Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Gadgetified
· 
Apollo-Gs for the lack of updates. Not that any of you have noticed it or complained about it. Now that is either because it makes no difference to any of you whether I update this blog or not (also known as — the truth). Or that my sparkling wit and charming personality just jumps out of my blog and captivates you so much that you fail to notice the lack of updates (also known as — what I’d like to believe to be the truth). In any case, I yam back.
So — Wheeeee! We have a new laptop. And it is beyooootiful! Yes yes, we know. Most of you have had one since Hangal was a virile youth and it is not a big deal for you. But it is our first, so we’re mighty proud and we feel a compelling need to gloat. And who better to do it to than my captive audience. (Saying this she quickly checks Statcounter to see if any of the supposed captive audience reads this blog anymore. Tick tock tick tock tick tock .. Aha! We have a reader! Yes, you. Thank you.)
So my latest excuse for not blogging is that I am getting gadgetified. First there’s the lappy-toppy. (Bet at least half of you cringed when I called it that. Heh heh.) With TWO GB of RAM, my precious purrrs contentedly like a cat who just inherited a creamery. And now that the gorgeous Boston summer is right around the corner you can expect lots of the people watching, leading to introspection, in turn leading to realization about self as insignificant speck, type of writing. Naah. We’re far too vain to allow our blog to be reduced to that. So it’s more likely to be people watching, leading to thinking of self as better than the rest, leading to general distaste of the world and a greater intolerance of humanity. Yep, that sounds more like us.
And, as if one cool toy is not enough, we have two! We have what looks like a mild-mannered phone. All well-behaved and going tring-tring when it should. But underneath that unassuming demeanor, lies another personality that emerges at night .. <cue song — andheri raaton mein, sunsaan raahon par> .. it darts into a phone booth¹, puts on its superhero costume and turns into .. a Videocon Washing Machine! <cue jingle — It washes, it rinses, it even dries your clothes! In just a few minutes .. *tink tonk tink tonk* .. you are ready for the show!> No seriously, this ain’t no ordinary phone. It’s a phone, an mp3 player, a flash drive, an FM radio .. and in the right light, it could pass off for Ah-nold’s stunt double in T2 even! Oh and it’s a quad-band phone with the Bluetooth thingy. Drool.
So, if I was lying on a Mediterranean beach, wiggling my toes in the sun-bleached sands, bored with the eye-candy around me and deciding take a lazy afternoon nap instead — If then, I woke up to the sight of azure blue waters, and suddenly felt inspired to write a blog post about it, I now can.
Now I just need to find myself a beach, some eye-candy ² and a nice umbrella.
2 — Eye-candy — Not to be confused with the I-candy from the previous post.
Actually I did check your page a couple of times(okay.. 11 times..) to see if you were not lazy enough to blog.. and since I didn’t find any comments yet.. wanted to make a big deal abt it. :) good post this one, as usual.. atleast worth missing the shuttle.. well, so which breed is the lappie?
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 @ 6:58 PM
Sigh….and some of us are forced to read your ramblings on an ancient Dell with *only* 512 MB of RAM in the midst of phone calls on our antique *free-with-2-year-plan* Nokia phones. So is this new gadgetized you supposed to mean you will be blogging more often?
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 @ 8:44 PM
Though our Gtalk messages fall on deaf ears, we always do check around here for nonsense - and yesh, we are an integral part of it and also proud to be part of it. (ok, now, play some good background meejic). And what lappy-toppy do we have? (*cringes*) Dell? (*open-jawed*) Sony? (*astonished*) HP-Compaq? (*weird look*) Toshiba? or (*usual angry self*) did you get an i-Book?
Ah, yesh, we see what you saying. So many koshteens and yet, so little time. right? but we have ALL the time in ze little world.
OK, now I exit before I get kicked from here like our Gabbar in Sholay.
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 12:10 AM
fundoo gadget and all haan… great going…
but one request plijjj… next time you are out there on the beach eyeing candies, plijj to click some eye candy gurrrls also and to post on the blog… now that the gult porn is completely out, we need to have alternatives to help ourselves with some esshtuff… *ducks and runs away before hitting the submit comment button to have sounded so chip and all*
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 1:39 AM
Hangal as in AK? Hmmm. That sole reader was me checking if you have posted anything new :)
Anyways I just got a Sidekick II today.The cell phone I have earlier was mistaken for cordless and before christ by folks thus leading me up on step gadgetrified.
