When George Bush waged war against Iraq, he found a pack of Ubuntu disks.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Hey! Looks like you’re trying to install a new software! And it looks like its downloaded from the internet.
Yes.
Hmm. iTunes 9. Do you really want to install this?
Yes.
Alright. <wait a minute> I really don’t think you should. It may harm your computer.
I don’t care.
Ookay. But still, I must ask again. Do you really want to install this?
Yes, you idiot!
Alright! There’s no need to get so angry! <wait five minutes> Unfortunately, this program doesn’t seem compatible with Windows. Wanna try with recommended settings?
Hmm, alright. Ballmer didn’t leave me another choice, did he?
Er, no he didn’t. Lets go over this again.
Hmm. iTunes 9. Do you really want to install this?
Yes.
Alright. <wait a minute> I really don’t think you should. It may harm your computer.
I don’t care.
Ookay. But still, I must ask again. Do you really want to install this?
Yes, you idiot!
Alright! There’s no need to get so angry! <wait five minutes> Looks like you don’t have the permission to install software. Do you have an administrator password?
This is an administrator account, you twat.
I know, but still. Gimme a password.
Here goes…
Alright, then.
Hmm. iTunes 9. Do you really want to install this?
Yes.
Alright. <wait a minute> I really don’t think you should. It may harm your computer.
I don’t care. No wait. Cancel the freakin’ installation!
But why?
Psst! Lemme give you a piece of friendly advice. Use Windows Media Player.
That doesn’t work with iPods.
Do I care? Buy a Zune, for Bill’s sake! And oh, that installation you wanted to cancel? You can’t. Its hung. Its crashed.
Die.
Now WHERE did I keep those Linux disks?
Notice something strange with Google today?
Googlle
No, there’s no need to be very, very scared. Its only Google’s eleventh birthday! Happy birthday, son! You are four years younger than me.
Google was born on 4 September 1998, and was conceived by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But you can read all that elsewhere.
P.S: I hope you noticed that the “ll” is actually 11 (eleven). I hope you noticed that. I really hope.
P.P.S: Happy Dussera everyone!
Let us take two variables a and b
Let a=b
Therefore, a2=ab
Therefore, a2-b2=ab-b2 (Subtracting b2 from both sides)
Therefore, (a+b)(a-b)=b(a-b) (using identiy a2-b2 = (a+b)(a-b)
Therefore, a+b=b (Dividing (a-b) from both sides)
Since a=b, we can substitute a in place of b
Therefore, a+a=a
Therefore, 2a=a
Therefore, 2=1
In out world, two is equal to one.
Hence, proved.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Developers: Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
Kojima Productions
Publisher: Konami
Designer: Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima is back with his lovely Metal Gear series. This time, it is Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater which I will review right now. Since I haven’t player other Metal Gear games, I certainly will not compare it to other games in the series.
When the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater DVD is in your hands, you begin to tremble. The box art and the description behind will make you hungry. And you can be sure – Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater will not disappoint you.
Unlike other games in the series, MGS3 is set in the past – in the 1960s. The game kick-starts with a thirty-five minute long cutscene, when you crash land in a forest in Russia. The gameplay is very little in the beginning. There’s hardly any shooting and grappling. Just moving around, trying to search for your lost bag hanging on a tree. Since controls are not specified to you, it’ll take time to figure ‘em out even in the beginning of the game.
The game as an innovative feature to converse with your seniors and advisors who are known only by their codenames – Major Zero, Para-medic, The Boss and Signit to name a few. The radio. You need to press the Select button and access the radio. You can dial various frequencies and make contact with them. Take tips from them, ask how to go about the current mission objective, what food you can eat, how good the weapon you’re using is, etc. You can even dial a frequency to save the game record mission details. Funnily enough, the game saves only in the Japanese PS2 Memory Card (the one with a silver sticker behind it), and not in the Chinese one (the one with a blue sticker behind it.)
What impresses you about the game is the sheer detailing. The sound you make while rustling grass, the recoil of weapons, your character’s flying hair, all catch your fancy immediately.
To the story now: it really can get confusing. It looks more like an army movie from Hollywood, cashing in on the evergreen concept of America-Russia battles. Its all about a scientist kidnapped by the Russians to create a mobile nuclear device to launch nuclear weapons. Based on post-World War II scenario, the story kinda takes time to unfold, but a superb script with some amazing gameplay and characters keep you on the edge of the seat. Oops. I meant controller. I really don’t want to reveal the plot now – it’ll spoil all the fun.
