Blog Of A Socially Well Adjusted Human Being

My god is more abstract than your god.

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:44:32 GMT

There's this idea out there that the more abstract one's god is, the more respectable the belief.

"My god is beyond sex. My god is neither man nor woman."
"My god is neither human nor beast"
"Oh yeah? My god isn't even protoplasm"
"That's nothing! My god has no material substrate"
"Oh yeah? My god has no form"
"Oh yeah? My god isn't even in space"
"Ha! My god is beyond time and space"
"Pffft! My god is so abstract he is beyond logic"
"Oh yeah? My god is so abstract he is beyond being beyond anything"

Anyway, my point is that my god is so abstract he doesn't even exist.

Letter to the Editor

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:49:16 GMT

prenju wants to know if the new Domestic Violence laws apply to those who got married before the law was enacted.

Letter to the Editor:
Dear Sir,
About the new Domestic Violence laws, I would like to know if it applies retroactively to all marriages. I am a very hard-working person with a tough job and tend to relax in the evenings by kicking my wife around and abusing her. In fact, this was one of the reasons I got married. If this law applies to all marriages, it's a grave injustice that the terms of my contract have been changed without my consent.

Yours sincerely

International Audience

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:21:23 GMT

My Interests Collage Generator made me about sixty new friends and doubled my friends-list. Yes! I have LOTS of lj-friends. So if you see a subtle change in the content of my posts, it's only because I'm catering to an international audience now.

So Tom Cruise. What a kook, huh? And Paramount has cut all ties with him. He deserves it too. Those who haven't read up on scientology, you have to. It's hilarious. How could anyone believe in something as dumb as that? As opposed to say a religion like Christianity. Where God sends his only son to be born of a virgin and to suffer for all our sins including the big one when the first woman was tempted by a snake to eat from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
(No, really, check it out. It's hilarious -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity)

And btw, these PETA activists are a bunch of assholes and fuckheads. Don't they know that animals don't actually feel any pain? Animals only ACT like they feel pain. Because that's the way God made them! Also, meat is very tasty.

Five years ago, September 11, 2001. A day of horrific tragedy. A day of deep sorrow.
It was on this day that 24,000 people died of hunger. Like the day before that day. And the day after. And yesterday.

If you do not approve of this post or if you think it's a piece of shit, it's because you're anti-ga_woo.
You're either with me or you're against me.

I used to be cool

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:07:23 GMT

I used to be Really Cool. Nothing could faze me.

If a car swerves towards me and nearly hits me while I was with a friend, he'd go "Hooooly Shit! You could have died."
"Yeah"
"What do you mean Yeah? That car missed you by an inch. You could fucking be on the road bleeding right now."
"But I'm not. Duh!"

Or if someone almost drops an anvil on my head.
"Fuck! That guy almost dropped that anvil..."
"But he didn't."
"He almost did!"
"Yet, he didn't. What difference does it make if he almost did or completely didn't? I'm not almost dead, am I?"

That is until I read about the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Now I'm afraid to leave the house.

Why I will never be a Great Programmer

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:34:59 GMT

Ask a Great Programmer how they got into programming and you'll hear something like this:
I used to tinker with this Commodore SX-64 Portable in school. No, I think it really began with the HP calculator I used to program with their RPN stack language when I was 12 years old. And then it was fun making the MITS Altair 8800 do weird stuff. Basically, I realised at a very young age that I was surrounded by programmable digital machines.

Nobody ever says: I worked in Turbo C on Windows. That's what we had in our college labs.

Damn.

Why I buy O'Reilly

Sat, 13 May 2006 19:01:30 GMT

Am reading a Wrox book about Javascript

Inset highlighted "point" in the book:

Even though integers can be represented as octal and hexadecimal literals, all mathematical operations return decimal results.

P.S: Please feel free to embarass me if that statement makes any sense at all

How to speak to idiots Part 4

Fri, 12 May 2006 11:47:12 GMT

subtle_blues reminded me about a certain type of human being.