I am waiting for a gadget that automatically makes outputs Dosa when I inpute Flour. Sadly there isnt one in the market.
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 2:16 AM
A friend of mine has that phone - it is our lifeline, our entertainment centre. Except for giving us food, it does everything. You’re a lucky woman. :D
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 3:18 AM
So, what’s the name of this superheroic phone?
Paddy, congratulations on your new Windows Mobile (right?)
AB
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 4:07 AM
Gungradulations!
That phone is really sexy. If you really want to cool your heels and chill out on a candy trip dont carry any to that beach. Occassional primitive escapades are really invigorating.Trust me!
So..appaer with more ideas more often!
Aniyan
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 4:33 AM
A laptop with 2GIGS of ram??? Wow!!! Are you a serious gamer or programmer if I may ask?
And which phone is your new phone if I may ask? Am looking out for something new and think that maybe I should get on the bluetoothy craze myself.
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 5:10 AM
My 286 and reliance 5130 jeer at your ostentatious display of technosavvy-ness. Bah. :D
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 5:27 AM
Arrey Megha madam! Naya Laptop? Naya Cellphone? Nusli Wadia hey!
It could Nayi Laptop / Nayi Cellphone. I am not sure.
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 5:48 AM
We did notice your absence going past the sparkles of your wit and pty which almost ended up blinding us. So we watch your site with shades on. where are ‘evil’ and ‘psycho’ ? Have not seen them around …its been a while now.
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 6:01 AM
Tumhe 2GB ke, ujaale mubarak, Thinkpad hume ab, raas aa gaye hain …
Tcha @ showing off of new foon too. Usme thermometer chipka do, ek aur function add ho jaayega.
We do not accept in good spirit “There was a war on” kind of excuses for not posting .
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 8:08 AM
Kyun Megha Baby,
Naya Laptop, Naya Cell, Badihya Hain….
Congo on trying to be gadgety and all!!!
Hope the updates on the blog are more frequent now!!
And as Iyer said , keep a watch for eye candy gurlls too!! Your faithful readership should be compensated for the long absence of updates..
ciao
Cheers,
HP
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 10:14 AM
Hey, I terribly missed seeing new postsss.
Seriously, you should blog more often!!
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 10:34 AM
Lol @ “since hangal was a virile youth”! OMG, well just so to let you know, I don’t have a lappie toppie (thats another way to spell it innit ) but I’m sure by the time I get one, I myself shall look like Hangal (the hangal we know, not as the virile youth)!
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 11:15 AM
yaayyyyyyyyy whoopeeeeeeeee dhingchak dhingchak
2 reasons:
you are byack! (now i can stop checking this place every two minutes for a post, and then going “daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaym”)
you got a lappy-toppy…. (dramatic pause) … heh heh (but since you have said it has a TWO gig (gak!!!) myemoryy…it can’t be what we are tempted to think it might be
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 12:26 PM
so, r u tooth-ing yet?
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 1:33 PM
as phaar the phoone, do you use “washig paawder nirma” with it?
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 1:59 PM
sahi re megha
badhai….now that you have all the extreme technology and duniya time….hope to read more about gult porn or any similar sounding stuff….
pleased to meet you again
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 4:57 PM
Stupid post this is.. All the talk of technology and booths and what not! We demand gult porn!
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 5:47 PM
[anti]
now, now, tiger…
we can see the volcano smouldering…
we can feel the tulips withering…
we can hear the whips cracking…
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 5:59 PM
Now you can get Chiru to sing ‘Lappu Toppu lady, tringu tringu body’. OK! Now THAT made me cringe-u, cringe-u! STOP IT!
