gilbert gottfried's voice lent to clippy as microsoft announced they were getting rid of him with xp...what happened?
too bad - there was another cartoon (i couldn't find) where he types up a resume - was funny....

on the "very freaky because it's scary" front - an organization called the cult awareness network was driven to bankruptcy by the church of scientology
and then a scientology member bought the name and assets at a bankruptcy sale and they now run it. whoa.
on a related note - chris (or was it mike) reminded me that when we were at expo 86 in vancouver as teenagers scientologists tried to recruit us and showed us some film at their spaceship HQ....my memories are vague....i think the film was....amusing.

babs made up a new word: pissable.
an excerpt of my msn conversation with him (in munich):
A.N.R.A. says:
I didn't think that was pissible
A.N.R.A. says:
possible
Prasun says:
but he made a very good point about wiki
A.N.R.A. says:
either way
A.N.R.A. says:
wait I just coined another term
A.N.R.A. says:
pissible
Prasun says:
it is funny though - i am using wiki a lot for looking up advanced math
A.N.R.A. says:
l..... :0
Prasun says:
i think pissable might exist
Prasun says:
if i swallow a radioactive spider - do you think the radioactivity will be pissable if i want to mark my name on a wall and have it read by a geiger counter
Prasun says:
e.g.

i freaked out - my two favourite acoustic guitarists together

i actually remember this episode of square pegs....i didn't remember it was john densmore though

saw a disturbing vid on youtube of maggot being removed from someone's head (i think the term maggot must be wrong since it was feeding on live tissue)....anyways - seems to be true according to the bbc

Magic parking lot

Magic parking lot
Originally uploaded by prasun.

hmm does that mean you can pretty much always park there or never park there?
in practice...."always"

i love alvin lee live

i never even saw the original movie - and i still find this hilarious....

the resto owner is changing the name

i cannot believe that it is only the indian jewish community that is protesting the new "hitler's cross" resto in mumbai. it is not like india is normally big on "freedom of speech" with its recent controversy about shutting down blogging....incredible.

my hard disk on my server crashed last week
on the advice of fellow student aptly named lucky13 - i froze the hard disk for 1/2 hour and was able to boot it again and backup data....it really wouldn't boot until i froze it in a ziplock bag. so the internet rumours are true - apparently it works about 50% of the time....
i found an old disk that wasn't needed - installed everything - but then realized it was SO noisey i couldn't take it. so i removed it....finally found another that wasn't needed and just finished reinstalling redhat + all appropriate directories....hopefully this disk lasts longer....

barbara dennerlein - watch her feet...

turns out was not in the apartment itself in the back storage...still disgusting...but less so...

maybe this is not appropriate to have online....but....
mon voisin - martin - il est fou. il composte.
his compost exploded a few days ago. it smelled like shit (not in my apartment though).
i had my fears.
i just found out from another neighbour that it litterally dripped down the walls of martin's downstairs neighbour....
the feces is apparently his own.
i have a feeling i am soon going to have a new neighbour....

ok go

Archers of Loaf in Montreal in 1995....I was at this show.

hacked
won't get into details - but my computer got hacked because i was using a version of realvnc that had a bug letting anybody remotely log onto your computer without a password. very annoying.

pirates and emperors
schoolhouse rocks! gets a great face lift:

i just submitted a typo to the nobel prize people:

Hi - I just wanted to let you know about a typo on this page:http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/biographical/index.html
Alfred Nobel (1883-1896) – was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833.
I assume the initial 1883 should read 1833!