That’s one curious disease

Ramu Ramanathan writes:

And so, to flashback to a curious sequence of events in Mumbai. Raj Thackeray demands an apology from the Hindiwallahs. Abu Azmi demands an apology from Raj. Kumar Ketkar and Loksatta demand an apology from both of them. Saamna demands an apology from all of them. Meanwhile Vinayak Methe demands an apology from Ketkar and Loksatta; and so he vandalises Ketkar’s home. The do-gooders demand an apology from the Home Minister. The NCP demands an apology from its member, Vinayak Methe. Meanwhile Narayan Rane demands an apology from the CM. The Shiv Sena continues to demand an apology from Rane (for deserting them); and so they lampoon him in Saamna. Rane flexes his muscles and demands an apology from Saamna, whose office is vandalised. This time, the do-gooders do not demand an apology from the Home Minister. [source: Tehelka.com]

Taking cue from him, I could say something about AP politics too, in the near future:

Chief Minister YSR, should demand an apology from Chandrababu Naidu, who in turn should apologise to Balakrishna and family, for backstabbing NTR. Balakrishna should seek apologies from the two people he shot because they probably told him the truth about his own movies , and they should apologize to Balaiah’s fans  for hurting Balakrishna’s index finger and not making another hundred movies with him.  Meanwhile, actor Rajashekar should apologize to Chiranjeevi’s fans for not getting beaten up properly and Chiranjeevi should apologize to his youngest son-in-law, who should in turn apologize to Pawan Kalyan’s estranged wife - just for the heck of it. In the meanwhile, Uday Kiran can apologize to Mohan Babu who can thank the general public and also apologize because, he loses his mind amidst people anyway. K.Raghavendra rao B.A., must apologize to the grape vendors in the state for shifting to oranges, and Genelia, Trisha, Shriya and other heroines must apologize for not being retarded enough in their roles. Ah, I could go on and on, but I must apologize, I knew I had to stop long ago, but just couldn’t resist.

Sly-dial : Call someone without having to talk to them.

The possibilities are endless:

“After a long beta period, Boston-based MobileSphere launched a ’straight-to-voicemail’ service yesterday called Slydial. If you call 267-SLY-DIAL and listen to a short ad, you can then be connected to the voicemail inbox of any US mobile phone subscriber, without causing their phone to ring. Sounds kinda useful — but incredibly, MobileSphere is pitching the service as a way to avoid actually communicating with all those difficult, boring people in your life. In reply to suggestions that Slydial erodes and cheapens genuine human interaction, a MobileSphere exec says the company is just combating technology with technology, by helping people take control of whether and when to talk with their friends, family, and coworkers.”

Source slashdot

And the scenarios are endless too:

Source: Cartoonstock

God says - ;) (wink)

Frenzy over sai idol with one eye open..TOI reports

God says - naughty!

Hundreds of people descended on a merchant’s house in Bangalore on Friday to witness what they believe is a miracle - the Shirdi Sai Baba idol is purported to have opened its left eye. ..

O.k, so when god finally decided to show his existence, he chose to open one eye.

The idol had some black mark on its left chin and the couple’s son Dhrupad, who was cleaning the eye, suddenly felt some change in the idol - the eyelash seemed moving. The devotees were astounded and stopped the cleaning work.

If it isn’t naughty Drupad applying soot from an oil lamp on the eye, and having fun, then it’s probably that the sculptor had to deliver an idol with two eyes ‘open’, but had some kind of finishing problems and the patch didn’t work long enough. I say catch the sculptor, demand a partial refund or get his tools and put a side pedestal and worship a hammer and chisel, as a tribute to the art of sculpting.

Please, God

Irrespective of whether you are there or not, please, help me from going insane. I promise I’ll not move again anytime soon and I won’t buy a 100 shirts or T-shirts because they are cheap/they felt good/because I am an absolute idiot.

I won’t buy 4 pairs of sneakers without throwing the old ones (once I feel they are old), I’ll never keep books that I’ll never read, like- Bedford’s introduction to literature, that’s the size of a telephone directory, or Homer’s Iliad, which I read the first page 3 times and couldn’t understand a bit of it (hey, I tried!). I will never buy a home theater system that you can attach to a COMPUTER, and requires seven speakers + a sub-woofer AND seven speaker stands. I’ll never buy cheap wall paintings from WAL*MART to impress girls. I’ll never buy book stands, shoe stands and dumb looking lamp shades from garage sales that will give me the feeling of being an antique collector, when I’m collecting pure junk. I’ll throw away all the cups I get as freebies from job fairs/seminars or dumb ass meetings (from next time onwards), I’ll shred my mail from next month, I’ll label DVDs and CDs from next time onwards. I’ll clean up junk/duplicate files and silly e-mail attachments from my work laptop regularly, next time onwards. I’ll start packing early next time onwards. I’ll probably pray (next time onwards) in a temple, I might even bribe you with a coconut, for now I will bribe myself with a Kendall Jackson. But just this once, if you are there, restore my faith, do a miracle, let someone else pack up my stuff in the way I would want it. Please, God, please. I hope you do what you can, while I sleep.

Really,where the hell is Matt?

Try watching it in High Quality on you tube….14 months and 42 countres. 4.5 million youtube hits AND a selection from Tagore’s Gitanjali, Stream of Life, beautifully rendered in the background score. This is the first time I have come across Tagore’s masterpiece.

How loud the silence was…

It’s fun when a news network like CNN makes mistakes that I can catch and also, the nuke plant TOWER in North Korea was blown up, not the nuke plant itself.

