A couple of years back, I read an Issac Asimov short story in which he talks about a particular type of parasite, that has evolved to shed its physical existence and parasites on the brain wave of living organisms.

But read this awesome theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosymbiotic_theory

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I blame the balding gay bastard for my prolonged absense from the field.

A lot of interesting things have happened, from one person claiming that knowing me has been the biggest mistake of her life, to my claiming that I'd prefer Austin powers to Rashomon.

Death to everyone.

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This time last year, I was on Tulsa, Oklahama, eating the best doughnuts that I've ever had, and preparing for my trip to NASA, Houston. I was a much less cynical person then, but it probably has to with the fact that there is nothing in Oklahoma to get cynical about.

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Raksha bandhan goes against my philosophy of life - Sleep with every woman you find attractive.

Wonder why the rest of the world isn't thinking the way I do.

The best thing about people is that no matter how much you love someone, when you place him/her in the larger context of "people", it becomes very easy to hate him/her.

One of those typical cheap humours, but really enjoyable.

A really funny anectode from A small history of briefly everything.
Context: 19th century : In their eagerness to reject the idea of our simian descent, authorities were often willing to embrace the most singular possibilities.


An anthropologist, puzzing over Neandertha's heavy brow ridge, suggested that it was the result of long-term frowning arising from a poorly healed forearm fracture.


ROTFL.

Creationists are crazy. This friend of mine, Shyaam is, in my opinion, a die-hard creationist, though not the Let there be light type.A few years back, I was impressed by his interesting advaita philosophy and almost converted.

This guy refused to believe in dinosaur bones, and kept questioning the truth behind them - You see the bones, but not the animal. Who knows how this ended up here. And anyways, it is not a scientifically proven fact. Lots of scientists still disagree!.

'Ya, the creationist scientists in kansas probably disagree. But virtualy everybody else agrees

But how can you prove that they existed. They might just be maya

Cirsumstantial evidence

Same is the case with belief in god

At this point, I gave up and decided to watch DDLJ

My transitive friend* found out that she's pregnant and hence elated, on top of the world and all the usual crap that goes along with this state. She even wrote a mail to her friends informing the much expected, happy and exciting news of her pregnancy and how she is looking forward to this.

I don't understand people's excitement over children, particularly the woman's, considering the fact that she has to experience the excrutiating pain of child-birth to give birth to something as ridiculous and as mindnumbingly dumb and uninteresting thing as a child. Not that I prefer adoption, for, I despise children. Given a choice, I'd prefer to take my chance at being eaten alive by a hyena.

It's amazing what conditioning can do to people's logic, be in in religion or in child-birth. As a friend of mine described it, it is as painful as pulling a nail from your finger, only that you get a child instead of a nail-less finger

*friend of friend :)

Yahoo! goes Chaiya Chaiya

Malaika Arora in the new brand ambassador for Yahoo! India mail. Read this.

P.S: An attempt at TOI-style captions, and I must say - this is TOI standard :)

What's up...

In addition to Mallika Sherawat's MMS clip, AP govt's Volkswagon parody, a german granny retiring from active prostitution at 63, I've been reading A short story of nearly everything that gives interesting and often funny anectodes on the quest for knowledge, and a very interesting theory called the Aquatic ape theory that proposes that humans once had semi-aquatic ancestors.

If you have a 12 year-old niece/nephew and would like to encourage scientific curiosity, I would suggest that you do things

• Give him/her a copy of A short story of nearly everything, or better, Carl Sagan's Cosmos, and


• Explain the importance of promiscuity.

Even if the first point doesn't excite him/her, the second surely will.

Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot clearly makes him an AYM-GRAMD, but as the old redneck saying goes - a little AYM-GRAMD don't hurt nobody.

Statistics

Train journey from Bangalore to Delhi : 52 hours Rs.1500.
Air Deccan : 2.5 hours Rs. 4200.


You would expect that the people who pay 4k for travel would have well-established concepts of decency and etiquettes. Please don't.

P.S: Is there a place in India where sex toys are sold? Would love to shock people out of their skulls.

This boy just made a fool of himself. He thought he did a wise thing in retaining whatever was left of his dignity. Guess he realised what he has done :)

If only!