Girls with Blackberry

Yesterday while I was at the Y, trying my level best to push the 80 pounds off my chest for the 9th time at the chest press, I saw this chick right across me, to my left running on the thread mill. She was running fairly fast, around 7.5. She was slim, had a great body, but was ordinary looking. She had her headphones on, with her Ipod inside her tracks. Ahem...yes Inside her tracks, she must have had some kind of a pocket or something on the inner side of her tracks, on the front side (near the tie string) where she kept her Ipod (Lucky Ipod!!)

Anyway no big deal, I was about to get back to my workout when all of a sudden, out of no where, she took out her Blackberry and started going through her messages. So here she was, all sweaty and stuff, running at 7.5, listening to music and with her right hand, using the scroll button to go through her email. Its like she was in a zone of her own, she didn't care what others were doing or thinking about her. And that, I though was incredibly cool. All other things equal, I would kill to have a girlfriend like that! (As time passes by and I get older...I would kill to have a girlfriend. Period.)

So I added "Girls with Blackberry" to my list of fetishes.

Happy Thanksgiving

I read this great post from Tom Peters today. Tom Peters is one of the management guru's whose presentations, books and blog I follow religiously. His is one of the blogs that never goes unread in my reader among the 80 odd blogs I try to follow everyday.

I truly believe in what Tom teaches. For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to come to United States, because I have always had this image of U.S. being the land of dreams where I could make it big and be immensely successful. A country where it wouldn't matter who I am or where I am from, and the only thing that would matter would be my Passion (always capital P:)) and performance.

Everytime I hear about a foreign born (Outside U.S.) person make it big through their own startup or become the CEO/COO of a great/large corporation, it puts a smile in my face. It reinforces my belief that in 20-30 years if I am not where I want to be, I have nobody else to blame but myself...but hopefully I won't have to.

Here is another one of Tom's recent posts I enjoyed.

P.S> For those who don't know Tom Peters (God..which world do you live in?) he is a 63 year old management guru and author of the famous book In search of excellence. Check out his blog, where you can also download some of his presentations.

Amores Perros and Embrassing Childhood

On a friend's recommendation, I rented out Amores Perros and am seeing it right now. I have to admit its one of the goriest, sad and melancholic movies I have seen in a long time. Its essentially stories of three different people coming together with an accident. Although it is supposed to be a critically acclaimed movie taken by a debutant director and not even badly taken, it just isn't my kind of movie. I have to admit, it has left a bad taste, got my mood down and made it a lousy start to a weekend.

On a lighter note, today while cooking I was reminded of a silly and embrassing incident that happened while I was in school. It must have happened when I was in third or fourth grade. I hung out with a bunch of great guys, but most of them were really rich, you know the kind that give each student a dairy milk for their birthday, while the rest of the class gave coffee bite (if you grew up in India, you would know what I am talking about). So I liked to show off whenever I could. So one day, I manage to steal a pair of shades my mom's brother had given her and bring it to school to show it off to my friends. The plan was perfect, I would take it school without my mother's knowledge, brag about it the whole day and then put it back in the evening and my mom wouldn't even know about it.

Everything was working as per plan, I went to school early that day so I could start bragging. Since I had dropped the shades earlier, I went on about how these shades were unbreakable and then dropped it on the floor to show it to my friends.

(Amores Perros, just got over....what a freaking relief!)

At that point one of my friends said, how much force can it withstand, to which I said, any amount. (If only I knew when to shutup!) I then got on top of a desk and flung the shades with as much force as I could muster in the floor. Guess what happened? The shades cracked...

Well...the rest of the day was hell. Not only did I look ridiculously stupid in front of my friends, I also had a heck of a lot of explaining to do to my mom, who fortunately or unfortunately is not fooled very easily.

Thinking back now, I had a childhood filled with so many embrassing events, mostly brought upon me by myself that I am not surprised that I no longer get embrassed that easily.

Oh well!! Have a good weekend

btw, Go Blue - Hopefully Michigan kicks Ohio State's ass tommorow. You know how excited I have been about this game...I blogged about it a month back in this post.

A little Trick

I came across this key board shortcut in a tech journal. I was surprised that I didn't know this earlier.

"This shortcut is probably the most useful of all. It
involves using the Shift key when selecting long lists or text
passages.

Let's
say you want to select a section of this newsletter
covering several paragraphs. The way most users would do this
would be to left mouse click at the start, hold the mouse button
down and then move the mouse curser to the end of the text to be
selected.

That's
fine but if the text covers more than one screen it can
get tricky. Here's a much better way.

First,
left click at the start of the text and release the mouse
button. Then scroll down to the end of the text and left click
again while holding down Shift key. All the text in between will
be selected.

Try
it now on this newsletter. Neat eh?

The
same technique works well when selecting items on a list."

I can see myself using this keyboard shortcut quite a bit. Pretty neat right? Here is the complete list of all keyboard shortcuts.

Alright Tschüss! now

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Performancing for Firefox

If you actually read this post, then check out Performancing for Firefox which is a great way you can blog directly from your browser. This combined with Firefox 2.0 built in spell check means, no more stupid spelling mistakes in your posts. Nice way to be able to post directly from your browser, especially useful if you are at work, like I am right now. Another way is to use Google Docs Spreadsheets, if you post to Blogger. I am not sure about other blogs.



If you don't see this post, well then performancing doesn't work very well with blogger beta. Also in any case I dont see how you can add tags to your post from performancing. Of course there is always a tiny bit of possibility that I screwed up and didn't do something right



Adios



CorrectionS



I just figured out, you can add labels to your post. You do that under the categories section in performancing. Also this works, since I just saw the the post had been posted to my blog with the labels.



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Putty Beach - Central Coast, NSW, Australia

Putty Beach - Central Coast, NSW, Australia
Originally uploaded by `Bobesh.

Saw this picture in interestingness in Flickr today. two things came to my mind..

1) I need to travel to Australia. I have seen a lot of pictures of beautiful beaches and the coastline there and I am throughly convinced its a neat place to visit

2) Why the hell can't I take pictures like these? I mean even if I were in the exact same beach at the exact same spot at the exact sametime, somehow I feel the picture I would have taken probably wouldnt have been this good and definitely wouldnt have made it to the interestingness page! Something I need to work on...

Later then...