Monday, October 3, 2011

Weekly Stuff #2

This is the second edition of the posts that I plan on updating on a weekly basis. But still I haven't thought of a decent name to go with, so for now I guess I'll have to stick to the same uncreative thing.

Student-of-University-of-Madras.-Preparations-for-exams
(working-hard,-they-tie-hair-to-nail-in-wall-to-prevent-falling-into-sleep)
Otomata : As the creator puts it, it is a generative sequencer. All I care is that it is an awesome timepass if you are on the internet and don't know what to do. A brilliant and addictive music generator where you have to just place boxes; these move in straight lines and hit the walls of a box and when doing so create music. Check out for yourself at Otomata.



Now thats what a true nerds would look like. Simply brilliant!

So true!
S M Krishna with Pakistani foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar
This was found on facebook with a caption contest going along with it. So far the best caption that has been gives is 'SPARSHANE PAPAM...DARSHANE PUNYAM..'.
                          


An Indian man walks into the New York City bank and asks for the loan officer. He tells the Loan Officer that he was going to India for some business for 2 weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The Loan Officer tells him that the bank will need Some form of security for the loan. So the Indian man hands over the keys and the documents of the new Ferrari car parked on the
street in front of the bank. The loan officer consults the president of the bank, Produces all the required items and everything check out to be OK. The loan officer agrees to accept the car as a
security for the loan. The bank president and the Loan Officer had a good laugh at the Indian
for keeping a $750,000 Ferrari as a security and taking only $5,000 has a loan. An employee of the bank then drives the Ferrari into the banks underground garage and parks it there. Two weeks later the Indian returns and pays $5000 and the interest which comes to it $15.41.  Seeing this, loan officer says, “Sir, we are very happy to have your business and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you are away, we checked you out and found out that you were a multi millionaire. What puzzled us was why would you bother to
borrow $5000?” The Indian replies "Where else in the New York City can I park my car for 2 weeks and for only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return".
This is a true incident and the Indian is none other than... "Vijay Mallya"

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Weekly Stuff #1

At some point of time you would have come across something on the web that you would love to share with others. For this there are quite a lot of ways out there to do it; facebook, twitter, buzz and the list goes on... They are great, there is nothing I can say against these; but you see, if I decide to share things over there, then what do I do with my blog? No traffic = sadness! So I decided that though I don't get to 'blog' about anything, I'll just dump everything that I come across and feel is interesting over here!

From Tushar Suresh through tweetdeck
Thats something that I can connect to instantly!


black and white self-portrait of joshi daniel
An awesome self portrait from Joshi Daniel
Found this on Joshi Daniel's profile 'Joshi Daniel Photography | Images of people'. Me being absolute nuts for photography with excessive field of depth, just can't resist not loving this picture. Added to that, there is an awesome analog watch in focus! Waah!

 After the unforgettable thrash of Arsenal by ManU we had the much awaited ManU vs. Chelsea. Sure there were expectations of a good much ( at this point I have to agree that whenever ManU plays, the games are fun to watch; but don't interpret that as 'I like them') and we did indeed get a match that was fun to watch. A spectacular goal from Nani from outside the box, a hilarious slip by Rooney and a couple own goals missed by Chelsea! And one among them being my favourite - Torres being unable to score against the world's unarguably the worst goalkeeper in the world - 'thin air'!

Vettel ripping at Singapore
Vettel is ate the verge of securing a back to back championship at Singapore. And he has definitely done everything right till now. Securing pole with a huge margin of 0.351s from Webber just makes me wonder HOW? Looks like from here on its the Red Bulls, McLarens, Ferraris; Vettel apart... Looking forward to the race though! Paul Di Resta(10) and Adrian Sutil(9) in top 10, awesome!

Monday, July 25, 2011

'Mind' it!!! :P

Your mind is like an engine; like all the other engines, it tends to stop once it is out of juice. But again, it is only like an engine and not one!
- M Balakumaran