Fun fact for the day - M.I.A's (of Paper Planes/Slumdog Millionaire fame) real name is Mathangi Arulpragasam[1]. Rolls off one's tongue like poetry or dark chocolate syrup or some such goodness appropriate in this simile. M.I.A in comparison sounds like steamed cabbage.

Talk about the choices people make to fit in.

[1] Wikipedia

Invasion of a sovereign country?
iz mah xclusiv rite

Continued from Part 1 Day 2 - Sunday - 1130 hrs ( Read more... )

Day 1 - Saturday

floopilot and I are all set to start on our long scenic route to Bangalore from Pittsburgh. The highly cost optimized itinerary booked for us by a shadowy travel agent supposedly based in Virginia involves 3 layovers and 2 airlines ( Read more... )

For the most part I believed in you. Yeah, sure I didn't understand you sometimes, but people much smarter than me told me you were infallible and I trusted them and I trusted you. I did hear rumours that you broke down when it came down to quantum physics and strings and witch-craft like that, but hey, what does a simple minded computer science ( Read more... )

Shiver me timbers! My journal isn't quite dead yet ( Read more... )

The jury's back. I'm only semi-lame.
Barack Obama's flickr page (note the id)All you people who may have sniggered at my Yahoo id in the past (shamefully/schizophrenically, I'm on that list); If Barack Obama thinks a 'dotcom' suffix in an userid isn't lame, it really isn't and should be accepted as such. After all, Presidents and wannabe- ( Read more... )

I'll pretend that I haven't been absconding for the last six months. Not that my three loyal readers would really care. They likely are masochistic anyway. Ok, so I was flattering myself. Make that one and a half loyal readers. No, stop it already. I really do have one and a half loyal readers. I count, don't I? So what if it's strange that I am my ( Read more... )

As a followup to my previous post, here's an addition to the list of disorders that cracks me up - Seasonal Affective Disorder

Road rage - a disorder?You must be freaking kidding me! Like we didn't have our collective senses pummeled with enough bogus disorders already. "Intermittent Explosive Disorder" is what they're calling this ( Read more... )