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 8:04 PM
(VC) aaaaaaaargh….that was perfect-u
what great thinking-u
(megha) you should make that your anthem
heh heh
Thursday, April 27, 2006 @ 10:56 PM
No excuses are accepted for not blogging….if you find more excuses, we will find a way to change that mobile to a pistol and use it on you…or worse we will fix it so that you will never listen to the other person on line but you will continue to listen to yourself … ;-)
And what is it about finding 1 reader…that is an insult to rest of us…we are 57 dedicated subscribers in bloglines…and many more to visit here or to have subscribed to something else…
On a not-so-silly note, which is the laptop btw..and which is the mobile..and since you happened to get them together..was there a free offer say laptop free for mobile ..ok ok..let me go now …
Friday, April 28, 2006 @ 12:08 AM
2 GB RAM !!!!! Maaaan…n I used to think that I was part of the Upper Classs in terms of RAM size..this post has pushed me back into the jungle of middle class…
n me has no lappy toppy either so rght now me quite sad :( BTW now u can store loads of reshmiac songs on ur laptop n ur phone thingie also
Cheers!!
Friday, April 28, 2006 @ 3:40 AM
Ehhh.. 10 comments later I realise I signed as Anonymous. Well hello again.
Friday, April 28, 2006 @ 5:21 AM
Somewhere between ‘the truth’ and what you’d like to think of as the truth is probably the fact that most people who enjoy reading your blog respect your right to have a life and to update the blog when you choose, what with it being your blog and all. Though, come to think of it I probably have typed more words in your blog than in my own (which I just found out you already know and have probably guessed the reason for).
Congratulations on the new laptop. I would’ve been green with envy had it been a MacBookPro, but the fact that you used the I-candy pun, instead of the iCandy one, which would have been more obvious to an Apple nut (oxymoron not intended), suggests that my complexion is relatively safe.
As for Videocon, weren’t they the ones who came up with “Owner’s envy, neighbor’s pride”? No wait…
Friday, April 28, 2006 @ 4:38 PM
People - how is it that none of you had anything to say about the phone booth? Or is it that you just don’t read footnotes? Gah bah!
[avanthi] Aww, thankoo. You wouldn’t happen to be an astronaut now, would you? The lappytoppy is a Dell Inspiron E1505, incidentally.
[Nandu] Now now, I have been writing two years worth of these ramblings on an ancient Dell with 512MB RAM in the midst of phone calls on my dabba phone too, so I do relate to your pain very much. And thanks to the gagdgetifiedness, I hope to be enabled to blog more often. Whether I’ll actually do that or not is .. a different story. *sheepish grin* By the way, on an unrelated note - am I imagining this, or didn’t you say some time ago that you were gonna start a blog and write a post about Bappi? Or was that a different Nandu?
[Sriram] Aww, thankoo. Glad to know you haven’t given up on us :) It is a Dell. So you can .. (goes back and checks) .. cringe!
[Rumpy] Oh yes. I will go to a Mediterranean beach. I will be surrounded by eye-candy. And blue waters. And white sands. And at that moment I will be thinking about how poor Rumpy is sad, because there is no Gult porn to entertain him. And so to make him feel better, I will click pictures of the pretties around me. And post them on my blog. Yes yes. Surely it will happen. All of it.
[Paddy] Aha, a Sidekick II! You T-Mobile user, you! Outputs dosa when you input flour? I know a couple of ex-roomies who could probably make a living out of that.
[teleute] Ahh, so you understand! I am pretty certain I could train this one to fetch me a cookie from time to time. Now I just need to think of a good name for it :)
[Amateur Blogger] Not named it yet. Hope to have one soon! Suggestions?
[aniyan] Thank you! And the point I was getting at was not that I’d take the assorted gadgetry along on a trip and write blog posts. The point was that I *can* do that if I wanted to :)
[Generally_Speaking] Nah, neither. Just use a lot of memory-hogging apps like Photoshop and CorelDraw. Also, didn’t want it to be obsolete in three months. (Now it’ll be more like six months.) The phone is a Sony Ericsson w600i, by the way.
[Brat] Ahaaa! So that lone Windows 3.1 reader of my blog is YOU! *ducks to avoid a flying 5130*
[Sidin] What to do. There are some folks who have weeklong vacations full of weddings and sumptuous luncheons. And there are others who have to make do with gadgets. Unfair world and what not. How goes the book?
[reshma] Oh thankoo, very happy to know it was not missed. Evil and Psycho have morphed into Lazy and Sleepy lately. Think it is time to wake them up and start some trouble. Oh and welcome to the blog! :)
[?!] Now now, don’t guilt us about being happy with our new toys. That too with Mukesh-sentiness-meant-for-Meena Kumari levels. (And though we are sorely tempted to digress into a conversation about Mukesh’s singing for Shankar-Jaikishan (the RK influence) versus Mukesh for Kalyanji-Anandji and how we feel about each, we are trying to resist. Damn, I need to do a proper Bollywood post on of these days!)
