Asad's Completely Random Blog

Independence

2009-08-13T23:26:00.002+06:00

Happy Independence Day Pakistan. Whoever you are.

Great Tits!

2008-05-12T10:32:00.004+05:00

Though I'm against environmentalist / tree hugger/ hippy / fag / knee-surgeon types on principle, BBC News found a way to bring my attention to the environment and got me thinking about just what "global warming" really is. Here's a screenshot with the unimportant parts blurred out:True story. You can see it read it for yourself here.

Redefining Cool

2008-05-12T10:27:00.003+05:00

When I'm not microwaving baby squirrels, I secretly long to be cool... and from Mianwali. GMail Ads read minds.

Lufthansa A320 Wing Strike

2008-04-28T02:07:00.001+05:00

A310 flyby

2007-09-22T02:29:00.000+05:00

Commercial pilot with balls.

It's Possible

2007-07-10T01:53:00.001+05:00

Catan resource cards have magical powers!! Technorati Tags: Catan, Card Tricks

Butt Lights

2007-06-26T23:05:00.000+05:00

Why am I the only one who seems to NOT find this completely normal. If you ever need a chuckle or two, and you're in Lahore, be sure to swing by Rahat Bakery in Cantt to witness this not-so-great attraction.

Kashif da Man

2007-06-25T23:52:00.000+05:00

For the first time in a long time, Pakistan is portrayed in a... well, if not positive, then non-negative light.Geez, whatta dork. How do these guys get all the way to the states anyway?On a related note (shoot me later for mentioning these two in the same post), we have a Paki in the Wimbledon, and this is the first time EVER that someone has actually qualified for it (as opposed to being

No Nazis

2007-06-23T04:31:00.000+05:00

...and the edges of some sheep at the bottom right corner.

Settlers of Catan

2007-06-22T16:09:00.001+05:00

It's funny how not many people know about this game here. It has to be the most amazing board game I've ever come across, and it's all the more surprising since it's been around for quite a while now. The game, in principle, is brilliant: You have resources, you have location, and you have probabilities, and the way in which they all work together coupled with the virtually infinite variations

Third Gear: An Anatomy of a Bad Lahorie-Overtake

2007-03-31T03:05:00.001+05:00

“If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of criminal life, and inspired you to to change your ways, then his injuries carry with it an inherent nobility, and a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate, you say poor Toby? I say poor us.”Cruising in 4th, clear skies, cool winter night, idiot in a silver Cultuss in

From LUMS to Nascon

2007-03-29T01:27:00.001+05:00

This post chronicles the brave few who battled (and conquered) sloth, stupidity, bandits, disorganization, and cold. Not being one for words, I will use pictures (taken with my trusty K800i) to do most of the talking. As much as I like the phrase "our trip began in earnest", I don't quite think it fit the mood too precisely. To be honest, it was more like this: Quite fascinating how mature IEEE

2007-03-28T18:14:00.000+05:00

That's all a 1,000 rupees of Diesel will get you. Three quarters of a tank and 200 km.My country may be starving, but atleast my fuel tank should be full, you insensitive clods!

Air Force > Army

2007-03-28T02:40:00.000+05:00

SS Majors

2007-01-28T23:57:00.000+05:00

Every once in a while SS majors and their unique set of advanced technical skills does come in handy. Damn jap cars.For the record, the one Nissan was a 80's model, one of the mitsu's was a Gallant 2.4, almost all the Hondas were civics, and almost all the Toyotas were corollas.[ Data used was collected from the LUMS covered parking lot, late 2006 ]

Laws without an F

2006-10-15T00:18:00.000+05:00

Why must there always be silly rules that are left open to interpretation. People need to plan these things out more carefully. What is bothersome is the fact that rules hardly ever come with an interpretation guide, and if the enforcer happens to be a clueless brain dead moron (as is almost always the case), then, Houston, we do indeed have a problem.Cars are useless. If you want to go around

Nature

2006-10-13T14:24:00.000+05:00

If only my Friday the 13ths were unlucky.Hmm, that statement has multiple interpretations, doesn't it? This is going to be an uncharacteristic serious post.Why do people assume mankind to be "not natural", or not part of nature. I guess you can define the word any way you want to, but the commonly accepted belief is that mankind is destroying nature, and we have to take matters into our own hands

