junk yard groove ppl..this is one really cool band..and they are indian thts the best part..they are right up there with parikrama and moksha(may leon's soul rest in peace)..wow
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Friday, December 29, 2006
ig noble!!
The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."
The name is a play on the word "ignoble" and the name "Nobel" after Alfred Nobel. The official pronunciation used during the ceremony is "ig no-BELL" (IPA: ɪg nəʊ bɛl) it is not pronounced like the word "ig-noble" (ig-NOH-buhl, IPA: /ɪgˈnoʊbəl/) — but this distinction eludes many people.
..this is brilliant stuff..some of my favourite awards are..
(dont bother readin the names the reason for the award is right after their names)
Ornithology: Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches.
Medicine: Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for his medical case report "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage"; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, for their subsequent medical case report also titled "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage."
Literature: Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University for his report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly."
Acoustics: D. Lynn Halpern of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, and Brandeis University, and Northwestern University, Randolph Blake of Vanderbilt University and Northwestern University and James Hillenbrand of Western Michigan University and Northwestern University for conducting experiments to learn why people dislike the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard.
Economics - Presented to Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.
Peace - Presented to Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.
Economics - Presented to The Vatican, for outsourcing prayers to India.
Literature - Presented to The American Nudist Research Library of Kissimmee, Florida, for preserving nudist history so that everyone can see it.
Medicine - Presented jointly to Steven Stack of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, and James Gundlach of Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, for their published report "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide."
Peace - Presented to Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and third, for creating the Association of Dead People. Lal Bihari overcame the handicap of being dead, and managed to obtain a passport from the Indian government so that he could travel to Harvard to accept his Prize. However, the U.S. government refused to allow him into the country. His friend Madhu Kapoor therefore came to the Ig Nobel Ceremony and accepted the Prize on behalf of Lal Bihari. Several weeks later, the Prize was presented to Lal Bihari himself in a special ceremony in India.
Medicine - Presented to Chris McManus of University College London, for his excruciatingly balanced report, "Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture."
Physics - Presented to Arnd Leike of the University of Munich, for demonstrating that beer froth obeys the Mathematical Law of Exponential Decay.
Public Health - Presented to Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India, for their probing medical discovery that nose picking is a common activity among adolescents.
Astrophysics - Presented to Dr. Jack Van Impe and Rexella Van Impe of Jack Van Impe Ministries, Rochester Hills, Michigan, for their discovery that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements for the location of Hell.
Literature - Presented to John Richards of Boston, England, founder of The Apostrophe Protection Society, for his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the differences between the plural and the possessive.
Psychology - Presented to Lawrence W. Sherman of Miami University, Ohio, for his influential research report "An Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of Preschool children
Peace - Presented to The British Royal Navy, for ordering its sailors to stop using live cannon shells, and to instead just shout "Bang!"
Computer Science - Presented to Chris Niswander of Tucson, Arizona, for inventing PawSense, software that detects when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard.
Literature - Presented to the British Standards Institution for its six-page specification (BS 6008) of the proper way to make a cup of tea.
Safety Engineering - Presented to Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Ontario, for developing and personally testing a suit of armor that is impervious to grizzly bears.
Peace - Presented to Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England, for his report "The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods."
Medicine - Presented to James Johnston of R.J. Reynolds, Joseph Taddeo of U.S. Tobacco, Andrew Tisch of Lorillard, William Campbell of Philip Morris, Edward A. Horrigan of Liggett Group, Donald S. Johnston of American Tobacco Company, and Thomas E. Sandefur, Jr., chairman of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, for their unshakable discovery, as testified to the U.S. Congress, that nicotine is not addictive.
Peace - Presented to the Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations.
oh god these are hilarious and really does serve its purpose funny and then makes u think:D
for a list of all the people who have won these awards in their respective years and for what can be found in the flowing link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
The name is a play on the word "ignoble" and the name "Nobel" after Alfred Nobel. The official pronunciation used during the ceremony is "ig no-BELL" (IPA: ɪg nəʊ bɛl) it is not pronounced like the word "ig-noble" (ig-NOH-buhl, IPA: /ɪgˈnoʊbəl/) — but this distinction eludes many people.
..this is brilliant stuff..some of my favourite awards are..
(dont bother readin the names the reason for the award is right after their names)
Ornithology: Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches.
Medicine: Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for his medical case report "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage"; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, for their subsequent medical case report also titled "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage."
Literature: Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University for his report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly."