[Hariprasad] Thank you! As for taking pictures of eye-candy - pliss to see what I said to Iyer/Rumpy :)
[Kranthi] Aw thank you :) I really do intend to post more often!
[Essar] Phew. I thought I was the absolute last person on the planet to get a laptop. I feel better now :)
[twinky] Oye potty-brain! We’re not as bad as you make us out to be, you know ;) Think I should send some Nirma over to you, at this rate! Tsk tsk. By the way, thank you for whupping you-know-who for picking on us! :)
[SR] Still getting there. Have succeeded in getting the laptop and phone to recognize each other’s existence, albeit grudgingly. The next step is to make them talk to each other and actually exchange information.
[SK] Er, we don’t make a make a habit of writing about Gult porn, you know? Sheesh, what do people make this blog out to be!
[aNTi] Arrey! The booth bit was a special ode to you ;) How could you not like it?
[VC] Brilliant! Simply brilliant. With your permission, I shall make it my theme song. And turn it into a midi file and put it in an infinite loop in the background when this blog loads. Wasn’t someone asking me where Evil and Psycho had disappeared, just a few comments ago? Heh.
[RK] Eeeks! Such shady threats. And okay, admittedly 57 readers on bloglines, but only one third of them are public subscribers. You know what that means? That they read my blog but are ashamed to admit to it in public. Sigh. A Dell Inspiron E1505 and a Sony Ericsson w600i, by the way :)
[Shri] Heh yes, we got just a leeetle memory-crazy. And why would you defile my beyootiful toys by mentioning you-know-who in the same sentence as them? Tsk tsk.
[Essar] Hello. Long time no see and all that :)
Friday, April 28, 2006 @ 5:06 PM
[Andy E.] Oh, I was just complaining cos I seem to have made a career out of it and nothing else. On a more serious note, I wouldn’t want it any other way. Writing without deadlines and pressure is the best kind. And it is really nice to have people not give up on your blog even when you vanish for weeks together. Most gratifying. And yes, we know you write more here than on your own blog, but that’s easy considering you don’t write on your blog, period.
Considered going the Mac route for a while (we still drool everytime we see one) but gave in to the Dark Lord once again. However the I-Candy was intentionally spelt that way (and not the iCandy way) for a reason. Most people missed the M&M pun in my previous post, so that was a ‘Hello? notice pun? now laugh please?’ type thing. Apple nut, hmm. How about a hard-core Apple fan?
Friday, April 28, 2006 @ 5:37 PM
Throw in an evil MWAHAHAHAHAH in the background every now and then, and you’ve got yourself a winner there.
Friday, April 28, 2006 @ 6:36 PM
GOOD… YESSSSS… WONDERRRRRFUL… although none of the pretties that you would click would ever resemble the hot and vivacious [KIMI KATKAR] or [SONU WALIA] or [SONAM]… we can still do with those pics… and i will be most honoured…
Saturday, April 29, 2006 @ 12:54 AM
I know just how you feel. We got a Mac G5 and a video iPod (30GB) and a laptop, among others, as gift at our wedding three months ago, and my husband insisted on showing them off to his friends till they threatened to stop visiting us.
Saturday, April 29, 2006 @ 3:35 AM
Koi jab Software Barbie release kar de
Tadapta SysAd Ken marod de
tab tum…
Lappy Toppy kehna, and NOT before that. PLEASE. ==> has cringed so much is unhinged.
All these toys, indicative of lappy dogs of capitalism infesting the country. Indulging in slappystick comedy at us still-proud-of-phone-that-doubles-up-as-iron-after-3-min, and has-more-chances-of-developing-mammaries-than-getting-2Gig-memory-machine pore technologically challenged souls.
Come the Revolution, we shall wash the paved streets with your blood. We shall mmmm… yes. Make you sit on monochromatic monitor 8088 with Wordstar, Storyteller and only game installed Digger.
And from the gym, rescue one of those Ericssons they now use as weights, for your phone.