GIK Part 3

2006-10-12T17:05:00.000+05:00

Lest the unwary reader be deceived, there are no first two parts to this post. Knowing the fact that this seemingly innocent picture could be tortured into giving away my identity, I resisted for this long only to finally give in to temptation and post it.Now a lot of people will tell you GIK is a great place to study, but be warned, living on a campus in the middle of nowhere can have its side

Trains and Dragons

2006-10-11T13:33:00.000+05:00

Snobby, yeah, but I still had to ask whether or not the railway station would have a phone. It seemed funny at the time. Later on it turned out they had a computer as well (which apparently "speeded up" the ticket-giving process by a factor of -5.3 (yeah, that's a minus)). How fascinating. As snobby as people can be, thanks to the "efficient" computer system, I was fortunate enough to witness a

Aristotle

2006-10-10T05:45:00.000+05:00

This post has nothing about aristotle. You are being mislead by the evil Google Empire.They call it "chillie" when it's cold outside, and yet, you add chillies to your food to make it hot. Is someone who is uncool, hot? If someone's not hot, they're cool? Who the hell comes up with this stuff anyway?The usual gems from bash.org:#696388 +(1214)- [X][Jace> god this computer is running like a dog[

Subterfuge

2006-09-03T15:21:00.000+05:00

Sat Sep 2 23:06:51 PKT 2006It seems that lately Lahore really wants to be more like it's elder (step-) brother Karachi. It's been raining continuously for the past two days and Worldcall has decided to not bother trying to repair their Cable & Internet that has stopped working. To give credit where it's due, the electricity hasn't gone even once, and the roads are for the most part not flooded (

Sat Sep 1 2006

2006-09-03T15:17:00.000+05:00

Well, here we are once again in the primitive desktop blogging software known only as "Blog Entry Poster". No points for originality there. It has an annoying spell check feature that oddly enough doesn't consider the word "blog" to exist. Ironic, no?Lahore is experiencing some fantastic weather these days. Yesterday had bright crisp blue skies with a beautiful cold breeze, a bow (since it wasn't

The Wheel Weaves

2006-08-30T21:00:00.000+05:00

Calamity.I sit here writing this post inside a spartan, alien environment they call "Ubuntu Linux". This particular demon within it is called "Post Blog Entry". In celebration of Pakistan's premier Network Service Provider re-blocking Blogger.com, I make this post in a small wire-frame of an application, devoid of the colour, beauty and texture of Windows.For those of you one-buttoned souls who

The Pattern Weaves

2006-08-25T00:29:00.000+05:00

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. SeussCyclical. Everything is cyclical.Some day someone's going to have to tell me what all the fuss is about. What's the big deal in having to read text that's in CAPS. Oh noez! teh n00b iz scr34m1ng aT me! 33k!Please.If it bothers you that much, take a second and imagine that the

LUMS Registration

2006-08-24T22:23:00.000+05:00

As always, in classic LUMS-PCO style the LUMS registration system for BSc. students opened an hour late today at 1300 hrs. It was quite thoughtful of them to fire off an email at 12:50 saying the registration would not open at 12:00 as planned. I purposely generalize when I say this, but what on Earth does a disorganized body such as LUMS hope to teach me - apart from how NOT to do things?Their

Stationery and Hair

2006-08-23T00:37:00.000+05:00

The sad state of stationery in Pakistan. WHY, pray tell, can they not have post-it notes that actually STICK? Wouldn't THAT be a novel idea. This world would be a much better place if everyone had access to yummy stationery that actually worked the way it should. Atleast the local ones have the colours right. Colourful post-its, tacks and paper clips are easy enough to find. I have yet to find

Congrats, Blogspot

2006-08-11T22:58:00.000+05:00

You've been unbanned in Pakistan (again).

Don't Leave Home, eMule

2006-08-11T22:40:00.000+05:00

Apparently the American Condoleezza Rice (current US Secretary of State) isn't liked much by my family. Today we were watching a press conference on TV where Rice was talking about the Israel-Lebanon war. Wanting to know what her background was I wondered aloud what she was before she was Sec State.Without any hesitation, Dad said "a waitress", Mom said "wheat".Kinda funny how your parents seem

Invictus

2006-08-03T03:22:00.000+05:00

(Apology: I realise this has been done, over-done, beaten to death, cremated, buried, revived, resurrected and then done to death again, but I must.)Out of the night that covers me,Black as the Pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstanceI have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but

