Goltese Falcon

I think people are sarcastic of late.

Guy : I am fucking weird.
Girl : i am fucking weird too. Look, I wear helmets because I have epilepsy. I lie.
( acoustic guitar song )
Guy : My mom died. But I am emotionless.
Girl : My dog died. Let's have a funeral. OMG! I can't stop crying.
( acoustic guitar pipe in )
Guy : Let's do drugs and go to pointless places. I have weird friends.
Girl : That's cool. I'll come with you.
( acoustic guitar )
Guy, Girl : Look at that big hole in the middle of New Jersey.
( ac... )
Guy : I need to go. I am messed up. I need to go to LA.
Girl : We can do this. I need you.
Guy : I was wrong. I need you.
( Let go - Frou Frou plays )

The folks over at Fark and Peyton Manning, the Indianapolis QB suggested a pretty novel and ingenious way to watch Monday Night Football. I think you should also try it out and you'll instantly realize that the resulting effect is much better and you won't revert to your usual ways. I'll probably let you browse what it is so that the fruits of your labor will make the effect sweeter. I'll just give you a clue - it involves your remote and the mute button.

* Y axis is the distance from the first strand of hair in your forehead to your eyebrows.

* At Point A, you start noticing that more hair in your bathtub after a shower. This is also the time you should really postpone your studies and start looking for girlfriends.

* "An" is a period where you really start taking seriously the balding process. Some signs are .. You ditch your regular Thai grandma barber to a swanky chic salon. You promote yourself to BioLage or Neutrogena from the Walmart ones.

* B is a point before which you really shoulda gotten married. Otherwise the quality of the chick would be commensurate with your huge forehead's awesomeness. And as you can see from the Dowry graph, you can't demand much dowry. Also, Wedding Photogs can't use flash in their cameras due to the reflectance of your forehead.

* The Dowry graph is pretty much the inverse of the balding graph, which is obvious. If you are old and bald, good luck yo.

* My theory doesn't hold true for the dowry given for a PhD Telugu guy ( Dg ) in which the dowry paid reaches the Upper Bound (Supremum). Note that this is constant irrespective of age and forehead status. And also note that it goes beyond the graph axes.

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1. In your engagement or wedding-eve reception, if there's a sad looking dude who sings and dances better than you, he is your fiance's ex. And your fiance is most likely gonna elope with him after the song.

2. Extremes of weather don't affect Indian women. The snow-capped Swiss alps are a perfect place for them to flaunt their resplendent sleeveless blouses and sarees.
Men are wusses though - they are often seen with jackets above sweaters and they try to cuddle the ladies whenever they get a chance to escape from the cold.

3. Khans are so hetero that they wear tight pink t-shirts just to bring their hetero level down so that you can feel better about yourself and your existence and why you are here in this world.

4. Just because you are from UK or Australia, your Punjabi song doesn't sound better. In fact, it sucks. The same reason it's out of my iPod.

5. Yuvan Shankar Raja should stop singing. I know that your name has a "Raja" but the similarity stops right there.

6. Lewis Hamilton has made me follow F1 eagerly again.

7. What's with gajillion Rajini's "Sivaji" forwards? I get one almost everyday from different people. Most are ridiculous like "Thalaivar looks younger than Shriya".. "Shriya is not a good pair for Thalaivar".
Have you seen Shriya?
It's the same old "masala" formula which is guaranteed to become a blockbuster due to the quintillion fanboys who have nothing better to do in life.

8. In other news, I am not a racist.


Take this test here.

were such a bummer this year. I expected a last minute thrilling finish like last year but "e-filing" thingie totally took the fun away.

Terence Tao says in a NYT article

“You start getting famous for being famous,” Dr. Tao said. “The Paris Hilton effect.”

While Paris Hilton sneaked in her under-aged boy-toy into Tao, the night club at Las Vegas and loses her Bentley in a Poker game.

If you multiply both their IQs you'll get mine.

So to beat insomnia, you really need to fight it. If you let it rule, you'd be counting infinite sheep during the nights. I figured I'll take the problem head-on. Therefore I am here.. at work.. at 3 AM in the morning...

The first thing I did was to have a really long bath. A strong coffee always helps.. and got a couple of cans of Coke to work. Coke contains caffeine and when you are sleepy, you feel thirsty ( atleast me), so coke handles both the problems well..

If you haven't heard James Morrison's "You give me something", you should listen to it. And Mat Kearney is Chris Martin of the USA. Why did I just change the topic? Cuz I have massive ADD.

Anyways, since I am gonna liveblog the progress of my workday.. stay tuned for updates and stuff like "Art of Sleeping with hands on keyboard and eyes on the monitor"

UPDATE 1: 4.30 AM
- C++ just flows in the mornings.
- Don't listen to Norah Jones during 18 hr workdays.

UPDATE 2 : 6.00 AM
- Normally the most popular songs of great artists aren't the best ones. That's what I am discovering with Coldplay. I totally like "Shiver" and "Fix You" - relatively less popular songs.
Great music is a great antidote for sleep.
- I got a lot of flax when I sang
"Bholi bhali ladki..
Khol teri khidki"

UPDATE 3 : 7.30 AM
- Nothing. Life goes on.

UPDATE 4 : 12.00 AM
- My C++ blitz worked and I have released an alpha version. Hail the 18hr! But I've reached a stage of extreme sleepiness that I can't keep my head straight up. Gonna head home and have some lunch. "O Saathi Re - Omkara" doesn't help things. Coke's caffeine is overrated. Vishal Bharadwaj is a genius.

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Federer is killing Roddick. It's a visual treat. Roddick is clearly flustered and making a lot of mistakes. It's a man vs boy game. Complete annihilation.

In other news, Nadal blames a mysterious leg ailment for his loss. Bitch! "Be a man..." like Russell Peters would say.

* So the latest Harry Potter book is named "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". Since there's the "D" word Harry Potter dies. Sorry folks.
Oh crap. Spoiler. If you don't wanna know please don't read the above sentence.

* I think most people are not Atheists / Agnostics because they are scared. The concept of God really helps people when they are in their doldrums. Something to cling on. The hope that God will reward them for their suffering offers a hope during bad times which propels them to work towards getting back up.
Hope (Prayer, Faith, Belief) <-> Work... A positive cycle.

* Hey Bros. Emily Blunt is your latest saali.

* If Federer represents everything right about Tennis, Rafael Nadal represents everything wrong. They are the perfect Yin-Yang pair. He's obnoxiously loud, petty, celebrates every point, wears capris, grunts like a pig etc. When I was really watching Tennis, there used to be this player Arantza Sanchez Vicario, incidentally from Spain. She's the perfect feminine version of Nadal and I used to hate her too.
If Nadal played Soccer, he'd be like Christiano Ronaldo - the world's best flopper.

- Pete Sampras is really a lucky bastard. Had he born few years later, I am sure he'd have played second fiddle to Federer just like how unlucky Roddick is. Roddick has developed a nice serve n volley game so if they meet, the game would be a classic.

* Thinking of writing a big treatise on why we lost Rose Bowl, which is just a sample of a bigger problem. Hopefully it sees the light of the day.

* There are a few things in life which are as fun as Karting. especially if you are racing against your friends/family. Being from Narain Kartikeyan's home town, I wish I had discovered this niche when I was a kid ;-).

* 300 is a movie I am gonna see First Day Whichever Show.