Moron: If women dressed more conservatively, there would be fewer rapes.

You: If there were no women, there would be fewer rapes.

(Moron: That's brilliant. Why didn't I think of that before?)

Here are a few alternate brilliant observations:

If there were no men, there would be fewer rapes.

If men stayed indoors, there would be fewer rapes.

If women agreed to have sex with every man who asks for it, there would be fewer rapes.

PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, LET'S REDUCE THE NUMBER OF RAPES!!

Update:
vandyvandana: if all the men were castrated, there would be fewer rapes.
imalegend: If there were less people, there would be fewer rapes.

Second single

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:22:49 GMT

Let's go Off The Record, Baby ¹

That's the name of the second single from my upcoming album tentatively titled "Baby! Baby! Baby!"

1. It's from Gtalk. Which is really the best IM client ever.

Identity threat

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:18:31 GMT

I want my identity threatened. I'm getting jealous of people who get their identity threatened.

The problem, of course, is that I identify only with myself.

Do I need to develop a split personality and identify with the other personality?

Do you suppose that there's someone out there with a split personality, but with both personalities identical? How would they ever know they have a problem? (Haha!)

(These may or may no be rhetorical questions.)

(rhetorical. rhetorical. can never get enough of that word. makes me feel smart everytime i use it.)

Fragile egos

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:42:32 GMT

Have you noticed that Gods of all religions have one thing in common? Fragile egos.
You aren't allowed to insult or abuse them. That's always one of the top offenses.
Isn't that weird? You'd think someone who basically bloody owns everything would be a bit less sensitive, wouldn't you?

(If nobody replies, these are rhetorical questions.)

Life Hack #3 Part 1 (Kids Edition)

Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:28:57 GMT

(This is for Indian School Kids)
This is for when you are in your classroom, it is your classmate's birthday and zhe is distributing sweets bench-by-bench.

You definitely wouldn't mind a toffee. But then, you don't really care a lot. It's just a toffee.
Problem is: nobody else knows that you don't care. And you definitely do care that they don't get the wrong impression.
This problem, unfortunately, gets way out of proportion. Where do you look while Birthday Kid in his/her colour-dress is moving with sweets bench-by-bench approaching you?

1) First of all, do not panic. Remember: You aren't the only one with this problem.

2) The ideal case is when you manage to convince everyone around you that you've actually forgotten that someone is approaching your bench with a box of sweets.

For this to work, you need to look elsewhere with great concentration and then do a double-take "realising" that you have to pick a toffee.

The double-take is difficult to pull off on the field and it's always better to practise at home.

Start by looking straight ahead. Then turn your head towards the right, but not too quickly. Don't linger in this position. Quarter of a second turned towards the right is optimum. Now turn your head back in the direction you came from about forty five degrees, then with a look of realisation on your face turn back forty five degrees. You are now looking towards your right. Smile.

Repeat exercise for the left.

If you have the confidence to pull this off, go for it.

3) If you have been practising the double-take for more than a week and still aren't good at it, I would recommend the Rooting For Your Pencil Box In Your Bag trick.

This has two variations:

1) You search for your pencil-box with your bag on your lap.
Pros: Those around you are less likely to doubt your motives. Useful if your desk doesn't have a lot of space underneath.

2) You search for your pencil-box in your bag that is under the desk.
Pros: Your face is hidden the whole time. There's less acting involved.

And you have to remember to leave your pencil-box _in_ your bag before-hand.

[To be continued]

I wish I were more mature

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:19:31 GMT

I haven't matured yet. Not completely, I mean.
In a lot of ways, I have matured. Like
           giving up on all my hopes and dreams (Check.),
           not telling people what I really think (Check.),
           worshiping money (Check.),
           no new friends in years (Check.),
           not thinking anymore that Bill Gates is the devil (Check.),
           realising it's George Bush (Check.)
and basically
           not happy to be alive (Check.)

Through all of this, one adult characteristic has eluded me: I do not feel the urge to watch TV programming that involves little kids dancing on stage.

