Of connecting flights and harried passengers!

I do not know how many of you have been able to travel on international destinations. But there are several stories that float around about the different adventures that one encounters. Take this for example, a friend had to travel from Atlanta, US to Bangalore. The simplest route would be Atlanta-Some_place_in_Europe_depending_on_Airline-Mumbai/Bangalore. And now, picture this... Atlanta-New York-Paris-Bangkok-Chennai-Bangalore! Why? Missed a connecting flight due to delay at the earlier airport.

My grandfather was once travelling from Detroit to Mumbai. They missed their connection flight at Boston. Courtesy NorthWest Airlines, they were put up at the Hilton over there and were treated to 5 star luxury! They even travelled back to Mumbai via London/Amsterdam (I think!) in Business Class. These kinda things also happen! :-) I bet you would not mind this kind of a thing happening unless you are rushing home for something so damn important that you would rather claim that you are a terrorist and ask to be deported to India rightaway!

Read this blog from Dave Barry's site. Amusing, isnt it?

Thankfully I have not had the fortune(?) to experience this kind of adventure.

How a foreign tourist looks at the Indian style WCs? Chk this!

& I could not stop laughing after reading this little account... rofl lol!
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This is a restaurant where we stopped on the road to Orcha. They have great cold drinks yummy! The toilets here are rather funny. They are outside the restaurant at the side of the road. They are like little houses of stone with a wooden door in it. There were three of these 'houses' in a row, and one was a shower. The toilets had no toilet paper. The toilet was a hole in the ground. You could wash your do away by using the can with water beside it...
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Today's Garfield... Life's like that!

And we gather so many opinions and so many misc stuff and live our lives according to what he/she said... Hmmm !

Hwo did the term "debugging" start?

Quite literally... from a bug!

Click on the link below to understand how the term "debugging" started. Seems very trivial compared to the debugging process as of today... ofcourse, computers have evolved since then! So have the bugs from organisms to virtual demons! :-)

NMAH: Log Book With Computer Bug

Bzzzzzzz.....

Dilbert - Hands Free

wouldnt you want to do the same thing? hahahhaa...

A trivia about "The Last Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci

After the book "Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown, a lot of focus has moved to the Renaissance era paintings and the impressionists active then. Da Vinci has been credited as most creative and gifted of them all. With due reason.

Here is a story that I came across on the net that tells about the Effects of Good Actions and Bad Actions upon the physical self. I have observed this in some person close to me and can attest that this is pretty much likely to be true.

The Last Supper

Interesting, aint it?

Increment... woh kya hota hai?

I see Earth, It's so beautiful!

First words spoken by the first man to leave earth into the vastness of space!

Yuri Gagarin The man who made it for the first time!

How many of us really knew this line? We all remember so correctly what Neil Armstrong had said upon setting his feet on the moon. We barely know what Yuri Gagarin had said.

Up there in the space, when India's first astronaut Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, was asked by the then Prime Minister Ms Indira Gandhi, how did India look from the space, he replied "Saare Jahan se Accha"! (Better than the rest of the world). Something similar to Yuri's first words. Thanks to our school history books, we remember this.

But... these Americans... !!!

Deja Vu, anyone?

And I kept telling myself... No, its all a genuine cause. We should know... Moms are usually right! :-)

There is a comic strip with the name "Pearls Before Swine"

And you should check this out...
Pearls Before Swine

The same question has been sitting dormant in my head for a very very long while... thanks to watching all those action movies on AXN and Star. Now, c'mon... Cher? Of all...? uh puhleeez! I prefer someone as meteoric like ...mmm.. Bono of U2 or Gordon Sumber (a.k.a Sting)! Our own Big B or Chi Chi could do even better! :-)) or rather the great "El Capitan" Vijaykanth.

End note: I just managed to keep myself from losing all interest in pearls! Contextual referential issues, you see!

Anyone got a light?

Folks,

I do not know if anybody of you follows Dave Barry's articles published at the Miami Herald. Firstly I do not know what to classify these as. Satirical humor or plain prose. I have not managed to put a tag yet. I might not, thats besides the point though.

Anyways, check out this article. If you are fellow Engineer, I know you would suddenly go "hmmm..." like I did midway through the article. I think what has been described is a salient characteristic of anybody that has gone through the mortification process. In other words, graduated as an engineer.

Most engineers would pride themselves on their analytical abilities, with a due reason of course. We all analysed what is the percentage of cells that were brain dead in the head of the Mechanics professor... and we did come up with precise numbers. For instance, the Basic Electronics prof had 75.34% cells that are kaput and was a absolute winner amongst all profs. I know I am digressing, but it is fun writing about memories. ;-)

Well, the point here is... Engineers do run behind problems and attempt to solve them with figments of imagination that are at best outlandish. Reality is something that dawns on them, clicking off something inside their heads. Some do not bother about the sudden darkness in their heads and continue with a torch-light or probably a nuke-fuelled light emitting device, if you may! Result? Beer Brains or stuff like these. No, I am not kidding. Check this page out...

Ok, I gotta give the spot back to Dave Barry now. Over to Dave Barry!

Anyone got a light?

Thanks, Dave Barry! That was really en-light-ening! So folks, you all now know what might have happened if you see a mushroom cloud blooming up!

Adios!