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Using a Mac is Like Shaving with a Bowling Pin

Saif Sahni — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:57:08 +0000

Nice! Blatantly stolen from site I forgot to note, but that probably blatantly stole it from some other site.

One of My Favorite Optical Illusions

Saif Sahni — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:26:29 +0000

Optical illusions are all over the web, but most are boring. One of my favorite animated optical illusions is below. Here's what you do: Watch the purple dots on the outside. Nothing odd there, right? Look in the center and peripherally look at the rotating purple dot. It's green! Now [...]

Marriage in Heaven

Saif Sahni — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:57:20 +0000

On their way to get married, a young couple are involved in a fatal car accident. The couple find themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven. While waiting, they begin to wonder... Could they possibly get married in Heaven? When Saint Peter [...]

SEO Hits Rock Bottom

Saif Sahni — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:59:13 +0000

Umm... search engine optimization being advertised on the side of an SUV? Oh and look! They optimize for Ask. Get a number 1 ranking and both Ask users will visit your site. Eeesh. Photo snapped by MG

Anti-Terrorism Segways!?

Saif Sahni — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:06:22 +0000

Can you really fire a gun while balancing on a Segway? Apparently so since this is how in an anti-terrorism drill in Jinan, China ahead of the Beijing Olympic games.

Too Many Managers in Corporate America

Saif Sahni — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:38:43 +0000

If you've worked in corporate America for more than 5 minutes, this photo is sure to strike a chord. It's always amazed me how some companies stay in business despite allowing their hierarchies to become top-heavy. I'd give credit for this image if I knew where it came from. Sorry...

The World's Shortest Fairytale

Saif Sahni — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:10:34 +0000

Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl 'Will you marry me?' The girl said, 'NO!' And the guy lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles and went fishing and hunting and played golf a lot. He drank beer, ate pizza, had several good looking girlfriends, and left the [...]

Metaphor for Complexity

Saif Sahni — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:13:37 +0000

I came across this wonderful animated image that seems like a perfect metaphor for anything that is overly complicated.

Drunk Moose in a Tree

Saif Sahni — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:12:30 +0000

I'm sure you didn't believe the headline of this post, but it is 100% true. Apparently in Sweden a moose became intoxicated after consuming numerous apples from a tree. It got stuck in said tree and had to be rescued by the fire department. And once rescued, the moose took [...]

A Person Who Walks Into Propeller...

Saif Sahni — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:51:34 +0000

Recently I boarded a small plane and was met with this super-informative warning. I wonder how many people walked into the propeller before someone thought of putting up a sign!

Screaming JetPacks

Saif Sahni — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:35:06 +0000

An article on CNN recently looked at various technology predictions from many years ago and asked the question, "What happened to all of the things we were promised?" One quote in the article was particularly amusing: The jet pack, though, has never really taken off, Wilson says. The problem is [...]

Priest Blesses Armored Vehicle

Saif Sahni — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:47:15 +0000

Now here's a something you don't see everyday. Apparently, the Russian Army has its armored vehicles blessed by the Church. Am I the only one that thinks this is an odd thing for a peace-loving institution to do? First seen here.

Jumbled Letters Still Readable

Saif Sahni — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:07:36 +0000

This sort of thing has been circulating for a while, but this is a great example of how we can read words even when the order of the letters is mixed up.

The Dream of Linux on the Desktop Dies

Saif Sahni — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:58:21 +0000

Not too long ago in Information Week magazine, I read an announcement from RedHat that they would end development and support for a desktop version of Linux. That's quite a blow to the effort if you ask me. "The desktop market suffers from having one dominant vendor, and some people [...]

The Secrets of a Happy Marriage

Saif Sahni — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:10:48 +0000

I found this on my harddrive the other day. I think my brother e-mailed to me, but I have no idea where he found it. It seems the advice is still valid even today...

DDOS Attack Stats

Saif Sahni — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 07:54:01 +0000

Arbor Networks ran an 18 month study using 1,300 routers and determined that: "Between 1 percent and 3 percent of all traffic on the Internet is meaningless packets of information, used in distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS) to know websites offline." First read in CIO Magazine.

Vacation Timeline

Saif Sahni — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:42:22 +0000

Take a vacation recently? I'm sure you can relate to this... I like the second last two items. "Phew. No one noticed you were gone... Does that mean you're useless?"

The Case for Nuclear Energy

Saif Sahni — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:33:27 +0000

In a recent edition of Fortune Magazine, Elizabeth Spiers, as part of a pro-nuclear energy article, wrote: "We're willing to tolerate the health risks and environmental repercussions of other fuels to avoid the infinitesimally small and comically improbable possibility of a catastrophic accident that resembles something out of a 1979 [...]

No Problems Sleeping

Saif Sahni — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:33:23 +0000

It's inconceivable to me that I'd be able to sleep while a hurricane was bearing down on my home. And yet, not only are there people that managed to sleep, by they managed to OVERSLEEP! "Paul and Kathi Norton overslept as Hurricane Ike closed in on their coastal Texas home, [...]

Computer Dependency Test

Saif Sahni — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:25:40 +0000

Here's a quick test for you to take. This just proves that we have become way too dependent on our computers. Q: Are you male or female? To find out the answer, look down... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]