Q: Why are elephants scared of mice?
A: Because, like my grandmother, they don't like mice in their trunks.
You might want to know that Elephants are not scared of mice.
And watch the ad on this page. It's well funny.
Finally as promised I have uploaded the pictures from my trip to Roscoff. It was a fantastic trip and I had a great time there. Can't say that I am unhappy to be back though. Staying in France, working like a dog, staying mostly in a dog house (see the pictures for more information) does take a lot out of you. But the people were great fun, so I do miss having them around a little.
So, I don't have a phone. The entire mobile industry seems to be against me. But, on the 19th, I shall have one for sure.... and will be able to keep my old number.
Till then, it's back to work
So well, I got a phone.
Not for too long though. And the saga continues...
Noopster went to the shop immediately after coming abck to Leeds and got a super cool phone. Obviously not as cool as the first one but cool nonetheless. And then started the long story.
First I got out of the shop and it was the wrong colour... they gave me Plum. Do I look like I would ever own anything plum in colour? So, I go back in and get it changed to black. That was my second time in the shop.
I wanted to transfer my number onto the new cell, so I call the company, 3, and ask them to transfer my number from the old phone onto the new one. But apparently you can't transfer the number within the company. You have to go to another network to get it back onto the same network.
Daft?
So I get angry and go back to the shop and say, "Dude, you told me I could shift my number, but I can't" He says.."sorry". So I am like, I don't want your phone and return. Third time in the shop.
Now I come back and look for other phones and after 2 hours of searching for other networks, I realise that the phone I got was the best with the cheapest offers and the maximum offers.
Dogh!!
So, I go back there, for the fourth time, "Please can I cancel my cancellation?" He says..."No". So I apply for another contract, which is rejected. So, I have a sim card, but no phone. And I lost the best offer I could get. I am to go there on Thursday and hopefully I will have a phone again.
Will Anoop manage to get a phone and can he start making waves again? Wait and watch.
PS: My ego is shattered and embarrassment is onto another level.
Finally I am back. Back from the land of cheese, wine, cider and sea food. Back to what suits me better, curries and beer. But it was a fantastic trip really. Had a great time with everyone in Roscoff and honestly a part of me was kind of sad that I had to leave. But what is good to know is that the good times are not really going to stop now and the future has a lot to look forward to.
One thing I discovered during my Roscoff trip is that my neck is disappearing. Laugh your brains out, but it is happening. Maybe its my terrible posture which is making me hunch like a 80 year or with no spinal chord, but it's going for sure. Soon I am going to have no neck whasoever.
Then there was the story of the phone. Where do I really start with that? If you know me at all, you must have seen my phone. A lil unorthodox but way cool nonetheless. And then it was time for it to say goodbye. Here is something I wrote to a friend about it:
You must be wondering why I got a new phone. After all my supercool phone was one of the loves of my life eh? Well.. as it happens, phones and water do not go very well. That's fact number 1. But fact 2 is even more important and it says that if the water is salty, then effect of fact 1 is much more enhanced. Now there is a third fact which says that there is water in the sea, and this water is salty. Now if you take all the three facts, viz fact 1, fact 2 and fact 3 and do some slow computation in a brain like mine (small brain) then you realise that you have screwed the phone. But being a small brain, and the processing power so slow, you realise the effects of fact 1, fact 2 and fact 3 only after action 1, 2 and 3 have taken place. To know
what is action 1, 2 and 3 please refer to appendix A.
Appendix A:
Action 1 : Anoop goes to align a mirror in order to get his instrument working and make some measurements while dreaming about the nobel prize (which is a lie since secretly he's dreaming about beer and babes)
Action 2: Mirror being located on an island, Anoop has to go wading outside in the sea. Please remember fact 3 at this point. He has to take a mobile with him to talk to the people controlling the telescope. He places it in a wetbag which is designed to keep things dry.
Action 3: Wetbag which has the mobile is a fake wetbag... and it ends up being a 'wet bag' with wet things inside.. I may have to remind you that 'wet' means coming in contact with a liquid, water in this case. Please think of fact 1 and 2 at this juncture.
So that was the story of my phone... may peace be with it.
Day before, the 2006 IG nobel prizes were announced. As I had mentioned sometime earlier, IG nobel are the equivalent of the nobel given to the most improbable research that has taken place. This years winner was a teen repellent. Which is basically to be used to repel any teens when you are feeling as old as me. The reason I feel old right now is that the new academic year started in September. And, I demonstrated my first class this year yesterday. I came out feeling all depressed since all the undergrads are starting to look like kids.
But to lift my spirits was the other IG nobel prize which was a research done by an Israeli group trying to prove that you can stop hiccups by simulated rectal massage, which basically means, to stop hiccups, please put a finger up your ass. Science never stops entertaining does it?
Please check Improb for more details about the IGs.
