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2007-07-30T15:42:00.000-07:00

THIS BLOG HAS MOVED here.

Tall man, short man

2007-07-13T22:24:00.000-07:00

Courtesy: Dailmail.co.uk.................While Mr Xishun, 56, towers above everyone at an astonishing 7.9ft, 19-year-old Mr Pingping is a mere 2.4ft high........... Mr Pingping was born nearby in Wulanchabu city, Inner Mongolia. His father claims he was only the size of an adult's palm at birth. He is now seeking to be registered as the world's shortest man by the Guinness Book of Recrods. He

No more dates

2007-07-11T15:51:00.000-07:00

1/1 to 12/31 : No more datesOn the first anniversary of the Mumbai blasts that claimed nearly 200 lives and injured 700 others, while the American and International media chose to conveniently forget victims based in India. I was pondering over the use of dates beginning 9/11. Historical dates in general knowledge books start with 772/776 B.C. when the first Olympic games were held in Greece,

I wanna cook it...

2007-07-10T13:36:00.000-07:00

Source: breitbart.comA more than 20-kilo (41-lb) mushroom has been picked in a forest in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas, university officials said Tuesday.The white mushroom, macrocybe titans, measured a towering 70 cm (27 in) tall, was found near Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, according to the Southern Border University Center.

My daughter returns home late

2007-07-05T09:53:00.000-07:00

Q: My daughter returns home late. What to do?The responses crack me up!!! I love rediff.........and its Q and A that it so proudly displays on home page.http://qna.rediff.com/Main.php?do=getanswer&catid=12&questid=1660439few of the publishable responses:Start looking for boy like me, and get rid of her by wedding her to someonetell her no dinner tonight for youIf she returns late occassionally[

The legend of William tell

2007-07-02T23:20:00.000-07:00

First read in an English Text book in primary school...sigh! good old daysFrom wiki pedia:WILLIAM TELL was known as an expert marksman with the crossbow. At the time, the Habsburg emperors were seeking to dominate Uri. Hermann Gessler, the newly appointed Austrian Vogt of Altdorf raised a pole in the village's central square with his hat on top and demanded that all the local townsfolk bow before

Spaghetti Squash

2007-06-30T21:16:00.000-07:00

Take the Spaghetti Squash and wash it*ya, do it the way shown here...then preheat oven to 375 deg Fahrenheit and place the squash in it.*Bake it for 60-70 min then, chop chop!*Scratch Scratch (vertically, with a fork)*Get the Spaghetti out of the squash*Take a frying pan, butter it up, add, mustard seeds and jeera (not shown in pic), ginger, jalapeño and the spaghetti, add a little salt, and

Top 3 countries looking for sex on internet

2007-06-29T12:14:00.000-07:00

Contrary to what your opinion may be....US, UK and some other western country are NOT here...Google search trends show Pakistan, Egypt and India as the top three countries in the world where surfers look out for 'sex' on the Internet, and those in New Delhi and Chennai hold the top two rankings among global cities.More here.....How unbelievably hippocratic, where are thy moral police, attacking

Wife - Cause of a headache

2007-06-27T15:41:00.000-07:00

Sify reports hereMan's headache mystery solved by a bulletMiami: A Florida man awoke with a severe headache and asked his wife to drive him to a hospital, where doctors found a bullet lodged behind his right ear, sheriff's deputies said."The nurse looked at him and said, 'It appears that you've been shot,'" the 0Fort Pierce Tribune quoted St Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara as saying. "And he

Pearl again.

2007-06-26T11:05:00.000-07:00

Good Cop, Baby Cop

Online communities

2007-06-22T09:12:00.001-07:00

From xkcd.com

A dig on Hitler

2007-06-20T15:22:00.000-07:00

Courtesy: Uncyclopedia.orgHitler was born April 20, 1889 at Braunau am Inn, Austria, a poor village slum in Upper Austria, bordering Germany, the third son and eighth child of six...Of course, it's a total comedy site, none of them are facts, read more here....

BE

2007-06-20T07:46:00.001-07:00

Be LyricsCourtesy: E-mail from Craig Davis

This, I like

2007-06-18T13:34:00.000-07:00

Al Gore is upset that Paris Hilton is more in news than Global Warming....The Sun reports hereSuch fun journalism, sigh! Click on the pic below...

Citystages - Birmingham June 15,16,17

2007-06-17T19:11:00.000-07:00

Now why did I take this pic? 16th Street Baptist church, the bombing of which was a "turning point" in the civil rights movement. Four children died in it. Remember this?Citystages featuring Ludacris and others, LIVE!!Never seen Birmingham in sich a festive atmosphere before. Free tickets courtesy s.r.t.z.

