“Geographies” and “Based Out Of”
Posted on December 11, 2008 - Filed Under blog
Ever since I joined work four years ago, I’ve heard the following two expressions being used in a manner that I find weird / counter-intuitive compared to how I’d heard them being used conventionally on previous occasions.
The first one is the usage of the term ‘Geography‘ as a noun to refer to a particular region [...]
Wanted : LOL Code Developers
Posted on October 7, 2008 - Filed Under blog
It was a fateful day sometime in the early part of this year when Tharunya sent me a link to this popular internet meme called the LOLcats. I found it quite absurdly funny, and thereafter, forwarded the link from this meme to a few of my friends, who, I was certain hadn’t seen it before.
In [...]
LOL Speak v/s Tech Speak
Posted on October 3, 2008 - Filed Under blog
With the popularization of the infectiously absurd but funny internet meme, the LOL Cats, LOL speak is now among the in-things in the present day pop culture lingo, in line with ‘RESTECP’ as said by Sacha Baron Cohen in ‘Ali G InDaHouse‘ and ‘All your base are belong to us’, from the Jap game ‘Zero-Wing’.
I [...]
Telephone Terrorism
Posted on August 12, 2008 - Filed Under blog
Live Blogging:
This is happening as I type. Our workplace, which is a set of cubicles on our floor with each cubicle having a telephone extension, is under seige. Literally!
Each and every telephone in my vicinity has started ringing in synchronicity at the same time, since most of them have consecutive numbers, and this time, it [...]
Office Space
Posted on December 13, 2007 - Filed Under blog
My initial plan was to start this post with how living alone for most of my forty months in Bangalore has affected my outlook towards the time when I actually have to interact with people either at the office or outside.
But then, as I sat and thought about it, I figured out that this post [...]
Another Definition of Irony
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under blog
Uploading resume onto a job search portal, only to see one’s unofficial ID being bombarded by the very company which you would possibly like to escape from, if circumstances and the future place of work are propituous enough for one’s liking.
Dammit, woe is me.