Ah, Modern Technology

2006-08-02T23:26:00.000+05:00

Living in a third world country, I doubt I'm elligible to sigh and wistfully appreciate the wonders of Modern Technology, but I'll go ahead anyway. That's one of the less mentioned advantages of Technology, especially the Internet. Before, it was "web sites"; when every teenager who could, scrambled to get his or her own GeoCities or Tripod account to have their very own presense on The Great Big

Lebanon and Israel

2006-08-01T20:30:00.000+05:00

Everyone knows whats happening in Lebanon. If it's not a Zionist Conspiracy, it's a rightful attack on jihadi-scum. What I don't understand is why everyone feels the need to have such polarized views. Sure, injustices are being committed, but they're being committed by both sides. Does it matter, then, who started it, or who is doing more of it?If it is infact an unjust, unprovoked, excessive use

Top Two Reasons To Live In Lahore

2006-07-31T23:56:00.000+05:00

Continuing the famous (ha) top-two series, I'd like to start with the mention of the rains in Karachi. Us poor Karachi-ites flock out everytime it drizzles (as the lahories so eloquently put it; jab barish hoti hay tou dadu or karachi-itte nikal aatay hain). We pray for rain every day, every Friday, every Eid. Apparently all those prayers have a delayed cumulative effect... Now Karachi has had

Bandwidth Woes

2006-07-31T19:11:00.000+05:00

Clothes modding shops. Yeah, you could call darzees that. Thx to jaydee for that little gem.The bandwidth situation in Pakistan is horrible. Ever since the first ISP (Digicom), the typical Pakistani business model has been hard at work; squeezing as much money out of customers and providing as little service as possible.I think Digicom - the first paki ISP - opened up in around 1996, with

Moved!

2006-06-05T23:48:00.000+05:00

The evil Stats reporter thingum tells me that some poor lost souls still stumble their way into this site. You are rewarded for your faith by the new address I am posting at these days: http://fearthedonut.wordpress.comThe decision was made because of the stupid Pakistani Government deciding that all Blogspot.com URLs should be blocked because of some so-called objectionable content on ONE blog

Abandoned

2006-03-25T07:55:00.000+05:00

This blog has been abandoned. I might post from time to time randomly.IN the meantime, check this out.

Creative Writing

2006-03-18T00:18:00.000+05:00

Blagh! (sort of like when you say "Blog" while puking)College courses *so* need to be chosen carefully. Apparently randomly choosing a course based on the number of units it has and your eligibility for it is not a good idea. It's worked for a year and a half now, I don't know why it's started to go wrong now.Creative Writing SS-223 started off great this quarter. The first class was cancelled.

Top Two Reasons to Buy an iPod

2006-03-04T12:59:00.000+05:00

As a continuation of the "top two" series, i humbly present to you the top two reasons to buy an iPod (music, applause, thank you).Reason #1:If you go jogging with it and get run over by a car, it'll help the police find out who you really are... like this woman.and last, but not least:Reason #2:The Pope has one!!!

The New Snooze

2006-03-03T21:16:00.000+05:00

You've gotta love this alarm clock. There's no snooze button. Instead it's got a little puzzle you have to solve to stop the damn thing from going off again. Beautiful.In other news, apparently the Blogger.com outage in most of Pakistan was no accident. It's actually been blocked off by the government or somebody who has more power than they should. Frankly, I don't really care. It's about time

Random Movie Reviews

2006-03-01T01:32:00.000+05:00

For some reason my blog doesn't load for me anymore. It's an international zionist conspiracy to deny Pakistan bloggers their freedom of speech!!On to the reviews then, shall we?First up:SyrianaWhat a movie! Awesome movie in case you people don't know what world you're living in. It'll wake you up to the whole Middle East / American oil scene. Very realistic and well made. My heart goes out to

Tornado in Lahore?

2006-02-27T17:12:00.000+05:00

Our level headed friend Jaydee managed to take these pictures with his W800i cellcam during yesterday's aandhi. If it isn't a tornado, it's one helluva freaky weather phenomenon.The building you see is the LUMS masjid. Picture taken from in front of the library building.