Know what I mean? I still can't watch a dance competition for kindergarten kids. I don't get amazed by their talent wondering "how proud their parents must be".

I await the evening I settle down in front of the TV and think: Boy, I hope I find a channel with kids, dressed up as fairies and angels, shaking their hips to a nursery rhyme.
(Life's big moments, you know? Just like the evening I realised that letting snot dry up in my nose and removing it later in chunks wasn't fun anymore.)

Maturity: It's not just about the pubic hair.

Reponses to Idiotic Sayings #3

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:07:25 GMT

One of the lessons I learnt in my transition from kid to adult is that most people, or at least most of the people around me (Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu), are idiots.
And by most people, I mean almost everyone.
And by almost everyone, I mean everyone but me.

The few times I watched Visu's Arratai Arangam, it became painfully obvious. It's all about rhetoric. Nobody has thoughts or discussions based on logic. If you can rhyme or be funny, your observations are insightful. At first, I found this very frustrating, but later realised that it's just the way it is and I'll have to live with it.

So here's some advice:
When faced with idiotic arguments, DO NOT point out flaws in it. That doesn't work. What you need to do is fight idiocy with idiocy.

For example,
Moron: If God was cool about homosexuality, why did he create Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve? (This would get a standing ovation on Arratai Arangam)
You: If God didn't want men to rape women, why did he make men stronger?

See how it works?

Update: Some of you completely missed the point. Do not use logic. Nobody will listen to you. You should fight idiocy with idiocy. And do not make it so idiotic that the worst idiot can see right through it.

Another response occurred to me this morning:
You: If God doesn't want us to have anal sex, why is the asshole at dick level?

See what I mean? The idiot has to has to be confused for a moment before realising how ridiculous hir argument was.

(I have nothing against anal sex. It's more about the line of reasoning that leads to that conclusion. Besides, morons against homosexuality are likely to be against anal sex too. The idea is to make morons cry.)

Creative juices

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:54:11 GMT

If you use the phrase creative juices flowing, you are uncreative. It's a law of nature. Deal with it.
Just like the law that says that any email-forward you receive that has the words "TOO GOOD!!!" in the subject is a piece of shit.

Jo Des Ke Kaam Na Aaye, Voh Bekaar Jawaani Hai
Translation: Those who come of no use to the nation are just a complete waste of youth. (Translation picked up from http://sudhishkamath.blogspot.com/2006/02/things-to-do-to-be-change.html)
I don't really know hindi and this may be a poor translation, but I'm having trouble understanding: A waste of youth to who? The nation? If that's the case, does this sentence mean anything at all?
I'm not being rhetorical. I'm really hoping one of you has an answer. Because if, as I fear, this statement is being quoted without anyone stopping to think if it actually means anything, we are well and truly fucked.

You know what would be funny?
A nerdy college guy using his crush's name for variables in his programs!
Hahaha! That would be funny, man! I wonder if anybody does that. Makes me laugh just thinking about the possibility. Hahaha!

OMG! LONG LOST TWINS!!

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:17:35 GMT

I'm getting a little tired of LJers who can't spell and try to cover it up by consistently spelling wrong so we'll think all of it is intentional.
"Luk at me. Im a bisy persin. i typ wery fast bcoz im wery wery bisy. i kant b botherd wit speling 'n' shit. Hehehe"

Whenever I find out that two people have the same birthday I immediately think "OMG! LONG LOST TWINS!!". Just the same day-of-month and month. Not even the year. And I think "OMG! LONG LOST TWINS!!". It's a really stupid thought actually and I realise it when the moment has passed but before that happens, it's "OMG! LONG LOST TWINS!!". It doesn't matter if one person is thirty and the other sixty. I still think "OMG! LONG LOST TWINS!!". Some faulty wiring in a particular part of my brain, I think.

Is it me or are lj-memes getting goofier? So goofy, in fact, that I'm beginning to like it. Some of these memes are like a parody of the whole meme culture: Top ten trivia tips (My God!), Dear Cupid and that Quiz (Click here - Take the quiz - Post your results) where the questions don't even try. I think someone who hates memes is responsible for this new wave of memes, and is doing it as a joke. But I am liking it.

