Russell Peters cross-cultural issues

Russell Peters tackles often-sensitive cross-cultural issues in his stand-up routines, and has gained international acclaim. No ethnicity or stereotype is off limits. Peters uses his Indian heritage to help reach across cultural borders and find a common, hilarious thread.

April Fool Pranks 2009

So many people and mails trying to Prank with April 1st as a reason, few of them are very Interesting from Big Shots in Market, few of them I got hit by today.
If you find more let me know. Also let me know which one you would have or you fell for.

Shocker: BMW AG PURCHASES HARLEY-DAVIDSON
http://www.bmwmoa.org/news/general_interest/shocker_bmw_ag_purchases_harley_davidson

QUALCOMM opens the doors behind their top secret R&D facilities to show you the future of cell phone technology.


Hurry: Adobe Giving Consumers Free Copy of Photoshop CS4
http://cybernetnews.com/2009/04/01/free-photoshop-cs4/


You Tube or EbutUoy
http://www.youtube.com/t/new_viewing_experience
The YouTube front page looks normal at first, but click on one of the featured videos and it'll turn your world upside down — literally. The next page you see will be completely upside down — the writing, the video, the links ... everything.
Try adding &filp=1 at the end of the video link
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgcTOurP_nk&flip=1

Conficker Strikes
The Washington Post's Security Fix blog reports various problems caused by the much-feared Conficker worm, set to detonate Wednesday. They include a full-scale DefCon 3 military alert after a nuclear-missile base in Alaska was suspected of being infected by the virus, ATMs in credit-crunch plagued Iceland suddenly spitting out cash and London's Big Ben frozen at one minute after midnight.

Google
Google, which has a long history of April Fools trickery, has a link on its home page today that reads, "Introducing CADIE: a singular upgrade to your online life" that stands for Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity. It links here, to an announcement of the "world's first 'artificial intelligence' tasked-array system." CADIE has her own YouTube channel and blog.

Wikifake-ia
Every item on the home page of the user-generated site Wikipedia is fake. The featured article is about the "Museum of Bad Art" in Boston. The headlines include such stories as NASA monitoring diamonds falling from the sky and the Irish prime minister streaking in public — both of which barely stretch real recent news events.

Facial Web Browsing
Norwegian alternative Web browser Opera, famous for introducing mouse gestures to control Web surfing, takes the notion one step further — with Face Gestures. It even provides an instructional video and detailed steps on how to set up the new feature.

Twitter News
London's Guardian newspaper announced on its Web site that after 188 years of printing in ink on paper, it would be switching exclusively to publishing on Twitter. Management notes that any story can be told in 140 characters. Sadly, it was tough to tell whether this was an April Fool's joke or an entrepreneurial idea that really could be the future of news.

Xbox's 'Alpine Legend'
Microsoft's gaming division announced a new music-based game for the Xbox 360 that lets players yodel their way through a mountainous village, record music in a log-cabin studio and compete in a live yodel off.

Fly Me to Mars, Book Me On the Moon
In a press release, Hotels.com announces its newest sale — the world's first rooms on the moon. The site warns that the room prices don't include travel.
Want to take a side trip whie you're there? How about booking a flight to Mars for $99? Expedia is touting "no interplanetary booking fees," and huge savings on the regular Martian-trip price of $3,000,000,000,099.

Google Aprilfoolery
Google's traditional April 1 silliness isn't limited to YouTube. Its Chrome Web browser is now supposedly in 3-D, just like "Monsters vs. Aliens." But before you start surfing the Internet in an extra dimension, you'll need print out a special pair of downloadable glasses.
If you're too busy to reply to every e-mail you receive, Gmail, which has some real features that sound fake, is here to help. It's introduced "Autopilot," a time-saving service that automatically crafts polite responses to incoming messages you'd rather not deal with.


Weighty iPods
Filling up that iPod with tons of music? Then you'd better start hitting the gym. According to newslite.tv, researchers have found that the more music that is loaded onto MP3 players, the heavier they are to carry.

Friday Post: THE FIVE STAGES OF DRUNKENNESS

THE FIVE STAGES OF DRUNKENNESS 

Stage #1 -- Smart

This is when you suddenly become an expert on every subject. You
know all and greatly wish to express this knowledge to anyone who
will listen.  At this stage you are also always right.  And of course
the person you are talking with is very wrong.  You will talk for
hours trying to convince someone that you are right. This makes for an
interesting argument when both parties are "smart".  Two people talking,
in fact, arguing about a subject neither one really knows anything
about, but are convinced that they are they complete authority on the
subject makes for great entertainment for those get the opportunity to 
listen in.

Stage #2 -- Handsome/Pretty

This is when you are convinced that you are the best looking person in
the entire room and everyone is looking at you.  You begin to wink at
perfect strangers and ask them to dance because of course they had been
admiring you the whole evening.  You are the center of attention, and all
eyes are directed at you because you are the most beautiful thing on the
face of the earth.  Now keep in mind that you are still smart, so you can
talk to this person who has been admiring you about any and all subjects
under the sun.