Phone Booth (standard version): Jahaan Superman “flashes” by …
Phone Booth (preferred version): Heroine of love story unfolding on this blog in ghostly white on a swing, gazing with wistful looks at multifunction foon (with thermometer stuck too), singing aayega, aayega, aayega, aayega “unkha” foon aayega …
Saturday, April 29, 2006 @ 6:02 AM
[Megha] Yes.. we hated this post…bahh… our hindi poked fun at, thats never a pleasure!! :p
[Twinkieji] Why would you wanna whip us??? :p
Saturday, April 29, 2006 @ 12:41 PM
[antiji]
why would we not?
:p
Saturday, April 29, 2006 @ 1:29 PM
Congratulations on the new gadgets! Oh, I so envy you - my stupid dell probably has 512M RAM, if that! :-( I am now going to trade my beautiful BMW convertible for a brand new Mac (my obsession with Mr. G. is over - Jobs-ward ho!)
Oh wait - I don’t have a BMW to trade - sulking - thanks for ruining my vacation, Megha. I shall never forgive you! :-p
Saturday, April 29, 2006 @ 3:42 PM
Awwwww…..And here I thought I had an uncommon name. Obviously, there seem to be multiple Nandu’s reading your blog. Ok, ok….yes, it is the same Nandu, I had thought of a blog and yes, I had decided that one of my first posts would be about the golden brain behind “I am a Disco Dancer”. But then, the pressures of academics and a job-hunt forced me to use my brains in other directions….:( Some one of these days, I’ll stun one and all with the hysteria that my humour can generate. In the meantime, I’ll just settle for reading your blog……
Saturday, April 29, 2006 @ 11:00 PM
[Megha] (Harish Bhimani as voiceover)
tumhare paas laptop hai, cellphone hai, but electricity hai kya?! (insert here cheap home video of abbreviated Deewar shot for Sahara One or some such channel)
bwahahaha…
itne saare tohfe… paise kahan se aaye? (insert here Anil Kapoor & Raakhee clones in reshot Ram Lakhan for MTV…)
…
[Anti] you must ask place these requests ‘privately’ …
sorry, but we decided to write our own blog here. atleast someone else would read it ;)
Sunday, April 30, 2006 @ 1:12 AM
[D-man] Holy Samayapuram Maari-atha!!!! What request are you talking about! We never asked for any whipping of any sort! Anything we say here is twisted beyond recognition! And btw, a lot of people do use Bloglines! So don’t whine here :p
Sunday, April 30, 2006 @ 11:17 AM
it looks like aNTi is the next Voldemort! My sympathies bhai…
Sunday, April 30, 2006 @ 2:26 PM
Oooh! Videocon jingle! Did you know, the kids of today have never heard it?? How old we are (sighhhhhh)
Monday, May 1, 2006 @ 3:08 AM
Apollo-G accepted.
I do look forward to ur posts but ur post frequency has never really been high which is why I didn’t complain.
Even I am planning to buy a new laptop soon n 2GB RAM is great!
Your cellphone sounds great [just like my phone - He he, I had to show off ;) ] but I just hope there isn’t too much flipping involved. I don’t like that.
Monday, May 1, 2006 @ 4:04 AM
Weeeeeeeee!!
Yeh Yeh Yeh Yeh Yeh Yeh Yeh!!!!
Wueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
Monday, May 1, 2006 @ 9:11 AM
[VC] Ferpect. Will work on it pronto :)
[Rumpy] For expecting me take pictures of the pretties for your sake, I am sure you will be a LOT of things. ‘Honored’, however, wasn’t one of them. (Helpful hint: Bruised, abused, threatened etc.)
[Sue] You know what they say - Friends may come and friends may go, but gadgets go on forever. Well, they don’t actually say it, I do, but they should start saying it too. Video iPod - ooh nice!
[?!] Me, the supreme creator of ‘lappy toppy’ on which I do my ‘workie work’? You really think a little ‘Software Barbie’ is going to faze me? Huh huh? And hey, we come from a pre-PC world even. Our first computer was a VT-100 terminal that connected to a mainframe with a 1200 baud modem. And it wasn’t even from as long ago as you think. So there.
