Flying back home, I checked my Facebook account and was skimming thru the comments to see if I needed to respond to any of them. (Heaven knows I respond even when I do not need to 🙂 ).

It is then that I noticed something. More Facebook friends like my pictures when I am sitting down than when I am running 🙂 Last running post – 2 likes. The one before that where I was sitting on a bench – 35 likes!!! Prior to that – me running with Samaresh – 11 likes. And right before that, me sitting at Starbucks – 20 likes.

Either my FB friends want me to stop running and put on weight or they are much relieved when I actually survive a run and sit down 🙂

Usually, I just use Apple or Google products (and let them save in Microsoft formats if I have to send to somebody). I was trying to use Microsoft applications today (in this particular case, Powerpoint). First the application crashed. It asked me if it was okay to send a Error Report. Coming from software background, I am always about helping anybody debug. So, I said Yes. Now, the Microsoft Error Reporting crashed!!!! This is too funny!

“In life I have forgotten how many times I have fallen…

How many times I have hurt myself…

Each time, the entire world laughed at me…

But I never gave up. I have always picked myself up…

…dusted myself and walked upto the waiter and said…

Another large beer, please”

Thank you Sanjib 🙂

An Indian bride yesterday dumped her groom-to-be during the wedding ceremony near Kanpur because he failed a math test he gave her!! The question she asked was how much was fifteen plus six. The groom replied seventeen! The bride simply walked out accusing the groom of lying about his educational qualifications!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/14/indian-bride-dumbs-groom-failed-math-test/24759641/

Awesome!!

Now, there are unconfirmed reports that many Indian husbands are egging their wives on to ask them math questions. Evidently, everyone is prepared to say one thousand plus two thousand equals zero!!!

Here in US, we celebrate today as the Irrational Exuberance day. (We might have as well called it the Alan Greenspan day). People – especially those who do not remember what the definition of pi is (not the value) – get together and have pies and pie parties.

The rest of the world looks at us completely bemused. I am sure they go something like “Dude, you don’t even know how to write dates properly. You either go up DDMMYY or down YYMMDD. And by the way, the pie that you eat is not spell the same way as pi – the math symbol. In fact, there is an extra “e” in it – which is another math symbol that you probably neither know the definition or value of”.

In response, we pop in one more Tums. Because we have run out of pies.

Jokes apart, did you know Belize is the only other country than US that uses MMDDYY format? (There are a few other countries like Kenya, Philippines etc where, in some parts, MMDDYY is also used)

After a real hectic week on the road, I was trying to skim thru news in politics from the last few days, half asleep in the plane.

I understand Hillary Clinton had set up her own email server at her home. Dealing a mortal blow to all Bangalore call centers in India.

And that 47 Republican Senators wrote a letter to her parents complaining about it.

Or something like that?

You know how men in US celebrate International Women’s Day?
By cutting the day short by an hour 🙂
#daylightSavingsIrony

Today is International Women’s Day. We are not doing anything special at home today. We will wait for the Domestic one 🙂

And knowing US, we will call it the World Women’s Day but we will invite only Canada to it 🙂