Acoustics: D. Lynn Halpern of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, and Brandeis University, and Northwestern University, Randolph Blake of Vanderbilt University and Northwestern University and James Hillenbrand of Western Michigan University and Northwestern University for conducting experiments to learn why people dislike the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard.
Economics - Presented to Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.
Peace - Presented to Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.
Economics - Presented to The Vatican, for outsourcing prayers to India.
Literature - Presented to The American Nudist Research Library of Kissimmee, Florida, for preserving nudist history so that everyone can see it.
Medicine - Presented jointly to Steven Stack of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, and James Gundlach of Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, for their published report "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide."
Peace - Presented to Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and third, for creating the Association of Dead People. Lal Bihari overcame the handicap of being dead, and managed to obtain a passport from the Indian government so that he could travel to Harvard to accept his Prize. However, the U.S. government refused to allow him into the country. His friend Madhu Kapoor therefore came to the Ig Nobel Ceremony and accepted the Prize on behalf of Lal Bihari. Several weeks later, the Prize was presented to Lal Bihari himself in a special ceremony in India.
Medicine - Presented to Chris McManus of University College London, for his excruciatingly balanced report, "Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture."
Physics - Presented to Arnd Leike of the University of Munich, for demonstrating that beer froth obeys the Mathematical Law of Exponential Decay.
Public Health - Presented to Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India, for their probing medical discovery that nose picking is a common activity among adolescents.
Astrophysics - Presented to Dr. Jack Van Impe and Rexella Van Impe of Jack Van Impe Ministries, Rochester Hills, Michigan, for their discovery that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements for the location of Hell.
Literature - Presented to John Richards of Boston, England, founder of The Apostrophe Protection Society, for his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the differences between the plural and the possessive.
Psychology - Presented to Lawrence W. Sherman of Miami University, Ohio, for his influential research report "An Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of Preschool children
Peace - Presented to The British Royal Navy, for ordering its sailors to stop using live cannon shells, and to instead just shout "Bang!"
Computer Science - Presented to Chris Niswander of Tucson, Arizona, for inventing PawSense, software that detects when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard.
Literature - Presented to the British Standards Institution for its six-page specification (BS 6008) of the proper way to make a cup of tea.
Safety Engineering - Presented to Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Ontario, for developing and personally testing a suit of armor that is impervious to grizzly bears.
Peace - Presented to Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England, for his report "The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods."
Medicine - Presented to James Johnston of R.J. Reynolds, Joseph Taddeo of U.S. Tobacco, Andrew Tisch of Lorillard, William Campbell of Philip Morris, Edward A. Horrigan of Liggett Group, Donald S. Johnston of American Tobacco Company, and Thomas E. Sandefur, Jr., chairman of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, for their unshakable discovery, as testified to the U.S. Congress, that nicotine is not addictive.
Peace - Presented to the Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations.
oh god these are hilarious and really does serve its purpose funny and then makes u think:D
for a list of all the people who have won these awards in their respective years and for what can be found in the flowing link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
Sunday, December 24, 2006
story of someone elses life:day sixty seven
SIXty SEVen days..its bin sixty seven days since tht faithful nite..and now its 1Am and i was on my way home..if u can call the abandoned school a home ..the cold cruel ice started to numb me..not tht it made much differnce ..and he fog was freezing and the ground slowly started to
freeze..there was no one out...67 days its bin since i saw flickr of a soul in me 67 days its bin since i cld breathe the air like how a free man breaths. .my GOAl is wat kept me going...it was the only reason i was still in the hunt ..i was like and adrenaline junkie..tryin to get my hands on some Epinephrine..its hard to live like this ....hOw dId it haPpen.wHy.?
freeze..there was no one out...67 days its bin since i saw flickr of a soul in me 67 days its bin since i cld breathe the air like how a free man breaths. .my GOAl is wat kept me going...it was the only reason i was still in the hunt ..i was like and adrenaline junkie..tryin to get my hands on some Epinephrine..its hard to live like this ....hOw dId it haPpen.wHy.?Friday, December 22, 2006
white as snow
the struggles of 12th standard primarily jus sum upto to one single word jus one..
college.sucks dont it..
well it may not sum up everyhting..but in its essence..it does..i mean the only reason 12th is such a pain in the back side and on the neck(try getin tht bio text book of ours in to ur head ull know)
well is ultimately get in to college then maybe a job and then a decnet life..tho this maynot particulary coincide with my intrests..it is the general opinion..