Beware of managers who insist that their projects have a lot of challenging work. Testing the effects of sleep deprivation on one's own body is challenging. Be wary of those who use the word interesting too.

Some of them are so out-of-touch with reality that they think people get off on hard work.
"This is a very good project to join. It involves a lot of hard work. You'll love it."
"If I want to work harder, I'll get myself a second job (and I'll have twice my current income). Thanks for the offer though."

Here's something that has always confused me: The idea that people who commit suicide are insane. Or foolish. Or are out of their senses.
My uninformed opinion:
It takes a certain level of insanity (aka optimism) to not commit suicide. Why go through the motions of life and then die? End it now. Life is just a lot of hardship and the occasional orgasm.
I really think that rational people (the ones who can look at the world, at themselves objectively and make rational decisions) are the ones who end their own lives. These are the people who realise that there is no point.
It is the survival of the dumbest when it comes to suicide, and maybe that is why irrationality (aka religion) and a belief that something more than the material world exists has survived through the ages.
That felt good. Jabs at religion are always fun. (You fucking loons.)

Idea for a T-Shirt:
On the front: Life is just a lot of hardship and the occassional orgasm.
On the back: If you aren't fucking Jessica Alba, End it. Now.

Amateur comedian

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:26:44 GMT

Amateur movie reviewers annoy me. What's the point? Why do they do it?
And a lot of the time you get some real idiots writing these reviews too. I read a review some time back that ended like this: "If you have nothing better to do, watching this movie wouldn't be a bad idea. But if you do have something better to do, well, not watching this movie wouldn't kill you either."
Thanks, sweetheart. That's very valuable advice. It's especially valuable because not only can I use it for this movie, I CAN USE THE SAME PIECE OF ADVICE FOR EVERY MOVIE EVER MADE!

(Editor's Note: Smart-ass comments about amateur comedians will not be entertained.)

Do you sometimes re-read your old posts/comments on LJ (or a comment you made the previous day) just to appreciate how smart/clever you were while making them? To relive the moment, you know?
Probably not. You people actually have lives.

People who say "Indeed!": What's wrong with them? Can they be fixed?

If a tree falls down in a forest and there's no-one around to see it, does it make a scene?

I guess not. There wouldn't be any point.

Maybe they're like kids that way.

Astrological advice for today:
If you have nothing better to do, jerking off wouldn't be a bad idea. But if you do have something better to do, well, not jerking off wouldn't kill you either.

People person

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:39:21 GMT

I wanted to be a people-person. That was until I realised that that the plural form of 'people-person' is people-people. "People-People" is like it's straight out of a children's story book.
"Hello, we are the People-People!! And we come in Peace-Peace."
Though I must admit, I do like being around people-people. I was cool with that until I realised that it makes me a people-people person and one among the People-People-People. Damn!

If you are on your way to catch an inter-state train but are too late and miss it...do you wish that there's an accident and everybody on the train dies so you could feel lucky and special?

shoan left. I can now get back to shitting on the sides of the bowl. (I have to do it that way. If I don't, water splashes on my ass - Someone I know first spoke about this problem and also provided a business-plan to make money off it. More details later.)

And about this whole paper and water debate, I need them both, okay? I need paper and water. One helps remove the coarse-grained material and the other works on the fine-grained material. Best tool for the job and all.

Could someone inform me when I jump the shark? I have no way of knowing unless somebody tells me. Thanks.

Marketing

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:13:04 GMT

Noticed how they went for the happy ending in Madagascar by trying to pass fish off as non-sentient? Alex the Lion can eat fish because fish don't have feelings.
I couldn't let them get away with that.
I told my four-year old cousin that the fish that was cut up and eaten was Nemo. She was horrified. And cried herself to sleep that night. That'll teach those Hollywood bastards. Hahaha!

