Ten Revolutionary Computers

Ten Revolutionary Computers

For dev guys..

Did you know that 'Developer' is an anagram for 'Loved Peer', 'Lord Peeve', 'Redevelop' and 'Deep Lover'?
[Courtesy: Internet Anagram Server]
[And as far as I can tell, at least the second and third 'fit' :-p]

Terse descriptions..

Opinion column of SciAm this month has these terse descriptions for movies.
A few gems..
Predator: The future governor of California and the future governor of Minnesota go hiking.
Close encounters of the third kind: Frail aliens visit earth in search of friends, music and possibly gym equipment.

And I thought, Bollywood should not stay behind. So here is my version of terse descriptions for Bollywood (though I realize that only the first one is necessary and sufficient).

Jaane Tu ya Jaane na: Boy loves girl.
Mohabbatein: Three boys love three girls.
Dil Maange More: One boy loves three girls simultaneously.
Aitraaz: Two girls love one boy simultaneously.
Waqt: Father loves son.
Taare zamin par: Father does not love son.
Race: Everybody loves money.
Gunda: I love this movie!!!

Any contributions???

A few cool things about Hancock..

Flying in bermuda..
The most important thing. I mean, flying is cool, but it won't be much fun if you have to do it in Superman/Spiderman tights or worse still, in the tin suite of Ironman. Hancock gets to fly in his bermuda, so it's cool at multiple levels.

No uniform..
Every kid (and many adults) hate uniforms. But Superheroes have to have one. Not so with Hancock, wear whatever you want, but get the job done (it's one of startup fundas too) (Plus it helps with self esteem. I mean, What self esteem would you be left with if you had to wear your undergarments on your pants, Superman estyle?)

No identity crisis..
Another widespread problem among Superheroes. They don't want to reveal who they are, so they (have to) go to great lengths to hide their identity. But everybody knows Hancock (he won't even wear a mask), so he can concentrate on kicking enemy butt.

No girlfriend..
Yes it's a boon. Almost all superhero gf get themselves in trouble and our SH has to 'make a choice'. No problems if you don't have a gf.

Flying in bermuda..
Err, I guess I already covered that :-p.

GMail knows who you really are..

You might already know that GMail ignores dot characters and the case of letters in your email ID. So johnsmith@gmail.com, John.Smith@gmail.com and jOhNS.mith@gmail.com point to the same mailbox.
Try this for a bit of amusement,

Send a mail to your GMail account inserting a few dots in your id (or try changing capitalization).
e.g. if your mail id is abcd@gmail.com, try sending a mail to A.bc.D@gmail.com

Go to your GMail inbox. You will see that you have received the mail you just sent.

Click on 'Show Details' for this mail and observe the 'To' field.

Humor is..

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
-Mel Brooks

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
-Max Eastman

Humor is reason gone mad.
-Groucho Marx

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-Christopher Morley

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
-Leo Rosten

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
-Mark Twain

Love Story 2050: A survivor's tale

Yes, I am a survivor. Now I always knew I was tough, I have survived movies like 'Welcome' (can you believe that?), but only after watching 'Love Story 2050' I realized in boodhi haddiyo me kitni jaan hai...

So this was supposed to be 'A star is born' movie. But the opening sequence makes it clear, wohi purana item, busy baap who loves his car more than his son. Now the director knew that janata does not like such scenes anymore, so he tries to finish it quickly and ends up with totally inconsistent dialogs and stuff.

So here is our hero who is also the leader of his group (of course), so he goes on a vacation (isn't that inconsistent? these are a survivors bruises buddy). And he meets the heroine and makes her fall in less time than it takes to make a sandwich. But kismat strikes and before he could do iqarar, the heroine returns home. And our hero does not know where she went. So he goes to the railway station. Now a titali (butterfly), who minds her own business also happens to visit the station. And minding her own business she sits on a board, but guess what, the board has the name of the gaon where our heroine went. Now if you don't like this explanation, here is the bollywood version, the titali was a sandes from god. Choose one (or both..).

So our hero goes and does iqarar, but where does he stay? Of course there is this scientist uncle modeled after Einstein and who believes in astrology (I mean, what do you have against Science?). So he retired from NASA and built a space machine, I mean Time machine. But one little piece is missing (but thanks to our heroine who accidentally rubs out part of an equation and scribbles some garbage in the place which turns out to be missing link) HAHAHAHAHA...

But kismat strikes again and our heroine gets run over by a bus. So you might guess that the hero goes in the past and saves her. No sir! Thanks to complex space time warps, superstrings chaos and strange quarks, our heroine ends up in 2050 (how? the poor audience are too dumb to understand). So our hero goes to the future. And the future is full of Ads, I tell ya. Robots display Sun Microsystems logo and LUX has big neon sign on top of a skyscraper. And our hero is such a stud that even robots fall for him (real AI, hmm).

But a Bollywood flick is never complete without a stupid heroine's mother and an even stupider villain. So for completeness the movie has both. They have nothing to do in particular, so they spend their time with their all-too-well-known hobbies, beti ki shaadi and world domination respectively. And our hero both impresses the would be saasu-ma and gives the villain kutte ki maut and also returns to 2008 with the heroine. Happys endings.

Hey, but the audience did not end up happy. (Or did they? the movie ends is reason enough)..