The 13 Virtues

2006-02-27T01:41:00.000+05:00

From: http://www.flamebright.com/PTPages/Benjamin.aspHot off the Digg presses.. on Benjamin Franklin's list of virtues: "He kept a daily chart of these 13 goals, and placed a dot next to the ones he failed to abide by each day for the rest of his life."His "Plan" was made up of 13 virtues, each with short descriptions: Temperance: Eat not to dullness and drink not to elevation. Silence:

Exams Finally Over

2006-02-26T03:59:00.000+05:00

After one helluva rough ride and some belly-scrapes, my final exams for this quarter are finally over. Even walked on over into the library (for this first time this quarter) to laugh at all the people still studying for exams.Looking forward to mating season.. er.. i mean Spring Quarter starting on the 6th.I don't know why everyone does not know about THIS GUY. He has to have the funniest stuff

Bambi Killer

2006-02-15T01:37:00.000+05:00

from: http://www.f-16.net/varia_article1.htmlmust read.

Yeah, So anyways...

2006-02-14T01:40:00.000+05:00

Yeah so anyways... spent the weekend at hub's nana's farm. Apart from trying to run down goats with Ali Inayat (who has a weird fascination with taking baths whenever he visits a strange new location), playing a little soccer, seeing a donkey ("cute ass" as she put it), shooting flying beer bottles, and trying to ignore the sights and smells of the great wilderness (i.e: SHIT, shit, flowers, piss

A Dean and a Worm

2006-02-09T14:03:00.000+05:00

I found this screen shot lying around the other day. Reminded me of the time my normal college mail checking routine became a little interesting, and a little memorable. viva la Nymex. For all those who don't know, Anwar Khurshid is the dean for the BSc program of LUMS; the Lahore University of Management & Sciences, supposedly the best university in Pakistan.

i want

2006-02-09T13:38:00.000+05:00

i want an iPod Nano iKitty.From the link:Meet iKitty- the cutest toy and case for you and your iPod nano. iKitty is fun and functional - offering great rubberized protection, bendable kitty tail, and screen protection for your iPod nano.Quite fitting, don't you think?...of course, while you're at it, get me the iPod nano to go with it :)

2 v 1

2006-02-09T13:09:00.000+05:00

Funny how most people don't know why text in mirrors looks wrong.The standard SS-major-type response is "Light rays." (delivered together with the capital L, the fullstop, and a very serious look) which is apparently supposed to make me quiver in fear of their knowledge of Physics textbook terms, and if (somehow) everything isn't made sparklingly clear to me by the mere mention of those two words

YGBSM

2006-01-31T00:51:00.000+05:00

From: http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/vietnam/airpower/wildweasel.aspxThe new Weasel crews were shocked to hear of their new mission, which was nothing short of a suicide mission. One of the new weasels, EWO Captain Jack Donovan, summed up the feelings of all the Weasels about their new mission, when he said, " You want me to fly in the back of a little tiny fighter aircraft with a crazy

Are Elephants Black or White?

2006-01-26T22:41:00.000+05:00

Jaydee: [quoting Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear] Dogs are rear-wheel-drive, everyone knows dogs are fun, hence, we prove that rear-wheel-drive-cars are more fun..Blade: Oh yeah, hyenas are front-wheel-drive ...and everyone knows THEY'RE no fun... and cats are really good drifters... you see 'em in Tom & Jerry all the time slipping n sliding all over the placeHub: Yes yes.. and elephants are

How to Teach

2006-01-22T22:54:00.000+05:00

For all the LUMS and IBA teachers out there... This link is a story about a guy teaching a bunch of third graders binary arithmetic by only asking questions (the 'Socratic Method'). Amazing read. This is what teaching is all about, boys n girls.Anyone got a nice camera I could borrow? :D I kinda miss taking pictures of random things.

Pink Pills & Dust

2006-01-21T22:56:00.000+05:00

There's way too much dust in the world.And not enough bandwidth.Anyone who knows the man named after a car (M) at LUMS (who comes from the same general region as baba sayeen (J)) should know about the following story.Eager to make my escape home, I was driving past covered parking a few hours ago tonight, when M flags me down and asks if he can borrow my rod. Needless to say, coming from a man

Wooden Floorings & False Ceilings

2006-01-17T13:18:00.000+05:00

Just as a warning, in case anyone thinks this post has anything to do with it's topic... it doesn't.Some classic bash.org quotes I came across lately:#602223 +(602)- [X] (TarAldarion) just a bit shocked that my roommate is pregnant(Ruu) was it a shock to her also?(TarAldarion) dunno yet(TarAldarion) havnt talked to her(TarAldarion) read her blog #601636 +(525)- [X] <> if you were a credit card,