Feng Shui fish

2007-06-16T23:12:00.000-07:00

The Asian Arowana.Photo courtesy wikipedia.comTimes of India reports here: It's not fish you eat with chips. It's smuggled in from Singapore in small water packets. Once in Bangalore, the feng shui fish — the Asian arowana — sell like hot cakes, even at Rs 1.5 lakh apiece. The fish comes with a microchip in its head. Its authenticity is guaranteed by the Singapore government. A tag reader picks

Confessions of a film maker - A review

2007-06-16T22:36:00.000-07:00

By now all of you have heard about the boldness it depicts, I mean how many people out there can come on to screen and say, screw Chiranjeevi and Balakrishna. Although not literally, the meaning is very clear. I still haven't heard of buses burning in Hyderabad in protest, APSRTC is safe for now, probably none of the vandals know what paypal is, to pay and watch this movie online. But people here

Sears center Chicago - June 9th

2007-06-14T16:27:00.000-07:00

Mozart of Asia - A.R.Rahman, Chicago goes insanely chaotic with excellent music and average acoustics (concert hall acoustics were a tad average at best)Sukhwinder singh driving the crowd crazy wtha live electric performance of 'Chaiyya Chaiyya'Famous percussionist, sivamani on the extreme left in between drums. Boy, did he drive the audience crazy with his 8-10 minute solo performance. Drum

My damn lingual tooth

2007-06-13T21:51:00.000-07:00

Because some tortures are physical and some are mental,But the one that is both is dental........from a poem by Ogden Nash.However hard I try, can't get this poem out my mind. Every dentist appointment seems to be funnier than the previous one though. First time I went, I didn't know what floss meant. The doctor gave a ridiculous look and I bet my look was mutually ridiculous when I told him the

Ban orkut, my foot..

2007-06-08T10:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jun/08orkut.htmRediff says:The government is toying with the idea of banning Orkut.com, the popular social-networking Web site, following an attack by Shiv Sena activists on cyber cafes in a Mumbai suburb and the subsequent recommendation by the Maharashtra police to ban the site.The Shiv Sainiks were protesting against derogatory remarks about Chhatrapati Shivaji

Blog header

2007-06-05T14:31:00.000-07:00

Lapsus calami - A slip of the pen

Break THE Window

2007-06-04T23:23:00.001-07:00

When one-fine-Saturday; last weekend, we were hanging out on the pavement outside waiting for a AAA guy to fix the forever complicated king of the road's (a friend) flattened tire. One of my neighbor's, a middle aged woman, a somewhat familiar face dropped in and wanted to know if one of us could throw a ball, wierd? I was one of the ones to say Yes, she said a bird was trapped in a window on the

cartoon

2007-06-04T12:57:00.000-07:00

Link from motichoor.comerr, quite creative I must say.

Futuristic - Microsoft's Milan

2007-05-31T19:41:00.001-07:00

Touch screen table top computer.Windows Vista, 2 GB Ram, P4, not very different from a normal PC, except no keyboard, no monitor, no visible PC. Just the table!Bad Audio though.Touch screen table top computers.Restaurant's, shopping centers, casinos, hotels ok....nice market. 10,000$ a piece. Good enough.can it ever replace a table completely, optimistically, would it reduce usage of paper (trees

We r the Earth Intruders, Muddy with twigs and branches

2007-05-23T22:26:00.000-07:00

Earth Intruders LyricsYoutube link [no embedding :( ]

How we protest

2007-05-22T18:30:00.000-07:00

In an excellent article by Manu Joseph here, he writes;...........when over 300 members of the Bharatiya Kamgar Sena demonstrated outside a restaurant called Bombay Blue and demanded that the name be changed to Mumbai Blue. In the unlikely event of the matter taking a legal course, it will probably reach the Bombay High Court, as the institution is called......Hilarious, more so regarding

Blog header

2007-05-20T19:50:00.000-07:00

My own blog, furor scribendi

iBlog

2007-05-16T14:09:00.000-07:00

For once mispronunciation helps, Iraq is not eye-rack, its.... ee-raak' same with Iran, ee-raan'.Anyway, enjoy.....Courtesy: Uncyclopedia.org, search term Ipod.

Swarn Andhra Pradesh?

2007-05-09T11:36:00.000-07:00

The daily mail reports(UK):A one-year-old is forced to fight a neutered cobra during a shocking snake-charming rite of passage in India.The baby tries to protect itslef while being repeatedly hit by the animal, which has also had its mouth stitched up and its fangs removed.