The graphics in the game are outstanding. Its probably because the game was due for realease for the PlayStation 3, but released for it predecessor, as the former ran into launch delays. Shadows, reflections and textures are all brilliantly done. Especially in the cinematic cutscenes, which may run upto nearly twenty-five minutes in time, the graphics and camerawork are beyond explaination. You just have to see for yourself and admire the technical prowess of the designers. A splendid experience indeed. You’d be watching cutscenes from time to time, but never get bored of them, if you follow the story.
Music it superb. Especially in the title track. You’ll always feel like a part of the game, when a suspenseful music runs in the background.
Naked Snake: "Don't look now. I'm naked. Or I'll shoot you."
Your character is Naked Snake. That doesn’t mean he’s naked in any way. Its just his codename. There are other characters too: EVA, The Boss, Major Zero, Volgin, Ocelot and Sokolov, just to name a few. You’ll have a lot of fun playing around with the nice environment set in the 1960s in the forests of Russia. There’s hiding behind trees, glancing, grappling enemies, killing them with no sound, etc. The coolest part, however, is the camouflage. Snake can camouflage with the environment by wearing different clothes. Different outfits are effective for different environments, such as against a tree bark, in the night, crawling on the grass and hidden in a building. There’s face paint as well. To top it all, there’s an awesome cure feature to treat your wounds surgically. Like removing a bullet with a knife, and treating it with a disinfectant, and wrapping it up with a bandage.
The weapons are plenty, and pretty cool. They offer just the right kind of recoil, and have a perfect sense of controller vibration. Firing a tranquilizer gun hardly vibrates the controller, while firing the M63 for a long time increases the intensity of vibration. Excellent.
Now thats the end of all good stuff. Starts the negative. First up, controls. X and O are reversed, so now X is cancel and O is accept. This irritates. The controls are extremely cumbersome. You’ll almost always be fumbling for buttons to press. Travelling on while crouching or laying flat on the ground is extremely difficult when you wish to turn around. The camera angle is a peculiar one; you can move the right analogue stick to pan the camera here and therem but thats all. The lack of 3D camera was sorely missed. You cannot move the camera in a full circle to know whats going on behind you. Even turning around yourself doesn’t help. Often, you end up getting stuck beside a crate or a log. Then you have to get up, and your enemy sees you, and you engage in a battle..
The cure feature mentioned above is good, but what is hard to swallow is the you can cure yourself within a battle! Imagine tackling four soldiers and getting hit by a bullet. And saying, “Stop. I gotta remove that bullet and bandage that sharpenel wound and mend that bone I broke.”
The aforementioned radio conversations are extremely boring in the beginning, leaving little for you but to see what is being said. Of course, you can skip these conversations.
Bottom Line: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is not a game. It is a movie, where you’re the lead role. The story and detail are exceptional, but small flaws spoil the fun. Although it isn’t the best out there, it does prove to be a memorable game, nevertheless.
Detailed Ratings [Out of 10]
Gameplay: 9
Graphics: 10
Controls: 7 [Scrapped Difficulty bowing to popular demand]
Music: 10
Realism: 9
Another chain mail this time, but pictures. Shikhar sent me this awesome e-mail. Its about women.
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I know how much we all hate chain mails (and there are some who still don’t), but this I simply had to post here. Its just too good.
Q: What do you get from a silkworm?
A: Silk. Correct.
Now spell it five times
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A: Water. If you said milk, you’re brain is overheating. You better dip your head in a bowl of ice cool water, of or something, or go lie on the bed and sleep for a decade or so.
I was travelling to Bengaluru from Delhi on the 16th of May (you all following @crytalunicorn on Twitter would know), and here is an honest review about the entire trip.
My flight was a Jet Airways DEL-BLR at six-thirty in the morning. I know. “Tasty food” bubbles pop up in my mind too, whenver I think about Jet Airways. Naturally, I left home by four and reached by five. This song was playing on my Xplod in the morning:
Alvida… Alvida…
Teri Yaadein Alvida
Ab Tune Keh Diya Toh
Alvida…
As if bidding goodbye to me. Sob. Sob. I’ll miss you Delhi!
Now, Dad dropped me and mom off at departures. The airport was different than last year. Jet and many other flights are in Terminal 1D. Also, when you enter the airport, the check-in-cum-baggage-drop-off counter is just at your right, not inside another complex. Thats plus points, as it is easier to access than before. God knows about the commotion there during peak hours. I had a friggin’ morning flight!
