By the time the soldier pulled into the little town, every hotel room was taken. “You’ve got to have a room somewhere”, he pleaded with a proprietor. “Well, I do have a double room with one occupant, but he is an Air Force guy” admitted the manager, and he might be glad to split the cost. But to tell you the truth, he snores so loudly that people in adjoining rooms have complained in the past. I’m not sure it’d be worth it to you.
” No problem.” the tired Army guy assured him, “I’ll take it.” The next morning the soldier came down to breakfasts bright-eyed and bushy tailed. “How’d you sleep?” asked the manager. “Never better”, said the soldier. The manager was impressed. “No problem with the other guy snoring all night long?” “No, I shut him up in no time”, explained the soldier.
“How’d you manage that?” asked the proprietor.
“Well, he was already in bed, snoring away, when I walked into the room, so I gave him a kiss on the cheek” explained the soldier. “Then, I whispered in his ear ‘Good night beautiful’, and he sat up all night watching me.”
September 28, 2006
Snoring problem
September 26, 2006
constantly talking is not better communication
“constantly talking is not better communication”
wow… i love this quote… stole this from eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
September 25, 2006
High Security Zone
The moment my car lands on the office campus, the security will pounce on me. They use the mirrors to check the underbelly, they check the boot and check my id. They say its for my security. Checking id prevents unauthorized access and gear the company to fight terrorism.
Today I saw a stray dog in the campus. My question to them, did the dog produce the ID card at the gate? Was he/she/it also strip searched?
Why are Tipu’s rockets so famous?
The fighting at that time was primarily face to face. In the 18th Century, 2 armies stood shoulder to shoulder with rifles and muskets. It was basically a number game as it took almost 100 seconds to load the second shot.
Propellant chamber was 8” long with a diameter of 3” and capable of carried 1pound of gun powder. Being made of iron, they could develop humongous chamber pressure which gave them their famous 1mile range. The stabilizing rod was replaced by 2 feet long metallic blades.
You must have read accounts of 100 year war where the sky turned dark due to the showering arrows from English longbow men. Now (18th century) soldiers rarely carried shields or wore armor to protect them and instead of pointed arrows there were now swaying blades which slashed everything in its path. I do not want to even imagine the psychological effects of these flying scythes launched by invisible enemy. The metal chambers also exploded spreading incinerators all over. These ignited gunpowder arsenal near the cannons and sometimes even the gunpowder kegs tied over the abdomen of soldiers.
English longbow men rarely got a chance to fire their 5th arrow, while each one of the Tipu’s soldiers could launch 20 rockets simultaneously. Then they used to move to the next rack of rockets.
You might be tempted to compare it will a cannon. But cannons are heavy and are slow moving. They are few in number and expensive. This severely limited their effectiveness. You cannot ambush with a cannon, because they can be reused by the enemy.
On the other hand march 5 horsemen and set up a temporary rocket stand 1 mile away from the enemy camp. Fire 100 rockets and run away. I bet most of the surviving enemy will spend the rest of the night glazing towards the sky. An army which has not rested cannot attack.
These rockets were build during 1750, and the next generation practical rockets were V2 (WW2 1940). We had 200 years of technological lead.
humor analysis
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog.
Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
-E. B. White
September 22, 2006
open source programs for windows
This website contains a comprehensive list of open source windows applications. I hope it saves some license fee for some of us.
If you ever felt the need of having a centralized management of documents. A database with CVS repository like versioning system so that each individual can track down the changes/flow of thoughts by looking at the line additions/deltions only then pbwiki.com is your way.
PS: Although it gives only 10mb of space which looks small, in reality 1a4 page of text document costs just 2kb of space. So you can practically write a book of 5000 pages in this much space.
For image/movies/clip hosting photobucket is the way.
