13 April 2012

Take that Garmin

This is why women should not complain about men not asking for directions. As we were walking on a downtown street to visit a gallery where Sharmila’s friend’s paintings were on display, I checked my iPhone maps and told her we were headed the wrong way. She looked up and said – “No. All the Indians are coming from this street. We are headed the right way”. That’s how she judges directions!!! Garmin and Tom Tom has nothing on my wife. (and yes, she was wrong ๐Ÿ™‚ )

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24 March 2012

Help!

Stuck with the following question while having dinner by the beach with family. “Name single word country whose name has maximum number of vowels”. We have come to 5 (Australia). Any more with 5 or maybe more?

23 March 2012

Skymall magazine

Skymall magazine – cover page ad proudly hawks a keyboard that is spill proof and “dishwasher safe”. No less!!! Dishwasher safe! Now, which one of us has not been annoyed by the accumulating dirt on our keyboards and in an inspired moment then flung them for a good spin with our china and silverware into the dishwasher for a grand old rinse and heat dry cycle? We can rest easy now. There is a product for us! Coming up next from the same “21st Century Ideas Retrofitted for the 19th Century Department” – a hard disk that can be cleaned with your vacuum!!! ๐Ÿ™‚

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16 March 2012

Topsy Turvy iPad

Hilarious!! During my daily call to mom in India, she started talking about the reading habits of her grandchildren. When it came to Niki (my younger one), she was desperately trying to decribe the iPad (on which Niki was reading her books during our last trip to India) – “Sei Je, Niki erokom korey dito aar sob kichu ultey paltey jeto” (roughly translated, “Don’t you remember? she used to do like this and everything went topsy turvy”) ๐Ÿ™‚ I had to mute myself for 10 seconds ๐Ÿ™‚ That was the most humbling description of an iPad!! No doubt Jobs turned in his grave!!!

9 March 2012

10 digit number

The number 1210 is unique in the sense the first digit signifies how many 0s are there, the second digit signifies how many 1s are there, the third digit signifies how many 2s are there and so on… 21200 is another such number. Can you come up with a 10-digit number? (first digit shows how many 0s are there….. all the way to tenth digit shows how many 9s are there)

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4 March 2012

Nasal voice…

Natasha has bought 2 magazines in 2 days from the bookstands. Both the times I asked her why would she not simply buy them on her iPad. Thoroughly pained, she asked “Aren’t you the generation that is supposed to go – <in nasal tone> ‘why are you kids always on technology>’ “? Oh! Boy!!!

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