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Finally I beat Suryakant Tripathi Nirala

My mom says, she and my dad came up with my name even before I was born Suryakant. I almost hated my name through out my High school every Sucka calling me Chandrakanta as that was the Serial being telecasted over DD at that time, well that didnt bother much. When I went out with my Mom, all the Uncles wud ask my name and I wud decently reply Suryakant and then they will try to show how intelligent they are and wud suffix my name with Tripathi Nirala. That guy troubled me all my life untill I came to IIIT where the sense of humour rised above these name tricks….but still believe me there were some ppl here too who wud say in there flow….STN[1].

Finally when I learned to use google in my first sem I tried searching for Suryakant Patidar as everyone did with their names. Wat I got was same STN and not one neither 2 but a Google(10 ^ 100 :: 1 followed by 100 0s) results. I was frustoo.

In my second year, I worked on ImageMagick a software on Linux platform for some operations on images. At the end of the project Prof. PJN asked me to send a mail to the ImageMagick ppl and ask them to include the changes I have made in the software. I did so and got an entry of my email ID in their database, and one day I searched for Suryakant Patidar[2] and I got the first link pointing at my name in the ImageMagick database (it still does)

and Finally as the post is getting longer and I got to read for the grattte HSSM, Yesterday I searched for Suryakant and YESS I did it I got the first link pointing to my Blog at Students.IIIT.NET

I did it, after a long period of 21 years I have proved that I m the most important of the Suryakant’s in the world and mind u it includes STN.

And, yes I m starting a sentence with __and__, finally wats the key to this achievement. Yes ofcourse my capabilities as site developer, a Gud Copy Cat (Thnks a Lot SMR) and the MOST IMP part such a gud name assigned (:P) to me by my parents. Thnks Mom n Dad….

[1]Suryakant Tripathi Nirala …I was tired of it Cant rite it nemore.
[2]I thought this is the best thing I ever achieved but Nope.

Today’s Links

The Most Important Link

Line up at IIT, entrance exam to get simpler

Arctic could see ice-free summers in 100 years

Adobe, Macromedia Shareholders Give Merger High Five


India rebels ‘making porn films’


Today’s Yahoo Forwards

BEST SMS OF THE YEAR:

How amazing!! – A mother makes her son “INTELLIGENT” in
“20″ years, but a girl makes him “STUPID” in “2″ mins.

Second Best:

Arguing with a girl is like wrestling with a pig in the mud. After some time, u realize that u r getting dirty, but the pig is actually enjoying.

Third Best SMS:

Boys go to college to develop the mind; girls go to college to catch them before this happens.

Road to Indra Nagar

I will start with something nice to read….I luv my country :)
Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times…. >”When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our >vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, ‘think of the >starving children in India and finish the dinner.” >And now I tell my children: ‘Finish your maths homework. Think of the >children in India who would make you starve, if you don’t.’” > >
I still havent got the answer Y smart ppl (me too) waste their time during xam period, now I have done things in last 2 days which were booked for last 2 weeks…neway even this post comes in the time when I m not feeling like Estimating the Gaussian Parameters but will do it soon. Here we go…..With a tempreture above normal and Headache which is killing that Terrorist, now my true Indian Auto wala will take the revenge…..and the finger moves to the switch of the sound system and wtf …. Terrorist thinks he is back in some place which is grenaded…..those MFin auto music systems tear ur outer shield, Inner shield and ne number of Hypothetical shields u have for ur brain and guarantees u a raise in temp and ofcourse a better headache…. My case :: I got an auto, slipped into it, “Chalo Bhaiya, Indra Nagar“At first look I thought he is blind, becos he was luking in a direction perpendicular to mine…..but that was not possible so I started luking in his direction and wat I c …. the new Lady Prof in DE Lab…..forget it its no LB[1] time…I shouted to penetrate the cover of Auto wala’s true Love for her and so that he can take me (not into his heart but to Indra nagar)….. He started …… ofcourse he asked her thrice if she wants to go somewhere……Mind U the Creepy Music is still ON
Well Got a couple of subjects to read so lets get goin….and watelse yeah I got to rite something on CS so that IV can add it to his 2 Articles but that later… c ya PS:: He screwed my brain like nething, I guess those who go to get some medicines from Indra Nagar shud walk YES WALK or ASK for A RIDE.

