Twisted DNA

If any application form asks “Any disabilities?” most men should put down “Cooking.” A majority of us, me included, can’t make hot water without instructions. So when one such culinary Neanderthal friend of mine started a phone conversation with “So I tried to cook,” I knew the ending would involve fireworks.
This friend, […]

A colleague of mine narrated a funny story about how his girlfriend, who is a software engineer, got mad at his playing Solitaire all the time on the computer. She installed a parental control software to prevent opening games on their home computer and refused to give him the passcode. That prompted me […]

Lalitha book-tagged me. So hear goes the tag.

ONE BOOK THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE
World Atlas: When I was 7, I made a sexist comment on my cousin. She hit me with a hard-bound world atlas so hard that till now I never made a sexist comment again, even as a joke.But, seriously:

Games People Play […]

When we design software, it is a golden rule that the software be designed for the stupid user. You will be amazed how often users don’t understand the simplest concept or don’t see something that is staring them in the face. Every software vendor carefully idiot-proofs their software, even though the marketing material […]

When software engineers in California are not dreaming about going skinny dipping with Angelina Jolie, they are dreaming about making millions of dollars by starting a software company. I do too. I mean the latter part.
I have an idea for this wonderful software. I don’t know how to make the software yet, […]

Last time I was in India, I went to visit a long lost friend. When I arrived at his place, on agreed upon time - like an idiot, he was not home. His dad assured me that he would return soon and insisted that I waited.
My friend’s father, Mr. T, was an interesting […]

I was tagged by Mary Poppins. Rules of the tag are:

Say who tagged you
Say eight things about yourself
Tag 6 people

You see, I do want to do the tag, but most people know a lot about me already. Everybody knows (1) I am from India and careful observers must have already guessed (2) I […]

The shower at our house has two settings - scalding hot or freezing cold. After getting burnt, frozen, burnt and frozen in the span of two seconds, I decided to do something about it last Saturday.
Here is the chronology of events:
10:30 AM:
Decide to fix the problem
10:45 AM:
Read from the “Do It Yourself Home Repair” […]

In some random TV show I happened to catch a glimpse of, there was a woman calling 911. She was huffing, puffing, yelling, cursing and sobbing on the call to 911. Not many people mastered the art of calling 911 like she did. For those people who don’t know what to do […]