A Trip Down South

2006-01-15T23:35:00.000+05:00

So my sister has this new (shiny) Nikon D-50 "digicam" (I put it in quotes because I haven't heard anyone use that term in ages, until a friend mentioned it on MSN the other day, and it just sounds weird now) along with a 300mm telephoto lens and other goodies. I think I haven't spared a single PTCL d.p-box (well, that's what the linemen call it) in a 100 yard radius around my neighbourhood, and

Random Pictures

2005-12-13T15:39:00.000+05:00

A random coffee shop on M. M. Alam Road The scarf and trinity-coat is SO Mission Impossible 1 (or distinctly French, for some reason). Frankly, I think it takes great skill to be able to look stupid for the right 1/8'th of a second. I hate zippers on jackets. Credit goes to psnob for letting me steal her Canon G5 for the job :)

Killer Bunnies Comming To a Park Near You

2005-12-05T22:16:00.000+05:00

Just when I thought I couldn't find any weirder links, I come across this:Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'What next? Killer bunnies?

The Brothel Creeper and an Apple

2005-12-05T21:09:00.000+05:00

Hmmf. I didn't want to post again so soon, but I couldn't resist putting these two links I came across recently into one blogpost.The first one is (inspirational stuff):http://news-service.stanford.edu/[ ... ]/jobs-061505.htmlThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.And the second one is (hilarious

Cryptically Snobbish

2005-12-04T12:51:00.000+05:00

There's magic in slow motion. The destructive anti-grammar aura apparently affects writing style too, but that might not be such a bad thing. She lies on the bed in that room of her house, thoroughly discharged, from underuse? Maybe. Her pretentious master doesn't love her anymore.Satisfying CD pouches and burnt DVDs. Fixed PCs and notebooks with XP activation keys. No, not the FCKGW one. That

Apologia Pro Libro Suo

2005-11-21T22:41:00.000+05:00

I don't even know if I'm supposed to be impressed by this, but it impressed my socks off."...Human knowledge had become unmanageably vast; every science had begotten a dozen more, each subtler than the rest; the telescope revealed stars and systems beyond the mind of man to number or to name; geology spoke in terms of millions of years, where men before had thought in terms of thousands; physics

Yet Another Lahore vs. Karachi post

2005-11-18T22:08:00.000+05:00

Why are Karachi sunsets so much better than Lahore sunsets?GourmetLately I've been driving around Lahore a lot. And I mean a lot. All the way from Multan Road, to Garden down, to Shalimar Garden to Hall Road to the Airport and to Defence. Lahore changes a lot, in some places it's like a little village, in some places it's a beautiful city, in some places it's as filthy and bad-road-y as Karachi.

Pakistani CounterStrike

2005-11-18T22:02:00.000+05:00

WCG.Pakistani "Lions" vs. Team 3DRape. Pakistan lost; thirty rounds to zero. Not only were there more than four witnesses (over a thousand I'm sure), I don't think anyone has ever seen such thorough pwnage in a WCG match.Good job "Lions". You're going to be flogged the moment you land in Pakistan. And shot, too... With real guns this time.I know Dre and Shaggy, but who the hell are the other

New Template

2005-11-16T00:03:00.000+05:00

With the help of the ellusive sarah, who was kind enough to give me her blog template, work is in under way to make a new template. For now, just so that I can sleep better, I've changed the default alignment to "justify", and messed with the links on the right side (which are now being handled by blogrolling.com, v. convenient).The justified text on this page now looks downright yummy. I could

African iPod

2005-11-15T00:59:00.000+05:00

I'm going to hell, aren't I?>:-]

Dead Post

2005-11-14T23:14:00.000+05:00

Apparently some dude cured himself of AIDS. Well that doesn't happen everyday now does it?And so, on a completely unrelated note, I have begun the search for a new blog template. The one I have has become too common. Everyone seems to have it.All you Photoshop-types out there, pull out a nice JPEG and mail it to me :)The winner (for best JPEG) will get a Black Magic (dark chocolate milkshake)

Click, hum

2005-11-11T21:42:00.000+05:00

Toms Diner. Great song. By Suzanne Vega (random Sega Mega Drive 2 flashback). Heard it over on FM 89 in Karachi (which, for some reason, seems to be a whole lot better than the FM 89 I get to hear in Lahore for some reason. It's not that I (I'm not sure I'm allowed to write so much in a bracket so I'll stop now)). It's not that I listen to radio more in Lahore, (yes, more ...because then I'm more

