Musings of a Wandering Geek

Yahoo! Mash Invite

2007-09-18T18:55:00.000+05:30

If any one of you is looking for a Mash invite ...then you can comment or mail me and I will send you an invitation. More information about Mash can be found here

Doordarshan Amazing Comeback Plan??

2007-08-31T15:09:00.000+05:30

Some personal updates first,I am now a full time employee of Yahoo! India R & D and the money is more than what I ever dreamt of. So in short , the order shall now soon be restored back to the people and the world will be liberated from the Evil domination of Google.

Moving ahead last night around 2 a.m. while desperately surfing the TV (for a good movie! You pervert!!) , I made an interesting observation :
Doordarshan (Official Indian Govt. Broadcaster) shows children's cartoons from mid night till early morning.Now that should be reason enough to figure out why the people working at DD are neither getting laid nor making enough money. I may not be a psychologist but even my neurons can figure out that the last thing a curious kid awake till 1 a.m. would be interested in is a cartoon about Winnie the Pooh! if you know what i mean :D.I am sure FTV and Aajtak never saw this coming.

Now if you consider that odd then here comes the really strange part . The shows have commercial breaks in between where they show advertisement of candies,gum etc. Now I am seriously confused . Are the children really staying up all night to watch cartoons?? or are our Marketing people are also going crazy (read : not getting laid) or this is part of a much larger conspiracy or scandal that I am not aware of.Any response regarding this are welcome...

Pratibha Tai our new President Huh ??

2007-07-18T14:04:00.000+05:30

The country is all set to have its first women President and you couldn't have got a better choice then Mrs Pratibha Patil.I still don't get it why so many people are making a fuss about the criminal allegation against her.What these idiots have to understand is that President represents the people of the country .Now we have a country where 60% of people and 100 % of the Politicians are corrupt to their core.Do you want all these poor people feeling left out.We have two more candidate for the race. Mr B.S Shekhavat and His Excellency Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.Lets see how each of them compares out so far ....

Kalam started his career as an Engineer building some flying stuff.(Can you possibly call that impressive ,why don't I slam my head on a chainsaw instead).
Shekhavat started his career as a policeman .(Well at least he is on the correct path to become corrupt).
Patil started her career as a Politician at the age of 28.(Now that's what I call Impressive .You can see her will and determination to become corrupt and decimate the nation.)

Kalam in his midlife built rockets and some prosthetic limbs stuff for Polio victims .He also decides not to get married.(Why doesn't this dude get a life instead).
Shekhavat gets suspended for corruption charges as a Policeman ( Million of Policemen get suspended over the same charges ... what makes him so special).
Patil successfully makes a loan worth crores disappear with her kind family.(Now that's impressive or what)

Kalam starts teaching at Anna University (Ya Right Bite me).
Shekhavat as Chief Minister stops and Lies about a serious CBI enquiry against his Son in Law(At least now he has my attention).
Patil charged with covering up the Murder allegedly committed by her Brother(WoW scandals , murder and a women ,would I be called a pervert if I say thats the kind of stuff that turns some people on!!!.)

Kalam is a moderate muslim who has read Geeta , Quran and other great books and believe in logical reasoning and Open Source Software. ( NERD ALERT!! NERD ALERT!! )
Shekhavat is a former RSS member (That's a relief !!!)
Patil believes she talks to a dead Baba in her sleep , wanted to sterilize all the men having hereditary diseases , thinks purdah was introduced to shield the great indian women from Muslims and is one of the greatest believers in astrology .( Oh my !! Dumb , superstitious and talks to dead spirits,Will wonders ever cease).

So as far as I can say Patil wins the race hands down . If Mr Shekhavat is caught red handed molesting little children then I might reconsider.Surely Mrs Patil will be a great president , She will not be a rubber stamp and will certainly Stop idiots like Mr Arjun Singh from implementing 10 % quota for general category.She stopped her Brother and Husband Right ??

Actually this is not that bad , People in US take great pleasure in making fun of their President and we always felt left out. Making fun of Dr Kalam and Mr Manmohan Singh will be like making fun of yourself. Half of the funny looking leaders are not in power, hell even Railways is now running into profit so Lalu is out of question.But now we have new hope in Pratibha Tai ..... all we have to do is to give her a chance to speak in public and just listen carefully and soon we will have some funny quotes of our own just like USA has of George W Bush.

To end a special goodbye to His Excellency Dr APJ Abdul Kalam one of the greatest geeks and visionaries to walk on this land. May he find happiness in Teaching .

