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Saturday, September 04, 2004

You know you're living in 2004 when...

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4.. You e-mail your mate who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.

6. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.

7. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "0" or "9" to get an outside line.

8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for threedifferent companies.

10. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.

11. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.

12. Contractors out number permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
AND THE REAL CLINCHERS ARE...

13. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.

14. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "friends".

15. You got this email from a friend that never talks to you anymore,except to send you jokes from the net.

16. You are too busy to notice there was no No. 9.

17. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a No.9.

18. And now you are laughing at yourself!

19. Finally, you fwd this to your friends....

Friday, September 03, 2004

THERE IS NICE CONTENT I FOUND ABOUT Pseudo- intellectuals
definition of a pseudo intellectual, or pseudo is people who try to sound smart by forcing words and concepts into their vocabulary that wouldn't otherwise be there. One of those types who dresses to "shock", they mostly wear black, beige or gray, and grow their hair and sport awful hair styles and invariably wear spectacles. They are known for bitching endlessly about how awfully lonely their lives are and how everyone that walks the earth is out to get them.
Men do this because they fear women will stereotype them as stupid if they don't talk about feminism, politics or some other such boring topic that nobody really gives a damn about … But if they weren't brought up with this super-model mentality, then maybe they'd give a rat's a$$ about something outside of their microcosmic universe and stop buying into all the latest trends just to be able to check out the pretty sales girl’s t!ts n a$$.

Who really cares about these bullshitters ??? I swear, they'll do anything just to add another word to their vocabulary that possibly ends with an "ism". The good thing about these jacka$$es is that you can pick them out easily because they'll always be too busy trying to remember all their stupid definitions to make any sense when they're talking, which is usually the problem (that they're talking).
There was a time I used to think they were kinda cool. Probably because I didn't really know a real pseudo from within. Until recently…when i though on this topic.

They honestly believe that the successful and popular people do nothing but make fun of them. They honestly believe that everyone is out to harm them or find faults with them. And they love this !!! They love the idea that they're "being persecuted".
One of the reasons pseudos hate successful and popular people so much, is the mentality that they recognize as more original than their own. Even though pseudos would adamantly continue to wear a damn expression, that’d read : *Conform to non-conformity !!!* There is no skill or talent to be found within pseudos. A retard could do a better job in five seconds flat without any inspiration. Worst of all, the pseudo “always” thinks that they have somehow benefited the world by sharing their "original" views on life.

Get over your f**king selves. That's the message of this whole blog. Wake up and realize no one cares.
If you don't like this blog, I suggest you exercise your rights and write a counter-blog about how I suck, rather than take your usual approach and piss and moan.

there are some tips to join the class of pseudo intellectual
1) Regardless of the issue - make sure you bring up your views on abortion, capital punishment, religion, and the political party you least like, regularly. Make sure your use the terms "wrong", "evil", "sinful" and "false" in describing views that differ from your particular beliefs. Try to work in the terms "blinded" or "deluded".

2) Depending on YOUR orientation refer to your opponents in arguments (or debates that hold the promise of becoming arguments) as fascists or communists as often as possible. Suggest that their views parallel those held in Nazi Germany or of Stalinist USSR at least once.

3) Point out the shortcomings of the opposite gender. Using tasteless jokes that you ascribe to others is a favorite ploy. If your opponent is of the same sex - cast doubt on their sexual orientation.

4) When you've managed to get a good heated exchange going try to score points by using a word that will drive your opponent to the dictionary. Mock any attempts on their part to do the same. If possible humiliate them and react to attacks on your arguments with ironic references to misspellings, ill-conceived sentence construction, or inappropriate word usage.

5) If you make an error, never apologize. Blame it on a technical difficulty or on your opponent's mischaracterization of your argument.

6) When inspired, make sure you word your attacks and counterattacks so that you leave no opening for your adversary to capitulate to your view except in disgrace. Try to make certain that every avenue of response is a path of shame. Phrases like "only a idiot or a scumbag would argue that ..." are very helpful.

7) If you start to slip in an argument attack the person. It's most helpful to know something personal about them so that your ad hominems point out both academic/professional defects and their deficiencies as a human.

8) If someone levels an attack upon you, respond that in their reliance on ad hominem attacks the argument has deteriorated to a level that no longer warrants your participation. This can be a winning blow if played properly. Be subtle here, and clever; try to convey the sense of your opponent as dim-witted, ethically degenerate, desperate, and out maneuvered by your overwhelming intellectual superiority. The real joy here is that you can neatly do away with any respect due your opponent, slander his character, lacerate his pride, and, if done properly and with élan, simultaneously represent yourself as a man or woman whose ethics and moral sensitivity make it impossible for you to do what you just did. This one is a real gem -- and when executed gracefully - really an art form.

8) When you face a loss, construct a "straw man" argument either by taking your opponents words out of context or by changing the issue. Never lose - change the issue. If your opponent has the facts on their side, argue that facts don't constitute scholarship and understanding, and might even be a sign that one has not yet come to the level of understanding at all. Claim that computers store facts and that real scholarship is the sign of being able to understand and seeing the deeper connections.