Ouch. I’ll let [aNTi] kill you for this one :)
[aNTi] Your Hindi poked at? We haven’t even *mentioned* you in the post. We say ’south-Indian’ and you promptly assume it was you? Tsk tsk. That’s your presumptions talking, my boy. Nothing else :) Or maybe you’re just distracted by somebody’s intentions. Hmm ..
[twinky] Hee hee :)
[qs.gemini] Ah, you’re making the switch, are ya? Nice! I gave in to the Dark Lord this time too, but I still stick my head into the Mac store and drool every time I pass by it. And you’re vacationing? Whee! Hope you’re having fun! Beantown will have hopefully warmed up by the time you’re back. Maybe that BMW convertible can finally be put to use then ;)
[Nandu] Ah, so it WAS you! :) One of these days I’m going to finally write my ‘Top 10 songs of Bappi’ post and then you can unleash your hysterical humor on us in the commentspace instead. That work for you?
[D] D-Maa? Kya aapko lagta hai ki aapki beti kabhi galat kaam kar sakti hai? Mujhpar bharosa rakho maa. Main aap hi ke bataaye hue raaste par chal rahi hoon. Aapka pyaar aur vishwaas mujhe, har kadam, galat raaste ki taraf bhatakne se rokega ..
[aNTi] If you and D are saying nasties to each other in languages unknown to us, please to provide translations, so we can clap gleefully and throw fifty-paisa coins at you. Thank you.
[Anon] You-know-who not to be confused with He-who-shall-not-be-named. Although the fascination for dark and twisted seems to be something Voldy and aNTi share :)
[Vishnupriya] I know. Such a pity, hm? Uff, I feel jurassic.
[Raj] I can’t stand flip phones, so no fikar. Its a Sony Ericsson w600i. Does the swivel thingy, but no flip.
[CSM] Er, wohh-kay?
Monday, May 1, 2006 @ 3:23 PM
Congratulations on ur new lappy-toppy. FYI this site teaches how to build a custom lappy if ever u decide to have another.
Monday, May 1, 2006 @ 3:48 PM
[megha] Your haaanar!
Exhibit 1: Arrey! The booth bit was a special ode to you ;) How could you not like it?
Exhibit 2: We say ’south-Indian’ and you promptly assume it was you?
The defendent rests his case! We move to strike the comments made by bystanders off the record.
Your haanar, btw, we just invoked the all seeing gaad (i.e. Samayapuram Maari-aatha) local to our area. We dont want 50 paisa coins.
Signed: Anantha
Monday, May 1, 2006 @ 3:55 PM
[territorial-male] Thank you! And thanks for the link too. Will keep it in mind for the future!
[Anonymous aNTi] Tch tch. I love it when (Playboy) bunnies walk into a nicely laid out trap :) So let me proceed to break it down for you - You complained about my post BEFORE I told you that the booth bit was a special ode to you. You saw ’south-Indian’, promptly assumed it was a reference to you, and whined about our post being stupid. (What does monkey know about the taste of ginger, as they say.) It was only after you cribbed, that we told you that it was an ode to you. So your exhibits are nothing, except a tactic to distract the audience. You should, in fact, be fined for messing with justice.
Case dismissed. Tiger Anti can safely return to the cage for his whipping. And we’ll save the 50 paisas for your retirement fund, instead.
Monday, May 1, 2006 @ 4:26 PM
Your Haanar,
Defendent wishes to appeal this dismissal.
The defendent’s reason for saying the post was stupid had no relation to the “lame” booth joke (though counsel was suitably informed of this subtlety before the first “hate” comment) or the word “South Indian” (which btw, did not ring a bell till counsel was suitably informed of the subtle reference to the counsel and defendent)!
The defendent shall place proof of aforementioned events in front of your haanar and requires time to do so. In the meantime, defendent moves to strike references to primates, spices, cages and leather (and snacks) off the record, lest it be viewed as an attempt to draw unneccesary parallels without the neccesary precedents. Also defendent wishes to place a petition on record to place a gag order on unrelated third parties.
Your haanar, as one great lawyer once said (rest his soul), If it doen’t make sense, you should find for the defense. . The defense rests once more.
Monday, May 1, 2006 @ 4:53 PM
ah well better late than never…and being the magic 50th is just everyones dream :) so is it time yet to celebrate anniversaries for the gadgets yet…..tell us if they have started talkin to eachother leaving you out of the loop ;)
Monday, May 1, 2006 @ 10:51 PM
Resurfacing after the break….
