The other side

7000 words...

2011-08-20T06:00:00.001-07:00

What is it with the word counts of Academic reports?

7000 words?

We have 3 of them to do this semester... 7000 each.

Man, it's tough going...

Selling my Computer

2010-05-13T04:00:00.001-07:00

I am going to do it. I am selling my desktop computer to whoever wants to buy it. The specs are as follows:

Processor : AMD Athlon X2 4200+ @ 2.2 GHz AM2 (ADO4200DDBOX)
Motherboard : MSI K9N4 SLI-F AM2 NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
Memory : 6GB DDR2 PC6400 @ 800 MHz (Yes, SIX GB)
Hard Drives : 1 x 250GB SATA, 1 x 60GB IDE
Video : 2x BFG (Product Specs here) in SLI Configuration
1 LG Monitor (17" CRT)

Other stuff - Giving these away for free
1 keyboard (basic)
1 mouse (Optical)
1 set of stereo speakers

Windows XP will be installed + all latest drivers available

Feel free to contact me if you are interested.

If you don't know why I use 2 video cards, here's an explanation:
SLI is a technology which enables more than one video card (in this case 2, and in some cases 3 or 4) to provide its power to the application that needs it. Most of the time, what you do will not demand too much of these video cards, so it will be like using a katana to chop your vegetables. It doesn't require to be as sharp, but you do it anyway, because you have no other option. You used to be a samurai, but not any more.... Well enough of that. Back to business. If and once you disable SLI, you will be able to use the video cards to display stuff on up to 4 monitors. (This is super cool. I used to have three monitors at one time, but one of them was broken, one I sold and the other one is for sale (see above))

Beware, though, once you get used to 2 or more monitors, you will find it hard to work with one again.

My phone number is +94773022391 and you can comment on this blog if you want the computer. I will sell it only as a whole and I will not quote the price here. You want a price, you call me. :)

My funniest line

2009-09-02T21:58:00.000-07:00

I remember the day like it was yesterday. I don't remember the date, the month or the year, but I do remember what happened. My friend (who was also my roommate) had just got his first motorbike, and he wasn't that experienced riding it. We needed to go to another friend's place at night in the rain (and if you know Sri Lankan rain, you'll know what I am talking about). Although the friend lived only a couple of miles away, we knew that it was gonna be a wet and wild ride through the streets of the suburbs of Colombo (the 120 route towards Piliyandala, for those who know the area) I grabbed my umbrella (affectionately named Harold) and we took off..

There we were, two guys, each well over 200lb, on a small-to-medium sized motorbike, in the rain at night (I guess it was about 11), holding an umbrella.

We finally arrived at our (highly amused) friend's place, where a bunch of them were gathered to work on a drama (Tennyson Cooray's Kurulla, for anyone who cares). The guys were talking about giving publicity to the event, so that all tickets will be sold out etc etc.. and one guy (whom I had never met before that date) got into a bit of a ramble about what they would have to do if the tickets are not sold. He ended with "If we can't sell them, do we stick them up our asses?" (keep in mind that this whole conversation happened in Sinhala, and I am translating the best I can) and there was a 2 second pause, after which I automatically said "That's not impossible" (in Sinhala - "Ekath karanna bari naa"). The silence was deafening. The guy had no idea who I was and was staring at me. Everyone was... Then everyone realised that I had just broken the tension.

For the sake of completeness, the drama was successful and profitable, and there wasn't a single reported case of one or more tickets going up anyone's anus.

How to find out if you are gay - for men and women

2009-08-23T21:57:00.000-07:00

There are 2 steps:

1. Think long and hard about it
2. If thinking "long and hard" turns you on, if you are a man, you are gay and if you are a woman, you are not gay.

Simple.

Movie Blog

2009-07-17T02:43:00.001-07:00

Hello all my lunatic drones and vile Hench-people. I have been harbouring thoughts on creating a blog which is almost exclusively about movies and movie related things. Actors, Directors, Genres, Pop Corn and whatever makes a movie a movie.

