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Is the economy to blame to surge of goras thronging on desi grocery stores? Can’t remr the last time I saw so many goras as this Sat.

I got a 6$ gas reward card from Safeway for spending 400$ over the last couple of months. 6$? WTF!

Glad to see Cisco in the cloud; it was about time to get a share of cloud computing.

I don’t think much of facebook’s new look. Same shit, now in 3 columns.

Deleted my entire iPhoto library; A copy resides on smugmug. I really really hope nothing untoward happens to smugmug!

Daily Bakwas for 2009-03-14

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  • Aapki Kacheri Kiran Ke Saath manages to highlight illiteracy & domestic issues in lower middle class families of India pretty amicably. #
  • And this is the pithy heights desi consulting companies have taken it. Shame on you Sushil Bansal. #
  • Obama’s nominations seem to be backfiring big time. http://tinyurl.com/caztol Is he losing control, or just not a good judge of people? #
  • I am done sniffing ports and packets for the week! #
  • This friday never wants to end! #
  • Inspired by @gawker, more road signs. http://tinyurl.com/55l2dg Been to #2 and #9. You’d hate to take your GPS to #2. #
  • @patrix @gawker – Maybe he was headed this way: http://tinyurl.com/bou6nk – I never, ever want to go here. in reply to patrix #
  • @cgawker I’ve heard there are signs in NJ that say “Stop means Stop”, below the stop sign. in reply to cgawker #
  • Firefox is lousy even on redhat. #

Daily Bakwas for 2009-03-13

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  • I first reflashed my belkin with linksys, and linksys with dd-drt; nothing helped it. Heck, I must have screwed it even more LOL! #
  • My internet connection is significantly faster with Time Capsule; understandable – I had the 1st rev of .11n router double hacked. #
  • The doc I visited today seemed more interested in giving me meds for my blood pressure rather than telling me to lose weight to reduce it! #
  • The desi developer was using my laptop to debug a problem, was also digging his nose at the same time. Ugh!! Thank god for laptop cleaners. #
  • Love my time capsule so far! #

Daily Bakwas for 2009-03-12

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  • How in world was Sri Lanka ever going to give ‘weather guarantee’ to ICC? #
  • Time capsule is my replacement for my NAS + Wireless router. Finally I can get rid of so many devices in my home all at once! #
  • & My time capsule is setup. Took about 5 mins. That’s why I love apple devices. #
  • Got my brand new Time capsule!!! Slowly but surely my house is getting all Mac-ed #
  • Can they make shuffle any smaller? I would not buy it for the fear of simply losing it and not know about it! #

Daily Bakwas for 2009-03-11

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  • Looks like we are done with rain here; Welcome back Sun to your state ;). Now for all sun through November. #
  • England is the new West Indies of cricket. Perhaps they should start playing Bangladesh just to see if they can win against them.. #
  • Ah, jackson special on AI. Man, where has he gone? None like him. None ever will be. #
  • Amazon is showing me wild fluctuations on pricing of canon 50mm lens (frm 290 to 360$). Is Amazon back to its cookie-price rigging tactics? #
  • Ah, I didnt know my company also had a politics mailing list. Tsk! Too late now for some bushwhacking… #
  • Machchu Pichchu. I want to go. #

Daily Bakwas for 2009-03-09

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  • @patrix Go for MBP. Its way worth the extra money; dont forget the student discount though. in reply to patrix #
  • Obritz has some deals on Cancun – very tempting! How many days though is a question.. #
  • All things considered, U2’s new album falls well below Coldplay’s last album, which was just magical. #
  • Somebody on the desi mailing list has advertized his mint like honda for sale that has run ONLY 142000 miles, for 8k. Keep dreaming on it. #

Daily Bakwas for 2009-03-08

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  • A couple of desi women in Safeway were in their nighties. Gosh!! Do these ppl have any sense? Nobody in desh goes out in nighties anymore! #
  • Bravo, Tendlya!! I bought the matches just in time to catch your entire innings! Awesome work. #
  • We thought MTV Splitsvilla was terrible, though provided insane hilarity all through. Splitsvilla2 is the same, sans the hilarity. #
  • MTV Reality shows predominantly feature only North (read Delhi/Punjab/Chandigarh) characters. & Most of ’em are failed models, easy to say! #
  • Ewwww… this new Indian team clothes look is so Sri lankan!! Now if India vs SL occurs, it will be so difficult to make them out! #
  • The ability to simply dismiss iTunes (or any other app) and still have it running in background is perhaps OS X’s biggest USP. #
  • http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5isOFwdbq0tsqatW6vJpkDRTI1gMgD96P9Q700 Jesus, he sounds like our VP!! Very corporate-ish. #
  • …is reflecting on the fact that anyone driving slower than me is a moron but anyone going faster is a bloody maniac. #
  • Dino-Chicken? http://tinyurl.com/b3zux4 Whatever, I never want to see it on my plate. #
  • @patrix Yes I know about Rose Mary. Deliberately opted not to list very common names; these are people my company mates have worked with! in reply to patrix #
  • Fastest Gunman ever. http://tinyurl.com/9cbaqc Is this guy for real?!!! #
  • Ben Dover, Fu King Lee, Laural Hardy, Seema Butt, Willie Johnson. I would hate to be any of these! #
  • Our Humor mailing list is currently running a list of most unfortunate real names of people; some of them are really hilarious. List follows #
  • You know your social life sucks when you have more friends online… #
  • Jesus christ – somebody on youtube has posted “Best Tsunami Scenes of 2004”. Is this guy nuts? #

Daily Bakwas for 2009-03-07

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  • Was talking to wifey about Turf Club Pune; Back in 90s, used to make the best fried rice ever. I still remember that taste! #
  • Watching an old song with Mehmood in swimshorts that has a belt!! #
  • Dont understand Isro’s SUN mission to study how solar winds havoc electronics. Hasn’t this been done many times now by other countries?!! #

Daily Bakwas for 2009-03-06

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  • Its ironical that a liquor baron got Gandhi’s belongings. Gandhi must have turned in his grave… #
  • I just yell out “CRAP” and cut the phone every time a remit2India rep calls me. #
  • Experian mailed me to inform me that there no changes to my credit file or score. Why bother emailing me then! #
  • You know something’s brewing when desis on the desi mailing list are unusually nice to each other…. #
  • Oh GM, just declare for bankruptcy and let it pass!! This indecisiveness is bringing the stock market down! #
  • 1.8 million $ – Well done Mallya. I hope that idiot now donates his money to healthcare here, or help out poor foreclosed homeless people. #
  • I just left a voicemail to somebody about her missed call to me, before listening to her voicemail about her calling me by mistake. #
  • Windows wants to know how much I love Vista. Sorry baby, I have already converted to the good side! #
  • Does this lyric even make sense – “I dont know who I am, without you; all I know is that I should” #