Tales of a tossed salad

A German chancellor in an autorickshaw:

Auto von Bismarck….

Laugh it off folks…

Post birthday blues are pretty much like a drug addict recovering having been thrown into a dark windowless room….Yesterday was a blast but cant say the same for today..Couldn’t I just turn back the time and jump back into yesterday and live the wishes once more??? Another wish perhaps???

Am I the only one suffering from withdrawal symptoms, what with the IPL coming to an end? For sports fanatics there is more in store with Euro Cup underway and Wimbledon a weekend away and also the Asia Cup where India looks all set to be crownd champs….Let the games begin and watch this space for more…

All the best, Obama..You bring a refreshing change and some much needed ‘color’ to the electoral map..How about teaming up with Hillary and barging into the gun + bible belt? Go ahead and paint the states blue….

What a book… For once Time magazine did not deal in mere hyperbole when they voted this tome (The Autobiography of Malcolm X) as one of the most influential books of the 20th century. Unputdownable…and has strongly compelled me to move on to another revered book of black history i.e. Roots by Alex Haley. It did attract its share of criticism back when it was published and then made into a mini series aired on ABC, this one deals with the pain caused by uprooting et al. Have dived into it with gutso but will I come out of it without being gutted is another question altogether…

A compelling read, The Autobiography of Malcolm X is one of those books that rightly deserves its listing amongst the top 10 most influential books of the previous century. Malcolm X lived by the gun(going by his picture on the cover of Life magazine) and died by it. His wife died 32 years later, during a senseless act of arson perpetrated by her grandson. His (Malcolm X) father was lynched by a racist white mob who felt threatened by his increasingly vituperative teachings that threatened to expose the hypocrisy of the white-dominated society back then (any change ever since??).

Read it, for it reads like a commentary on the goings- on of present day. History repeats or has time stood still?

Ever encountered this? The worst of its kind… Was a victim recently and still seething and fuming at it. For the source is anonymous and the recipient (the one at the receiving end), helpless and thrashing hands in water kind.

Was reading an article which laid down the Top 10 sutras to make a successful blog. Can’t agree with all of them except for one, though. Consistency. Timely and consistent updates is one helluva. So having put a stop to quizzing blogs for a while have decided to get on to my dal chawal, i.e. Little known nooks and corners series. But does that mean no more questions, no I will be back with a new visual series.. So hang on to your pants.. Will keep them coming…

Hello All,

Fantastic response…Was cracked universally well.. Questions being copied and being put
up on some IQL website and then spamming the quizzing groups was a bit of turn off though..
Do we really need Pritams in quizzing?

1. “I wanted to keep a majority of the text untouched so that the legibility was still
intact, while adding some playfulness by bringing primary colors and two-dimensionality
to the whole thing. The pattern here was used to visually imply that something goes
ad infinitum.”- Ruth Kedar, in an interview talking about what?

~ The Google Logo

2. The findings of this procedure were first published in 1974 in an informal article
entitled “Pop Goes the Cafe Coronary”. It was replaced by an alternative title “Abdominal Thrusts”
in 2006. A compulsory display across restaurants in Europe, what?

~ Heimlich Maneuver

3. It spent four weeks at the top of Billboard Hot 100 in 1969 and eight weeks at the top of the UK
singles chart. In 1970, Wilson Pickett hit the Top 40 with his own version of the song. It was the
No.1 single of 1969, a feat yet to be duplicated by any fictional band. What?

~ Sugar, Sugar.

4. It weights 3 pounds and is 0.76″ thick at its thickest point and 0.16″ at its thinnest. In the commercial
a hand unthreads a manila envelope and slides out to show this after waking it up from its ’sleep’. What?

~ Macbook Air.

5. It was called, “The adventure of many lifetimes”, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced a
joint venture with Virgin CEO Richard Branson to colonize the Red Planet. A press release stated, “Earth has issues
and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B.” What’s it all about?

~ It was their grand April Fool Joke.

Here are the scores:
Jacob Dijo - 1
Rajiv D’Silva - 3
Ashish Jain - 2
Rajkamal Vasu - 1
Shubendu Saha - 5
Ninad W - 5
Mohammed Zuber - 3
Anand Shankar - 1
Vishakha Dutta - 4
Sriram - 3
Ninad’s Yahoo - 1
Ramachandran V - 3
Ratnakar Sadasya - 3
Shrinidhi Rai - 2
Mukherjees in Oman - 5
Kshira Sagar - 5
Rajiv Rai - 4
me-ayan_black - 5
Aniruddha Biswas - 3
Deepanshu Berry - 5
Sathya Narayanan - 3
Prateek Vijayavargia - 1
Venkatesan Iyengar - 4
Priya Kamala - 2

Hello All,

Here go the final five of the Jaldi Five series.. Hope you had as much fun taking a crack at them as
much as I did in ‘composing’ them..

Rack on…

1. “I wanted to keep a majority of the text untouched so that the legibility was still
intact, while adding some playfulness by bringing primary colors and two-dimensionality
to the whole thing. The pattern here was used to visually imply that something goes
ad infinitum.”- Ruth Kedar, in an interview talking about what?

2. The findings of this procedure were first published in 1974 in an informal article
entitled “Pop Goes the Cafe Coronary”. It was replaced by an alternative title “Abdominal Thrusts”
in 2006. A compulsory display across restaurants in Europe, what?

3. It spent four weeks at the top of Billboard Hot 100 in 1969 and eight weeks at the top of the UK
singles chart. In 1970, Wilson Pickett hit the Top 40 with his own version of the song. It was the
No.1 single of 1969, a feat yet to be duplicated by any fictional band. What?

4. It weights 3 pounds and is 0.76″ thick at its thickest point and 0.16″ at its thinnest. In the commercial
a hand unthreads a manila envelope and slides out to show this after waking it up from its ’sleep’. What?

5. It was called, “The adventure of many lifetimes”, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced a joint venture with Virgin CEO Richard Branson to colonize the Red Planet. A press release stated, “Earth has issues and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B.” What’s it all about?

Keep those answers coming…

Hello All,
 
The response has been good. There were more of encouraging words than the actual answers. Thanks anyways…Answers and scores are as follows:
 
 
1. Established in 1935, it owes its origins to a joint venture between Siemens and Furukawa Electric Company. It manufactured Japan’s first computer in 1954. This company’s ads in Australia are headlined by Mark Taylor. What?
 
~ Fujitsu
 
2. Otto Von Bismarck pushed through the Disability Insurance Bill of 1889. What resulted out of this?
 
~ Pension
 
3. This refers to a 90’s satirical observation stating that ‘companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management in order to limit the amount of damage they’re capable of doing”. It was explained in detail in 1995 in a Wall Street Journal article. The ’study’ was then expanded in a 1996 book of the same name.
 
~ Dilbert Principle
 
4. First designed by Maurice Wilks, the original design was inspired by an American Jeep. It’s two production plans are in Merseyside and West Midlands. Its succession of owners include British Leyland, British Aerospace, BMW etc. What?
 
~ Land Rover
 
5. A McKinsey employee was involved in a presentation accidentally because the head of of McKinsey’s San Francisco office lost his presentation in a computer crash. This last-minute of presentation made by him on a Good Friday in 1978 to Dart Corporation led to one of the most popularly read management books. Book and author, please?
 
~ Tom Peters, In Search of Excellence