I gleaned this from a random look at the website logs for two weeks.

P.S. What does he/she mean by using orkut effectively? Isn’t that an oxymoron?

True story.

On Day 7 of my Singapore trip (Dec 28, 2007), Chinmay and myself were at ‘The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf’ shop. The lady in front of us in the queue said this. When we heard this, both of us looked at each other, with the look that meant “Did I just hear that right?”, and then we burst into laughter.

P.S. Oh, and this is my first ToonDoo. ToonDoo has way too many bugs, it took me one attempt to create the comic strip, but 15 min of 4-5 attempts to actually get it to save properly. Even now, the text cloud in the first panel is in the wrong direction even though it was proper when creating it.

From New York Times, November 26, 1991:

DOS computers, made by I.B.M., Compaq, Tandy and about a million other companies, are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans will note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not connote a higher life form. There is strength in numbers, however. The White House uses DOS computers.

That reminds me, it’s been a while since I read The Daily WTF.

Note: I no longer work with IonLab since Nov 12 of 2009.

This incident happened about three weeks ago when the preparations for ion were in full swing, and Vikram and myself worked all day long to create the posters for ion as well as the website itself. At one point, we realized that we were spending most of our time in choosing just the color and placement of text, and we spent some 20+ min just to decide the font of the apostrophe in “plug ‘n play”!

At around 6 o’ clock, we were dead tired (at least I was, Vikram said he had never seen so lazy before) and decided to go get the posters printed but I didn’t want to, so he suggested instead to go for the new place that he went for cycling to recently. We went by bike through a zig-zag maze of roads and after 3-4 km, suddenly ended up in a place which seemed to be deserted! It was a new layout being formed by destroying the hill and the greenery, the signs of urbanization marked by destruction, the green being replaced by the grey (concrete).

We climbed up the rocks, just sat down there in the darkness and we had a long discussion about random things and sometimes deep things. Then, we noticed there was a huge reddish moon in the sky. Simply beautiful. I was taking photographs.

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Looks like someone sure loves email!

Yahoo! India launches http://in.answers.yahoo.com.

So can you answer these questions?

• Did I do a bad job of raising my son?
• How can we say that we’re alive?
• When I get off at Bangalore aiport, how much will the elephant ride to my hotel cost?
• Why do dogs eat cat feces??? How do you stop this behavior?
• Does anyone want to give me a million dollors?
• What do we do while we’re dead?
• Why do you think Yahoo started this forum? — the first reply says “P.S. I have personal proof that the creators of Yahoo are the ones who really killed JFK (they also got Jimmy Hoffa)”
• i want gf?
• How to become an animal in your next life?

Be sure to read the answers as well.

Saw this on a T-shirt:

Nobody is perfect. I am nobody.