Geek Dating flowchart

2007-05-16T13:27:00.000+05:30

This image has been shamelessly stolen from here

Girls quota for Geeks

2007-04-20T19:47:00.000+05:30

Once again the whole reservation issue is in news over an SC order.OBC's ,Muslims , SC's and ST's are all fighting among themselves to gain the backward status. What I don't get is that why we only take social and economic backwardness .... why forget the backwardness in one's fair share of females.I put forward the following arguments for the female reserved quota for geeks.

1) Geeks contributes the most in the progress of human species.If it wasn't for a geek in the stone age , some Management bozzo would have convinced people to use triangular wheels instead of a circular one with a statement like "Yes Adam !! I know the ride is a little bumpy ... but looking at the demand for this product in the International market , I think we can get away with it by calling it a known feature bug".
2) Its a known fact that geeks are socially oppressed in the whole world.For Instance I have heard comments ranging from "I am sure he is a phycho serial killer" to "What the Fuck is that????" .I am sure none of the OBC people faced this kind of oppression anytime.
3) It's a statistically known fact that Girlfriends/Wives most of the times prove help full in reproduction of the off springs. Which is a right of every geek in this world.This can be directly added as a clause to the Fundamental right of free living and hence deduces to a Fundamental right.
4) Geeks comprises true minority on Earth.In India itself the single geeks headcount would be around 0.3-0.4 million out of 1.1 Billion .Hence not
Muslims not Christians not OBC's but geeks are the real minority.In addition to that geeks pay one of the highest Income Taxes in the country.
5) If the situation not improved OBC faces chances of social backwardness compared to endangered Geekkind which faces severe chances of Extinction.
6) Geeks prove to be better Husbands/Lovers/Boy Friends . For details refer to this earlier post here.
Now I foresee some Issues with this kind of reservation and I will address each of them one by one
1)Creamy Layer : Yes I Know A person benefited from reservation once should not be benefited again but in this case I think we can make an exception .
Reason: A girlfriend may run after 2 days ......Consider the analogy of jobs reservation .You provide the candidates with jobs and not Interviews.Lets say the geek and the chick got married or something then I can consider him in creamy layer.
But then the benefits should not be taken away from the children if they prove to be geeks too.Because they are backward too.We can fix the number of girls per geek ratio to be 3.0 ...Considering our importance to the nation ,Is that to much to ask for??
2)YFE: Well believe me ...a lot and I mean a lot of Youth for Equality representatives won't have any issues with this ....Instead I believe we can strike out a deal with the government ...."No problems with OBC's ....just give us the chicks".
3)Implementation:Well how about creating extra seats in elite geek Institutions like IIT's,IIIT's and IISc etc.We can fill these extra seats with girls.The Entrance Interview can be taken by geeks themselves.Emphasis should be paid on girls with IQ in 70-100 with super hot external features.This way they remain dependent on geeks for passing the exams.Also this way you get more qualified females in the Industries hence solving many other problems.

So I call upon all geeks to come and support this cause .Also remember "Happy Geek gives rise to Google,Yahoo,Linux ,sad geek causes Hindenburg Disaster,Space Shuttle Challenger/Columbia Crash and Virginia Tech University Massacre".Do I need to say more ??

Home Coming of Indian Tigers

2007-04-09T15:23:00.000+05:30

The ICC World Cup had just started and the Indian Tigers have already been shown the way home by the Bangladeshi Tigers. It only seemed like three days back when the Team was sent to West Indies to bring back the cup. Then again I realized actually it was only three days back when they actually left India.
And the World Cup couldn't have been better : Murder Mystery, bikini babes, mistrust among the players, match fixing , spiced up controversies, Bangladesh defeating India and South Africa, Ireland Defeating Pakistan and of course lots of money .... what more entertainment could one ask for. Maybe It would have been better that if Team India would still be playing in the tournament. Maybe the ICC should have brought India back in the Tournament after all you do have wild card entry system in most of the Reality shows.But then again I realized that If India is called back , the general public will again attack the homes of the cricketers only this time to stop them from going to West Indies again.
And maybe returning of India from WC is not that bad. No more "Huh..Hah" Bullshit , no more 1 hour daily discussion on Why Tendulkar will play a major role in India's win in World cup ,no more Idiotic ads of Cricketers running all over the city for a bottle of diluted pesticides. Indian Television is beautiful once again . Indian News channel should now focus their attention to more important issues like Why are not geeks getting their fair share of Girls. And for me ....well eagerly awaiting to cheer the Team in upcoming tours of Bangladesh and Ireland . Expecting to see some close matches .

