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Posted by Suman on June 30th 2005 in Humor, Rants
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What is it with people who throw cigarette butts out the window or start campfires or light fireworks when the wildfire danger is already sky-high?? Is this the same gene pool that thinks they can drive through a flooded wash without getting stranded & needing to be rescued - thereby putting the rescuers themselves at risk? Do they think the warning signs don’t apply to them or did they just never learn to read? What is wrong with our education system if we’re turning out so many people who can’t read? At this rate we’re going to be overrun with morons in no time, straining an already overburdened food supply, which will be compounded by the fact that these individuals aren’t qualified to perform even unskilled labor, so the supply chain itself will break down soon after. The only hope for humanity is to round up said morons & utilize them either as air-tanker payload to smother wildfires, or as ersatz-sandbags to divert floods. A win-win and poetic justice.

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Posted by anupcs on June 30th 2005 in Rants
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1.5 scores plus a few years ago to the day, I was brought forth into this world and I feel like celebrating by working from home in my birthday suit. It’s an ugly piece of work, let me tell you. The girth is at one of its all time highs despite losing a big chunk of it during my sojourn in South America. I feel like Dolly Parton since I can’t really see my feet these days without bending forward from the vertical. Of course she can’t do this for other reasons. I keep telling myself not to drink that beer, not to eat that chocolate etc., but in recent weeks, it’s as if I am on a destructive binge. And whenever I try to go backpacking, my good friends Jose and Vanessa prevent that from happening because of measly 70 mph winds or something of that sort. The good news is that I have taken the cobwebs out of my mountain bike and pumped the tires and I do try and go to the gym at least 3 days a week. Mt. Whitney is a mere 3 weeks away and I am in one of my worst shapes ever. Nice.

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Posted by anupcs on June 29th 2005 in Humor, Movies
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Yep, Mr. Skywalker is blogging, so we are in good (or bad depending on how you look at it) company. Check out the evil one’s blog here. And while you are at it, make your own caricature in the form of a South Park character with South Park Studio (if you haven’t done it already).

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Posted by anupcs on June 29th 2005 in Religion
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Maybe it’s that time of the year (my birthday is this week) or maybe it’s something in the air these days. Anyway, I was feeling quite religious this past week and yesterday I drove the 45 minutes it takes me to go to the temple in Livermore, CA. I am not an overtly religious person but having grown up in a family where both my parents are quite religious (but without enforcing their beliefs on me), I was a frequent temple visitor back in India. The temple in Livermore is a decent one though not as big as the ones in Chicago or L.A. and I like the way they maintain it as opposed to most temples in India.

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Posted by eugenia on June 28th 2005 in Finance
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Have you got your FREE credit reports (if you are a resident of the US) from the three major consumer reporting companies yet? I did. On my three reports, there was one minor error on my current address. It’s absolutely free, no catch, no surprise.

Be wary. Don’t just go to any website promoting free credit reports. Some of them are getting you to sign up as a member and pay the fee to get the free reports. Go to AnnualCreditReport.com directly, it’s mentioned on the ftc website.

If you live in the Eastern states, you will have to wait till September 1, 2005 to get your free reports.

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Posted by heppo on June 28th 2005 in Movies
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As new parents, we have relinquish our right to go to the cinema to netflix (signed contract and everything)… Long are the days where I had the freedom of choosing the movies I wanted to see.. I now have my own movie consultant, who doesn’t really consult but dictates. So, being married to a true anti communist, I find myself under a totalitarian dictatorship as far as movies go… Hence, I’m subject to my consultant’s moods.. We just survived the “depressed, I want to kill myself” movie batch. On Sunday, we got to see Finding Neverland.

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Posted by heppo on June 27th 2005 in Random
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blogging: is it for everyone? is it for me? do people want to know what i think?

This litte experiment I have joined will provide proper scientific proof that at times all I think or say is just bullshit or as we properly say in my language: pura mierda…

I never been a good self proclaimed writer… Some times it flows and some times it doesn’t. I guess this would be the only time when having diarrhea is a good thing.. I shall call it: Brain diarrhea

right now my brain is constipated….(Now, aren’t you glad that Anup invited me to this and aren’t you looking forward for my next post)

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Posted by anupcs on June 27th 2005 in Books
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It’s been a long while since I read a good fiction book. Most of my readings in recent years have been non-fiction - books about adventures, survival, trivia, geography, travelogues, travel guides and technical stuff - rarely fiction. Last weekend, I had a longing for reading some good modern fiction. I wanted to pick up a book or two written in this decade and chose 1) The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper and 2) Atonement by Ian McEwan. I started reading the first one almost immediately and realized what I had been missing. It was so much fun to get lost in someone else’s fictional world again. The book is about a guy who returns to his home town in Connecticut after being away for 17 years during which time, he has written a bestseller book about the town (Bush Falls) and it’s denizens. The narrator wasn’t too kind to many of the town’s characters and the people living there justifiably don’t like to see his face in town. I will post a more detailed review once I am done with it.

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