Mad house

2007-05-08T11:32:00.000-07:00

Just when you thought, politicla babus were the worst behaved...here comes this.Thank god, we are officially unrelated to Kung Fu....Matrix reel-o-dead. :)) Play Video Raw Video: Fists Fly in Taiwan Legislature Associated Press - (APTN) May. 08, 2007. 04:07 AM EST Rival lawmakers exchanged punches as a brawl broke out during a session of

what's internet got to do with work anyway.

2007-05-07T13:26:00.000-07:00

Whatever

Are there any?

2007-05-03T21:13:00.000-07:00

Trivia time:A prominent film critic for filmfare of that time dismissed a movie saying this - "a mishmash of East and West, neither here nor there".The critic K.L. Amladi of India Today called the film a "dead ember" and added, "Thematically, it's a gravely flawed attempt."Which movie are we talking about?--Sholay.While last heard the Sippy family is still earning royalties from the Movie made a

Another Good VIdeo

2007-05-01T19:50:00.000-07:00

Courtesy: Narsing's Orkut Profile.The Original Poem by Mary Schmich, first published in the Chicago Tribune.If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.Enjoy the power and beauty

And Blazers wept

2007-04-23T21:45:00.000-07:00

In support and solidarity, and pure human emotion when 500-600 people gathered around to mourn for their lost brothers and sisters in a killing rampage that shocked a nation and the world, when a girl narrated her 8 year friendship with Ryan Clark, a leader, long before the media knew, and the UAB choir mourned in a soulful rendition. Everyone held their candle firm, their heads hung in prayer,

Honey, Where are you?

2007-04-22T21:14:00.000-07:00

When fruits were available aplenty, when a science textbook carried a bee on a sunflower, when bollywood romantic scenes were all about bees and flowers (err), without explicit kissing scenes I mean, well, this might be something our immediate next generation would never know.CNN LinkI've seen this report four times in the past one month on various sites, Where are the bees vanishing?Bees as we

Information beyond understanding.

2007-04-21T18:05:00.000-07:00

When the sequence of cognitive understanding is this way, Data> Information> Knowledge, what about too much data that is conflicting factually? Out of which no useful information can be deduced or worser, information that is deduced is not reliable. And not to mention the knowledge that is / is not gained out of these.While I'm trying my best to convey the idea in whatever little English I can

MP in a fix

2007-04-19T21:07:00.000-07:00

Joke of the day:An MP from Gujarat, forgot who his wife was, and went to the airport with another woman on his trip to Canada. The Woman too didn't seem to notice it until airport officials pointed it to them, politely.Punch: They are in Jail. This is no Joke.Source: Telegraph IndiaApparently, our baboo was involved in trafficking illegal residents to countries like Canada, that too taking full

Accepting Tenders now

2007-04-17T23:55:00.000-07:00

I've a business proposal for a new Venture.WE WILL MAKE AND SELL EFFIGIES.Hurrah, so many to burn. Ever since our forefathers brought down the Holika burning tradition, we just can't keep our hands off it.The latest being Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty (Chumma chumma de de, CHumma chumma de de chumma)Er, can we just rewind back to Public-made heroes and public-made losers. Actually poor guys,

A-Moo-Rica2

2007-03-26T00:28:00.000-07:00

Well, this one's from a highway near Austin Texas, Remember this? Anyways who says only bollywood heroines can sit in a field full of flowers. I Love this Cow. :pAnyway Thanks Adi, I saved a distance of 180-220 miles by using US973 and US43.

Half-Indian on American Idol

2007-03-22T07:49:00.000-07:00

Last heard, he made it to the TOP 10, last also heard he didn't really deserve to be there. Way to go fellow compatriots!! Keep voting for every Srinivas/Prasad/Sanjay (Indian Tom/Dick/Harry).:DSanjaya MalakarUploaded by greateggs

Health insurance explained by a chick

2007-03-21T18:53:00.000-07:00

Not very appropriate for publicviewing :)

Cricket Fan(atic)

2007-03-21T18:16:00.000-07:00

Mukul Kesavan's comments on an average Cricket-Fan(atic)http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/The_Desi_Fan/articleshow/1790380.cms The subcontinental cricket fan is a lazy, pampered know-nothing who thinks he owns the cricket teams that he supports.His sense of proprietorship is so developed that when his team loses, he speaks (or writes) of being betrayed without a tremor of self-consciousness.He

Poem

2007-03-19T20:24:00.001-07:00

They never come our way, nothing wrong with that;some things are destined, today, tomorrow, maybe never.Let the fear not overtake me, I pray daily.Each day is new, each day the same.