The Ultimate Geek Test Vol-2 : Return of the Supreme Geek

2007-03-13T18:08:00.000+05:30

I started this blog to fulfill three tasks
1)Upliftment of Geek Kind
2)World Peace
3)To get a girl friend

Since neither of the three have been accomplished as of yet ,hence I don't find any reason to stop blogging.I present a sequel to much critically acclaimed "The Ultimate Geek Test" (Out of 7 people who read the post 3 said that its crap ,rest 4 said they don't give a shit about it anyway) called "The Ultimate Geek Test Vol 2 :Return of the Supreme Geek".This Volume distinguishes the Real Geek from the Supreme Geek.

1)Geeks use command line to move files ,Supreme geeks makes their own assembly language utilities for the same.
2)Geeks are sometimes good hackers,Supreme Geeks already know who killed JFK through their own personal shell account in most of US government confidential servers.
3)Geeks wear T-shirts belonging to the latest product of "Google" or having some geek slogan on back......Supreme geeks on the other hand don't touch any piece of cloth unless its certified by GNU , have an open source slogan and guarantee to remain miles away from any kind of human(read: female) touch.
4)Geeks comment and document their code so its usable in future ,Supreme geek on the other hand believe that anyone unable to understand his obfuscated code by himself is not worthy of understanding his code.
5)Geeks read licence agreement and instructions while installing softwares.....Supreme geeks eyes only look for "next" and "continue" button.They prefer if they can compile the 100 MB source code from scratch.
6)Geeks boast about the greatness of Open Source ....Supreme geeks can recite the whole GPL licence by heart.
7)Most geeks work only on Linux . Supreme geeks have their own personally made distros of Linux.
8)Most geeks become angry if they are told merits of Windows .One of supreme geeks "Hans Reiser" has aldready been arrested by police on suspician of murdering his wife.(who I speculate was not a big linux fan)

Random Stuff

2007-02-03T20:47:00.000+05:30

Apologies for Irregular posts but these days I am not the Idlest kind of guys.This post serves no particular purpose ,it just contains some random thoughts(voices inside my head) plus some atrocities which the world is committing on me.
Right now I am being slogged at work , working 13hrs*7 days a week , although most of the time is used for checking my spam in mailbox, making sure that my Yahoo! "Cafe Coffee day Express " free coupons are utilized to maximum and downloading mp3's .Its Tragic what a guy has to go through these days to earn some decent money. So my cab is not leaving in another 40 minutes and I thought lets draft a post in my blog for a change this time (Suffering is good for all my readers).

Moving ahead I am facing the perils of working life....have to take bath daily which recently resulted in my soap finishing in 12 days ... I am told upon which my mother visited the temple in the name of Yahoo India Research and development.
Recently I shifted to my new room(PG) which has its own attached bathroom (much better from 20 guys sharing the common bathroom).During the key handling ceremony I was given these words of final wisdom by my landlord(60+ retired engineer) :

Landlord:I am providing you a room with a geyser , refrigerator and a room partner.
Me:Cool !!!!
Landlord:But you will give your own electricity bill.
Me : Hey !! Wait a minute this refrigerator is 20 yrs old,my electricity bill will touch sky high even if I switch it ON.
Landlord: hehehe
Me:Can't I get an old TV in exchange for Refrigerator??
Landlord :No !!
Me :Why ??
Landlord:Because I don't Have any old TV !!
Me : Oh !!
Landlord : Besides these you should know that in the room next to you ,the guy's girlfriend/fiance comes to stay on weekend.
Me : Ok !! and you are telling me because ???
Landlord: So you don't run for cover when you hear a girl's voice in Bathroom.
Me : Ohh ok !!

(Note to my neighbour : Hey dude !! Whatever you do in your room on weekend is not my concern but if you can afford a girlfriend/fiance ,then you can certainly afford a 1 room flat in Bangalore .Dude fucking no life loosers(Ok ..like me ) talk !! just give it a thought.)

Landlord : Also I should not hear any noise from your room during night because we have girls living in the locality.
Me : Ok !!!

