I got reports coming in, that a tree fell down near Jama Masjid and it’s oozing out sweet water. So everyone’s going there to take a sip from this most auspicious miracle.

At the same time airlines started banning liquids, Gods in India started liking it and we had several liquid based miracles.

First the water around Mahim beach turned sweet. And it probably stayed sweet for 10 mins, after which tons of sewage from all over Bombay got dumped in it. But a little shit never scares the Mumbaikars, what with their city spirit and all, and they nevertheless proceeded to drink and wallow in their own faeces. And the faeces of their neighbors.

Then Gods started drinking milk again, but some didn’t and it caused much sadness and anger. Then in one huge miracle, the Thar desert got turned into a lake. Imagine some poor bastard tourist who came all the way to Jaiselmer to ride over the sand dunes on a camel…. He’s probably standing ass deep in the mud.

And now the tree is spewing forth miraculous water and we have medical experts on the TV saying such water is most excellent for Arthritis and stuff. You know what’s also good for arthritis? Arthritis medicine.

Water in a tree!! What a miracle !! It’s almost as if the tree had roots going deep underground and sucking up water from the already water laden soil, since it be rainy season and everything.

We got sweet water coming from trees and the ocean, but our colas are full of pesticides. What would really be a miracle is if you opened your kitchen tap and got clean drinkable water. That would be a miracle. Drinking faeces is just stupid.

Found this link to another similar miracle.

Lucille Pope's red oak tree has gurgled water for about three months, and experts can't seem to get to the root of the problem.
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Lucille Pope has started to wonder if the water has special properties. Her insurance agent dabbed drops of the water on a spider bite and the welt went away, she said.
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"I just want to know if it is a healing tree or blessed water," she said. "That's God's water. Nobody knows but God."

God is talking to us humans, and His medium this time around is water.

Got the following job requirement in a mailing list. Opening for a Usability Professional. Wont be naming the company in the hope that if in the distant future I happen to be sitting on the other end of the interview table…….. anyway....

It says thus:

1. Candidate should have 2 to 7 yrs relevant experience.
2. Should be good in web interaction designing and execution.
3. Expert in Adobe, Macromedia and other tools and languages required to develop Interfaces.
4. Should possess good knowledge about Usability, Information Architecture and Online Branding.
5. Excellent communication skills.

Hmm…. Adobe, Macromedia and other languages to “DEVELOP” the interface. Hmmm….

Also should know about usability, IA and online branding? How about the much coveted ability of being able to suck a golf ball through a garden hose?

The inmates are running the asylum.

Here's a cool card trick video..


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If you check the stats on this video, the views are around 1854276! What is that.... ? One million eithe fifty four thousand two hundred seventy six? There are 3,852 comments and it's been favorited 7689 times!

Where does youtube manages to get such traffic???? Television has problem managing such viewership. Imaging this 2 min video on TV trying to get such reach.

I've managed to get a measly 1,605 views on my most popular Flickr photo, the highest favs are 863 and highest comments are 57. DAMN!

So anyway, there was lots of talk about Flickr integrating Geotagging with their photos. Before yesterday, there were several greasemonkey scripts as well as similar mashups with Yahoo and Google maps. (aint providing links, do your own googling).

So anyway, Flickr enables geotagging. Yaay! More things to play with and you can look at other people’s photos from the same location/neighborhood. More Flickr goodness.

So anyway, I fire up Flickr organizr to geotag my photos and New Delhi is actually a triangle with thick yellow lines!

Great! Thank you Flickr for simplifying my world thus. My 50k+ photos which are on Flickr were shot in within the confines of these 3 lines, 13.8 million people live within that triangle and there’s thousands of excellent places for taking photos. So do I dump my 50k photos in one lump around the center of the triangle?

This is it! Enough US centric design already! Goddamit! If the news channels are to be believed all the terrorists are downloading Google maps and secure areas and all kinds of shit and I, a paying Flickr customer cant geotag which street I took the photo from? Are there only 3 roads in Delhi?

Why don’t we have detailed street maps for Indian cities? Why is it that Google ad sense can “sense” I’m from India and show me ICICI home loan ads, but fucking registration forms always start the STATE field with ALABAMA? Fuck Alabama, are you showing the ICICI home loan ad to some guy from Alabama? Obviously not! All the “sensing” goes into selling.

Dozens of nuclear explotions synched to a white zombie soundtrack. Video here, requires Quicktime 6.

Was stuck in traffic for hours on end so whipped out camera and took some photos.



There was a bus next to me which was overcrowded and had like 10-15 people hanging from the door. Not much use since the bus didnt move at all because of the traffic... still some guy was trying to find his 10 inch worth of foot space. Ended in a brawl right there on the road.

I'm not saying it's bad... This one was good and entertaining. When you're stuck in traffic and can manage half a kilometer in four hours, distractions like these are needed.



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