Random wanderings from the mind of a moody orangutan
…but I’m not.
I just read this article at Reader’s Digest where they dropped 30 phones in different cities of the world and then called the “lost” phones to see if people would pick them up and return them.
Apparently, Mumbai rated 5th on this survey with 24 of the 30 phones being returned!
Wish I was that lucky! 🙁
Last week, I caught malaria. Damn you, Anopheles gambiae
I delayed going to a doctor by a couple of days and that led to the fever being so severe, I didn’t eat much and was dehydrated by Saturday.
I was then rushed to hospital by friends (who wanted to smack me for being so stupid) and was put on a glucose iv drip.
I was also administered an anti-malarial through iv for 3 days.
Well, I’m out now, and back to work. My appetite is back to normal too. I now have to take a pill everyday for two weeks as part of what’s called a “radical cure.”
Earlier this week, I lost my phone. Yep, the same one I just bought a few months ago. 🙁
Which made me think, since all phones have a unique IMEI number, why isn’t there some sort of national registry where I can lodge my IMEI number (after proving that I indeed purchased that phone.)
The purpose? All service providers in the country will be required to constantly check with this registry and search their networks for the phone with that IMEI number
They could then track the user of that phone and thus return the lost/stolen phone to its rightful owner!
Wishful thinking…
I can understand why the Abrahamic god relied on floods. The morning after all the rain in Bombay and everything looks so clean! Well, there are the random spots where all the muck and random trash gathered up, but the roads, the paving blocks, the sidewalks, the trees were turned from a uniform grimy grey-brown to their real colours. (Which in the case of the roads was a different grey-brown but anyway.)
Like most people that spend a lot of time on the internet, I’m guilty of following the “Blue Link Road.”
Today while actually trying to find some good WordPress themes, I came across this video on a blog called Ninja Monkeys!
Not only did I discover a new social-networky video sharing site, but I also discovered some new music. I am now officially addicted to Harvey Danger!
And here’s the really cool thing about Harvey Danger, they’re offering their latest album as free download on their website!
Yippie! Added to my torrents, hopefully I’ll have a lot of new music to listen to tomorrow!
Oh yeah, the video. It’s a lip-dubbed video by a bunch of people in an office. And it’s gotten so popular on the internet, it’s now the number 1 result on Google for “lip dub!” Don’t miss the really cute (hot?) woman that starts the video off… 😉
So I took this test which is apparently part of a Project Implicit at Harvard University
It is well known that people don’t always ‘speak their minds’, and it is suspected that people don’t always ‘know their minds’. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology.
This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.
And my results were….
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About a month or so ago, a picture of an American high school pole vaulter named Allison Stokke made the rounds of the internet. It was posted on numerous message boards and sites and fan clubs sprung up on facebook and elsewhere.
Apparently the picture itself was taken a while ago, but for some reason became an internet phenomenon earlier this year.
What’s interesting though is this article I read on Feministing.
Allison Stokke’s father is a lawyer who has in the past defended men accused of sex-related crimes by in essence saying that the women were asking for it!
Of course, this in no way condones the comments being made about Allison Stokke on the net but isn’t Mr. Stokke’s reaction to them hypocrictical?
*sigh*
The one good thing for me out of all this is that (thanks to reddit) I’ve discovered Feministing, an interesting feminist blog.
… we just don’t seem to recognise how small most times.
Today, entirely by accident, I found the blog of someone I knew a long time back and also then found their personal website.
It was an interesting, and nostalgic half an hour spent. The person never kept a blog during the time we were acquainted, so it was interesting to see if interests, speech, etc had changed in the interim (it had not!) What was fun too was that I discovered some stuff that I didn’t know earlier…
…or something like it.
This morning while I was on the bus to work, I saw a little kid, maybe about 8 years old, returning home from school with his heavy backpack and all get up and offer his seat to an old lady that boarded the bus. While he was trying to do this, the lady had already asked another schoolkid, a girl, to get up. So the boy gallantly makes the girl take his seat!
That wasn’t all, there was another boy on the bus who at one point in the journey got up on his seat to yell across to someone else or look out the window, I’m not sure what, and when he did that, he had his feet on the seat. So the gallant kid whacks him on the head and tells him he shouldn’t have his feet on the seat since he was dirtying it up for others!