'Hot' - ology!

Haha... This one's hilarious! Finally we have one good article that takes aim at the crappy lyrics we find in most songs these days... Check out this sarcastic commentary about America's No.1 song today...

Hot Hot Heat

The best part about this article is how they 'analyze' the lines of the song with flowcharts and venn diagrams n all... Good stuff!

Here are some interesting lines from this 'song'...

I'm hot coz I'm fly/You ain't coz u not!

and check this one out...

I could sell a mil sayin nothin on a track!

I haven't heard this song yet, but I sure know how its gonna sound :) Haha... How do people listen to this kind of stuff?!

Prashant.

Today

Google Calendar

Today Thu, Apr 12

10:00am 4218 Presentation
05:00pm EE4401 Term Paper deadline
6:00pm EE4210 Presentation

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Smart Kid :)

Found this on the Freakonomics blog...

Tagliamonte’s son lost his first tooth when he was nearly seven; the parents didn’t know how much to pay, so they asked their son. “He asked for one penny for his first tooth,” Tagliamonte writes, “but wanted to double it to two cents for the second tooth, which was also loose. … We’re now up to 64 cents for the forthcoming seventh loose tooth with the stipulation that once he receives $10.24 for the 11th tooth, all subsequent payments, including the $5,242.88 payment for No. 20, will go into his 529 college-savings account.”

Damn! How could I miss this opportunity to make thousands of dollars!

Prashant.

Thump!

Found this one right inside NUS (my university)...

Prashant.

Just Google!

Swim across the Atlantic?!

It looks like the Google Maps guys are getting a little bored these days :).

Mohan points us to this interesting Google Map search result that a friend of his encountered after typing the wrong addresses into the search box. Check it out here!

Prashant.

The Starbucks "Asshole" Test

I was just reading a post on Guy Kawasaki's blog and I came across a nifty little tool to readily identify an asshole in your midst :)
It's called the "Starbucks Asshole test" by Robert Sutton. Robert is the author of a book called 'The No Asshole Rule' and also a professor in my dept at Stanford
And the test is pretty simple actually... here's how it goes...

If you hear someone at Starbucks order a “decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n’-Low and one NutraSweet,” you’re in the presence of an asshole.

I totally agree :)

Prashant