We just won the worst soccer team award in the fifis tournament @work

I wonder what would happen if I had this done @ home when I was young..

No wonder I like family guy..

Well I was reading this CNET news which was about square root day falling tomorrow i.e. 03/03/09 which occurs only 9 times in a century.

Tuesday is Square Root Day, a rare holiday that occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. Numerically, March 3, 2009, can be expressed as 3/3/09, or mathematically as √9 = 3, or 3² = 3 × 3 = 9.

I know its absurd but I have my own reasons to post about it.

The following are the square root days if you have failed in second grade

1. 01/01/2001
2. 02/02/2004
3. 03/03/2009
4. 04/04/2016
5. 05/05/2025
6. 06/06/2036
7. 07/07/2049
8. 08/08/2064
9. 09/09/2081

Yet again I was immersed  reading Wikipedia articles and I found a site that basically provides search interface to search the electoral roll list of India.

With elections on the way  this tool would avoid people from visiting the poll booth and return back with out voting since they aren’t in the list. It can be accessed from the below link.

http://search.eci.gov.in/

BTW I’m not sure if it really works because I kept encountering this login pop up which was annoying so I found the site for Tamil Nadu Election commison to check if I was there in the list.

One more you need to download their own tamil fonts and install. I know..

Bummer TN election has a search interface with Under construction message.  They do have another form which gives out tamil pdf for district – Constituency ward list for each of them.

Again bummer its in tamil so I can’t search in firefox or inside pdf which is a pain. So I had to literally read through all names in my ward and to every ones surprise I’m not listed

Waste of time. One good thing now I know my neighbours name and avoided a trip for my dad to check out the list.

Yamm Petra Inbam intha Vaiyakamum peratum..

There are some movies that you can watch n number times because they are so well made and the plot of the movie still applies today. Sabapathy released in 1941 falls under that category and a precursor to all comedy movies in tamil.

Most of the new comedians mostly take a thread from this movie and repackage to the current trend. One simple example is the repackaging of the master servant switching places story one example I could remember right away is Ullathai alithaa which was big hit in 90′s.

Some other surprising things I noticed are:

1. People bribed even before India got Independence and it was even shown in movies. So bribe was something that we had it not something we generated after independence. Still we haven’t fixed it thats the sad part. Almost 70 years of promises by politicians.
2. Tanglish was born and brought up even before the Dravidian parties was formed and it flourished. E.g ‘ivan nusiance thanga mudiyala sir’,'vera enna seilam brother’,'brother ithalam ippadi vaika’. The percentage is still low but Tanglish had it roots long before.
3. Sabapathy father complains about his son not knowing to right 2 pages in tamil and my dad shares the same feeling. View @ 19.00 Minutes in Video 1.

70 years of time has passed but people haven’t changed.

What ever may be this is one good movie that I can enjoy watching any time any where rather than watching the new ones.

Please watch the movie if you get a chance.

I was just going through my emails today and found out this email from Pizza apologizing for sending out a wrong campaign email.

Looks like some programmer used his official email to sent out email this is what gets you into trouble. Hope I don’t do it and provide an opportunity for an blogger like me.
Well here are the 2 emails:

Dear Valued Pizza Hut Customer:

You may have received an email on Wednesday that appeared to be from Pizza Hut with the subject line
“Sports – 2 Medium pizzas, 1 one-topping and 1 specialty or up to 3 toppings”. We were testing
new functionality that will better serve our customers. It was not the intent of Pizza Hut for this email to be
sent to you. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused. We value your relationship
with us and understand that communicating with you via email is a privilege not to be taken lightly. We have
identified the cause of the mistake and have taken steps to make sure this does not happen again.

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience or confusion that email message may have caused. We appreciate
you as a customer and want you to be 100% satisfied with us.

Pizza Hut and YUM! Brands are committed to your privacy and the privacy of your data. As such, we recently
updated our privacy policy. View our Privacy Policy here.

The Pizza Hut name, logos and related marks are trademarks of Pizza Hut, Inc.

(C)2008 Pizza Hut, Inc., 14841 Dallas Parkway, Dallas, TX 75254.

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