Bashing Bush

2005-11-03T19:15:00.000+05:00

#567151 +(1345)- [X] <@ChrisH> Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes<@ChrisH> by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in an accident"<@ChrisH> "OH DEAR GOD NO!!!" George W. Bush exclaims. "That's terrible!!" His<@ChrisH> staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the<@ChrisH> president sits, head in hands. Finally, the

Some Random Bashing

2005-11-02T01:11:00.000+05:00

#572797 +(416)- [X] nurv3947: So, I was talking to one of my friends, and she's kinda fat, right?nurv3947: And this woman walks up to us, looks at my friend and asks "Are you pregnant?"nurv3947: And she says "Yes, I got gang raped by twelve donuts."nurv3947: Honestly, I almost died.nurv3947: I just turned and walked away.nurv3947: I couldn't even walk straight. #572765 +(276)- [X] SteveDixon23:

Top Two List of Great Songs With Horrible Endings

2005-10-31T05:38:00.000+05:00

What is with people and top ten lists. It's not the lists-part or the top-partI have a problem with. I have a problem with the ten. Why ten? What's so special about ten? Because you have ten fingers? Well I have two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, two arms, two hands, two feet, two kidneys, and unlike you, two halfs of a brain. Damn all you non-CS majors. I also count in base two, and so, without

brb, my house is on fire

2005-10-25T20:38:00.000+05:00

Well, not really my house. Apparently the wires above the electricity meter right outside my front garden shorted which caused live electric wires to flop around and make the trees in my garden catch fire. I was happily MSN'ing away when I hear this massive crackle-pop-boom and my cook comes running to tell me to get out of the house. I've always been a sucker for good graphics, and I'd always

MSN Art

2005-10-23T05:44:00.000+05:00

Some random screenshots I found in my documents folder. Quite random, but cute.

Random Gelato Weather

2005-10-23T04:48:00.000+05:00

Interesting things are happening in Lahore. I just don't know what they are.First of all, the weather's a lot colder. Yes yes, all you fools over in Canada can stop huffing and puffing and getting all worked up now, I know it's colder there and this is nothing yadda yadda. Everyone I know has fallen sick. I think us Karachi-ites forget - every year - that the weather in this city actually changes

Great Josephs! Gelato in Lahore

2005-10-21T14:24:00.000+05:00

Seems like somebody's been reading my blog again. A few weeks after I complain about no good ice cream in Lahore, Gelato pops up and opens a branch near Main Boulevard. How freaky is that. Well, actually, it's not as if it hasn't happened before with Apple and their multi-button'd "Mighty Mouse".Hmm... I wonder what else I should complain about next :D

FireFox, Firewall Logs and Quake3

2005-10-18T05:29:00.000+05:00

Apparently there's not a single Pakistani Quake3 tricking video, so blade and I have decided to make our own. Let's see how it comes out, so far we're up to our necks trying to complete the strafepads in cos1_beta7b.Everyone and their mother is reporting the new FireFox 1.0.7 Denial of Service vulnerability. I don't know why everyone is making it such a big deal, it's hardly a Denial of Service (

Quake3 Tricking

2005-10-15T15:30:00.000+05:00

Out of sheer peer pressure, I feel I must write something about ID Software's first-player-shooter Quake3. It's not just a game folks. It's insane. The amount of time, effort and skill required to get good at Quake3 is mind blowing. Simple mind-numbing deathmatches are child's play. The real game is in doing "tricks", or exploiting certain bugs in the game's physics' engine to do things that

Is there an Artificial God?

2005-10-15T13:15:00.000+05:00

This is an old speech by Douglas Adams sent to me by a friend. Quite an interesting read, thoroughly recommended (that means you and you).Douglas Adams' speech at Digital Biota 2: Is there an Artificial God?A thought-provoking excerpt:"This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself

Worse Than The Tsunami

2005-10-14T15:06:00.000+05:00

"The devastation is much bigger than the tsunami and much bigger definitely than what happened in the United States with Katrina hurricane"-Hussein Gezairy, head of the World Health Organisation regional office"I fear we are losing the race against the clock in the small villages... I’ve never seen such devastation before. We are in the sixth day of operation, and every day the scale of

Earthquake Relief Effort

2005-10-11T23:32:00.000+05:00

it's nice to see Pakistanis - for once - united for a cause. too bad it took a catastrophe of this scale to bring it out.

