Category: humour

Some things just crack me up. The other day, I was reading an EDA trade journal (I am trying to be as vague as possible here). It was a nice article related to my new job. At the end of the article, a single line description of the author was what sent me rolling in laughter:

xxxx is the Senior High-End Technical Analysis Staff member responsible for technical product analysis, yyyy architecture, and technology solutions for zzzz’s high-end pppp product lines. 

I could not miss posting this one. (Link via kottke). A painting of our own Homer Simpson (from the Simpsons), by Rembrandt. Click here for the master piece.

Do click on the coffee cup on the top right as well, for added surprise.

Very nice personal touch found in Slideshare.net registration page.

Pardon me dear non-unix readers. But I could not pass this up. Brilliant quote on a lifehacker comment thread. The article was about “*nix commands for windows”. Someone commented about /dev/null not being there in windows, but present in Cygwin.

The fact that /dev/null really exists is subject to debate. Some went there but never came back 🙂

(Commenters name was nicoco. Could not find a link to him.)

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Over 200 improv agents gathered at New Yorks Grand Central railway station, for a large scale improv prank. They were given instructions that, at exactly 2:30PM, they would just freeze – doing things that normal people would do, and just freezing in the middle. There were people who had a water bottle to their lips and just froze. People who bent to tie their shoe laces and just froze. They froze for exactly 5 minutes, much to the amusement of the passers-by. I think the security and maintanence people were pretty shocked too :).

Click here for a more detailed report.

Sometimes, this is what happens! Look at the what the author of this book on typography get! Boy, would he have been shocked or what !

(Image: typography.com)

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I was tag surfing on wordpress.com when I found this. Amazing. I have heard that both Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw were known for their wit, but this one tops them all.

Lady Astor: “Winston, if you were my husband, I should flavour your coffee with poison.”

Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it.”

 

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Since we need a mission statement for tasks/projects that we commonly do, I guess I came up with my own mission statement for my commute.

“I am not rash, nor am I fast, but I just cant stand idiots on the road. I just need to get past them, and I will do anything to do so.”

My commute takes me through 2 villages (typical Uttar Pradesh villages). And I get more than a fair share of irrational people (with suicidal driving tendencies) sharing the road with me, during my commute to and back from work. 

And on a related note, I still do not understand why they used to always establish export processing zones outside the city !