Confession: I mark out for Backstreets Boys' "Everybody". Awesome dance moves. (No, I'm not gay. (I know: nobody gives a shit anyway)) I've confessed. And feel a lot better now. But I don't want anybody talking about this anymore. Understand?

Good.

Don't you love one-word paragraphs? Make you feel like you're reading Booker prize quality material, no?

You know what's the weirdest marketing campaign ever? BJP's Feel Good Factor campaign. Really. Think about it for a moment. Even a soft-drink company wouldn't be daring/dumb enough to go with a slogan like that. Or what about a condom ad? "Our condoms don't work most of the time. But the extra holes in it make you Feel Good."
Think about the brain-storming sessions that must have led to an idea like that. It's mind-boggling.
I'm sure it began with: "Let's use subtle suggestive techniques to make people feel good just before the election. Let's fuck with their minds. Make them Feel Good and we have their votes."
(Presumably, at this point, some discussion about strategy took place. Please fill in this space yourselves. I can't even imagine how the meetings must have progressed. Truly, only a committee could have come up with this conclusion...)
"Alright. It's settled then. Let's advertise in large letters everywhere that our modus operandi is to make people Feel Good at election-time."

My only wish in life is to be able to someday casually say: "I was once asked to give a speech on that."

Believe it Or Not:
Star Vijay, one of the biggest Tamil TV channels is broadcasting dubbed episodes of KBC 2. Here's the unbelievable part: It's the primetime show on weekends and ::drumroll:: people are actually watching it.
Think about that for a minute.
There are actually sane people watching dubbed episodes of a freaking game show!

shoan is coming over, this weekend. I hope I find enough time today to remove the shit-stains from the toilet bowl and the cum stains from the floor. I don't want the guy entering my room, puking in disgust and making a mess.

Update: P.S: I don't have a four-year old cousin.

Comment

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:55:00 GMT

hank_reardon deleted my comment to the 'Compassionate Capitalism' post. I have to admit I was pissed when I saw my comment missing. But then I hit the gym. Pumped some weights. And I'm okay now.
In fact, I'm happy. I'm going to reply to hank_reardon's post here. And doing that would make me a legitimate blogger. You know those bloggers who tug on each others' penises everyday, linking a response from their own blogs, then posting trackbacks for their replies, then linking back? I always wanted to do that.
(This would be so much cooler if LJ had trackbacks.)

I don't have the original comment. Here is a reproduction (from memory), with changes (improvements really), of my comment to hank_reardon's Compassionate Capitalism

(Actually, I'm sorry that I have to post it here. But I don't know have a choice. hank_reardon gets a notification through mail every time I comment there and I don't get a notification when my comment is deleted.)

==START (COMMENT)==

There is no such thing as "Compassion" in Capitalism. This sounds to me like an oxymoron.

It's not an oxymoron. Explained below. And even if it is, there's nothing wrong with using an oxymoron to get people's attention.

The one and only goal of Capitalism - and should be - is to utilize the resources that are available for its disposal; to maximise its profit, nothing more, nothing less.

This is like saying that the one and only goal of vegetarianism is - and should be - the consumption of plants. Sounds silly, right? (Hint: "Capitalism" is an economic system, not a religion.)
Is there a word for a system where utilising resources to maximise profit is the primary goal, but not the only one? Just curious.

Lets try to explain it by describing an example [ I am an engineer; I need proofs ]:
Suppose, Corporation A has N individual contributors, then the total amount of operating costs is say X; which includes salaries of those N contributors.
At the end of the year the company posted a profit of P, a part of which it donates to the society, lets say that this amount is D. Now the only amount left to reward its contributers is decreased by D, suppose one of the contributor C, whose productive acheivement has been tremondous and deserves a part of that D in addition to P-D. He will not get that share since, D has been already given to a person S - who has never done any productive acheivement in his life - in the name of "Compassionate Capitalism", so either C will feel frustrated or leaves the Corparation.

