally)

Posts tagged with "life"

Death

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Nobody has to try to kill you. You're doing it to yourself right now. You're killing yourself by just growing older.

So, people in California, stop worrying about the big one. Just remember, duck, cover and hang on.

Thought for the month

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Affluence is a man-made disease. - Sankar Gorthi.

Thought for the Day

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By the time a man grows up to realise that his father was right all along, he has a son who knows he's full of shit.

A Radical Atheist

Kiss my Ass

Vista...

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has been released for a week now. What has Vista done about the War in Iraq? Nothing.

What was the point of this lame duck OS change? The threat of Leopard attacks looming on the horizon, and the resilience of the Penguins despite all efforts to dissolve their environment, can only signify that Vista was too little, too late.

In the years to come, it is a sad reality that Vista will grow in size and user-base, but by the end of 2008, the real winner will be the team which can put forward really innovative plans and developments for the improvement of the experience.

What have I been up to lately?

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Things I mention in this post are a recap of what's been happening in my life for the last two weeks.

I mention the following things:
  1. My Desktop
  2. MY iPod Nano
  3. My Laptop (ordered fresh - waiting for delivery)
  4. My lack of direction
  5. My Job Hunt
  6. My Favorite show
I forgot to tell you about Borat did I? Hmmm. I make sex crime! High Five!

Enjoy

Read more...

Of Pride and Prejudice

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Here is a personal experience, as well as a moment of national pride, which I want to share with you. Hope you find it worth the time you put in reading it :

"In the middle of 1965 India-Pakistan war, US govt - then a close friend of Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid (remember "PL-480"?). For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. So much so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late) Lal Bahadur Shastri went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indian to observe one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat. As a school boy, I joined those millions who responded to Shastri ji's call. I continued the fast even when the war was over and India became self sufficient in food. Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the US govt, I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts giving aid to USA.

It took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When Indian ambassador in Washington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 50 million to the US govt, two plane loads of food, medical aid and other relief materials were waiting to fly to the USA. Time to break the fast? With no bad feeling about the USA, and good wishes for the Katrina victims, this humble Indian feels proud of the distance India has covered in 40 years.
Let's celebrate a New India!"

- Vijay Kranti.
Dean - IIT Madras
The stuff I get in my mailbox is weird. Who sends me this stuff anyway?

In the name of Freakonomics

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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/23/1356230

From the article:
In one example of how ACAP would work, a newspaper publisher could grant search engines permission to index its site, but specify that only select ones display articles for a limited time after paying a royalty.
Apply the same logic to a Car Dealer or an Insurance broker let's say. The search engine deciding not to pay the royalty removes the information from their page, with most car dealers now providing their own car history information and sales online, if they were to charge a premium to host this information, buyers wouldn't be able to find this information freely. The dealers can now raise their prices, move sales back to the area where they had a lot of control over - buying on-site.

Valid (yes)? Obvious (duh)? CowboyNeal handles my stock?

Cast your vote today.

In other news, I find this article and this comment insightful.

Gaydar of old... I wonder why it didn't catch on :)

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Indiana Jones and the Robots of Empire - now That's an idea

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Addicted to the gameplay, feel and atmosphere of the Emperor's Tomb which I've been able to enter only today, to be impaled immediately in the first trap. Blah. Goes from action to freaky action before you know it. Excellent, excellent game. More Tomb Raider-ish than you know, but infinitely more fun - you get to beat up a ton of Nazis. Tell me that isn't appealing.

In related news, if you're interested, Ubisoft's giving the Prince of Persia series of games away dirt cheap. Get yourself a copy and email me the other copy. You are going to buy it aren't you? Please, pretty please? :D

Finally got my hands on one of the few books I haven't read in the series. I'm still yet to read the entire "Empire series". Getting there.

Vinayaka Chaviti this Sunday

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I'll be off to California then, so will be taking a two week break starting Friday. Just a heads up.

Should be nice this year. First Vinayaka Chaviti spent with family since I crossed ... how many oceans now?

Self explanatory really... don't let me ruin it for you

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Do you believe in Telepathy?

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My Mother's in Canada and she's been in radio silence for a while now. Am concerned to say the least.

And I keep having these incidents where I smell hospital disinfectant chemicals and I'm in a lab which hasn't been cleaned with anything other than water for a while.

I'm scared s***less.

Give me more Idiots!

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Dil mange no more (forgive me, not in a particularly creative mood) of these people who make people like me look bad.

The story as told to me over dinner - narrator works at the mall in a store:
I was packing stuff (or unpacking stuff) in the store room when I heard someone at the counter. It was a small girl (Thank God that he didn't say the obvious idiot thing to say at this point - but that'll become obvious soon). I asked her if I could help her. She gave me a small piece of paper and told me to throw it in the trash.

I was working all the way in the store room and she calls me over to the counter to throw away the trash?! I told her to throw it outside because the garbage bin the store was full and I did not have the time to empty it.

The girl began complaining loudly trying to catch the attention of her mother (At this point, my roommate, trying to be helpful as always, interjects to inform me that the mother in question was indeed a large black woman). The mother came over to the counter, aghast that the child's wish wasn't fulfilled and began to berate me over being a poor salesman and that this wasn't how customers ought to be treated.

I told her quite bluntly that I was in charge for that day, and that I wouldn't take the trash. I sure showed her! That trash was for my use. Employees only. Can't she simply use the one outside in the mall? These Americans. They coddle their children.
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