If we observe the reactions of the people, it gives us a clue about how our mind expects things to be in a certain way. It shows how this merely mechanical mental machinery comes to a halt, when it comes across the unexpected! 😛
To be aware is to breathe life into the machinery.
Used to watch British comedy in those Doordarshan days but its been quite a while… this one is just too good…
He: “oh I really missed you, don’t know how I managed without you all these days”
She: “oh I thought about you a lot, but didn’t miss you at all this time”
She turns around and finds he was referring to his Nokia E71 mobile 🙄 😛
A small online comic strip… (click on the Forward link below to continue reading)
I wrote “Living Forever” in a coffee shop in the spring of ’97. I had been thinking about how wonderful it would be to meet children’s book author and illustrator, William Steig, but I wondered why he would want to be bothered to speak to me. Like a bolt of lightning I realized why. The idea just flowed out of me nonstop. I composed and drew it on napkins. I decided not to redraw them, rather to scan them in as is.
I am a strong believer in mentorship and sharing our gift with others.
Enjoy.–Peter Reynolds
Pretty interesting site I came across from Leonid – which as he warned on his twitter feed, can be pretty addictive!
Omegle is a brand-new service for meeting new friends. When you use Omegle, we pick another user at random and let you have a one-on-one chat with each other. Chats are completely anonymous, although there is nothing to stop you from revealing personal details if you would like.
Saw this on onion… 😉
New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less
For those not familiar with Onion, its a really funny satirical look at the world… its comedy but with some background of truth in it… this particular one reminded me of the link between multitasking and absentmindedness… (absentmindedness has reduced for me over recent years)
I once came across an article that helped me trace one of the main reasons for my absentmindedness back to my childhood days – it said that kids who have the habit of reading while eating end up becoming absentminded living in their own dreamworld.
This is from a forwarded email that’s been doing its rounds for quite a few years…
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PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN
Shock for the Nation !!! (Believe it or not)
Do you know that India is the richest country in the world!
Right now, India is the richest country in the world! Wondering how? It’s really amazing.
It’s due to Mr. G Vaidyaraj, who donated all his wealth, about which he actually did not know.
He is a descendent of Raja Krishnadev Raya from Mysore district.
For the last 300 years or so, three stones were worshipped in his house.But nobody tried to see what it was, except this person, who is a lawyer by profession. One day, when there was nobody in his house, he took the stone out to see what it was that they worship.
Due to the dust deposited on it, from many many years, it looked only like a simple stone.
But when he touched it, some portion of the stone was cleansed. And he saw a bright ray of light.
He saw something which attracted his attention. And he was amazed when he cleaned all of them.The whole room was filled with light. He discovered they were diamonds of about 4600 carats each.
He informed the Govt. of India and the news is censored with its security.
It’s now deposited in a Swiss Bank.
The cost of single diamond exceeds the GDP of USA + UK.
India can buy virtually 7 developing nations.
Even World Bank does not have enough money to buy it.
One diamond costs thrice the debt of World Bank over India.
One such diamond can buy 10 Bill Gates to you.
And the World Bank has proposed the Indian Govt. that it can pay India in Installment if it wishes to do so.
India’s GDP is 34.25 billion dollars..
Bill Gates property is 95 billion dollars approximate so that is the way ‘nature changes’.
Our Prime Minister has refused to sell it.
He said it will be sold or mortgaged for credit when we need it. Otherwise right now we have no problems.
You can go through Times of India with a small column on it a week ago.
Star TV presented a 115 min documentary on it about 15 days ago.
The Hindu with its half page article in it.
After that it was censored as classified.
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Another good news is that in the Desert of Thar a deposit of Oil and
Natural gas have been found. This stores what Kuwait has in its stomach.
India can go with this ONGC energy reserve with another 30 years.
And moreover it can export it to other counties.
It’s incredible!! But true.
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An Indian boy in his 12th standard has disproved Einstein’s ‘Theory of Relativity’.
Shocked? Read on…
Sudarshan Reddy has theoretically proven the existence of a sub-atomic particle, which can travel at speed greater than that of light, thereby challenging one of the fundamental postulates of the ‘Theory of Relativity’.
In his recent research paper submitted to the Institute of Advanced Physics (IAP) at Trieste (Italy), Sudarshan has proved the existence of a class of sub-atomic particles called leptons’, which can travel faster than light.
The international physics community is shocked by this discovery.
Dr.Massimo Martelli, President of the IAP has this to say about the paper submitted by Sudarshan. ‘After long, careful and critical
analysis, I can confidently say that Sudarshan’s re search papers show tremendous leap in our understanding of physics. His investigation
mounts up on ‘leptons’. His work builds substantially on the work of Einstein and others in the field of relativity.’
When physicists from Princeton University tried to measure Sudarshan’s IQ with an IQ-meter (at the American Embassy in Delhi), the meter broke down.
Sudarshan, incidentally, is the brother of Madhu Reddy, the Indian whiz kid who developed an operating system superior to Microsoft Windows.
We should all be very proud of these boys.
Please forward this email to as many Indians ………
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The news would’ve been great 
but unfortunately has been floating around in mails for almost a decade! In fact this one combines two or three independent hoax mails. Why do people write spam mails like this? That someone has cancer of rare small cell blood cells cancer, forward to everyone you know, or forwarding will make you get good luck, or Bill Gates himself has said that he will contribute 1$ for every mail forwarded, etc?
My theory is that generally we have a short life span, but we humans ahve this strong quest for ‘immortality’. So we indulge in things like ‘religion’ and ‘patriotism’ and so on so that even though we know we’re going to die sooner or later, we get some kind of satisfaction that “my music/religion/scientific discover/country/ideology is going to live forever” – its a kind of “pseudo-immortality” 🙂 So one of the ways is to create a mail like this which will keep on floating around for ages!
Ok as a matter of fact…
India 12th richest nation in 2005: World Bank
India has emerged as the 12th wealthiest nation in the world with its GDP touching $785.47 billion or Rs 35,34,615 crore in 2005, the World Bank said.
Another interesting link is google answer:
Was India Once the Richest Nation in the World?
But anyway if we question whether money is the only measure of wealth and consider another factor like LOVE – then we will know a more important fact: that India may well TRULY be the richest country in the world! 🙂
Its richness lies in all the people in its history who have risen above and beyond the masses.
People like Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Gandhi, Eknath Easwaran, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Basaveshwara, Siddarth Gautama, Rajneesh (Osho), Ramana Maharishi… a very long list actually… who all talk about wealth much more invaluable than the diamond this mail talks about… 🙂 Once in a way one can google and read about the lives of these people.
Even if the below mail was true, the diamond would only belong to that man Vaidyaraj and wouldn’t really effect your own life much – other than maybe feeling proud it dosen’t really make any difference to you. Where he has kept it would be a well guarded secret. But the diamonds that each of the above people talk about is also yours as much as theirs, and they have no secrets, you have equal rights to also tap into the same true wealth! 🙂
One of my friends commented that he never contacted me on google chat as he’d see I seemed to be perpetually busy downloading something or the other as per my status message. I asked him to read my full status message. It was…
downloading air one breath at a time
…but take care as roses might have thorns… and spiders as well…
