Quotes....

Some of the best quotes I found on the web...

And the users exclaimed with a laugh and a taunt: "It's just what we asked for but not what we want."
I really hate this damned machine
I wish that they would sell it.
It never does quite what I want
But only what I tell it.
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
Real computer scientists despise the idea of actual hardware. Hardware has limitations, software doesn't. It's a real shame that Turing machines are so poor at I/O.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
The Six Phases of a Project:
- Enthusiasm
- Disillusionment
- Panic
- Search for the Guilty
- Punishment of the Innocent
- Praise for non-participants
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why.
Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
There are 10 kinds of people in this world....Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater.- Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.- Albert Einstein

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The India (moderated) community pune meet post mortem.

Few things I learned in the meet....
Parvez is non-existant or fake or shy or afraid or actually darpok to meet any of us..(wondering why)
Lucifer isn't the fake profile of Gaurav....
Gaurav isn't fake profile of Black

Suku is a lot more confused that he seems to be...
SiD i.e., me...seems to get busy whenever i meet any IM guy...
Priyanka Has great excuses to hop down the street to meet 4 guys from online correspondance...

suku has some homo thing going on in his mind all the time...
Gaurav is too much simple and innocent...
Lucifer he is too much of the hip banker u can see...and quite reticent on his personal life...
Suku is totally different that he potrays or we see him online...

My story
I will begin from beginning....
Suku messages me...that the meet will be near Pune camp @ 12:00..so i buzz him in the morning and ask him where is he meeting them...
he is bound to pick them up @ railway station @ 11:30 so he tells me..
I pack my stuff and drive across the town ( i live very far) and reach the station by 11:45 and formulating my apologies in the mind to tell them...
I reach some place (which is claimed a parking lot) and park it and call suki...
"where are you?"
"I am at my house," *shit*

I hung up and call gaurav...
"Yeah man, we will be there in 40 mins"

*super shit*

So i find a local cyber cafe and start chatting online...*reporting live*

Then i get a call from suku after about 20 minutes that he is in swargate (which is bery far from here )

I am about to formulate some nice abuses when he calls back...and asks if I am wearing certain color shirt...
There he enters in the cafe and I am confused...Expected someone else...
Then we walk down the station as the husband and husband (gaurav and luci) are still far away...
I ask suku wat he is doing and to my surprise i get an answer i was giving...2 years ago...

so the phukat ka gyaani jaag gaya and talk some sense in him...

...

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My journey through IM Part II

Well this post is to salute some of the nice and comfortable people I met on the way and some whom I did befriend. They taught me something or other and I am really grateful I met them.

Some nice people (and frnds) I met on Orkut.

1] Beer Boy: The Simple Bevda. Wondering why he calls himself beer boy thought, coos I have seen him post more sensibly than the most of the members. He was always targeted and absued as the representative of Vatican in many communities and used to come on IM 4 fun. He always used to answer with a cheer. This cheery spirit in him is quite likeble, do see his profile for his funny remarks.

2] JPG: The silent thinker, thats what I wish to call him. He told his full name only once and I did not believe him, he goes my the name Jyotish Pradhan (JP in short). He is a philosopher, thinker and a religious person, yet you sense some maturity in him and are cautious while talking to him. A good friend and a nice person. He actually read the words I joined together I called a novel and gave me suggestion on changing it, hats off to you JPG.

3] Bon: Thats short for Bonnya Gosh. She was actually the reason why most people used to come online, to see her witty remarks on topics. No wonder community started falling apart the day she left. Someone had even called her 'Mother India.' This fair lady did help me out in my relationships and maybe it was because of her advice I could sort out few things in my own mind. Thank you for that dear.

4] Gaurav: He was formerly known as the DSA, i.e., the Devils Advocate. He is too busy flirting with gals to notice other members. His flirting habits went to such an extent, that Suku (read below) finally made a fake profile as a gal and made him a bakra by flirting with him. He is not that cool as he pretends to be, infact when I met him I found him to be very sincere and innocent.

5] Suku baby: Real name: Sukalyan, although doesn't live up to his name. He actually told me once @ 2:00 in night that he was having a web conference over an intellectual topic. He is a real prankster of all the gang. I always feel, he smirks sitting in the dark corner and snoops on the things going on. He is the real devil with too much confusion in his mind. I sometimes see me, two years back in this guy.

6] Suhas: The intellect student on the web. This guy types so big big words, so quickly that most of the time I reply his bada bada post with a simple smiley (:))??? why?? cos I cannot comprehend what he says. But I know one thing, he has a nice thought over some things.
He also read my garbage, I called novel, and gave me exact and precise comments. He also does love making nice ambigrams.

7] Tania: Now I come to the best part, and I am pretty sure most of you must have skipped the first 6. What should I say about her? She is one of the best thing happened to me till date. Her La la la take on every topic clears your head out of all worries. Read my poem about her.
She teaches u too keep young at heart. Do not believe when she says she is a shadow, she is much more brighter than the light.

8] Sulakshana: Sometimes called Shana, sometimes Sulu, she is one big lady who can understand anything. I could not actually believe she was married in the first place. She actually guided me once or twice like an elder sister in few stupidities I did. She is very nice at heart

9] Priyanka: Sometimes you meet someone in life and they leave a mark on you forever, she is one of them. This gal was the first one I interacted outside orkut. She is not as sweet as you think she is. A crispy light hearted friend who gets bored very quickly. She is a nice contrast to the sweet girls thingy.