In Memory of Mohammad Omair

2005-10-10T21:05:00.000+05:00

Omair:One of the greatest people I have known. I mean this when I say you really taught me a lot of things, even though I don't think you knew. You were always fun to be around even when things weren't going your way and always had the ability to make me laugh no matter how boring the class at IBA was, or how slow my day was. I remember clearly all the time we spent tinkering around with our

Of Fireworks and Long Distance Relationships

2005-10-04T18:46:00.000+05:00

I'm such a daredevil. Nothing like typing a blog post in the webbased editor to get your adrenaline pumping. Evening time; any minute now some asshole with a copper-wired kite is gonna get electrocuted and die, and worse still, he's going to cause the voltage to fluctuate enough to make my PC reboot and my blog post go poof. I don't think the "recover post" button was made with Lahorie

craignez la butée torique en dedans

2005-09-30T23:09:00.000+05:00

craignez la butée torique en dedans*a.k.a How To Be Cool: A Guide for LUMS Hostellites Sigh. It never fails to happen. I write out a beautiful blog post (I just realized that post spot and psot are all anagrams, just like open and nope) that was *THAT* big, and poof, it’s gone. The higher power (pun intended) that is WAPDA decided my post deserved no place in this world. So now I’m

The Urge To Code

2005-09-29T00:08:00.000+05:00

Hmmf. Hasn’t happened since I was twelve but lately I’ve been getting the urge to code. Talked to a buncha people, someone suggested I code up something nice for the Mozilla team. Downloading the development environment for Mozilla now (Cygwin, Netscape Tools, WinCVS, …). Couldn’t find an interesting enough project on SourceForge, so I’m going to keep looking for some nice Open Source project to

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

2005-09-26T23:06:00.000+05:00

Not that I usually like to give the impression that I'm easily impressed, but I thought I was impressed by the new flat panel ViewSonic VE700 monitor I stole off Jaydee... but this animated movie I downloaded.. just...Words cannot begin to describe it. Watch it.I don't even like Anime-ish stuff.. don't even follow the Final Fantasy series... but this... blew me away.Download it now, it's got

MGS-4 gets pwned by Ctrl-Alt-Del

2005-09-25T15:14:00.000+05:00

Haha, for all those have have seen the MGS-4 trailer and played ANY of the MGS-series games, check this Ctrl-Alt-Del strip out:http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=2005-09-23In other news, I hate any computer programming assignment that requires more than one user input. User friendliness is not my thing. My subordinates should do the silly user-interface code. Now if only I could

Lahore City Govt Can Kiss My Ass

2005-09-23T22:05:00.000+05:00

Yesterday was a beautiful day. Today was not.Yesterday, I walked into my 100-minute Data Structures class at 11:45 am under clear blue skies, on a bright and sunny Thursday morning. In the middle of the eternally boring CS gook-talk, the teacher ran out of class and came back 2 minutes later soaking wet. I thought he was just trying to be cool and impress the one girl in our class (she's the TA)

Melodramatic Late Night Ramblings of a 20-yr-old

2005-09-18T23:27:00.000+05:00

I got really bored a few nights ago without a PC and a phone so decided to start writing for the sake of writing. I have come to the conclusion that I am clinically insane.Here it is edited only slightly: And so it begins. All it needed was a good pen, good paper, an uncomfortable table, lots of angst and a deranged mind. What most people realize is that random thoughts are dangerous.

Juma

2005-09-16T11:57:00.000+05:00

Anyone who thinks Instant Messaging programs (MSN, IRC, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, etc…) are valid alternatives to normal social interaction (meeting people in RL, maybe even phone conversations) is wrong. MSN just ruins everything. You meet someone living several thousands of miles away, someone you’ve spent a significant portion of your life with, and you meet them again and again, every day

Friends

2005-09-11T19:18:00.000+05:00

ALL MY FRIENDSAREWEIRD KOOKY AND JUSTPLAIN ~ EVIL ~

The 13th Warrior

2005-09-09T22:14:00.000+05:00

Lo, there do I see my fatherLo, there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers Lo, there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning Lo, they do call to me They bid me take place among them in the Halls of Valhalla Where the brave may live forever...

