lunatechian (lunatech-ian) - humour

stuff that sucks

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:57:51 +0100

Small list of stuff everyone thinks is cool, but I did not find them worth the price all the electrons had to pay

Second life - seriously people, what is so great about it that you are paying real world money for virtual stuff.
A-list Bloggers - some of them are a bunch of pretentious idiots. Enough said.
Orkut

desperate to be noticed ?

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:04:18 +0100

Seen on one of the mailing lists that I am on

I've heard it said - and find this to be true in enough cases to be useful as a rough guide - that men often try to stimulate conversation by disagreement, while women generally do the opposite (this provides a highly amusing view of teenagers' conversations involving the apposite sex, which tend to illustrate this, or something very close to it.) If so, then the Net often appears to be full of 12-year-old boys, stoned out of their minds on their brand-new experience with testosterone and desperate to be noticed.

Unluckily ( ) Yahoo! Bangalore has seen a big influx of "freshers" these days. Most of them come across as idiots, but I guess it is just their eagerness ( perhaps desperation would be the correct word) to get noticed.

afd-speak

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:25:45 +0100

"friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ear" translated to Doglas Adams fan-speak "Friends, afdaniains, furry creatures. Lend me your babelfish." - seen in alt.fan.douglas-adams newsgroup (afd) afdaniains refers to the regular posters of afd.

Yet another expansion for IRC

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:02:57 +0100

Alternative expansions for IRC (as seen in the #phpc@irc.freenode.net)

Tetraboy :  Internet Relax Chat
lig           : Instant Resource chat

A catcher in the rye!

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:52:08 +0200

Ramkrsna
Originally uploaded by Premshree Pillai.

Ramki explaing some subtle points. However, just think of it as a demo of b**b-catching and laugh

British pensioners regret not having more sex, says poll.

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:34:43 +0200

He-he .. look at this. British pensioners regret not having more sex, says poll.

Seven out of 10 people aged 65 and over said they would make more time to make love if they could have their days again.

[snip]
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Sex was followed by travelling the world (57 per cent) and changing professions (43 per cent) as the most popular wishes pensioners had if they could go back in time.
Other regrets included saving for a pension (40 per cent), standing up to their boss (33 per cent), marry someone else (21 per cent), spending more cash on luxuries (19 per cent) and setting up a business (16 per cent).

You have heard what the more experienced have to say. Now go out and have more sex and travel more - leave those angle brackets alone for now

freedom from legacy systems!!

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:58:02 +0200

Dear Manager,
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for approvimg my request to move my work desktop to a RedHat system. FreeBSD4 sucks donkey balls (as Eric Cartman would say). Linux is so super-sweet (even if it is RHEL)
Now to move my home directory.
Your sincere slave
Raj Shekhar

yahoo! yodel

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:26:35 +0200

Check out how to say Ya-hoooooooo in the yahoo! way . Thanks to yodel anecdotal for the link.

the cows heard

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:22:30 +0200

NURSE PIGGY: Where did we get this patient from?
DR. BOB: Oh. Well, she was found with a bunch of cows.
NURSE PIGGY: Not bunch. Herd.
DR. BOB: Herd of what?
NURSE PIGGY: Herd of cows.
DR. BOB: Sure, I've heard of cows.
NURSE PIGGY: No, no, no. I mean the cows herd.
DR. BOB: I don't care if the cows heard. I haven't said anything to be
ashamed of.

Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You?

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:44:13 +0200

real world rules!

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:48:37 +0200

I was checking the scrapbook of some people on Orkut. My findings if you are a female, here is what you will see in your scrapbook

hello XYZ this is abhijeet I belong to banglore but live in rajasthan I like to be in touch with new people
hi i am from Foobar. can i be ur friend? see my profile and plz tell me ur reply
hi XYZ wanna b frnds
HELLO AM A SOFTWARE ENGR IN GURGAON TELL ME ABT U AND ADD ME
poems
ascii art
copy-paste stuff (jokes/stupid poems/stupid puzzles) from emails
hai fine? actually i saw ur cute still fine, ur studying where and see my profile about me and first make friendship then yeah fine ok cute send me a scrap.

If you are a male, don't expect anything to come into your Orkut scrapbook - thank god for small mercies.

And while I am in the rant mode - guys, here is a message from sanity department. Please take time to get to know the Real World. It is better to know girls in the Real World as opposed to trying to pick frnds in the Orkut forums. There are people I know who masquerade as girls on the forums - to serve as good material for jokes to pass time in the boring meetings.

The names have been changed to protect the fucking idiots. Am I the only one left in the world who is pedantic about spellings :-/

one ring

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:59:13 +0200

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

One ring

The one ring is available cheap now

one ring, available cheap

funny quotes

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:25:54 +0200

Original Jesus Official Random Quote (TM)

Why do people keep asking, "What would Jesus do?" How the hell should I know? I died for you, damnit! Haven't I done enough for you already? Pop gave you free will for a reason; make your own decisions!

— 'Original Jesus on the tribulations of being Himself.

This is taken from some blog

"Where do you see yourself in five years time?"
"I don't know - I don't have any special powers like that."

RFC 1984

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:06:20 +0100

RFC 1984 is Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet.

a principal of good user design

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:30:32 +0100

I am quite sure this guy is talking about emacs and vi war

Similarly, I have heard people argue against a tool that they ignore based on the fact that it can do too much. Too much functionality in a tools is a problem only if unneeded or unwanted functionality somehow makes it harder to use the needed and wanted parts. I have heard people argue about the amount of memory a particular tool requires, whereas the additional memory required might represent a cost equivalent to a few hours of work at most. A favorite idea is to label a particular tool with a name suggesting what it ought to be doing, and then arguing that it is doing more than that. For instance, a text editor that is capable of automatic indentation would be accused of being a ``kitchen-sink'' tool because after all it does much more than allowing the user to just edit text.