Thursday, May 12, 2011

A rare ingenious DBLP (Bob Colwell)

For those engineers/researchers who enjoy humor, and even for the other lot who don't fathom why and how scientific humor could be invented, this DBLP is uniquely ingenious.

From Bob Colwell: Presentation Lessons from Comedians -
You’re sitting in yet another interminable conference session. Man, this chair gets more uncomfortable by the millisecond. Who’s that over there? He looks like Mike Meyers from this angle. Or maybe Mini Me. What’s that interminable droning sound? Oops, that’s the speaker going on and on about ... whatever his topic is. You can’t remember—your mind has been wandering for the past 10 minutes.

Another one from Bob Colwell : Engineering Follies -

Our confidence in our instructor having thus been substantially diminished, we moved even farther away from the experimental apparatus. Meanwhile, this intrepid grad student now demonstrated whatever is the exact opposite of an intuitive sense for how physics works: He reinserted the now-bent calibration device and told us the problem was that the shaft had not had enough weight on it—an error that he now undertook to correct by standing on it. Then he told us to turn on the power to the motor.

And, you must read *in detail* about "the guy who turned on the motor/generator during the assisted suicide incident". (Reference - Bob Colwell : Engineering Follies). Its not worth a miss. Not at all !

Friday, April 22, 2011

G for Green

Loved today's doodle on the Google web page. Hovering the mouse over and over again just for the fun of it. Check out all other Google doodles at the archive here. Also check out the latest of Google's websites - Google Green.

The drift of corporations going green / carbon-neutral is a good news by all means. Some Interesting content for this special day :
  1. Some of the few business giants which are self-proclaimed carbon neutral include Google, Dell, ING Group and PepsiCo (PepsiCo? Really ?!)
  2. Here is a list of carbon-neutral companies from a refreshing wordpress. Of particular interest to me is to see a gradual drift (in the recent years) in the corporate world towards monetizing on the business opportunity of " helping organizations become green ".
Really hope for a Greener tomorrow.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Hitler's MISCA Paper Rejection

The viral Hitler parody phenomenon strikes another hilarious note. Due credits to the original idea of creating parodies using the Original Bunker Scene from Downfall. More on it here.