TLFB

2005-09-09T00:39:00.000+05:00

TLFB Finally, after the longest time ever, I’ve found a comfortable setup. Nice big monitor, broadband (which isn’t all that broad, but I ain’t complanin), Logitech MX-510 mouse, and a nice Rs. 300 – A4Tech keyboard. I’m also trying out this Blogger for Word thingie. I’m hoping to get comfortable writing stuff in Word, might actually help me with research papers. Which brings me to a

Thumbs Up

2005-09-01T00:14:00.000+05:00

Sometimes I really wonder why I started a blog. I have things to bitch about every day... things I might forget tomorrow, or day after. I try and make sure I only write a blog when I really have something to say. Poetry, or any form of romantic writing, is a disgrace to bloggers everywhere. If you wanna get all romantic, go scribble it in a washroom stall or something. Don't waste bandwidth.In

"Ayub"

2005-08-17T00:46:00.000+05:00

Ugh... A Pentium-3 500 MHz with 128 MB of RAM really shouldn't be running XP. IE takes a good 15+ seconds to load.A good friend of mine, S[ ... edited ... ]y, sneakily ditched me and went to see the play a lot of people have been talking about: "Ayub". It had a buncha old Grammarians - familiar names. Apparently Saad didn't like it too much, to quote his first post:...I forgot how annoying the

Rejoice!

2005-08-16T21:49:00.000+05:00

An evil mind secretly planned and plotted. His massive claws gripped the mouse and clicked away through the night. He tried to type, but the lethal nails, more suited for ripping flesh than for typing, held him back. He waited. Soon, there would be a way. He would find a way. Soon...The blog of the Lalanimal, coming soon to a theatre near you.Other links I'll shamelessly sneak into this post:A

Phoenix

2005-08-16T21:06:00.000+05:00

It's the small things in life that really matter. Small, beautiful coincidences. The blogpost I lost due to Blogger's random manic blog jumbling was recovered using Google's very own Google search cache. Quite fitting really; the proverbial parent-saving-child's-ass-for-misbehaving.Without further ado, I present to you, the original Independence Day post; dated 14th August 2005.Woohoo! w00t! etc.

Stumbling

2005-08-16T01:42:00.000+05:00

Blogger.com, my childhood hero. My dreams, my one true love. Stabbed me in the heart, while I slept.Okay maybe that was a bit over-dramatic but apparently it's quite normal for random Blogger users to have one of their posts modify themselves. These self-aware blog posts are so common, infact, that Blogger support refuses to answer questions/complaints about them.Being a true patriot, I posted on

Independence Day

2005-08-14T04:12:00.000+05:00

Woohoo! w00t! etc..! Independence. In the immortal words of my few, select IBA friends; "How excitement". Apparently our little city has been just waiting for an opportunity to unleash it's brigade of motorcycle miscreants. Independence day, it turns out, is the prime opportunity they've been waiting for.Shortly before midnight, the entire city was overrun by noisy, fast, small, insignificant

"Mighty Mouse"

2005-08-03T05:50:00.000+05:00

Apple just released the "Mighty Mouse".I think the folks over at Apple read my last post :$

Introducing the iPod Shuffle

2005-07-29T16:42:00.000+05:00

Everyone knows Apple creates products for idiots.Just look at their PCs.Look closely.They look pretty.Why on Earth would you make PCs that look pretty unless you wanted someone to buy the PC for it's looks?? That, in my book, implies that they're idiots.Look closely at their mice. There's only one button. I don't know about you people, but to me, that just SCREAMS: "YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO BE

Trakker Delta Counter Strike Tournament

2005-07-28T00:02:00.000+05:00

Since I don't think anyone has the incentive (or the ability) to write about the Trakker sponsored Delta CounterStrike tournament, I thought I'd dedicate a post to it. If you don't play Counter Strike in Karachi you probably won't be interested in this.The Trakker (the guys who run C-track) sponsored a Counter Strike tournament that was held at Delta on the 21st of July. First prize was Rs.

Nooo! FeedDemon Time Trial

2005-07-20T00:28:00.000+05:00

The end is near.All is lost.Beware.

Need New PC!

2005-07-18T01:29:00.000+05:00

I need a new PC :-(and a cellphone..bah.Useless post. I know.

Fugitive Sex Offenders Blog

2005-07-09T00:42:00.000+05:00

I don't believe this, apparently Blogger.com is still hosting a now-convicted then-fugitive sex offender's blog.From the Wired Article:Law enforcement agents tracking then-fugitive sex offender Joseph Duncan had been carefully monitoring the suspect's weblog in the hopes that he would reveal his whereabouts, officials told Wired News this week.How freaky is that!!!