anyway..the thing is college is jsu the next step..wat lies beyond is AS WHITE AS SNOW
bank of snake milk(sahil),dinu(dinesh) , and me rote somethin..we think in our funny little way tht .this is wat mite happen to us in say 10ish years time
this list consists of students frm the bio class..lets see wat happens
well first lets make some assumptions(everyone is happy and has a job)
ten years frm today..i wonder if ill ever know how my amtes have turned out??
the future definelty as white as snow
college.sucks dont it..
well it may not sum up everyhting..but in its essence..it does..i mean the only reason 12th is such a pain in the back side and on the neck(try getin tht bio text book of ours in to ur head ull know)
well is ultimately get in to college then maybe a job and then a decnet life..tho this maynot particulary coincide with my intrests..it is the general opinion..
anyway..the thing is college is jsu the next step..wat lies beyond is AS WHITE AS SNOW
bank of snake milk(sahil),dinu(dinesh) , and me rote somethin..we think in our funny little way tht .this is wat mite happen to us in say 10ish years time
this list consists of students frm the bio class..lets see wat happens
well first lets make some assumptions(everyone is happy and has a job)
- dinesh-buried in a pile of books,working on sum new theory....we think he's gonna be this professor
- krithika -modern generally happy,but under heavy psychiatric treatment
- abhinaya-doctor
- same applies to sameep and bala(hehe bala mite start bips:P)
- baradwaj-mechanical eng for sure..he will surely have a very normal life..he stil plays footie like a god
- shiva-math prof,
- swayambu-dunno but i think hell be fine..
- barat udaysuryan-defiantly move out of the country study somethin(astro scientific gibbersih with arts)come back to India and do sumthin super important
- aditya nair-aimless even after ten years,(neutral consensus)
- gilli-hardworking like his dad.some bio chemical stuff(still loves arguing)
- nari-eating beef,decent job.still imitating sagar???
- dhivya-no clue,none of us know her
- niru-hehe definetly married(a.v??or the girl he loves whatever married for sure)
- shrudi-journalist(she says)....also under heavy psych treatment for her insecurities
- ashna-awesome academics..but may not be interested in a carrier as such
- smithi-some entertaining job..lets hope she sticks
- shweta-social activist:P
- pooja-she'll study get awesome marks and then become a housewife
- sagar-psychopath..good paying job,luxury of prime importance,our prediction may get married many times between 22-29 mite get divorced or kill spouse..
- rajashree-blank
- prithvi-eng with some musical thing on the side
- dhanu-some happy happy joy joy job..hopefully gets paid..dunno watll happen..hope he fulfils his ambition(to lead a happy life)..random
- arijeet-:P no cahnce of normal life->he is benagali:P
- VASANTHY MAM-VICE PRINCIPLE,SPECKS,WHITE HAIR,STILL THE SAME AWESOME TEACHER SHE IS..SHE'LL REMEMBER US..AND MITE BECOME THE BIO HEAD OF CBSE(we prayin for u mam)
- some ppl for fun
- bishen ,bg->unless major circumstances like earth quake,death,tsunami,vrindha aunty interfering,they shall be married
- bishen-lawyer intern
- bg-wife of lawyer intern ans sum humanities course
- priya-still flinging arnd.playing to win,hard working ambitious,(fastest indian ..reached a hundred yet??)
- arun-dog eat dog life,advertising,still making decent music
- akshay-all tht food u eat is gonna get u ecoli or sumthin:P
- candy-something scientific(Aero)...still antisocial.hopefilly will find a girl (maybe hell open up to her??)..hehe still creativly destructive
- chubby-??
- manav-??????
- tariq-still doin some design stuff
- baba-advertising king:P..still awesome human being
- pati-will win atleast one pet show,pls join theatre some sane job
- pl-hehe will start fake jeans company(P.Lee)hehe ..some eng related life
- v.k-after shixth attemp ..hehe still attemptin iit(touchpeice)
- govind-doing extreamly well in life..vedantha guru
- hrushita-bruuey..hopfully becomes master cook...prob b.arch
ten years frm today..i wonder if ill ever know how my amtes have turned out??
the future definelty as white as snow
Monday, December 11, 2006
lickin stick'
mouth harp,lickin' stick HARMONICA i wanna learn this so bad..
i hope its not a phase..i really wanna learn this instrument
its so full of soull..melodious..
so trembly like ..so powerfull and jazzy bluesy
everything..i wanna learn
i hope its not a phase..i really wanna learn this instrument
its so full of soull..melodious..
so trembly like ..so powerfull and jazzy bluesy
everything..i wanna learn
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