Saturday, March 14, 2009

Gompax 1 is here, Finally.

Now that Gompax 2 has started off the proceedings, (ladies first!) I find it a daunting task to actually think of something that could go up here. I have this innate fear of making things (my writings of course) sound like a tech article-which has always been my forte' when it came to penning down my thoughts. 

This, now is an entirely different ball game. As I type this second paragraph, I still have no clue as to what the next one should contain.... wait! No! I think I  figured out something! I really think should be going on about G2's latest object (as in something that can't move on its own) of attention - the E71. Besides, this will be a rather "comfortable" start for me considering it's my "beat" -- Mobile Phones.

Say hello to G2's E71. This is not just another run-of-the-mill E71. To start with, it has been kissed (on the screen, Imagine!) more times than a 17 year old Shahrukh Khan poster in a ladies common room. It's true, G2 was caught kissing the new man in her life the very first day she bought it to office. I'm sure they've had their private moments earlier, but it was her first PDA* in front of yours truly -- and the fact that she actually made me capture a video of her doing the honours speaks volumes about the shamelessness the erstwhile GKG (Gaanv ki Gori) had recently acquired. This, in front of me was the same SSL (Sundar Susheel Ladki) that never showed an inclination towards anything amorous. True, her old Motorola was a piece of junk, but at least, it talked back to her in Hindi? Can any E71 ever do that? 

I really think what attracted G2 to the E71 is its third party applications support. Her current fixation seems to be tracking herself on Google Latitude, even when she knows where she is "right now". Girl, all you need to do is to look out of the goddam Window! - unless you're travelling peak time and all you see outside the window are hairy legs of the adventurous male of the species dangling outside. But the "decent guy" that I am, I always try to help her get over this latitude fixation by actually asking her to start tracking herself and play this game of "I'll tell you where you are". I'm sure she'll get bored one fine day. Reverse psychology, you know?

There goes the first post.









*Public Display of Affection

Monday, March 9, 2009

I hate Math

It got me thinking very hard about what's wrong with my Google account a few minutes back.

It all began when I clicked the send button in the compose mail page while I was trying to send a nasty parsi joke to a parsi friend of mine and his girlfriend, my friend since college.

As I clicked the send button, Google "Goggles" would show up and wouldn't let me share a laugh with my friends till I did not solve a bunch of simple math problems.

Annoying as it can get, pressing the cancel button was no help, and being very slow at doing the math wasn't beneficial either.

Irritated, I quickly solved the problems, the message got sent and I rushed to check (somehow) for which sonovabitch hacked my Gmail account and signed me up with the Goggles feature to make me solve math at this ungodly hour -- that too out of the blue!

Anyhow, I checked Labs settings -- Goggles is enabled (Grr.. who diddit?).

Well, I did. I had just forgotten that it is meant to check my drunkenness, sleepiness, out-of-senseness factor before sending out a mail at early bird hours such as these.

Lovely.

An intricate observation: Gompax 1 is yet to present his inaugural post here.

Ahem! (echo)