Bumped into this article on an email forward. The scientists compare this to “changing a Macintosh computer into a PC by inserting a new piece of software”.
Yours truly (who has an opinion on every thing in this world) thinks this could be the craziest thing (wo)mankind has ever attempted!
If you are a 24/7 netizen, you must have already heard about Judge Pearson. In case you have a life or if you’ve been living under a stone, here’s the story:
Pearson is a judge who filed a lawsuit demanding over $60 million from his dry cleaners over a case of misplaced pants. According to Pearson, the dry cleaners had displayed a board “Satisfaction Guaranteed”. Pearson filed suit as the cleaners had failed to satisfy him. Unfortunately for Pearson, he’s now lost his suit and his pants!
The headline writers are going ga-ga reporting this story. Here are some:
Judge loses his pants, then his suit
Korean couple keep their pants
$54 million pants suit does not have legs
and many more…
pluGGd.in has just published a podcast interview with Anand, “the Ringmaster” of tolmolbol.com. In his write-up introducing the podcast, Ashish (of pluGGd) has this to say about Anand:
Anand (and his team) pretty much represents the rising entrepreneurial culture in India . If you are a wanna entrepreneur and still thinking of whether to startup or not, I strongly suggest you to give this podcast a listen. I promise that it will add tremendous value to you.
Hope you like the podcast!
pluGGd.in features an indepth interview with Anand, the Ringmaster of tolmolbol.com. Anand walks back in time and narrates the story of our entrepreneurial journey that began exactly four years ago.
The post is titled: “When you aren’t blessed with the talent of a sportsperson or an actor, the next best thing to do is to become an entrepreneur“.
One of the best things I ever did over the past year, besides starting tolmolbol.com of course, is to join a class of cardio-kickboxing. Despite not having conducted a survey of every single fitness trainer on the planet, I am willing to confidently place a bet on ZP, my instructor, ranking amongst the world’s best. Most mornings, I trudge out of my bed and reach my class at about 7:00 am; but once there, my despotic trainer makes all the kicking, punching, weight-training and the running (out of your breath) a lot of fun. Occasionally, he mixes the exercise with a dose of advice on nutrition and diet. Therefore, forgive me, dear reader, for suspecting we were in for another of those “Eat Healthy” talks when he stopped the class 20 minutes into today’s work-out session.
When ZP started off with a story of how he had two massive heart attacks some time ago, I could hear a lot of eye-balls pop out of their sockets because one does not normally associate fitness gurus in awesome physical shape with a health problem of this magnitude. Who woulda thunk? Nevertheless, having caught our attention with his near-escape-from-death narration, our instructor proceeded to draw the shape of the heart on a black-board and explained the functioning of this amazing human organ. It would not be a far stretch of imagination to say that he knew a helluva lot more about the heart than those armed with a medical degree amongst us initiates.
Anyway, he proceeded to explain how cholesterol, lipids and other fats constitute the plaque lining the arteries, thereby constricting the flow of blood and causing a heart attack. Apparently, an increased area of coverage of the plaque is more damaging to your heart than having a more concentrated occurrence of this deposit in a similar spot. Because if any of this plaque breaks away and blocks your aortic arch (I think that’s what he said), then you can book your one way ticket out of this wonderful world and say goodbye to staring at Paris Hilton and reading about her escapades on your idiot-box-monitor. Hmm.. on second thoughts, that might not be too bad after all. Hell ought to definitely have less vapid and more beautiful morons.
Now, how would you know if you’ve stuffed your tubes with mouth-watering cakes and pastries? Well, interestingly, you don’t have too many options. But, ZP, went on to dazzle us with his knowledge by explaining how an EBCT (Electron Beam Computer Tomography) scan works. While he wasn’t sure if such a thing exists in Hyderabad, as yet, the EBCT device is supposed to be smart enough to know if you’ve been a naughty kid like little Johnny, eating sweets and telling lies to your near-and-dear-ones about it. The bottom-line was again “Eat Healthy”. Who woulda thunk it again? Exercise alone will not reduce your chances of having a heart attack. What is more important is a strict diet with no processed sugars and fried foods!
I am aware that this blog, filled with an amazing number of less than mediocre posts, could have caused at least a heart attack or two (assuming, magnanimously for a second that this blog attracts at least one more reader than me). So, I am keen to make amends with this post. Since we don’t have a 911 service in this country that can get you to a hospital in record time, be sure to pay heed to some if not most of this advice. And yes, also try to have a big heart!
Back in tolmolbol.com land, we launched a contest today named “Be the Dude/tte” to reward the most popular dudes and dudettes on the site. To be eligible for the prize, members are required to invite and get at least 99 friends to join tolmolbol.com. The 25 most popular dudes or dudettes would each win an iPod Shuffle. Contest ends on August 15th 2007. Be sure to read the contest “Terms and Conditions” for more information.
Here’s a friendly tip for all of you: You can paste your unique friend invitation link from the “Invite a Friend” page on your blog, your email signature or your profiles on other sites. Any tolmolbol city-zen who registers by clicking on this link will be directly added to your friendship network.
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