(Note to god: Dear God !! I appreciate your showing concern for me by sending some girls .... but off the record I still preferred a TV ...World Cup will start soon)

Landlord :Can I adjust one more guy in your room ,I will decrease the rent to 2000 from 2600 ??
Me:Well Lets see at this time for 600 rupees I can even sell my soul and this is just some privacy !!! no problem bring him in too .
Landlord : Good !!

(Note to all : This is a perfect case study of how prostitution is born)

The room is a luxury compared to other PG's in Bangalore which was proved by the fact that same day on which I shifted 2 more guys came to see if that room is available (Loosers !!)

Now a brief description of what I Learned during this week in
Note to Self
1)There are 250 different types of Dosas and Sambhars that can be served in Bangalore.
2)These days a person running organised PG syndicate can earn more then a developer in Yahoo,MS or Google.No body told me this during Career counselling :(.
3)Emergency Fire evacuation Drill can be more fun than work.
4)Clean Water ,Running toilets and laundry service play a much important role in our life then we initially think.
5)Documentation sucks !!!!!!

Now to finish with some Random Notes :
To Mani Ratnam : Sir Guru rocked !!! Its even at par with Nayagan ,Dalapathi and Roja .
To Indians : This is about the whole Shilpa Shetty issue ,I am not concerned whether it was real or fabricated .But as for Racialism is concerned why do you have to make an issue every time some person with an 16 IQ says something . Be proud of who you are . Take pride that you eat food by hand .Take pride in animals roaming free on your roads.These idiots will have to shut up when they lose their jobs and companies to you(pun Intented).
To Americans: If you select a Moron to power and then that Idiot ends up dropping bombs on the homes of Innocent People .And then if those idiots attack you for the mistakes you made then why cry every time about terrorism being not fair.There is something called accountability.
To Half my readers coming through google : Guys I am placed in Globallogic but this blog does not contain any of GL Interview questions ..... sorry you came to wrong place.
To Half the People Commenting On my Blog : Guys if you are commenting on my blog and want me to do the same to you then atleast make sure that the link to your profile or blog is correct ..... its really irritating.
To anyone who is still reading this far : Dude Get a life !!

Bangalore Rollercoster

2007-01-14T17:59:00.000+05:30

It's been about a week since I arrived in Bangalore,a week which went like a roller coaster .First of all Yahoo! is one of the coolest place to work and is the ultimate geek pilgrimage.I got a cool Yahoo! bag , a Tshirt and a new corporate mail ID ( atandon@yahoo-inc.com) on first day,got to meet my mentor (who is really cool !!) on 2nd day,got an extra large cheese burst Domino's Pizza as a refreshment for attending a 2 hrs class on the 3rd day.Got access to confidential Yahoo! CVS server and source code on 4th day.The source code here is open to all ie. anyone can checkout the source code for any application be it mail or messenger.The developers/ops guys here don't even remember when was the last time they worked on Windows ( Ok Ok .. some of them do remember but you get the idea rt?).Everyone here is a true Unix/Linux geek.And My project is even more cool ,I have been given a code to extract ..... Wait Wait Wait ... that stuff is confidential I can't tell that to you,sorry folks but Policy is Policy. Boy !! I will cry like a little baby if I don't get a job offer from here.
Now for the bad part of the week .... first shock in Bangalore ,my mobile set got stolen in the public Bus.The culprit was kind enough to leave my wallet and Snacks coupons for Yahoo! untouched , which besides some anger also left me with some admiration for his skill (The creator of this Blog wishes to notify that either the Thief was highly skilled or the Creator was highly stupid and being the Self worshipping man that the Creator is ,he will gladly accept the first option ).
Then came the signs that I have an abnormal family and I am one of them when I called home to inform my parents about the theft a conversation which went something like this......
Mom : Hmmm Bad !!! [PAUSE] Thank god !! Now for heavensake, buy a new good cell ,For last 5 years you were stuck with that Nokia 1100,it looked bad on you!!
Me : Huh !!@#$ [PAUSE] ,But I loved it..It was a marvell of Engineering ....I got emotionally attached to it.
Mom : Ya Ya whatever !!
Even today my eyes become wet when i see the charger alone waiting for its counterpart.
But my troubles were not yet over ,I had to Lodge an FIR because lets face it ,the last thing I wanted was my beloved mobile being used by some terrorist for calling his girl friend in Peshawar and the whole Karnataka Police's ATS coming after for me !!! ,so I went to the Police Station and I had to wait for some 30 min before I even had a chance to speak.
It took the Policeman some 5 questions in Kannada and me to reply "I don't know Kannada " 5 times to figure out that they have to bring in an English speaker.The Person they brought asked direct questions.His First question was "Problem What is " (The only English speaking person in Police Station was a "Yoda"(Star Wars for the ignorant) fan). Anyway after 20 minutes of speaking in god knows which language I got the FIR done . The Wise Yoda finished of with "We will try for mobile", to which I wanted to say "WTF !! people are being raped , murdered and you want to find my mobile" but thought it would be better to just get out.
Now I am trying to get adjusted with my new Motorola set, Maybe its time to change my 8yrs old Rs 200 worth Maxima watch too..... Maybe later :D .