A 1% decrease in returns is not going to change C's game-plan. _That_ is the point of the book. Maybe you should read it. (I haven't, BTW)

So, it can be proved beyond any doubt that "Compssionate Capitalism" is nothing but "Communism" in disguise.

Communism is state coercion. That is not the case here. A is free to do whatever it wants. The book only _suggests_ that A give up 1%. That is nowhere near communism. It's still a free market.

This is what happened in your mind.
Communism involves state coercion.
State coercion is Bad (TM)
Therefore, Communism is Bad (TM).
Therefore, Philanthropy is Bad (TM)

Even Ayn Rand's idea was that the disadvantaged would be helped out by the charity of the rich.

Yes, it would change the world: it would make the world a communist one!

Oh, the Horror!

Can tax be equated to Compassion?:
Suppose instead the amount D is paid as tax, which then S utilizes to build road so that C can travel, then the exchange of commodities has been fair. However, if S fails to build the road, then C should have the choice of not paying S - in other words not paying the tax. Or if C does not pay taxes even when S has done the job of building a road for him to travel, the unfairness in trade will swing in the opposite direction.

What if I don't use roads? Or, what if I don't send my kids to Government schools? Why should my tax money be used to pay for these schools?

Or, what if I am not interested in being protected from criminals and psychopaths? Yeah, that's right. I am absolutely uninterested in being protected from crime. In fact, I get a hard-on when my house is broken into and my stuff is stolen. If my tax money is used to build jails, is it not robbery by the state or even worse *gasp* communism?

==END (COMMENT)==

P.S: The "gym" part was a joke.

My pick-up line

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 02:22:47 GMT

I made myself a pick-up line.

Alright, brace for it. Here it comes:

"I'm ugly. So I try harder."

Cool huh? Huh? Funniest pick-up line ever huh? Huh? No? Bah! Fuck you!! You're just jealous because you didn't think of it first! If Woody Allen had said that, you'd have it in your email signature.

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:27:17 GMT

aivalli either has an incredible sense of humour or is completely insane

Walked out halfway through the new Harry Potter movie.
Maybe I'm old and have lost my sense of wonder.

I'm pretty sure that if I were gay, I'd have gotten laid by now.

I got what I wanted. Two people said that I'm not creepy-looking.

Is there more to life than sex and the pursuit of glory? Am I missing anything?

You may think I'm a poser - one trying to act 'bad' to project a cool-and-sexy image.
This is far from the truth. And it would be quite distressing if y'all thought so.
For this reason, I'm listing down a few incidents in my life.
1) A month ago, at this shop I bought something at, I acted like I didn't have change on me. I wanted to break a hundred.
2) Once, I was in a real hurry to an exam and parked my bicycle in a no-parking zone.
3) I'll never forget the time I entered Sparkz with shorts.
There are more examples I could provide here. But as the ones I've listed here indicate, I'm badass.

I have nothing against letting my dick do the thinking. I just wish it would think long-term.

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:35:25 GMT

How many people do you think have not added me on LJ because "I'd like to add this guy, but I don't want to see his fucking user pic face all over my journal's comments" ?

What if we suddenly discovered that the ratio of human beings' collective happiness to collective suffering always remains a constant?
Wouldn't you love to hear our leaders say things like "There's not enough suffering in the world today." or "Let's capture everyone in Bangladesh and torture them." That kind of world would be fun to live in. Foreign policy would be a lot simpler. And newcasts would be a lot shorter.

You know these people who get all excited when the DJ plays Hotel California? I don't understand them. (Okay, I don't "get" rock. I suspect that might be the reason.)

Understatements sound so corny (haha!). I don't usually use them, but sometimes I do.

I spent more than eight hours on porn today. It's ruining my life. It's about time I reined that thing in.

I look creepy. angiasaa thinks so. I just realised something. I actually am what one might consider a creep. And in the past five minutes, I've come to terms with that. The next time I look at you, just think of the kind of thoughts that might be running in my head.

I find it very unsatisfying that nobody disputes my statements that kids suck. They do. They're worthless little creatures.

We aren't "good" people. Definitely not those of us who treat human beings and other animals in different ways.