9) Remember that you are always right. No matter what forces are marshaled against you, no matter how reasonable, humble, or generous, don't give an inch, don't be swayed. You are always right. It's the other side that caused this ruckus and keeps it going.

10) Always insist on the last word. The only honorable finish is unconditional capitulation by your adversaries or their defeated silence.

MORAL of the Blog… There are people out there worse off than you, morons. You are not any better than the rest of us. So stop bitching and get a life. Thank you.


Monday, August 30, 2004

KISS Theory ( Keep It Simple Stupid)::


MUST READ . . .

When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that
The pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (Ink won't flow down to the writing
surface).In order to solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12
million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down,
underwater,
in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range
from
below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

And what did Russians do.......................................??
The Russians used a Pencil!!!

One of the most memorable case studies I came across on Japanese
Management was the case of the empty soap box, which happened in one ofJapan's
biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a
consumer had
bought a soap box that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the
problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of
soap to the delivery department.
For some reason, one soap box went through the assembly line empty.
Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the
engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution
monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes that passed
through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked
hard and they worked fast but they spent whoopee amount to do so.

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the
same
problem, did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but instead came out

with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric !
fan and
pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soap
box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral of the story: KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) i.e. always look for
simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the
problem :-)

So, learn to focus on solutions not on problems

"If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything"
"If you look at what you have in life, you have everything"

Enjoy these brain exercise

1. man
-----------
board

Ans. = man overboard

2. stand
-----------
i

Ans. = I understand ok?....get the drift? Let's try a few now & see how you fare ???

3. /r/e/a/d/i/n/g/

Ans. = reading between the lines

4. r
road
a
d

Ans. = cross road

5. cycle cycle cycle

Ans. = tricycle

6. t
o
w
n

Ans. = downtown

7. le /
/ vel

Ans. = split level

8. 0
-------------
M.D.
Ph.D.

Ans. = two degrees below zero

9. knee!
------------
light

Ans. = neon light (knee on light)

10. ii ii
----------
O O

Ans. = circles under the eyes

11. dice
dice

Ans. = paradise

12. t
o
u
c
h

Ans. = touch! down

13. ground
---------------
feet
feet
feet
feet
feet
feet

Ans. = six feet underground

14. he's / himself

Ans. = he's by himself

15. ecnalg

Ans. = backward glance

16. death / life

Ans. = life after death

17 THINK

Ans. think big !! ! And the last one is what made me missing you...............

18 ababaaabbbbaaaabbbbababaabbaaabbbb....

Ans. long time no 'c'(see)

F1 CAR

An F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, if it were assembled 99.9% correctly, it would still start the race with 80 things wrong!
Formula 1 cars have over a kilometre of cable, linked to about 100 sensors and actuators which monitor and control many parts of the car.An F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph AND back to 0 in FOUR seconds !!!
F1 car engines last only for about 2 hours of racing mostly before blowing up on the other hand we expect our engines to last us for a decent 20yrs on an average and they quite faithfully DO....thats the extent to which the engines are pushed to perform.
When an F1 driver hits the brakes on his car he experiences retardation or deceleration comparable to a regular car driving through a BRICK wall at 300kmph !!!
An average F1 driver looses about 4kgs of weight after just one race due to the prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperaturesfor little over an hour (Yeah thats right!!!)
At 550kg a F1 car is less than half the weight of a Mini.In an F1 car the engine typically revs upto 18000 rpm,(the piston travelling up and down 300 times a second!!) wheres cars like the palio, maruti 800,indica rev only upto 6000 rpm at max. Thats 3 times slower.
The brake discs in an F1 car have an operating temperature of approx 1000 degees Centigrade and they attain that temp while braking before almost every turn...that is why they r not made of steel but of carbon fibre which is much more harder and resistant to wear and tear and most of all has a higher melting point.
If a water hose were to blow off, the complete cooling system would empty in just over a second.Gear cogs or ratios are used only for one race, and are replaced regularly to prevent failure, as they are subjected to very high degrees of stress.
The fit in the cockpit is so tight that the steering wheel must be removed for the driver to get in or out of the car. A small latch behind the wheel releases it from the column. Levers or paddles for changing gear are located on the back of the wheel. So no gearstick! The clutch leversare also on the steering wheel, located below the gear paddles.
To give you an idea of just how important aerodynamic design and added downforce can be, small planes can take off at slower speeds than F1 cars travel on the track.Without aerodynamic downforce, high-performance racing cars have sufficient power to produce wheel spin and loss of control at 160kph. They usually race at over 300 kph.The amount of aerodynamic downforce produced by the front and rear wings and the car underbody is amazing. Once the car is travelling over 160 kph, an F1 car can generate enough downforce to equal it's own weight. That means it could actually hold itself to the CEILING of a tunnel and drive UPSIDE down!
In a street course race like the monaco grand prix, the downforce provides enough suction to lift manhole covers. Before the race all of the manhole covers on the streets have to be welded down to prevent this from happening!
The refuelers used in F1 can supply 12 litres of fuel per second. This means it would take just 4 seconds to fill the tank of an average 50 litre family car.They use the same refueling rigs used on US military helicopters today.TOP F1 pit crews can refuel and change tyres in around 3 seconds.
Race car tyres don't have air in them like normal car tyres. Most racing tyres have nitrogen in the tyres because nitrogen has a more consistent pressure compared to normal air. Air typically contains varying amounts of water vapour in it, which affects its expansion and contraction as a function of temperature, making the tyre pressure unpredictable.During the race the tyres lose weight! Each tyre loses about 0.5 kg in weight due to wear.Normal tyres last 60 000 - 100 000 km. Racing tyres are designed to last 90 - 120 km (That's Khandala and back).
A dry-weather F1 tyre reaches peak operating performance (best grip) when tread temperature is between 900C and 1200C.(Water boils boils at 100C remember) At top speed, F1 tyres rotate 50
times a second.