PS: - If Any one of you have any extra Balance in mobile to waste .... Then Please dial 91-9945947175 ** and if anyone picks up then swear at him like hell .....Yes !! I know your mother told that swearing is bad .... But you will have the blessings of a lonely Nokia 1100 :(
** Normal STD charges apply(Within India ,International Call charges from outside India)

Happy New Year

2007-01-02T14:00:00.000+05:30

A very Happy New Year to all of you.First of all I would like to thank Mr George Bush for keeping less interest in India's oil resourses, hence not declaring India as a member of Axis of Evil and giving a chance to me to see the lights of another year.Unfortunately some people in Iraq and Afghanistan are not alive to share my Enthusiasm.Lets see how other people are celebrating New Year,well one President took the revenge of another President by hanging/killing another President,Bombs exploding in Thailand,bombs being defused in Delhi,UP politicians claiming that not the serial killer ... not the police....not the parents but the Chief Minister is responsible for Serial killing and Rapes in Noida UP,the whole country's Media going crazy for the justice of murder of a Lecturer come Politician's prostitute,people dying in Iraq...Afghanistan..Kashmir..Thailand..Lebanon..Gaza .In total a pretty peaceful New Year celebration i would say ... hey its better than a Tsunami.

Level of spam

2006-12-25T11:46:00.000+05:30

This christmas morning when i was feeling bored and checking out the spam in my mail (Yes Yes !!! i have no life !!) ,I realized that the spammers seriously need to upgrade themselves.This is how my mailbox looked in the morning ....
Felipe Gaston Dec 26, 2006 Felipe
Myers Sibyl 3:44 am prostitution opera house
Wilbert Rios Sun, 6:46 pm Rios

Now i have done my share of spamming ... actually I have been spamming the mailboxes of every good HR in the country and what more i got interview calls from some of the biggest names.The only thing i can say is that spamming these days is very unprofessional .You can't possibly expect a geek to open mails having high degree of correlation with the previous known spam. Some of them even get the date wrong .Atleast they can have subjects starting with "regarding" like "regarding your interview","regarding your wife" etc.Now thats a kind of mail i would like to read .So if you are a budding spammer and you want to thank me for the tips then don't ....I am busy debugging my perl script.

Yahooooooo !!!!!!

2006-12-14T23:41:00.000+05:30

Finally after a fortnight of personnel turmoil my life seems to be getting back on track. Yesterday at 18 00 hrs i had no internship offers and at 18:20 hrs i had confirmed offers from Yahoo India,Sun Microsystems , Induslogic and Interview with Intel. Talk about some fuc**** luck .
"May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their crotch and may their arms be too short to scratch",would have been the line that i would have said if Yahoo had rejected me after taking 7 interviews but i am saving that for the time i don't get a job offer.
Right now looks like I would be joining Yahoo in bangalore and then join Induslogic after 6 months.Then Leave Indus either when the company shuts down or the free cafeteria shuts down ... which ever comes first.

PS. Just a thought can an Intern technically bring down the whole Yahoo Empire in 6 months??I hope not.