I am not going to put just the movies I liked. I am going to put in it some movies that I do not recommend, just to have a sense of balance and to make you see that I am not star-struck at the movies that I like and that I am obsessed with a few movies.

I am also going to introduce formally my 7 point rating system, based on 7 things a movie has…

Please leave your comments on this, so that you will see the movie blog, and if you want, leave a comment suggesting your thoughts on the name of the movie blog. More points for creativity, and a free Mars Bar (or equivalent) to the person giving me the name (and the domain in the form [name].blogspot.com, where [name] is the sub-domain of the blog)

Numbers

2009-07-01T07:52:00.001-07:00

I am a math enthusiast, and have been since I can remember, and one of the things that I can never get enough of are bases... We tend to write now in base 10, with the exception of computer guys, who write in base 2 (binary) and base 16 (hexadecimal), not in any particular order. Another way to write numbers is Roman Numerals, which can be used to annoy the hell out of anyone you speak to, if you say the letter or sequence of letters instead of the numbers. For everyone who wants, I've put up a table of numbers 1 through 3999 in some common and uncommon bases as well as Roman numerals at the following link:

numbers

For those who want to know, for some reason, pi to a million decimal places, find it here

enjoy, my army of lunatic minions. :)

What can you do when you got no.... Work?

2009-06-28T21:57:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking... Bad habit, I know, but I've been doing that nonetheless, and it's come to my attention that several people around the world have lost their jobs. My loving friends included. Here are some suggestions for those who are out of work, from the expansion of space known as my brain:

1. Start a hobby. Hobbies are usually how you spend your hard-earned resources, but not all hobbies have to be expensive. Be creative. Throw stones at birds, but make sure you don't do that in a residential area. Lawsuits are costly.

2. Do some charity work. Charity work basically is the movement of resources from the middle-class to the wealthy through provision of stuff to the poverty-stricken or otherwise needy. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the wealthy getting more wealthy, but there is always a chance to commit fraud. Think about it as your part-time job.

3. If in case you have gathered some money during the time you did have work, start your own business, if you have the know-how and enough capital. This point is not in line with this blog, so that's all I want to say about this.

4. Join in protests that you shouldn't. If you are someone like me and loves the taste of meat, join in a vegetarian rally (also known as an animal rights rally) and become violent. Kill any small animals you come across during the rally and show people that that's an example of the kind of cruelty that people have against animals. Nothing drives home a point like a good example.

5. Join a religious cult, but make sure it's a cult that doesn't make you kill yourself. All lunatics have to live to keep being lunatic, unless you are in a completely unique set of circumstances.

6. Leave your religion and join it three days later. Enjoy your three days as an atheist. I can tell you that it's fun. You won't want to join the religion, but you have to, because your parents will kill you and your goat, if you don't. If you don't own a goat, well, you are safe.

7. Dance

8. Steal cars and drive them off cliffs. You need to exercise caution, though... Seatbelts are a no-no..

9. When all else fails, start writing a blog on why you are unemployed. (I am employed, by the way)

10. Read this blog and comment on it.

There you go.

Do more than one of those and people will give you a job to keep you off the streets.

The human condition.

2009-06-18T07:42:00.001-07:00

Have you ever stopped to wonder how diverse human beings are? I started thinking about this while in the bus, and this blog post comes to you from inside a bus. I'm Ni, and I'm on the way home, bus route 138, from Pettah to maharagama, though I'm getting off this bus in my home town of Nugegoda. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I'm a bigger person, physically (I'M FAT), and I've found that not too many people like to sit next to me in a bus, because I take up about 2/3 of the seat. There are exceptions, as always, where the person may be my wife, a friend, a relative or well, someone who doesn't mind being seated next to a fat guy in the bus.