I had three suitcases to drop-off, and I looked expectantly at the workers to lift them and put them on the conveyor belt. No luck. I did it myself, and cut my middle finger, which healed in twenty-five seconds. I tried to be extra-careful with the bag housing my PlayStation.
Now, to security check. When I was getting checked, one two three people were standing a millimetre behind me, which is wrong, as you should stand behind the yellow line. Naturally, the security guard ushered them away.
I put my wallet and phone in that tray and pushed it through. On the other side, I found it missing. It was not at its usual place, but with a police officer, who was examining the wallet carefully. There was nothing about the phone, which he could examine. After the tragic demise of my 7610 Supernova which suffered from a bad case of pneumonia, I am using a 3315. Back to the basics, I must say.
I went to that guy.
Me-”Ahem!”
He-”Kya hai?”
Me-”Woh wallet mera hai.”
He-”Le le.”
Me-”Aur phone bhi.”
He-”Toh main kaunsa apne paas rakh ke puja kar raha hoon?”
After grumpy looks were exchanged between both of us, I finally got it back.
Next up, waiting time. Bad time. There are so many things to buy around you, and all at double the rates. Wow. There were about twenty-five minutes remaining for the departure of my flight, and my stomach was grumbling. My eyes fell on (Mmm!) 21 Baker Street. Not exactly Sherlock Holmes, but a sweet smelling bakery. Me and mom gobbled up a (very heavy) fruit cake and choco-fantasy each, when we realised that only fifteen minutes were left for the flight to take off, and we still had not received the boarding call. I rushed to the monitor up ahead and it said “Now Boarding”.
Damn.
We ran out and found no boarding gates. I asked the Jet Airways Customer Desk and she told me to go down. Another change. The boarding gates are now on the floor below, and not on the same floor as the waiting room. We got down, went into the bus (a rather small one) and travelled nearly seventeen minutes on the runway to reach the plane.
Finally, we’re in (Economy Class) and there’s a JetScreen in front of me. JetScreen is Jet Airways’s in-flight entertainment touch-screen console. Movies, music, documentaries and flight information on demand. Obvoiulsy, it wasn’t working as the plane hadn’t taken off as yet. I read the in-flight entertainment guide, and was surprised to see a large number of movies on board! Slumdog Millionaire, Ghajini, Valkyrie, Dostana, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, etc. But, sadly, none of these were available in reality. On a second look at the guide, I found out that these were only on international routes. Only Billu, Fashion, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and a few others were there. Seen all. Now what? I settled with an episode each from Sarabhai vs Sarabhi and The Simpsons. Then I played some bowling and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. The latter was amazing! It had all three lifelines! A virtual friend to whom you can talk to, was also there. It was great. Unfortunately, the headphones I was provided were faulty. Thankfully, I exchanged them for new ones. They definitely aren’t comfortable, but I had no alternative, as my headphone along with my iPod had been packed rather foolishly in some suitcase.
The food was good, but I was full to eat anything. Overall, the flight was comfortable, but the entire experience itself was not.
Landed at Bengaluru airport about a minute late. Thats okay. Got off from the aerobridge, and landed at a beautiful-looking arrival area. Baggage claim was a breeze, and I had all three suitcases in five minutes flat. Its good.
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I’m not Ethan Hunt, CA-101 is NOT a secret code for any Halloween document, nor is this Mission Impossible: 4. It is this:
That is the CA-101. I bought a Nokia 7610 Supernova in November last year, and Nokia never gave a data cable with it. Losers. Why couldn’t they have provided one small cable and increase the price by a mere half-a-thoushand bucks, for a eleven thousand phone?
So I really needed a cable for this phone, as it had a 3.2 megapixel camera, and I wanted to check out the picture quality after transfer. Initially, it did look like it would get a universal mini-USB cable into it, but I was wrong. Thank god I didn’t buy a PlayStation Portable transfer cable.
Practicals ended on Friday the 13th and I thought this was the perfect day to hunt for the cable. I knew I would get it from the Mobile Store in Pitampura. So me and my brother (Adarsh) set out to buy one. I checked it up on Nokia’s official website, and saw that my phone needed a CA-101 type cable.
I chose an eco-friendly and highly economical transport to reach my destination. I cross the road through the subway, and approach the Mobile Store, with a familiar red-coloured banner.
Closed.
Damn. It’s always open whenever I go to Pitampura – enticing me with a display of some of the most gorgeous phones I often dream about.
