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January 02 "We’ll all feel better by Wednesday”, – 1949I love coffee, I love tea, I love Saturday, I love Sunday, Let’s make a scientific analysis, Well, you’ve suffered an overdose of sunburn; For junk your muscles could all be sold for, You’re bloated from a diet of buns and hamburgers, Your hair may be brushed, but your mind’s untidy, No wonder you feel that lost sensation; What you do on week ends, you claim to adore it. --Ogden nash December 23 Interesting stuffwhat I have realized while renting a place is that ppl don't have enough
time to checkout every location neither do we have enough info about
every place ... Recently, saw a few advert about Sulekha on TV, from where came across an interesting way to put your house on rent or get a house on rent http://www.propiq.com/. It would be interesting to see how such stuff helps in changing the dynamics of the real estate industry ... July 11 from; the lady of lakeSoldier, rest thy warfare is o’er,
Dream of fighting fields no more; Sleep the sleep that knows no breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking ...
Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done,
Think not of the rising sun, For at dawning to assail ye, Here no bugles sound reveille. June 18 To engineer is human!So you are an engineer, and still want to sleep with a clear conscience.
All you need is a really bad memory and a large peg of whiskey
 June 17 bio-genesis(mildly gross --mildly funny)how did god create life?
He took a fridge stored some milk in it and forgot to turn it on.
what were his first word after opening the fridge?
quid fragro?...Fiat lux.
whats that smell...turn on the lights.
June 12 heard on HBOAl Pacino's speech to the team in Any Given Sunday. "You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game -- life or football -- the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!" There is another one at the end of Scent of Women ... does anyone have it?
June 10 Metacanning. it somewhere
A canner, exceedingly canny, one morning remarked to his granny, A canner can can Anything that he can; But a canner can't can a can can he? June 03 cheesy sci fi jokes.you wont find these anywhere else character 1 :SDE2 s/w dev engineer-2 THE MACHINE sde2: hey AL! I see some strange h/w lying around. what are you making? hal: Its a time machine... sde2: oh! really! does it work ? can it send us in past? hal: actually the set of sequence that would trigger the reversal of (interrupting hal) sde2: ...<chuckles> so it doesnt work? hal: its a prototype...
sde2: hey AL! computer ki duniya mein naya kya? <grins> hal: hey nice to see you, I fixed the entropy equations! sde2:hmm ... the what? hal: now the time machine should work. we can now travel couple of minutes sde2: oh! nice... hal: do you want to be the first one to try it with me ? sde2: err ...now?... voice in background: initiating time travel... sde2: already ! :-s voice in background: 1...2...3 sde2: hey AL! computer ki duniya mein naya kya? <grins> hal: hey nice to see you, I fixed the entropy equations!
April 12 read it somewhere"Pi goes on and on and on ...
And e is just as cursed. I wonder: Which is larger When their digits are reversed? " - Anonymous June 11 An old rhymeRead it in ET ... dates back to 1720 ...
Hubble bubble; all is smoke
huble bubble; all is broke
Farewell your houses,lands and flocks
For all you have now is in stocks.
:D May 26 Asad farma gaye ...haif us chaar girah kapDe ki qismat 'GHalib'
jis ki qismat meiN ho aashiq ka girebaaN hona [ haif = alas!, girah = one sixteenth of a yard, girebaaN = collar ] -Mirza Asadullah khan 'Ghalib' April 22 Porting issueIn one of my past project I was working on a piece of code , which had to work on Windows and linux.The assumption I made was, if I wrote code in _platform_independent_ fashion used stl c++ std, and other platform independent libraries I would be gold on both of the platforms
 . Therefore, I kept my effort restricted to only one of them ie. windows, a very imp reason was that counter-strike doesnt work on Linux for me  and a dev machine doesnt look good without that half -life symbol (there were other more tech. issues but this one sounds funnier :P )...so after a month of intense counter-strike I completed the project  it passed all testing (on windows) and I checked it in. Feeling happy with myself I went on a holiday to Lucknow, where I came to know that my check-in has broken the linux build
 ... a broken build! that is a christian sin and I was probably burnt at the stakes for that ... (luckily, it was done to me, in my absence). but why it happened is interesting ...struct a * f(struct a *); struct a { int b; }; struct a* f(struct a * b )
{ return b; } the piece of code that broke the build amounted to something on the above lines this code compiles without warning on vc++ at warning level 4 . what vc++ compiler overlooks is that, the struct a in the prototype is _different_, in the prototype struct a 's scope is restricted the prototype itself, as the struct hasn't been defined , yet what gcc does conforms to the standards... nice to know ... I must say here(if it really matters to someone) my intent is not to point out which one is better (much beyond my scope), but to point out an interesting issue so that I can write a blog about it April 16 Funny script :Monty pythonHere is a really funny script I came across its from monty python and the holy grail I havent seem the movie it must have been very funny
http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_scripts/bridge.asp there are plenty of other scripts if you go a level up :) March 27 FAQ:TheologyQ: Why do Angels have no tails?
Ans:Angels have no tails,because the devil is in the-tails.
 March 12 A song of ice and Fire : book 1I just finished the Game of throne by Goerge RR Martin and it absolutely rocks ... The story is absolutely perfect if the righteous has to suffer it suffers no Deus ex machina , if there were any they were too subtle to notice.
The other aspect of really good novels such as this and dune is that, Inspite of the character's divine powers like ability to predict future or perform a magical spell etc, they always have to fallback on there human instincts and abilities when it matters the most. Besides that the plot is complex so are the characters but unlike ayn ryand the author knows how to strike a balance and keep me up all night.
So here is another rime just in time.
A melody of Ice and Fire.
I sing a melody of Ice and fire,
The hunters killed, the death conspire, The deads are walking, the watch is tire, A cripple's heart fly to desire, In a far off land a dragon Sire. I sing a melody of Ice and fire,
A bastard, whom the Lord has sire, Takes the watch with a black attire, The dead, who walks, is killed by fire, The snow, becomes the new squire. I sing a melody of Ice and fire,
The hand is beheaded,the king is liar, A winter comes from the wall so hi'er The north waits for events dire. Sleep is what this heart's desire. Addendum ...
The chips just blew and catches fire,
The code is done sayeth the liar,
All hell has broke & my eyes are tire,
C'mon baby light my fire.
March 03 what else can I say ...http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060303 borrowed thoughts :) February 27 glad thoughts:sir johri walkerA peg for a peg and the whole world will be drunk !
cheers! and world piece ...err peace
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