Just something...

Finally we will be into Certification (a.k.a testing), so I have one week with a little bit of less work. Anyways here is something that I remembered today don’t know why. I had my cousin salaa (my wife’s cousin) and his girlfriend visiting us. His girlfriend is American but unlike us she has read Geeta and Mahabharata. She is even learning hindi and knows some of it. Reading her hindi email is always funny… like to say it “time for lunch” she writes “samay lunch per hai” So just to see how she is doing in hindi one of her friend asked her to translate “Mein pass ho gayi hu”. And luu after a minute she wrote on a page “I am near cow”…Mein = I; pass = near; gayi == cow. Real bummer was when she asked my wife where is “goosalkhana” in my house... now my wife may be from India but who in the hell knows what is “goosalkhana” leave alone using it in sentence.., but my wife was smart enough since it involved “khana” she took the her into kitchen. Just in case you are wondering .. “goosalkhana” mean bathroom.. more importantly for no.2.This made my that weekend worthwhile.. otherwise who enjoys wife’s relatives at home.

Anyways now to some news that I found rather interesting on net.

The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits… now how safe is the city..

Italians prove themselves once again..More than 600 people in Italy wanted to ride in a spaceship badly enough to pay $10,000 a piece for the first tourist flight to Mars. According to the Italian police, the would-be space travelers were told to spend their "next vacation on Mars, amid the splendors of ruined temples and painted deserts. Ride a Martian camel from oasis to oasis and enjoy the incredible Martian sunsets. Explore mysterious canals and marvel at the views. Trips to the moon also available." Authorities believe that the con men running this scam made off with over six million dollars… always knew some Italian don’t really understand anything..

One of the top 10 stories I liked .., the crew of a trawler that sank in the Sea of Japan claimed their ship went down after "being struck by a cow which fell out of the clear blue sky". According to Flying magazine, no one believed this absurd explanation-- except the Russian military. It seems that the crew of a military cargo jet had stolen a cow they found wandering on a Siberian airfield, and loaded it aboard. While cruising at 30,000 feet, the terrified cow ran amok and jumped out of the plane.

And my personal favorite is the one I heard in office. One of our servers crashed. One of the guys was watching our new system administrator trying to restore it. He inserted a CD and needed to type a path name to a directory named "i386." He started to type it and paused, asking the guy "Where's the key for that line thing?" guy asked what he was talking about, and he said, "You know, that one that looks like an upside-down exclamation mark." The guy replied, "You mean the letter "i"?" and he said, "Yeah, that's it!"

In Washington, Congressman Bobby Jindal made history again this week when he paid a visit to the White House and became the first Indian-American politician to have his name pronounced correctly by President Bush. "The president is obviously getting better at names," White House spokesman Tony Snow said. "It took him only a few minutes to learn how to say 'Bobby.'"

Meanwhile, some Indian-Americans are urging Jindal to go back to his Indian name Piyush. "Now that he's been elected, he doesn't need to be known as Bobby," said one supporter. "Not only would 'Piyush' increase his appeal among Indians, it almost rhymes with Bush. If Jeb Bush picks him as a running mate in 2008, we can all rally behind the Bush-Piyush ticket."