Fish fry ya bheja fry

Today at the grocery store, my friend picks up the advertisement sheet containing items on sale, stares at a thumb nail image of a plate containing some unskinned fish, turns to me and says earnestly, "Abey ye dekh, ye fish kitne fresh hai nahin?" ("Look here, these fish look fresh, don't they?"

Origin of cash for clunkers :p

Really admire their marketing spirit though! :) If not for this hilarious ad there's no way I would have read a boring ad for vacuum leak detectors! :|

Ajmer Sharif ke Karim Baba changed my life.

Home sick

The recreation complex was closed at 6 pm today so my Russian racquetball partner and I couldn't play. So we decided to play table tennis at a community centre he thought would be open. We stopped at my home on the way there as I had to pick up my racket. When we entered my home, he politely stood at the entrance while I searched for my racket in my bedroom. I thought he might get bored waiting so I said he could come in and wait. He walked up to my room and had a horror-stricken expression on his face. I quite well knew it was because of how dirty and unkempt it was with everything including bedding(sleeping bag), clothes, books, cereal boxes, fruits, and sporting equipment strewn on the same floor. What I wasn't prepared for however was when I said, "So now you know how I live!", he promptly replied, "I don't."

Balanced life

I,too, was laughing all the way to the bank. I couldn't believe I was walking that far to see my balance.

Statement for the day

I am religiously atheist.

Random thoughts

1) Why do american undergrads make strange faces while taking photographs?

2) Why is it catching on to Indian grad socially active men and women?

3) I love the fact that Indian clothing still comes with a spare button attached. For someone like me, that's a few years added to the piece of clothing.

Thought and PJ for the day

Thought for the day - Some people need to roll the newspaper to get high, I need to unfold it.

PJ for the day (copyright Sriram, my bro):
Sriram: Why is it rational to have to stand in a line to take a leak?
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Sriram: pee by queue is rational.

You too can make your cities pollution free

This is a fantastic show by the government and citizens of Calcutta! Wish our cities could do this too!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8187174.stm

Amusement in the most odd places

So usually the business of going to various journals and scouring them for interesting papers (which usually translates to useful papers(which usually translates to comprehensible papers)) is a rather grim affair and I don't expect to be smiling first and then positively laughing out loud in the lab! But that is just what happened today and the sequence of images below will illustrate why.





p.s: I'm not sure if you will find the twitter feed for Applied Physics Letters funny. I thought twitter was some random thing where people sign up and put status messages. But a couple of friends to whom I sent this said it is sort of expected since twitter is a very big thing. So please excuse. I still find it very funny!