Stuff I evangelise: (List off the top of my head. There are a lot more.)
Freedom of Speech.
Legalising Prostitution.
Revoking all the sex laws.
Separation of Church and State.
Uniform civil code.
Stricter laws against Police Brutality.
Asking stupid Indian parents not to buy video games rated 17+ for their ten year old kids.
Read. And throw out your fucking TV. (Here's a clue that you might already be brain-dead: You watch Kaun Banega Crorepati.)
Web Standards (Yeah, that's it. What do I care what you use for the backend? I'll use the best tools. You can go fuck yourself)

OMG! I just did my first meme!!

Message for LJ atheists who list "atheism" as one of their interests: WTF! You're normal. You are the sane ones, the intelligent ones. It's the religious people who have to list "stupid-people-society" or something like that in their interests.

I'm so scared of the upcoming winter in Hyderabad. I had to thaw myself out of bed every morning last year. I almost considered buying a chisel. To knock those ice-pieces off the sides of my groin. (Funnily, the people here don't even think of Hyderabad as a cold place)

A little known fact about me: Humility is one of my many virtues. In fact, it's the one I'm the most proud of.

The middle of this year, I completed Ten Years of Masturbation. More details later.

Stalkers rejoice

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:16:14 GMT

You don't need to analyse raw data anymore. GM script LJ Friend-Of Unhide displays the Friend-of information of those who have chosen to hide it.

For userinfo pages where this action is triggered, text “(hidden)” will be present below the Friend of/Also friend of label.

Known differences from regular Friend of/Also friend of lists:

1) No limit to the number of friend-ofs. No truncation of the list happens for big lists.
2) Even friend-ofs banned by the user appear in the list.
~~3) Deleted accounts do not appear in the list.~~ Update(Sep 05, 2006):Just discovered this is true even for the regular friend-of list.

Limitation:
The data from fdata.bml can be stale for very small periods of time. This can cause discrepancies in what is displayed for a certain period after one adds or removes somebody as a friend.

You know these people who hide their Friend-of information?

Update(Nov 13, 2005): Bugs fixed.

Update(Jan 25, 2006): Livejournal’s cookie format has changed. Script is broken. Will fix this weekend.

Update(Feb 15, 2006): Script updated because Livejournal’s cookie policies and formats changed. The script doesn’t use the cookie anymore. It instead picks up the current user’s name from the DOM tree. (ETA: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_nifty/140578.html)

Update (Feb 19, 2006): Updated to work with the Dystopia and Lynx schemes. (I thought the XCalibur scheme was all there was.)

Update (Feb 19, 2006): Major bug fixed.

Update (Apr 29, 2006): Fix. Script broke because LJ’s XCalibur format changed. Fixed.

Update (Apr 29, 2006): Modified to include URLs of the form users.livejournal.com/*/profile

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:35:27 GMT

You know these people who make faustian pacts?
I don't understand them.

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:45:40 GMT

I'm back after my twenty-four hour sabbatical (Ha! Wanted to use that word too.)

I was just thrown out of a chatroom for dissing kids. Bah! Since when's being cute and dumb enough reason to be loved? That's so shallow.

You know these people whose favorite food is Curd Rice? I don't understand them.

Finally saw that "Woh Lamhe" song on TV. I used to think it was some gay-love song like "Dil Chahta Hai". Instead the whole song is a guy and a girl in a tub. Yuck!

Also I hate this song now. It's played out, okay? I can't stand watching idiots dancing to that song after almost a year (?).

If fugney were a girl, I'd marry her. If she were dumb enough to accept my proposal, I mean.

I can't believe I was actually asked to leave that chatroom. I'm going to kick a kid in the crotch just for that, first thing tomorrow morning.

subtle_blues just made her hundredth post. What a loser! I came in much later and I'm at one hundred and fifteen.

Corny post, yeah. Cause I've decided that if I'm going to be corny, I'll be the corniest person you've ever known! Yeaah Baaby Yeeeeaahh!