My last exam

2006-12-01T22:31:00.000+05:30

Today I gave what could very well be my last written exam of my academic life .... apart from the happiness that i feel right now ,i also realize that this marks the almost end of my college life.So what did i learn in my professional engineering course???Nothing professional atleast but i did learn some general lessons which i would implementing the whole of my lifetime but then again i think this is what the whole college education is about.Continuing with my education i learned that ....
1)There are two type of people in this world ie. the Host (The Godlike people who do all the assignments and make all the notes) and the parasites (the average who live on the assignments of the host) . For your own happiness make sure you are not a host ,parasites live a much more happy and fulfilling life.
2)Don't have a policy like "I celebrate each failure in my life with a Good dinner and a good movie".You might end up being 200 lb+ and a well known movie critic.
3)If you live in a hostel away from home town and operate a bank account based in your hometown via ATM.Then for heavensake don't ever leave your passbook with your parents.Believe me you don't want to get a show cause notice every time there is an increase in your average monthly expenditure by 10 %.
4)If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance then baffle them with your bullshit.
5)If you are roaming in the dark 3 am in night and you see a cylindrical thing moving in front of you ,then don't keep staring step back and run for your life ,that cylindrical "thing" might be a snake or a python .Many people from the urban area don't realize that they are actually standing in front of a live snake like these stupid people (my seniors :D) .Who didn't realize that the python could snap them into 2 pieces in 345 milliseconds.
6)You get ahead of your competition not because you are too smart but because your competitors are too dumb.
7)If you happen to be a chronic snoarer then sleeping in class might not be for you!!

New Weapons of Mass Destruction

2006-11-22T10:58:00.000+05:30

[I was going to post this sometime back but couldn't ,now i am posting it just to keep the blog alive.]
Due of the recent terror threats people were not even allowed to take harmless semisolids and liquids into aircrafts in fear that they may cause explosions .That time is not far when even these general items will also be included in the weapons of mass destruction resulting in strange news clippings and speeches.

New York Times ,11 may 20 something
Today Speaking at the 11th conferance on chronic autoeroticism , Bush cautioned Pyongyang against aiding other nations, particularly in the Middle East, in their pursuit of sugar syrup.He also added that the ever confused CIA also believes that N.Korea might have developed missile technology capable of delivering tomato ketchup Warhead in the heart of US cities.
Just hours after the sensational claims Pyongyang responded and said "huhh!!#$$".

Also meanwhile at Security council

Geek Tshirts

2006-11-15T21:59:00.000+05:30

I apologise for being irregular as I have my share of problem to face and humiliation to suffer,and this trend will continue for some time to come ,hence posts will be sparse ..till then enjoy some of my fav geek Tshirts from thinkgeek.com

The BumbleBee problem

2006-11-03T21:04:00.000+05:30

I came across a story/incident today which made me laugh but i still cannot verify the story .So if anyone has any answers then please inform me.The story is based on a famous bee problem which is often asked in Microsoft Interviews and goes something like this...

Two cars are 120 miles apart. They begin driving towards each other at 60 & 80 miles per hour respectively. A bee flies from car A towards car B at forty miles per hour. As soon as it reaches B it turns around and flies back towards A. It keeps this up until the cars collide. How far has the bee travelled?

Solution :Most people don't get that the two events ie. the movement of bee and cars are independent so you simply have to calculate the time in which the cars collide and then multiply this time with the speed of the bee.

Now the story : I have heard two versions of stories and am trying to verify which one of it is true
1 st version :The Legendary Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan fell sick while he was in his early 30's. His condition was quite serious and chances of survival limited. At that time his friend at Trinity, G. H. Hardy used to bring him puzzles for recreation .Once he asked Ramanujan this problem to which Ramanujan replied with the answer instantly.Then Hardy told him "so you know the trick to the problem .... most people would try to use summation to solve this problem and would be stuck for ever",to which Ramanujan replied "what do you mean ,thats how i solved it."

2nd version :Again same story but this time took place between a student and Mathematician Von Neumann in his class .
So anybody knows which one is true???

[Note: After further searching i could find only one link regarding the first version which was too not authentic whereas i did found some credible links regarding second version so it may be highly probable that the second version is true.But who asked the question to Von Neumann is still not clear!! ]

Good Interview Answers

2006-10-31T12:06:00.000+05:30

Throughout my Interview period I had to answer actually lie to most of the questions .I wonder what would have happened if i would told them about the thoughts circulating in my little brain!!
Q)Why do you want to join our Company??
A)I don't ,I am practising for Microsoft interview after 4 days!!

Q)You are aldready working at Google then why do you want to join this Company?
A)There is too much work load in Google ,I am tired now and want to have some rest in your company.

Q)Your Package is 4.6 lpa . Are you ok with that??
A) WTF !! you call that a package??

Q)So do you have any questions?
A)Yes !! Please tell me something about yourself??(works best with female HR)

Q)Are you willing to relocate?
A)I don't have any problems just ask my parol officer!!

Q)whats your ideal working Environment?
A)An environment having Quality Girls.

