What Ho! Ah! To live with a What Ho on my lips and a Gentleman's Gentleman… {sigh}… Such is life…

3Aug/090

The Salary Theorem

I think I have seen this one before. A close friend, Sukhdeep Singh Saini, and a fellow engineer who, like me, in the mid 90s graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagur, sent me this in an email. Enjoy!

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Sigh.

That’s 2 years of preparation for the IIT entrance exam & 4 years of slogging at the IIT down the drain. And they say it is more difficult to get out of an IIT than it is to get in. Don’t I know that!

Damn!

3May/090

Singh Is King, Live In Secunderabad

"Singh is King", the recent Bollywood movie, seems to have caught the imagination of one of our Sardar Restaurant owners in Secunderabad. And he has thought up an ingenious way of telling the world he has a son and that he is a Singh!

Photo taken with my Sony Ericsson P1i at M. G. Road, Secunderabad, on May 3, 2009.

29Mar/091

Make Your Own Handwriting Fonts For Free

YourFonts.com is offering a free online Font Generator. Their web site has the following on the front page and I must say that they live up to their promise.

  • Your own handwriting turned into your very own font for free
  • Optionally include your signature and digitally sign your contracts
  • You'll have your very own font within 15 minutes
  • Make as many fonts as you like
  • Use your fonts on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
  • Personalize your digital scrapbook pages and invitations
  • Make your own "family handwriting history"
  • Use your fonts in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and every program that you own

I created a font "Gautam Satpathy's Font" and I am pleased with the results. It is in my own handwriting and I love it! You can download my font here.

The screen shot below shows this post in my hand writing!

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19Feb/090

An Indian Speaking At The UN

Another of those chain mails but this oneis worth a good laugh. I wonder how these chappies think these up!

A representative from India began: 'Before beginning my talk I want to tell you something about Rishi Kashyap of Kashmir, after whom Kashmir is named. When he struck a rock and it brought forth water, he thought, what a good opportunity to have a bath. He removed his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water. When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished. A Pakistani had stolen them..'

The Pakistani representative jumped up furiously and shouted, 'What are you talking about? The Pakistanis weren't there then.'

The Indian representative smiled and said, 'And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech. 'And they say Kashmir belongs to them...

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5Feb/090

How do they think of these?

Childhood

  • When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.
  • If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person.
  • Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
  • You can't trust dogs to watch your food.
  • You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.

Middle Age

  • Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree.
  • Wrinkles don't hurt.
  • Families are like fudge. mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
  • Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fibre, not the toy.

Old Age

  • Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
  • Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.
  • You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
  • It's frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
  • Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
  • Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.

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