staying.cool

in short:

• $600 1GB Hard Drive
• $280 28.8Kbps Modem
• $480 Soundblaster 16 Sound Card
• $100 Mac Extended Keyboard
• $400 270MB External Hard Drive
• $200 4MB Memory Upgrade
• $60 2-button mouse

…better.

and i’m justified.

While it takes 67 muscles to frown and only 17 to smile, the 17 smiling muscles must exert 6 times more force to maintain the configuration.

go figure.

its funny when i see my blog. thanks to x365, i manage a post everyday. i’m not quite sure who exactly is reading my 40 words.. but its fun to try and remember defining characteristics of people in my life. amazing how you realise that there’s very little you can say that would truly do justice to them.

try defining yourself. for you. horribly difficult. well, for me anyway.

the point of this post ? nothing much really. i’m doing as the title says. hoping that by randomly typing on this page, the void that is the inspiration today will get magically filled up. yeah, i know. i wish.

lords’. the home of cricket. awesome. another dream fulfilled in a way. rahman live in concert was a dream too. man, i’m good. filled up on a lot of tiny facts that i love to collect. that are absolutely no use to anyone on the planet. like the sparrow that managed to get hit by the bowler when bowling. or the fact that lords is named after its groundsman - who incidentally owned it. that the current ground is the 3rd location. that the slope of the ground is close to 8 feet. that no practice ever happens on the ground itself. that gordon greenridge has his name on both record boards - home and away teams. and so on.

i went to lords’ today. what did you do constructively with your day ?

utterly pointless.. but then i love trivia. besides, what can be more shitty than copying
a forward onto your blog ?

• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:Spades - King David,Clubs - Alexander the Great,Hearts - Charlemagne,Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
• Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like its kissing the conveyor belt.
• If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
  i’m trying this one tonight.
• The fingerprints of Koala Bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
  a handy tip. now the plan for my perfect murder is complete.
• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
  no wonder i can’t play the damned game.

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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
efficient. incidentally the atomic bomb dropped on Japan apparently only detonated a fifth of its payload. the design wasn’t efficient enough.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
see ? alcohol is bad for you. but good for you when you have scorpions around..

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
finally. the equality is complete.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo echoes minimally. No one knows why.

updated thanks to Megan

The ’spot’ on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
incidentally, i don’t use it.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
um.. mom..?

John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
“fate is not without a sense of irony.”

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
i wonder if they knew about point #1 ?

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
gotta remember that. can one actually raise one’s legs when in quicksand ?

In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
who’s to say the scientists didn’t just copy what he made up ?

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
i know this one. one of my biggest grouses with people who know nothing of the great sherlock.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
incidentally, so does the bat-car in most comics and movies, i think.

(excerpted from an age-old forward)

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