Cric pic

2007-03-17T16:00:00.000-07:00

Every other Indian has an opinion about cricket, Tendulkar, Ganguly, Sehwag and the team in general, why should I be left out? It's a different story though, that I'm writing about Herschelle Gibbs, remarkable feat when India just finished getting their...... ahem.. ...whupped, by Bangladesh. Good play though, Good play Bangladesh, I mean.I don't know if allowing Bermuda, Netherlands, Scotland,

Grand Master

2007-03-15T20:07:00.000-07:00

Why isn't anyone talking about this? I wonder. Blinded by cricket perhaps.---Viswanathan Anand capped a wonderful fortnight with not just the title at the Morelia-Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament but also ensured that he would be listed world number one in the ratings to be released in April.It marked the first time in a decade that Anand, who has been in world's top-3 for last 15

2007-03-14T15:04:00.000-07:00

Funny

Achiever

2007-03-14T14:01:00.000-07:00

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/mar/14bspec.htmEvery day, for 16 hours a day, the 240 cars of the Delhi Metro roll quietly beneath the urban sprawl of India's capital. The trains are new. They arrive on time. The stations are clean. And the system is profitable, thanks in large part to the fact that the electricity that powers the system is government-subsidized.A well-run subway is a marvel

Movie review - 300

2007-03-10T00:09:00.000-08:00

Image source: 300themovie.warnerbrothers.comEssentially, this has been the most awaited movie of the year at a personal level. Sin City was one of the best movies I ever saw in my life, so the expectations were very high. Digitally enhanced movie making is probably costly/complex, I may be wrong but not many directors can pull away the look and feel of Sin City, 300 is a war movie. Each scene is

A congregation of 70000000 people

2007-03-09T07:09:00.000-08:00

So did u try to count the zeroes? 70 million peopleA flash presentation follows:http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2007/kumbh_mela_multimedia/Satellite image from wikipedia

Side effects - working in a call centre

2007-03-08T06:47:00.000-08:00

Working all night long for long periods of time, ain't right. See this poor fellow:courtesy: timesofindia

Scary photo

2007-03-06T11:36:00.000-08:00

For some reason, I almost gave out a shriek after seeing this photo, this is like a nightmare. I'm considering requesting the paper (timesofindia) not to scare their readers like this. Scariest pic of the dayAll Men BewareRenuka Chowdary, Usha Uthup and Sonia Gandhi

I Love Starstrucks

2007-03-05T22:53:00.000-08:00

Ok..ok..OK the idea of a chain of coffee shops is not original, pardonable mistake. Copying a name?? What the heck is wrong with this lady?http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/070304/starbucks_starstrucks.html?.v=3

What's good, what's not?

2007-03-02T22:19:00.000-08:00

JODHPUR: Aishwarya-Abhishek marriage on March 19? Nah... say pandits and astrologers adding that March 20 would be a good option."It is 'amawasya' on March 19 and no Hindu would like to perform any important work on this day. Moreover, there is also a solar eclipse, so a marriage on that day is next to impossible," says pandit Satish Purohit.Any pandit who knows the slightest bit of astrology

A-moo-rica

2007-03-01T21:19:00.000-08:00

And then, there was this little farm by a country road somewhere in between New Orleans and Birmingham. A farm straight from a fairy tale I thought,If you don't think it's that great, don't worry you're not the only one lacking aesthetic sense ;).Here's a list:New York, New Jersey, pennsylvania, Kansas, LouisianaOfficially where I stayed for more than 4 hrs to less than a week in between Feb 1st

Do you believe in second life?

2007-02-23T23:42:00.000-08:00

A Mr. Babenco, that's what I'm on secondlife.com; a virtual 3-D world with its own real estate, cities, home, friends, currency (Linden Dollar). Joining is free, buying and selling is not...not even in a virtual world. Having heard enough of CEOs and executives having their own avatars online on Second Life(it almost sounded spiritual), decided to try it out. Not much different from any game

Breaking news: Anna Nicole dead. Are you the Baby's Dad?