Stage #3 -- Rich

This is when you suddenly become the richest person in the world. You can
buy drinks for the entire bar and put it on your bill because you surely
have an armored truck full of your money parked behind the bar. You can
also make bets in this stage.  Now of course you still know all, so you
will always win all your bets.  And you have no concern for how much
money you bet because you have all the money in the world. You will also
begin to buy drinks for all the people in the bar who are admiring you
because you are now the smartest, prettiest, and richest person on the
face of the earth.

Stage #4 -- Bulletproof

You can now pick fights with the people you have been betting money with
because you cannot be hurt by anything. At this point you would go up to
the boyfriend of the woman who had been admiring your beautiful self
all evening and challenge him to a battle of wits for money. You have no
worry about losing this battle of wits because you know all, have all
the money to cover this bet, and you obviously win a fight that might
erupt if he looses.

Stage #5  -- Invisible

This is the final stage of drunkenness.  At this point you can do
absolutely anything because no one can see you. You can get up and dance
on a table; you can strip down to your underwear, to impress the people
who have been admiring you all evening, because the rest of the people
in the room cannot see you. You are also invisible to the person whom
you have picked a fight with earlier in the evening. You can walk through
the streets singing at the top of your lungs (because of course you are
still smart and know the tune perfectly) and no one will think anything
of it because they can't see you.  All your social inhibitions are
gone. You can do anything, because no one will know.

And you certainly won't remember !

Once I feel Handsome, I pass out :)

myPhone - Future Mobile Phone

It is great feeling to see new model phones marching out with the chip which I worked with. The new model of phones never cease to surprise me. Without any doubt, I can say the Wireless is the future technology. It is truly amazing to see what Mobile phones of today are capable of.

With my Creative Hat on, I was thinking what future mobile will be able to do.
This is just an innovative, creative and funny imagination, what will cell phones look like in the future.

Loose 20 lbs in 8 hrs

Yup, I did, but only in picture, not in real. At least you will know how you will look if you loose certain number of lbs.

If you have a current picture and if you enter how much you want to loose, this website will send you a picture showing how will look if you loose some weight. Actually the quality is pretty good, I am satisfied.

Seeing is believing
I saw yesterday, so I believe today and I am going to work out from Tomorrow



Upload your picture here --> http://www.weightview.com

If you really liked your processed picture, please send it to me, I shall post if you permit.

The Guys' Rules

At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down. Finally, the guys' side of the story. (I must admit, it's pretty good.) We always hear "the rules" from the female side. Now here are the rules from the male side. These are our rules! Please note... these are all numbered "1" ON PURPOSE!

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.

1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.

1. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys.

1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.

1. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials.

1. Christopher Columbus did not need directions and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. If it itches, it will be scratched. We do that.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," we will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, expect an answer you don't want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine... Really.

1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or monster trucks.

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.

1. I am in shape. Round is a shape.

1. Thank you for reading this. Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight; but did you know men really don't mind that? It's like camping.

Woman Parking!

If you ask any woman, the top 10 things they HATE between reaching home driving their car and stepping in to the house, you can surely spot "Parking in the Garage" in the list.
When BMW the leading German car makers want to add a unique feature to their upcoming new model, they thought about the women. What they need the most apart from built in dressing table, yeah the self parking facility. So here they came with the new idea, Future BMWs will self-park in your garage
You should have seen the test they mocked before inventing this model with random 100 sample of working woman, happy I got a picture of the result that Woman Parking Lot.
I wonder where the rest of the cars are. Hmmmm…



But this is not enough yet, they want some thing easier, how about this?
Easy way to park their car!

Message!

Cathy asks me!-2

Cathy's View of Chennai Marina Beach





If you wonder who is cathy, read my previous posts.




Cathy asks me again, seeing my family picture (me, my dad and lot of cousins)
Cathy: Why you south Indians are dark?

Me: (clearing my throat)Ya we do lot of beach activities

Cathy: Like?

Me: Me my dad and my cousins do lot of surfing and tanning in Marina beach…that’s why we are dark..lot of tanning leads to dark skin…any weekends, Marina beach will be crowded people tanning, sailing, surfing..and what not!

Cathy: Yes Yes,I thought so 

Me: OK…got to go cathy..(can’t lie any more dude)




Real Marina Beach

Cathy asks me!

Cathy is a 12 yr old girl, living next door in our apartment.
The moment she came to know I am from India, she started me asking hell lot of questions...
Will post the interesting ones only

Cathy asks me,
Cathy: Dude, do you have elephants at your backyard?
Me: ElephantSSSSSS?
Actually yes!
Cathy: Won’t they step over the snakes in the backyard?
Me: Ya, now snakes :)
Cathy thinks, in india our backyard is full of snakes and few elephants.
When I went to india last time, I took some effort to visit Guruvayoor, Kerala and took this picture of my "BackYard".