Category: Humor and Silliness

Channeling Tommy

This blog is a big fan of Thomas Friedman (Friedman has his own category with six posts). So I would like to share a bit from this article by Norman Solomon which attempts to synthesize Friedman’s brain waves [hat tip: Ashok Bardhan]: Continue reading “Channeling Tommy”

“Free” Energy? Not Really

This is getting curiouser and curiouser. First there was “free textbooks.” Now there is free energy. Scientific American: Irish tech firm throws down “free energy” gauntlet

Perpetual motion machines of the first, second, and third kind? Not going to happen.

Monkey Business

Yes, we do share common ancestors with the other primates. Playing and having fun is part of our common heritage.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8811551493740102634

NOTE: That “monkey” actually is an ape: I am guessing a Lar Gibbon.

How much is this blog worth?

A bit of Saturday silliness.


My blog is worth $101,617.20.
How much is your blog worth?

http://www.truthlaidbear.com/MyDetails.php?url=http://www.deeshaa.org/&style=javascript

Now you tell me!

{via Navin Jaganathan}
Bush greatest disaster
So what else is new?

And truth be told, Bush is the worst disaster to hit the world, not just the US.

Localized Windows

Saturday silliness follows. Apologies to those who don’t know Hindi.

Windows Commands in Hindi:

Khidkiyan version shoonya bindu shoonya ek (0.01)

Phile = File
Kholo = Open
Bandh Karo = Close
Naya = New
Khatara = Old Continue reading “Localized Windows”

Recall George W Bush

Bill Maher is funny. I always liked his politically incorrect stance. Here he is asking for a recall election for the president as they have in California. The open letter to GW Bush is priceless. Here is the link to the show.

Enough already of not being filthy rich for me

Dateline May 4th, 2005, Kolkata: The Slimes Times of India reported that IIT entrance test set for overhaul:

The IIT-Joint Entrance Exam may soon be easier to crack. The Union HRD [Human Resource Development] ministry feels the examination is too tough, causes immense stress to candidates, and needs to be toned down immediately.

The ministry has formed a committee … to modify the IIT-JEE pattern.

Clever, isn’t it? In related news, another ministry has expressed concern about the fact that hunger is a problem to some few hundred million people and something needs to be done immediately about it. So a committee is being formed which will revise the daily caloric requirement from the current approximately 2000 Kcals per day to about 1000 Kcals. This would reduce the number of hungry people by about 80 percent.
Continue reading “Enough already of not being filthy rich for me”

The World is Mad (followup)

In response to my mentioning Thomas Friedman in my post The World is Mad, Prashant Kothari posted a comment and included an article from the NY Press titled Flathead. He did not warn me to fasten my seat-belt before reading the article and I ended up rolling on the floor laughing my head off. I was tickled but also felt envy: wish I could write like that. Continue reading “The World is Mad (followup)”