Thus we come to the end of Part II, if I recall few more people I will post it here.
Part III will commence soon, my days as a moderator.

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Did you know.

Collection of some interesting things in this world...

The first words spoken on the moon, by Neil Armstrong, are well known, but what were the last words spoken from the moon?

"America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow." - Commander Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Mission, 11 December 1972.

Language

2 700 languages spoken in the world

Today, there are more than 2 700 different languages spoken in the world, with more than 7 000 dialects. In Indonesia alone, 365 different languages are spoken. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken in Africa. The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in north-western Spain and south-western France. It is not related to any other language in the world. Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world, followed by English. But as home language, Spanish is the second most spoken in the world.
The smallest country in the world is the Vatican. It also is the only country where Latin is the official language.
Somalia is the only country in the world where all the citizens speak one language, Somali.
The Berbers of North Africa have no written form of their language.

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Some time-less facts

George Washington, born 11 February 1731 and 22 February 1732.

The 24-hour division of the day was introduced in the 4th Century BC by the Sumero-Babylonians.

In 1905 Einstein showed in his theory of relativity that time is effected by motion so that the faster one goes the slower time does.

In 1972, Atomic time became the world's official time standard, as Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC)

In the 6th Century, the Roman monk and astronomer named Dionysis Exeguus (Dionysis the Little) reformed the calendar to pivot around the birth of Christ. He dated the Nativity 753 years from the founding of Rome, calculated to the date King Herod died. But Dionysis miscalculated, because Herod died only 749 years after the founding of Rome, thus 4BC. Dionysis also left out the Year 0. He used the Julian calendar.

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My journey through IM

Part I

Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.

Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.

Wouldn't you like to get away?

Sometimes you want to go

Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.

You wanna go where people know,
people are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows
your name.

This title song, for the sitcom cheers, actually comes to my mind whenever I think about IM, the India (moderated) community on Orkut. The community always maintained the top 3-4 position in the active communities page. This community helped me solidify my views on many socio, political and even religious points.
I was always not interested in chatting and doing time-pass on the internet. Few years back if someone were telling me that I would be spending 18 hrs flat on the internet, I would have simple whisked them off. But today I see I have already set the record.

Well, I do not fairly remember how i landed into something called India(moderated) but I think it was when my online friend Susheel Sundar (Beer boy aka BB) once message me that something has to be done to save India. The next day I am suddenly invited to this new community called India Moderated (IM).
Its Purpose?? to provide a fair and square platform to discuss about various issues in India and have it under control, Moderation.

I was reluctant having a freestyle fighting in many (so-called) Indian communities about my point of view. But i said why not...ek aur sahi!!!

And so I reluctantly click the forums and wallah, the first thread that came was, 'The longest thread ever,' ironically there were only 2-3 post in that thread but it did carry some of the best namoonas on orkut. It was actually a chat thread which was later deleted accidently and recreated, it now boast of beign the longest one (252,534 post) on IM, thats the short for India Moderated. That was the chat thread where people use to hang out.

In IM there used to be sane posts.... mainly social related and I came to know more about society and culture. I am a die hard Nathuram Godse follower and naturally I saw many nice points against my views over there. Eventually, I learned some of my views where wrong and some of them strengthened.

I participated in lot of theists v/s atheists debates. It just made me more stronger theist. I also came to know that theism is not being religious. So I took both sides of debate, when it was non-existent of God i was a Theist, and when it came to religion I was a Atheist.

I was always a poor reader and even more lazy writer. And many people, few mentioned below where big big essay writers, so I developed a habit of reading the first 2 and last 2 lines of the post and comment using a (:o) smiley...this was kinda fun until I actually missed the nice topics only 2 join in d debate weeks later.

Why am I leaving then? Well we all got to move on, I had fun time socializing and making friends, but now I have some serious commitment in my life. My graduation is just few months later and my after life begins next months. I seriously loved the time on IM and hope that I will meet personally each and every person I interacted online.

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The shadow that drives away the darkness....

Kehte hai andhere ko ujala mitata hai,
par mein ek parchayi ko janata hoon,
jo andhere ko hi mita deti hai,
Haste gate woh har baar jhoomti rehti hai.

woh ek aise hasti hai,
jo sada hasti rehti hai,
La la la Karke sabko tension free karti hai,
apne tension chod ke peeche durso se gappe ladati hai.

woh ek aisi kahani hai,
jo puuri tarah anjani hai,
Hello Shello se greet karti hai,
apne aap hi bolti rehti hai.

meri baat mano dosto,
try living it as this queen size,
haste raho sadan kada,
khul ke jiyo yeh jahan.

Aur agar aap se yeh nahi hota hai,
toh phir bach ke rehna mere dost.
Yeh woh bala hai jo tumhari bali chada degi,
panga loge toh vat laga degi.

Yeh kahani hai ek aise ladki kii,
jisne kaha hai uska naam mein na lu,
joh kehti hai apne aap ko shadow,
par suraj se bhi jyada hoti hai glow...