Madam what has happened to your wit! we are slightly downtrodden… erm… no, that should be crestfallen. A mojito should clear those writing neurons.
(So you see the author does not necessarily own her/his writing. Sometimes the audience annexes the author and try as much as the author may, she/he sinks further into the bog)
We shall await the rise of the humourMonger. More power to you.
Monday, May 1, 2006 @ 10:53 PM
Congrats :-)
2 Gigs or RAM? We in India are still living with 512KBs.
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 @ 9:17 AM
On the topic of gadgets ‘n gizmos, Apple has some new ads out. I’m shoring up for my macbook. Yes, I still love UNIX :-). Does anyone have information about the Neonode phone?
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 @ 9:19 AM
[aNTi] Giving you time, we can happily do. But disallowing leather, cages and spices will be detrimental to your romance with a certain someone. So, for your sake, we shall disregard that request. I know your want to selflessly dedicate your life to defending the rights of hapless people (such as yourself), but lawyers are humans too, and have as much of a right to a love life as anyone else. So we’re gonna try and make that happen. So there.
These ‘unrelated third parties’ are just rabble-rousers who need to have their say. As a great man once sang - Kuchh to log kahenge, logon ka kaam hai kehna. By the way, who be great lawyer?
[Shiva] Oh yes, not only do they talk to each other, they seem to be hatching a plot to take control of the house. Take this strangeness, for instance - Everytime the phone rings, the fan switches itself off. Much weirdness.
[S the terrible!] Now now, have we become so bad that we need to rely on alcohol for survival? Am getting visuals of self as hamming Devdas and laptop as tramp dog having conversations under street lamp of dingy street. See, now you’ve gone and depressed me even further. Tchah!
[Smiley] Thank you. And c’mon now, be fair :)
[Jay aka (s] The ads are mucho cool, aren’t they? I really like the restarting one! Had ‘im and then lost ‘im. Heh :) That’s Justin Long, I believe? The Mac actor?
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 @ 1:35 PM
Yeah Woh kayyyyyyyyy.
Hee Hee, laptops… cellphones… you don’t have no idea how talking about them its makes us men go crazy :)
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! X 1000000000……….
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 @ 9:12 PM
Yes, the guy playing mac is Justin Long. And the guy playing PC is John Hodgman.
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 @ 10:37 AM
[CSM] Well, I seem to have some idea now! :)
[(s] Aha! That’s who he is!
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 @ 3:21 PM
Depressed? Alcohol is the solution. Indeed, alcohol is the solution for all problems. But wait! I see from your latest post that the humourMonger is alive and well. A tad malnourished perhaps but nothing a stiff martini, with an olive and a worm in it, wont fix.
For some vague reason that post prompted me to go and listen to the song “Bin tere sanam” from the movie Yaara Dildaara. Most excellent. Recommended.
And phinally, how do you get the energy to respond to all manner of inane and moronic comments, a prime example being this very one? Kapil Dev in all his toothy glory might say “Boost is the secret of my energy”. However you are probably not of that generation… Milo perhaps.
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 @ 10:27 PM
Talkin of being gadgetified, I’m actually sick of goin bak out thr, lookin for the newest, latest, coolest, easiest, advanced versions of EVERYTHING! No satisfaction ppl….sumthin better is alwayz out thr! I’ve decided to stay in n make da net my portal…only free softwares (yeah im bein a lil miserly…totally over blown my budget this year!). Ok here’s what i found - something great for my nokia 6600….i couldnt want anythin more. It’s called Tagit. Been around for a lil while but too bad i saw it only now. Using the Kooltag service of Tagit, I’ve cut out all my phone, sms, mms, etc etc costs! its all free. so i made a kooltag for my blog…pics, events in my life!, videos, gossip, everythn! my friends in india all got my kooltag id. they just tag it with a camera phone n bam!they know all they need to know bt me! itss so kool….kooltag hehe!
sorry 4 da lonnnng comment!! but im way 2 excited! gettin just wat i want!
Thursday, May 11, 2006 @ 3:32 AM
Nice post…good blog. Absorbing reads. Keep up the good work.
Thursday, June 1, 2006 @ 10:35 AM