Q)Please speak on the line "The wind was blowing" for a minute??
A)The wind was blowing in our faces, and silence enveloped us as we stared at the distant city lights. That was the time, I thought. Do it. The urge to plant a kiss on her lips shuddered throughout me. We held each other close; I could feel the sweat of her arms and face, and still I kissed her....
Interwiewer --okay okay fine please stop!!!
More questions and answers welcomed!!!

Free Blog Link Exchange

2006-10-23T12:55:00.000+05:30

Let's face it ,we all need links from other blogs maybe to increase search engine or technorati ratings and are too shy to ask for them . Same is the case here,hence i am openly stating that anybody who needs links to blog can do so by giving a link to mine.If interested please send me a mail or write a comment .

Reiser Creater arrested

2006-10-16T19:37:00.000+05:30

In a post in slashdot(view),it has been said that Hans Reiser ,the creator of Reiser file system has been arrested on the suspicion of murdering his estranged wife. Although the body of the wife has not been found ..the police says that they have enough circumstantial evidence ,my take is that the guy made the whole ReiserFS and is currently working on ReiserFS 4 .He is important to the whole linux community .. Hence arrest him if you find the body with the murderweapon with his DNA on it. Dont just say that we have enough "circumstantial evidence".

Love Geeks around you

2006-10-15T11:58:00.000+05:30

It hurts me when I see a girl who is a goddess according to my frame of reference being with a jerk who doesn't even knows the difference between Cryptography and Cryptoanalysis.What the world don't understand is that beautiful girls are supposed to mate with intelligent geeks.I don't claim this Darwin does.The best and strongest of a species mate to make even strongers kind of themselves.Hence somewhere in this world a Darwin enthusiast is crying when a girl hangs out with a non-geek jerk.
There are many well known resons why you should choose a geek as your partner
1)It is a proven fact that geeks are better lovers/husbands/fathers/friends.
2)A geek no matter what happens will stay loyal to you.He will not look at other females.This happens because no matter how successful a geek is,he is still very modest and low in confidence and is very thankful that finally a girl like him ,hence he will make sure that he doesn't screw his only chance.
3)You get free good tech advice and opinions on any electronic item you plan to purchase.
4)Becuase of his intelligence and technical superiority he is guaranteed to have good and secure financial future.
5)A geek is always honest and cannot lie.Most of the geeks are brought up in an environment where they only thinks of time and space complexity.Hence when confronted with a simple question like "do i look fat in this dress??" ,most of them would reply with a simple "Yes" ,not a word more.
6)They can easily fit into any kind of wierd clothes you can imagine.Most of them have risen above the level of clothes and now don't care what are they wearing or the world is laughing at them.
7)You dont have to worry what to gift them at birthdays,most of them would be delighted if you just remembered their birthday.

So if you noticed a geek around you and want to approach him , here are a few keywords that can win his trust :- Linux,Unix,Science fiction,programming .Also a handle in slashdot can help a long way in establishing his trust.
Talks which should be avoided :-
1)what is linux??
2)windows is a much better OS.
3)Programming is easy.
4)I only liked the fighting scenes in "The Matrix".

Also do remember that geeks value intelligence more then body and are also resistant against some unreasonable demands .An demand like "You choose between me and your geek friends and computer" may leave you with surprizing answers.Geeks are intelligent enough to figure out who will stay longer with them.Hence Happy geek hunting.....

N.Korea goes Nuclear

2006-10-13T00:30:00.000+05:30

North Korea did it again.It is now the first nation in "Axis of Evil" to become a nuclear power(you have to admire that at some level).There is nothing more amusing to me then to see a small ,insignificant nation giving the mighty USA a run for its money...I am no expert in Defense or Foreign Diplomacy but even the neurons in my brain can fuse together to figure out that Mr Bush is not a happy man .I am sure right now he would be thinking "how the f*** do I attack a rogue nation which just announced and tested their weapons of mass destruction ,has the capability to use them and actually does want to use them when i can't handle a nation which wasn't either" . Atleast now the people of USA should realize thats its time to impeach their leader.I suggest the following for candidacy ..then again in geek terminology "a picture speaks louder then 128 k words".

My Wishlist

2006-10-10T16:09:00.000+05:30

These days everywhere I see someone is making his wishlist through froogle ,hence I also thought of creating my wishlist without the help of google servers .... so here is my wishlist

1)Ambition to become a supreme geek
2)Girl Friend
3)Girl Friend
4)Ipod Nano

Now the amount of traffic i get on this site is making the chances of my 2nd wish coming true prior to 4th which is good in a way(if it happens before i turn 30) .... but as karma theory says that a food lover like me cannot have his 2nd and 3rd wish fulfilled before his 4th wish. Hence people don't hesitate to click on the links provided by google ,you are helping in a good cause

Homemade crude bomb???