2007-02-09T18:19:00.000-08:00

Then why the heck are you reading this article. women please scroll below :) Source: Theage.comOne fine morning, a person (some believe to be a model), a playmate (something less of a po*n star) dies of excessive medication/drugs or a combination of these and God knows what. The whole world goes beserk. Death is sad, however true it might be, sad it is for sure, to grieve for a person you don’t

Now this comes out of nowhere

2007-02-06T12:29:00.000-08:00

Why can't Beauty and Brains EVER come together in a single package?I don't think the journalist is doin' a good job either, how the heck does someone like that get into CNN??"I wanna make out with you right now" Is she retarded?

Federer/Sharapova

2007-01-29T22:06:00.000-08:00

Courtesy: RajaniThis is H-I-L-Arious--

Activity defined

2007-01-28T21:42:00.000-08:00

Stomping, thumping, tapping, moving.Grace defined, pleasure redefined.The command and the control, short little quick movementsthat make a girl swirl and twirl, much to the delight.Your's and Her's.Quick Quick Slow, Quick Quick Slow.Quick Quick turn, Quick Quick Turn.So magical, so mathematical.Axis low, she can't get too far away from you.she knows when to stop, she knows when to start.One step

Mea Culpa

2007-01-27T22:42:00.000-08:00

Source: Original photo from Wikipedia by Ryan Bushby (HighinBC)One fine evening your honor, like all other normal evenings, there was a sudden urge to use a brand of jalapeno peppers bought one week back and make some mirchi bajji, Staple food of all engineering students in Andhra Pradesh. Sometime during a vacation up north and towards east, someone had shown me how to replace the actual long

Telugu Comedy

2007-01-26T23:15:00.000-08:00

Courtesy: Ska

Green Tea prevents cancer

2007-01-19T21:38:00.000-08:00

I might to have to rethink my "I hate tea policy"..you read it right. I dislike Tea. I didn't like Irani chai in Blue Sea either. Yes, I'm a little weird if u didn't know earlier :), But yea I like Iced sweet tea (no milk or the yucky creamer) esp with Mediterranean food.Who knows green tea could probably be better than the regular one...http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=104077The article

Billion or million

2007-01-19T12:00:00.000-08:00

I'm confused...my first reaction was 284 billion??? Is Mush boy printing (as ooposed to minting) dollars in his backyard?http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jan/19pak1.htm

Cell phone Vs potency

2007-01-18T19:48:00.000-08:00

Cell phones guys,the never ending debate http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3858via link from friend, SKA....

MLK Day of Service

2007-01-15T20:59:00.001-08:00

The CNN videos and a feature presentation about Martin Luther King Day of Service, with a tag, "Words that changed a nation" were immensely inspiring. There was something I could do, something I could contribute, however small it might be, or so, I thought. Image source: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htmI have always known the 16th street Baptist Church, the bombing of

Wild Berries - Photo Feature

2007-01-14T17:42:00.000-08:00

All images below are copyrighted, by me.Chandu- Your palms have been immortalized on the Internet...for free of charge. :)Copyright - Sidhu DatlaCopyright - Sidhu DatlaCopyright - Sidhu DatlaCopyright - Sidhu DatlaSome rights reserved, free to use under Creative Commons licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License.

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Post no 191

Tall man, short man

No more dates

I wanna cook it...

My daughter returns home late

The legend of William tell

Spaghetti Squash

Top 3 countries looking for sex on internet

Wife - Cause of a headache

Pearl again.

Online communities

A dig on Hitler

BE

This, I like

Citystages - Birmingham June 15,16,17

Feng Shui fish

Confessions of a film maker - A review

Sears center Chicago - June 9th

My damn lingual tooth

Ban orkut, my foot..

Blog header

Break THE Window

cartoon

Futuristic - Microsoft's Milan

We r the Earth Intruders, Muddy with twigs and branches

How we protest

Blog header

iBlog

Swarn Andhra Pradesh?

Mad house

what's internet got to do with work anyway.

Are there any?

Another Good VIdeo

And Blazers wept

Honey, Where are you?

Information beyond understanding.

MP in a fix

Accepting Tenders now

A-Moo-Rica2

Half-Indian on American Idol

Health insurance explained by a chick

Cricket Fan(atic)

Poem

Cric pic

Grand Master

Advertisement

Achiever

Movie review - 300

A congregation of 70000000 people

Side effects - working in a call centre

Scary photo

I Love Starstrucks

What's good, what's not?

A-moo-rica

Do you believe in second life?

Breaking news: Anna Nicole dead. Are you the Baby's Dad?

Now this comes out of nowhere

Federer/Sharapova

Activity defined

Mea Culpa

Telugu Comedy

Green Tea prevents cancer

Billion or million

Cell phone Vs potency

MLK Day of Service

Wild Berries - Photo Feature