Ok, well, that brings me to the point that I've been trying to make. The one thing that fascinates me... Humans of all sizes. You see midgets and giants, normal people and not so normal people, if I'm not going to be ultra-specific about it. I, personally, am of average height, but I'm what you may call wide, or broad-shouldered. There are so many different kinds of people in this bus itself. I have to get off in a short time. Anyway, think about it, and how different, yet how similar you are to everyone else. Got off the bus on time :-)

Hair Today, Gone tomorrow redux

2009-06-15T23:17:00.000-07:00

As promised, me hearties, here's a photo of me after a haircut and a clean shave.

Compare to the other photos on the site...

Hair Today, Gone tomorrow

2009-06-14T22:07:00.000-07:00

Hello again my little loonies. I have recently done a bit of renovation to my facial hair. Now I have none. For those of you who missed the chance to see me with facial hair, and to those who didn't, I have created what I like to call the Facial Hair Removal progression gallery, also called How to stop shaving a certain part of your beard for a while, decide to shave it, take photos of the intermediate stages and make a blog about it. Boring? Yeah, might be, but not with photos like this...

Ok, this is the "Before" Shot. Nothing Special, Just a fat guy in a goatee, maybe needs a haircut (w.r.t. the hair on the cranium (that's head, for the layperson))

Ok, this photo was taken on the 28th of May, a few weeks before the next two, but it's indicative of what the beard looked like before...

Now for the intermediary photo.

You want?

What? I can't hear you!!

Of course I can't hear you. You are there and I am here. How the hell am I supposed to hear you?

Okay, Okay, here it is... I look like either a Columbian Druglord, a South Indian Actor, a Tough Policeman or a fat guy with a moustache

And Now, the "After" Shot... Nothing special, I must add. Feels a bit less bothersome than the two stages above, and well, I look somewhat fatter, but younger.

I badly need a haircut. Once I get that, I promise you I will post that photo as well....

Why? Because I can, that's why.

Amazing Lunacy

2009-06-14T21:47:00.000-07:00

Have you ever come across someone so insane that not even anyone else knew who they were and what they were doing? Someone who by their very presence makes you do things you will not normally do, like kicking your dog on to incoming traffic, to take an example?

I haven't met such a person, but if you ever do, please feel free to contact me in any given way. Snail Mail is preferred. I won't post my address here, but if it was meant to be, you'd guess it.

The case of the bic

2009-06-08T04:57:00.000-07:00

I just stumbled upon this absolute gem of an Amazon link.

Read the reviews for the Bic Ballpoint pen.

Now that's the work of a total lunatic. My hat off to you, sir (yes, I wear a hat, at least one at a time)

Oh, the link is here

Why? - Random thoughts

2009-06-07T23:20:00.000-07:00

Have you ever wondered why, and figured out that it's not a question worth asking?

Yeah, I know how you feel... bloated.

It's a wonderful thing, being undecided on whether to be decisive or not.

I wish to remain anonymous as long as someone finds out who I am.

It's not the end of the world when bad things happen to you. It's the end of YOUR world, but not THE world. Don't think YOUR world is THE world. How selfish you people are... Shameful...

I recently saw a ghost, but the funny part is, the ghost didn't see me. Does that mean that ghosts don't believe I exist?

I jumped in the well the other day, but there were no frogs. I guess I have to start the ribbits and the croaks myself. It's not easy being a frog in a well these days. The loneliness, the darkness...

Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if it was totally made of ice? Everything would be slippery and life probably would suck....

Experts say that other experts are idiots.

Those experts who say that other experts are not idiots are idiots.

I said that.

How? I am an expert on experts who are idiots... So I am an idiot expert expert, which would make me 3 times as idiotic as other experts. Wait... that's not right.

Total and utter lunacy

2009-06-07T22:34:00.000-07:00

Hello all you lunatics out there on the other side of the internet. This is for you. My blog thingy.

Expect a lot, but get very little