But now, its closed. But wait! There’s another one! Its small, but it exists! Yay!
I enter the mobile store with a floursih, with an aura of confidence. Let’s get this cable!
Me- “Bhaiya, wo Nokia 7610 Supernova ki data cable de do.”
Shopkeeper- “Sorry, bhai. Woh to hamare paas nahi hoga.”
Adarsh- “To kis se le?”
Shopkeeper- “Wo peeche uncle ki dukan hai, aur aage computer ki. Pata kar lo.”
Meanwhile, Adarsh quietly steals takes a nice glossy looking booklet, giving info about the latest Nokia phones. 7610 Supernova is a “Hot Pick”. Doesn’t mention anywhere that it does not come with a cable.
Sheesh, man! I was positive about finding this at the Mobile Store! But hope is still there. We go to “uncle ki dukan” which is just around the corner. Its a Vodafone store.
Me- “Uncle, woh Nokia 7610 Supernova <flicks phone out> ki data cable mil jaayegi?”
Uncle- “No. Nokia Care mein try kar lo. Kohat Enclave ke paas hai”
Me- “Pakka?”
He glares at me with a look sure enough to defeat a Basilisk, and so me and Adarsh set out. We return to the Mobile Store.
“Aage ek computer ki dukan hai. Koi A-C-C-E; aisee hi koi naam hai. Shayad ass-her hai”
I think it was Acer. Adarsh tells me to try out RPG, which is just nearby. No luck. He recommends Nokia care. We decide to go to “ass-her”, which is indeed – Acer. No luck here too.
“O jee Nokia Cee-ere par try kar lo.”
Well, you see, we were in a fix. Mom had given us about six hundred bucks to get the cable and snack about. Now we had no cable, had no clue where we would find it, and we were hungry. Very hungry.
If we eat something here and go to Kohat Enclave and get the cable, fine. But if we eat, and don’t find the cable in Kohat Enclave, we’d in trouble. Deep trouble. It would hurt our ego, and my parents would never trust me for going out and getting something expensive. I tried to find out Nokia Care’s number, but Opera Mini did not render Nokia’s store locator site. Even Google search didn’t help, as I was low on battery, and Opera Mini drains it like I drain ginger beer. Yes. Beer.
Finally, Adarsh advised me to take a risk and eat. Then we’d go to Kohat Enclave via Metro (which is a road cross away), and try at Nokia Care. His arguement was that three people had recommended it, so certainly there would be some chance. I must admit it was right, but I knew he was doing it to eat something. Bad boy.
We ate dahi bhallas at good old and not-so-economical-now BTW.
BTW is associated with discerning consumers for Tikki, Bhalla Papri, Gole Gappe etc. The success journey began years back when Mr. Satiram Yadav thought of starting this business realizing the weekness of Indian women for the delicious taste of Tikki and Bhalla Papri.
And oh BTW, did you know BTW has its own site? It would be cool enough if BTW had its own Wikipedia page, BTW. And oh BTW, you can also order BTW stuff online!
After a snack, we rush to Metro, catch a train and off to… Keshav Puram. Adarsh’s mistake. Wrong platform. So we rush back to the other platform and this time end up at Kohat Enclave. We reach the Nokia Care centre, which (thankfully) has the cable! We were told it was new cable, and so its availability in the market was sparse.
Yay! We returned home, and tested the cable. It worked. Cool, eh?
Slumdog Millionaire won eight Oscars, making it the most memorable one for us Indians. But ironically, nearly none of the English pictures that won the main awards were original in their stories. Strange, isn’t it? I have proof:
Slumdog Millionaire [which won 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay] was adapted from Vikas Swarup’s Q & A.
Milk [which won Sean Penn the Best Actor in a Leading Role] is based on American politician Harvey Milk, which indicates that the story was not made from scratch.
The Reader [which won Kate Winslet the Best Actress in a Leading Role] is based on Bernhard Schlink’s award winning novel by the same name.
The Dark Knight [which won the award for Best Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor] is based on Bob Kane’s creations – Batman, Joker, Bruce Wayne, etc.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [which won the award for the Best Visual effects, and also had thirteen nominations] is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story by the same name.
The Duchess [which won the award for the Best Costumes] is based on Amanda Foreman’s best selling biography of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
Wall-E [which won the award for Best Animated Feature Film] is (very) loosely based on a Robinson Crusoe-sque story (okay, that seems far-fetched)
Oh and BTW, I realised that by my self. Its not pinched from anywhere else.
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