Beauty of English

Ever noticed how deleting one word after the other in a sentence can lead to a nice story?
Here's an example:
Oh John please don't touch me at all...!
Oh John please don't touch me at...!
Oh John please don't touch...!
Oh John please don’t...!
Oh John please...!
Oh John..!
Ohhh......


have you ever though about it??

Why do toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?"

Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there... I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta it's bum."

Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is?

Why does your Obstetrician, Gynaecologist leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!

If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

Stop singing and read on . . .

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

Sunday, August 29, 2004

Installation of love::

Customer Service Rep: Can you install LOVE?
Customer: I can do that. I'm not very technical, but I think I am ready to install now. What do I do first?
CS Rep: The first step is to open your HEART. Have you located your HEART ma'am?
Customer: Yes I have, but there are several programs running right now. Is it okay to install while they are running?
CS Rep: What programs are running ma'am?
Customer: Let me see....I have PASTHURT.EXE, LOWESTEEM.EXE,GRUDGE.EXE, and RESENTMENT.COM running right now.
CS Rep: No problem. LOVE will automatically erase PASTHURT.EXE from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory, but it will no longer disrupt other programs. LOVE will eventually overwrite LOWESTEEM.EXE with a module of i! ts own called HIGHESTEEM.EXE. However, you have to completely turn off GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM. Those programs prevent LOVE from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ma'am?
Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?
CS Rep: My pleasure. Go to your Start menu and invoke FORGIVENESS.EXE. Do this as many times as necessary until GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM have been completely erased.
Customer: Okay, I'm done. LOVE has started installing itselfautomatically. Is that normal?
CS Rep: Yes it is. You should receive a message that says it will reinstall for the life of your HEART. Do you see that message?
Customer:
Yes I do. Is it completely installed?
CS Rep: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other HEARTS in order to get the upgrades.
Customer: Oops...I have an error message already. What should I do?
CS Rep: What does the message say?
Customer: It says "ERROR 412 - PROGRAM NOT RUN ON INTERNAL COMPONENTS." What does that mean?
CS Rep: Don't worry ma'am, that's a common problem. It means that the LOVE program is set up to run on external HEARTS but has not yet been run on your HEART. It is one of those complicated programming things, but In non-technical terms it means you have to "LOVE" your own machine before it can "LOVE" others.
Customer: So what should I do?
CS Rep: Can you find the directory called "SELF-ACCEPTANCE"?
Customer: Yes, I have it.
CS Rep: Excellent, you are getting good at this.
Customer: Thank you.
CS Rep: You're welcome. Click on the following files and then copy them to the "MYHEART" directory: FORGIVESELF.DOC, SELFESTEEM.TXT, REALIZEWORTH.TXT, and GOODNESS.DOC. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching any faulty programming. Also, you need to delete SELFCRITIC.EXE from all directories, and then empty your recycle bin afterwards to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.
Customer: Got it. Hey! My HEART is filling up with really neat files. SMILE.MPG is playing on my monitor right now and it shows that WARMTH.COM, PEACE.EXE, and CONTENTMENT.COM are copying themselves all over my HEART!
CS Rep: Then LOVE is installed and running. You should be able to handle it from here. LOVE is freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everybody you meet.
With Love All Things Are Possible

Interesting facts::

*Coca-Cola was originally green.
*The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
*The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
*The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
*TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
*Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
*You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
*It is impossible to lick your elbow.
*People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
*It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
*The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
*If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
*Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
*If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
*If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle
*If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
*What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
*A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
*A snail can sleep for three years.
*All polar bears are left handed.
*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
*Butterflies taste with their feet.
*El! ephants are the only animals that can't jump.
*In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
*On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
*Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
*Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
*The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
*The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
*The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
*Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
*Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
*The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
*Most lipstick contains fish scales.
*Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.