Brilliant - How Harry Potter Really Ends!!

From Slate:

For that select group who are fans of both "The Sopranos" and Harry Potter...

excerpt...

None of these diners knew yet that Voldemort was dead—not by Harry's hand, but killed instead by Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnegan, who'd happened upon He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named outside of London. They'd cursed him from behind and watched as the Knight Bus ran over his head with a horrible crunching sound.

Read the whole thing here....

:)

vista blahs

I've been looking at Windows laptops recently.. No, not for myself!! But just my luck that I started my search after the release of Vista, and now that means that it's damn near impossible to find a machine with normal good ole XP.

I haven't understood this Vista thing yet.. Maybe I'll install it with Parallels and try it out for myself. I did play with it a bit in Best Buy but I guess the laptop it was installed on wasn't all that up to speed, coz I found it pretty clunky.

Anyway.. It is true that they have about 4 dozen different versions of Vista.. and just knowing which one to opt for will require a Dummies Book.

I think I should whip up a "Choosing Which Version of Windows Vista to Buy for Dummies".. something like this:


Here's a cartoon from the Joy of tech to illustrate this...

Thank You Jon Stewart

We have all seen TIME Magazine's choice for person of the year 2006.. right? It's YOU. Really.. YOU. you. you.

Yes, sad state of affairs...

And then Jon Stewart goes and says exactly what is on all sane peoples' minds.

Here you go:

Exchange students - check your host family well!!

Got this story off kottke.org

About this Polish exchange student who came to North Carolina, USA for his 'year abroad' study program. His host happened to be a fundamentalist Christian family who tried for 6 months to take the devil out of his soul!! Poor Kid..

excerpt -

"When I got out of the plane in Greensboro in the US state of North Carolina, I would never have expected my host family to welcome me at the airport, wielding a Bible, and saying, 'Child, our Lord sent you half-way around the world to bring you to us.' At that moment I just wanted to turn round and run back to the plane.

Complete story here...

wat to do we are like dat only

This video is awesome.. beautiful.. brilliant. A definite keeper..

12 days of christmas...

for Indians.. :D



By Boymongoose

Oh damn...

story of my life...

again..

from phdcomics.com, obviously

Mind your language...

Are you - in an airport in the US?
Do you - speak a "foreign" language?
Do you - have a cellphone?

well... i guess you should be advised that a combination of the above three factors could result in you missing your flight (at the very least) or worse if you're unlucky (or don't cower and cringe to airport officials)...

Here's a story from the Seattle Post Intelligencer...

Monday, October 2, 2006 · Last updated 3:15 p.m. PT

Man questioned and misses flight for speaking Tamil

By BRAD WONG
P-I REPORTER

A 32-year-old man speaking Tamil and some English about a sporting rivalry was questioned at Sea-Tac Airport and missed his flight Saturday because at least one person thought he was suspicious.

The Port of Seattle dispatched its police officers to investigate the case, which occurred Saturday around noon, said Bob Parker, airport spokesman. The Chicago man was preparing to board an American Airlines flight to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

The man was speaking Tamil, a language largely used in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore, on his cell phone at the departure gate and on the aircraft. An off-duty airline employee heard the conversation and informed the flight crew.

The man also apparently said something in English about a sporting rivalry at his alma mater.

"It's a big misunderstanding," said Parker. "He had a perfectly innocent explanation that all added up."

Parker said it is incumbent on airport officials to investigate reports of suspicious activity.

"It's hard to triage over the phone," he said.

But Parker had no explanation as to why a man speaking Tamil, which is spoken worldwide, would be considered suspicious. The person who contacted airport officials could give an answer to that question, he added.

Parker said the man was cooperative and boarded a later flight to Texas. He told officials that he would not speak in a foreign language on his cell phone at an airport in the future.

Guess I gotta be careful to eespeeek only een eengleesh on my way to SanFran this month..

lookin forward to the trip.. not looking forward to the travel!!

Multiplication Magic

111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321

:)

try it out.

actually, this works from 11 X 11, 111 X 111, 1,111 X 1,111.... all the way upto 111,111,111 X 111,111,111

the time? 1 2 3 4 5 6

This Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

ya,ya, it'll work in places where the date format is mm/dd/yy - happy!! :)

From boingboing.net

microsoft designs the ipod package..

hehe... funneee