He he copied this style from ..who else SMR
[1] L***** Bajji

Long Lasting Quotes in my Gmail A/C

Top 4::


Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
— Christopher Morley

A girl phoned me the other day and said “Come on over, there’s nobody home.” I went over. Nobody was home.
— Rodney Dangerfield

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
— Robert A. Humphrey

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
— Bob Hope

Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.
— August Strindberg, A Madman’s Diary, 1895

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Confusion is always the most honest response.
— Marty Indik

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
— Laurence J. Peter

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
— Rita Rudner

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
— Edmond de Concourt

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
— Stanislaw Lem

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
— Unknown

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
— Chuck Reid

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
— Mahatma Gandhi

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
— Erica Jong

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
— John Dewey

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
— Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952

I can’t understand it. I can’t even understand the people who can understand it.
— Queen Juliana, of the Netherlands

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
— Charles Baudelaire

The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Spent the Nite with 2 gud Movies

A Gud one – A Discouragin One – A Correct One

Here is a very important piece of advice: Be sure to choose a major
that does not involve Known Facts and Right Answers.

This means you must *not* major in mathematics, physics, biology, or
chemistry, because these subjects involve actual facts. If, for example, you
major in mathematics, you’re going to wander into class one day and the
professor will say: “Define the cosine integer of the quadrant of a rhomboid
binary axis, and extrapolate your result to five significant vertices.” If
you don’t come up with *exactly* the answer the professor has in mind, you
fail. The same is true of chemistry: if you write in your exam book that
carbon and hydrogen combine to form oak, your professor will flunk you. He
wants you to come up with the same answer he and all the other chemists
have agreed on. Scientists are extremely snotty about this.

So you should major in subjects like English, philosophy, psychology, and
sociology — subjects in which nobody really understands what anybody else
is talking about, and which involve virtually no actual facts. I attended
classes in all these subjects, so I’ll give you a quick overview of each:

ENGLISH: This involves writing papers about long books you have read
little snippets of just before class. Here is a tip on how to get good
grades on your English papers: Never say anything about a book that anybody
with any common sense would say. For example, suppose you are studying
Moby-Dick. Anybody with any common sense would say that Moby-Dick is a
big white whale, since the characters in the book refer to it as a big white
whale roughly eleven thousand times. So in *your* paper, *you* say
Moby-Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland. Your professor, who is sick
to death of reading papers and never liked Moby-Dick anyway, will think you
are enormously creative. If you can regularly come up with lunatic
interpretations of simple stories, you should major in English.

PHILOSOPHY: Basically, this involves sitting in a room and deciding there
is no such thing as reality and then going to lunch. You should major in
philosophy if you plan to take a lot of drugs.

PSYCHOLOGY: This involves talking about rats and dreams. Psychologists
are *obsessed* with rats and dreams. I once spent an entire semester training
a rat to punch little buttons in a certain sequence, then training my roommate
to do the same thing. The rat learned much faster. My roommate is now a
doctor. If you like rats or dreams, and above all if you dream about rats,
you should major in psychology.

SOCIOLOGY: For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away
the number one subject. I sat through hundreds of hours of sociology courses,
and read gobs of sociology writing, and I never once heard or read a coherent
statement. This is because sociologists want to be considered scientists, so
they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious observations into
scientific-sounding code. If you plan to major in sociology, you’ll have to
learn to do the same thing. For example, suppose you have observed that
children cry when they fall down. You should write: “Methodological
observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates
indicates that a casual relationship exists between groundward tropism and
lachrimatory, or ‘crying,’ behavior forms.” If you can keep this up for fifty
or sixty pages, you will get a large government grant.

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Source: Rama’s Status Msg Link …actually Dave Barry (??)

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