Sleeping under the stars

There is a french window in our apartment against which we have our makeshift "diwan" basically a mattress with a number of pillows on it. I love to sleep on that and watch the stars ...

“A bed in the bush with stars to see,
Bread I dip in the river -
There’s the life for a man like me,
There’s the life forever.”

Robert Louis Stevenson “The Vagabond”

Found a new blog

During my quest to find some information on diversity in America, I stumbled upon this awesome blog, written by a stay at home mother of 3 young boys in florida - She is humourus ,witty and a beautifyl writer. I spent about 3 hours reading her past blogs and spent a few girly giggles....I hope I could write as well as her..

Iceland on sale ?????

Hahaha...Okay someone goofy has put up Iceland on Sale on Ebay.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUKLNE49906S20081010

c'mon people, don't you have somethign better to do ? And c'mon "me" don't you ahve something better to blog about? ;)

Anyways, the same thing had happened when Lehman went bust - someone had put Lehman on ebay. Both the times - it was certianly funny - especially the questions asked . hilarious.

McCain - Palin : The comedy of errors

For someone who has been following the Presidential race for the past few months and has been watching "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" for most of the information on the race, the past few months has been highly entertaining.

My husband and I never forget to watch the above mentioned shows everyday. Yes, Evryday. And in that 1 hour you will usually find us laughing out loud, looking at each other in disbelief, uttering the phrase "how stupid can one be" numerous times , among other things. At it seems, we love the show for its satire.

Yesterday we were just talking about how pro-obama teh entire media is. Or is it really? I think and hope not. The media is teh single largest force that shapes ones opinion and it would be largely irresponsible for the media to be pro one candidate.
But then why do we keep hearing funning and unbeliveble things about McCain and Palin while we don't hear such things about Obama and Biden. the answer is : because McCain and Palin give fodder for the news much more than the other party. The 24x7 news concept survives on juicy tidbits. If they become fair and give each candidate equal coverage, they would have to be very selective on material for republcans and thus lose some good juicy news. While they would report less popular news on Obama which would in turn be very boring. And also, because I think they exhausted all news on Obama during the democratic prelimanaries. That period was high exposure for both Obama and Hillary as it was highly contested and bitterly faught. Hillary left no stone unturned on Obama and so everything is now old news.

Anyways, this post is not on the responsibilities of the media but on McCain and Palin. If you have been following the race, you would know how utterly foolish and stupid both the candidates are. I respect McCain and all the expirience and knowledge that he has. But he totally blew that respect when he chose Palin as the running mate. Does he really think women are so stupid that if Hillary wasn't running, they would choose *ANY* woman? For that matter, anyone who wore lipstick? What he doesn't get it is people realized that soon after the republican convention. I must admit, I was impressed by Palin after her speech at the GOP convention. (Though, I must add - there is something wrong with her face when she speaks). At that time, we thought that maybe after all McCain did a good thing. But that impression soon turned into dirt after she said that her foriegn policy expirience comes from Alaska's proximity to Russia. C'mon, haven't we had enough of those douchebag and ignorant talks in the past 8 years. The Daily Show and Colbert Report thrive on that. Do we really want Tina Fey to come back to Saturay Night Life for the next 8 years? The answer is "No". McCain - you lost it. People are not stupid. They no longer want or can afford the war. Keep the war in your pockets so you can take them out once we come out of the economic crisis. you can solve both. Both issues need money and money doesn't grow on trees.

Btw, an interesting talk on how Mccain is asking Goldman Sach employees for money. i think its a fart news - but nevertheless - entertaining.

http://wonkette.com/403408/mccain-begging-money-from-goldman-sachs-employees
Btw, if you haven't watched Tinay Fey on SNL - i highly recommend watching it. The entertainment factor is 20 out of 10 ;)

IT's finest hour

I was reading this article on CIO.com on whether Y2K was the most overyhyped flop of the centure. It's very interesting to note the persepctive of both side of the issues.

Non IT ( those who didn't know what was going on ) thought that nothing happened when the clock struck 12:00 am that day. I guess everyone was disappointed. They had expected to see "banks losing all the money they had in their vaults, [airplanes] dropping from the sky and general global unrest" instead of a non event. On Jan 1 when everyone woke up to a non chaotic morning, the general consensus would have been that the money went down the drain. Nothin was supposed to happen and nothing happened.

IT people howeverbelive that a lot of work was done (in the background ) for years so that "nothing" happened when the clock struck 12:00. This was what had happened and as expected (due to all the effort that went into it). So the effort was successful.

I remember my family had gone to Calcutta for New Year's celebration to my uncle's place. So when the entire family was out celebrating and wishing each other "Happy new Year", me and 2 of my cousins were in front of the computer watching the clock ticking away to midnight. We were holding our breadth as we neared 12:00 am. I don't remember what we expected to happen but I guess I would have thought the computer would just start showing those gibberish signs and then "swoosh" and it would break down. But, disappointedly nothing happened.

Coming back to the debate, I think it was overhyped, especially the part of everyone's personal computer stopping unless some fix was doneto it. Many people earned a lot on that fear (esp with the prices of PC being so steep, noone wanted to risk it). I agree that a lot of leagcy code as well as hardware that was used to run the banks and the airplanes and hospitals and other electronic systems had to be updated and clearly the IT community achieved a mammoth task through hardwork.
So, though the Y2K was a little overhyped, it was not a flop show.

I liked a particular comment " I guess it's just human nature to expect to get something for your money. When the goal is to not get something, the concept is too novel for most people"