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Flash News!

I just heard this on the news:

BSNL has changed its name to BLOL to more accurate represent itself.

200M GET

Can’t believe I’m on /b/ waiting on the 200M GET.

And the 200M GET is:

Have2Get

X: so what do you want to do?
M: i want to play left4dead 2
X: i dont have it
M: neither do i

When In Rome

Extract from IM conversation:

s: well then when in rome, do the romans
s: err do as the romans do

Good suggestions, both of them.

The Google Wave Experiment Is Over

Remember this?

Any new product from Google was bound to have a lot of interest in it so for a few months we were obsessed with Wave trying to see what it can do and what it could/would be used for. Invites were rare and coveted defeating the entire point of the service which was to collaborate/share/communicate.

Early users like me found that not many people I knew had been able to sign up for the service and so could not give it a chance.

The problem this time was that Google did not make Wave because there was demand for the product in the market. This was something new. Well, not quite. The concepts already exist in the form of forums and email groups.

Google basically reinvented the forum albeit with less features like quoting, subforums, moderation and added scripting and bots and gadgets. When I first tried out the service I found it confusing, cluttered and lacking in any specific purpose. Sure, you could embed videos and media and things and make it a colourful and interesting visual experience but would you really use Wave for this over a social network? Do you really see yourself and your friend/contacts doing stuff like what you see in the Wave ads?

I always thought that Wave wasn’t unique enough. It felt like an AJAXified forum with a lot of multimedia features and that simply wasn’t interesting/useful enough right now. If some of these features move into social networking sites and emails I would welcome it but using Google Wave as an application is just too vague a concept.

Now all the interest has died away and you see no more mention of it anywhere. Let us leave it to die a dignified death from disuse and work on something else.

Gotcha!

Christopher Pike is one author I remember from the early 2000s who consistently tricked my sister into loaning his novels from our local library. His books resembled standard teen novels on the outside and were also placed next to a huge rack of Sweet Valley novels.

I soon found out* that these novels by Pike start off as young adult drama but quickly turn into a science fiction novel (complete with aliens and spaceships in one instance) and are usually quite good. Every time I read one of these books I would picture the duped person reading in bewilderment as the seemingly normal story took a science fiction detour. Great fun.

*Being too lazy to actually go to the libary to loan books myself and having anyway finished all the interesting ones there a long time ago – it’s a small libary – I usually ended up reading some of the books lying around at home.

Veeraswamy – The Terror That Is TR

TR moodikittu illama indha padam vera edhuthu tholachirukaaru.

In case you didn’t understand what the hell that was all about here is Gowtham’s outraged summary:

analysing the scene

T.R’s sister is in love with some guy…
T.R gave vaaku to someone that he will get his sister to marry his son (wtf)
But then he realised that his sister is in love with another guy
So he gets his sister marry the guy whom she love (its ok)
Now the guy to whom he gave vaaku comes and ask, why he got his sister married to someother guy.

He dies, cos he was not able to keep up his vaaku (with that terrible sudden head turning, to make us realise that he is dead)

then mumtaj dies, since his husband died (The End)

Yep. Serious WTF. Sam Andersonuke potti. If there was a match between TR and Sam, who would win?

We Build For China!

Man, C&C Generals has so many awesome unit dialogues.

Anyway I’ve started the chain of events that will end with me gaining a new desktop PC and losing a lot of money.

This is the configuration that I’m looking at:

Processor: Athlon II X4 630 – 5.2k
Motherboard: Gigabyte 785GMT-UD2H – 5.6k
RAM: Kingston 4GB (2*2GB) DDR3 1333MHz – 4.4k
GPU: Sapphire HD4850 512MB DDR3 – 6.5k
HDD: WD Blue AAKS 500GB SATA2 – 2.5k
Monitor: BenQ G2220HD – 8.5k / Samsung 2233SW – 9k
Cabinet: CM Elite 310 – 1.6k
SMPS: Gigabyte Superb 460W – 2.2k
Optical Drive: L.G. GH22NS30 SATA
UPS: APC 550VA – 1.9k

Suggestions are welcome even from people that have no idea what the above mean.

Haapanavar

I call the Bajaj service station.

Me: Hello, when can I come get my bike?
Supervisor: Sir, you come in haapanavar.
Me: Hello. What?
Supervisor: Haapanavar sir, come in haapanavar.
Me: Oh. Okay I’ll come in half an hour.