panchapandavas are like legs of a chair, 3 in number

Friday nite.. the umd_samskritam web team meets for some urgent updates.. Vindo is working on closing the MD feb workshop registration (due to overbooking) and put new registration pages for the March VA and NJ workshops

He dos a good job with the database, closes the MD registration.. alls done.. except that there was something undecided about the final information page for the VA (Ashburn) and NJ (Edison) workshops.. But then Vindo had to sleep, and so he said "Arey, I have done everything, have created a page also, the contents are not finalised, so I will, for now cut and paste some random info from the old MD workshop page and do some random additions. Once we have a decision on the pending things, we can update it and make the final page"

"Okay, good job and good nite Vindo", said the rest of the web team .. The next day morning, one of them "randomly" checked, what "random" data Vindo had put, and the info page read, among other things:


1) Click here to register for the workshop at Edison, VA
2) The venue is 6905, Cipriano Rd, Lanham, MD

and the bottom of the page said

3) Registration is now closed !!

Multipurpose laptop

Disclaimer: The following is NOT inspired by anyone else's action. It is purely an idea developed by yours truly. If any of the readers wants to lay claim for it, please post in the comments section your arguments, and how you hit upon the idea

Now for the main point. Here is a million dollar worth innovation. A multipurpose laptop or a laptop+digital weighing machine especially for all the dieting people !!

Imagine, how cool it would be, if you could just close and fold your laptop, and stand on it and it would measure your weight ! And not just that, automatically saves the data with a date and time stamp into a folder in the same latop !!

Soon to hit the market - watch out !

virtual biriyani

Donno how we missed on posting this classic goof by Bhoot (Prashant.....).. or is it a repeat ?.. neverthless

So, Shock and Vindo are one day on their way to Prince Restaurant, to join n other guys already theere.. including Bhoot.. To save time, they decided to call Bhoot on phone and ask him to give their order.. Vindo ordered some curry and said "No rice, but naan". Shock ordered a Biriyani...

Bhoot, walks up to the counter and orders .. "One curry and one biriyani without rice" ...

chin-do !!

pat-eternity

H: Hey, this Friday is off for me.. veterans day federal holiday

VindO : Kya yaar... if only we also had such hols.. in fact we should have one full week off.. like presidents week or something

S : For that you will have to take paternity leave ....

VindO: Arey, you guys know, guys also get leave in this country ......

H : So what else were we talking about ... ?

VindO : Oh, I heard it as maternity leave ...

and then after a couple of minutes

VindO :.. arey nahin yaar.. wo nahin chalEga !!

normally abnormal

Our dear Bongali physicist Quashik , was talking abut his school in West Bengal ... that it was run by a Mallu organization or group.. and then he wanted to say that it was not a Malayalam medium school or anything.. and guess what he ended up saying

"I studied in a school run by Mallus. But it was a NORMAL school only" !!!!

Dude, avoid visiting Kerala... don't think the Mallu-Bongoli three F funda
Fish-Football-Fidel would be enuf to save u from being beaten up for such statements :-)

ROTFL - 66

Found this somewhere on the net.. hope its not offensive to anyone (let know ur feedback)





And thanks to Wayne for sending/reminding the following piece on Vindo !


This happened when umd_samskritam was preparing for Sparsh 2006. In addition to the "aati kya khandala" and "gabbar singh", we actually had plans to do the "soocide scene" also, but scrapped it last minute as it wasn't coming out as well ....

Now read on the exchange of mails :

Mail 1 : Wayne_M to S_I, A_V, R_S, S_K, Vinod_S, J ... Apr 14

Can someone take a print out of the "soocide" scene script for me also?

tks
Wayne.

Mail 2 : Vindo's reply : Apr 14

I think Wayne can do that...

-vinod

after 5 glorious years........

So finally it was time for the great Simma to leave...... after a glorious 5 year PhD... to Canada for his post-doc

Before we get into the senti part, here are a couple of last-few-days goofs

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1) Atul decides to call anyone and everyone he knows , to say good bye ... So much so that after a while he forgot whom all he called (and neither cud his cell hold that many "outgoing calls" no:s, that he started making a second round of calls and "Hey, did I say goodbye to you ? ....."

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2) It seems as tho' the legacy stayed on even after Atul physically left - atleast for a couple of days more... There was a packet of Lindt chocolates, potentially left over by our man , on the table... Don (Atul's replacement...) and I enjoyed a couple of them, before Don picked up the last one, which ... kinna looked out of shape...

"Never mind" said he and opened it, only to see a bunch of chocolate wrappers rolled up into the shape of a little ball !!

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So, 65 posts , and needless to say Atula was the greatest contrinutor.... Vindo, tried, and still tries, but can't get even 20% of what Atul used to be.... and now that he has left, how do we sustain this blog ? Are we going to close it down ? Or outsource ? Our curious fans have been asking :-)

Well, what do you think ? What should we do ? Take the liberty of using the "comments" section for what u think......

A potential option is if you can send in daily goofs- of yours, of your friends,... roomies.... And I have heard a couple of potential such characters.... apparently ones nickname starts with a "z" ....

So, copyrites permitting, I keep my email id : drisya(at)gmail.com open to such contributions ...
as long as the jokes are clean, and with some level of approval from the party being talked about, they shall be published......

never say never again !

running "away" to glory

Time for Marine Corps and stuff like that, so just remembered this one

Simma once decided to run 3 miles.... runs it , figures out his car is 3 miles away, calls some one for a potential ride !!

some things "cooking"

Quoting Atuls mom , while she was staying with us for a month or so

"Last time Atul came to India, I sent with him all spare parts for the cooker- washer, weight, safety valve etc etc. After coming here I realise that the cooker itself is not there !!"

evidently our man has burned it and thrown it away.. and the "spare parts" are sitting nicely in his bag, unopened and untouched

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Atuls Father told us all the goofs that happened on the road trip they undertook.. we laughed and laughed for almost 1 hr.. its too difficult to write about those here... instead, here are two jokes that his Father told us that happened in his younger days

1) After graduation, Atuls Father had all his friends over at his place once.. they decided to take a group picture... and gave the camera to the only other person who was home at that time- his grandma.. just to be sure, (since it was the "old type" wash camera.. not digi) , they took two snaps...

Alas, after devloping, the two photos came- one had the ceiling fan it , and the other had the carpet :-)

2) This one's is slightly improvised: Talking about forgetting car keys... apparenty once he went with his friends in a car to Marina beach.. and they started playing "hiding things" .... one set of people hide various things and another set finds them out ... they played, the second team found some of the things that were hidden... they left the unfound stuff as it is and kept walking down the beach ...... while it was time to go back, they realised the following things

a) the fellow who was driving was in the "hiding" team

b) worse, the fellow chose to hide the car key

c) worst, that item was not one amongst those that the "finding" team unearthed !!