2006-10-05T11:32:00.000+05:30

Are you a budding terrorist???Did you arrive here by searching home made bombs through google?Then I am afraid you have been duped by the creator of this blog to incease his hits, .... now since you have arrived here ,could you please also click at 2-3 ads being displayed by google on this page just to complete the cycle of Karma..

The Ultimate Geek Test

2006-10-05T01:30:00.000+05:30

These days every idiot likes to call himself a geek .It has become a fashionable term to use.Most of them are not even aware that they bring disgrace to the whole geek community.Hence I putforward a geek test by which every one can check how much of a geek he really is .. Simply answer the following questions in yes/no.

1)Did you celebrated your 18th birthday by enjoying a quite dinner with your family and then going to Bed(not kidding)?
2)Did your last meaningful conversation with the opposite sex took place 2 yrs back and consisted solely of the sentance "Do you have a Pen??"? A bonus point if you remember that girl to the finest detail and still think about her.
3)Are You still a virgin and expected to remain the same until a girl who is after your money decides to marry you?
4)Does the ratio/propotion of any part of your body to any other part of your body is far far away from the number 1.618 or more commonly known "phi"(more details here)?
5)Do you believe that people who like to party all night are good for nothing loosers contrary to yourself who still has a life?
6)Do you think that a person who dosn't knows how to recompile his linux kernel from source is a liability to the nation?
7)Does the only proof of your social existence is a Linuxforum/slashdot/programming forum handle where you are treated with full respect and love by other fellow geeks?
8)Do you believe in the quote "I love Humanity ...its the people I hate"?
9)Can you swear in the name of Open Source Software that given a Kalashnikov you are willing to blow the head of any infidel who says "Window Rocks and Tux sucks"?
10)Do you know more about the Life of Steven Hawkins or the incomplete Phd thesis of Sergey Brinn than about Anjelina Jolie ?
11)Do you fantasise about becoming a supreme geek compared to having sex with any female ??
12)You don't care about the clothes you wear as long as they cover more then 65 % part of your body?
13)Do you in National Interest(save water resources) take bath normally once in every three days?
14)Did you understood the story and concept of "The Matrix Trilogy" in less then 2 attempts?
15) Do you have a IQ of over 140 /Were you placed in top 1-2 % of any nation wide competitive tech exam?
If you answer "yes" to more than 12 of these questions then only you should consider yourself a true geek .If you answered yes to only 5-6 questions then shouldn't even call yourself engineers . For others you are people who do have some geek characteristics but shouldn't call yourself geeks.
Now for the true geeks ,be proud of yourself .. geeks rule and shape the world around us, be it larry Page, Bill Gates or Linus Torvalds.Chances are you would be earning millions in 4-5 years while other idiots will be struggling to find a job.

Dilbert Newsletter

2006-10-05T01:17:00.000+05:30

I am a fan of most of the work done by Scott Adams and lately I have also suscribed to the dilbert newsletter which arrived today .... here is the best of it.

1)
Dear Dogbert,
I practice kenjutsu and have done so for about 6 years. A friend of mine asked me why I do it. I couldn't give him a satisfactory answer because I don't do it for self defense(can't walk around in the mall with Japanese sword in my belt), and I don't do competitions. If you could give me an answer I will be eternally grateful.
Mark

Dear Meek,
You do it because you can’t get a girlfriend. But that’s just a guess.
Sincerely,
Dogbert

2)
Dear Dogbert,
What's the best in pick-up line in the world?
Karl

Dear Snarl,
Try this: "I’m a generous billionaire with less than a week to live."
Sincerely,
Dogbert

3)
Dear Dogbert,
I need to find a girlfriend, but I am very ugly. How can I find a girl that doesn't care how I look?
Ethan

Dear Heathen,

There are plenty of girls who value character above looks. They are called blind girls. And as Ed Harris well knows, it also helps to be rich.
Sincerely,
Dogbert

4)
Dear Dogbert,
How should I handle creepy men that hit on me at work? Apparently they all think I'm hot.
Heather

Dear Hotter,
Mr. Adams requested that he answer your question personally. He will stop by your cubicle tomorrow. Say around lunchtime?
Sincerely,
Dogbert