Thankfully, the article after the jump was titled : Stunned silence after nuke plant implosion.

PS: OK, I sometimes get the oxymoron stuff, but in this case- loud silence. No, I don’t get it.

New age match fixing

Santosh at Uberdesi, has a behind the scenes article on the recently held Cricket matches in Florida.

Well, since I couldn’t get behind the scenes, I went behind their minds

Original image source: uberdesi.com

Edited by: Browsekid

Say no to Apple software update

We will not be forced upon, we will not allow it to be done to our PERSONAL computers. No tyrant can ever force me to “install 2 items” through a silly pop-up that pops up every now and then. I don’t want quick time, VLC is the ultimate player. Victory to VLC. I think ipods are ok, and itunes is probably good enough, but a 70 MB update? That would probably also require a PC restart, are you crazy? The last time I turned my desktop off was when there was a storm and the power went out for 2 seconds. No, this update will not happen in a world of free internet (actually, the one in which you have to pay 39.99$ per month for a DSL).

I’ll tell you a beautiful story of the kind hearted, fun loving, sexy-young-guy from Birmingham (me), who took an ipod to his wonderful cousin in Bhimavaram Town, India and dropped it on the hard tiled floor while giving it to his (my) cousin. So the Ipod made it back to Birmingham along with the kind hearted, fun loving, sexy-young-single-talented-guy (me again), stupid apple store told this guy that it would be 189$ to repair it, which is far higher than the price for which it was bought. Don’t even ask me about the warranty business “because it was bought on buy.com” but not from an “electronics store”, but the catch is it was dropped onto the floor and the Apple “associate” didn’t know that.

Finally, the point is if you don’t want to update your Itunes + quicktime software on your machine, you don’t have to. So next time without clicking “later” just select “edit -> preferences” and select “never”.

And for other duds without the understanding capacity of simple text on a beatiful background, here’s an image.

And now, both of you three(?), get back to work.

Pictorial

A protestor in Bubaneshwar, Orissa jumps over a tyre during a roadblock protest relating to a Temple festval on April 18th. MSNBC clicks a pic, browsekid captions d’ pic.

Original image Source: MSNBC

psst-shout 2

Psst is a whisper as soft as a flower petal falling on earth, shout is anything from a warning to a sudden catastrophic news, be prepared, go on, show your mimicry skills by whispering and shouting the text below alternatively.

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psst: The bible freaking said, be ye AS little children.

Shout: Don’t freaking BE little children.

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Psst: My targeting skills are so bad right now, I can’t even click a link properly with my mouse.

Shout: I’m practising archeryyy.

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psst: It’s February.

Shout: It’s a freaking 72 out here.

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psst: All northies and southies vacate Mumbai.

Shout: Then there’s NO Mumbai.

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psst: All northies and southies vacate Mumbai.

shout: All Mumbaikars will now be named as Mumbai-rays. Why? Thackeray doesn’t have a ‘kar’ in the name.

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psst: I bet you know about MNS.

Shout: Mumbai’s nonsensical sena!

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psst: MNS’s motto? Say no to MNS!

Shout: Say no to Mumbai’s Northies and Southies!

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psst: Shivaji Bhosla (other wise known as Shivaji the great, who tormented Mughals from Western Ghats) did in fact dream of a Hindu empire.

Shout: But he was not a bigot. See page 28 of Andrew Ward’s - Our bones are scattered.

Scream: “DURING HIS [Shivaji Bhosla's] CAMPAIGNS, HE FORBADE SOLDIERS TO DESTROY MOSQUES OR KILL MOSLEM ASCETICS, TO WHOM HE TURNED FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE. IF ONE OF HIS SOLDIER’S STOLE A COPY OF THE KORAN, HE TOOK PAINS TO RETURN IT TO THE LOCAL SCRIBES AND TEACHERS.” page 28, Our bones are scattered.

psst: You know now, who the bigots are.

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psst: All Northies and Southies vacate Mumbai.

Shout: Let the Thackeray family ruin the rest of what will be left. So you can go and help build it again from scratch with the remaining Marathi speaking Indians in Mumbai.

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Psst: Thackeray’s trace their genealogy to Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu family that is supposed to originate from Yama’s helper - Chitragupta (Courtesy wikipedia)

Shout: SOMEONE UP THERE, is keeping the records of all the actions of the Thackeray family!! And it’s the same lineage. Ironical.

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Psst: Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu (CKP) is, according to wikipedia, originally from Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa (Now in Pakistan), and later from around Chenab river in Kashmir.

Shout: Ironical. The CKP lineage is from Kashmir. Hence probably the aversion to Muslims.

Scream: PEOPLE IN CKP LINEAGE TOO, ARE MIGRANTS. FROM WHAT IS NOW, PAKISTAN. Can I please ask you to go back??

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Psst: Readers, don’t you get it?

Shout: As they say, home is where the heart is. In INDIA, I’ll live wherever I want to. Mumbai to Madras, Bombay to Chennai. Kashmir to Kanyakumari. If not for emotional reasons, as long as I have an Indian passport, I can live wherever I want to. I’ll grab a job, irrespective of where I live, because I have to LIVE but not to starve a Maratha, if you cannot get a job, you are probably not good enough for it. For all the million Northies and Southies grabbing jobs in Maharashtra, there are a million Maharashtrians grabbing jobs in the North and South of United India.

Scream: And to live that way, Maharastrians and other Indians in general, CHOOSE your leaders wisely.

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Screaming on the rooftop of solitude.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.

If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

———————————-Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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