Last week we met & decided to have Windows vs OS X as a podcast, let’s go all out. The idea seemed cool & we recorded the podcast. So here is me against the editor of SmokingApples (Milind), author for Macworld (Aayush) & Yash (a Macboy).

Let me know what do you guys think. Enjoy!

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My First Podcast – The Ultimate OS X vs Windows Debate

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Wrong Career Choice?

Scene 1:

Me and my friend were in a Model UN conference, when the idiot decided to hit on a girl. The girl was giving away soft drinks to all participants and when she came to our table, he asked, “Can we get beer instead of this?” The girl smiled and said no. Considering that most engineering guys have a sense of humor beyond the understanding of normal humans, my friend went to the girl and asked, “Can we have Chinese beer?” The joke being, we were representing China in the conference.

Result: The girl went and complained to the organizers, who luckily happened to be good friends and this douche was let off with a warning.

Scene 2:

Another friend of mine goes for CAT classes where there happens to be a teacher who is strict and very mean, you get the picture the kind of teachers we always wished we could run over in a Hummer. So my friend had skipped a couple of classes, thinking of this as being a good opportunity to start a conversation he went and asked the girl, “Whose lectures did I miss? Was it the wicked witch?” A metaphor only some can understand, as I said the sense of humor of an engineer is beyond normal humans.

Result: He was greeted with an expression of shock and awe, an expression which in my friend’s words, was something that resembled the look he would get if he had abused the girl’s family.

Not really sure if that was the case, possibilities are there. Lucky for him it was the last lecture of the ‘wicked witch’. The world can be a small place at the wrong times.

So, here are 2 tried and tested pick-up lines that you should never try unless off course you’re motives are to get yourself screwed and not the other way round.

~Enjoy

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Pick Up Lines, Tried & Tested

The name of the brand was written in a manner which absolutely resembles the new Union Bank logo.

Kangaro is a well known & reputed  stationary manufacturer. Their brand – Munix has the U & N written in a manner which has been ripped off by the guys who made the Union Bank of India’s logo. I believe that Kangaro needs to do more to promote their products, it seems no one from the Union bank who approved the logo has used Kangaro’s staple pins.

The logo of the Munix (Staple Pins) brand:

The new logo of Union bank of India:

Here are the 2 sites:

Union Bank of India

Kangaro Munix

This does fall into the realm of moral plagirism. Unless off course both logos are done by the same 3rd company.

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Union Bank’s New Logo Copied

We the engineers (me almost on paper, but certainly one off it) are often a disgruntled lot – as the founder of Pagalguy.com puts it. I concur. He is absolutely right in his observation. We are disgruntled, can be grim & certainly don’t like to stand around people who talk crap, even if that was one of us.

Engineers are practical and tend to be specific in what they want, that’s what makes them what they are. I personally have a strong belief that most engineers if not all, are successful engineers because of them and NOT the teachers who teach. Specially in a university like the Mumbai univ. we know for a fact that the cheat sheet to score is cram what you can – the sole mantra to engineering success. And these are not engineers. They are a dis-respect to the community of engineers and so are the people who facilitate such an environment – the good for nothing “teachers”. For whom teaching is a show of their powers even without knowledge of the subject.

When an Electronics & Telecomm guy is troubleshooting the computer of a final year Computer guy, there is something wrong with the system of education. It is rubbish and worthless just like the people who design it.

Sad. But, that is the state of the ‘A’ grade colleges here. It is a dilemma for us too, it’s either “succeed” on paper or gain knowledge about what you want to. The choice is ours and the ability to make this choice and yet do India proud is what I salute in every engineer, every true engineer. Not an easy balancing act but it has been done time and again and the teachers jump in stake claim.

My uncle (ex-BARC, Electrical Engineer) years back told me that parents come to know that their child is gonna become an engineer when they see him breaking & making stuff. A sure trait of an engineer, never have an idle mind, even if we seem to be doing nothing, rest assured there is something building up in our minds, an idea germinating about creating something. “Create” is the key word, an engineer always will be creating something in his mind or with his hands, always.

Maybe, that is why we are quite boring for the girls and girls aren’t exactly the engineering types. There is definitely a scarcity of the fairer sex in engineering, it is both good & bad. If there were too many then there will be un-wanted distraction all around. If there are less we tend to become bored of life.

Sure, people are successful today in every field, but an engineer has respect that no one else and if you were to ask me, if someone said that he was an engineer  who scored 85%+ from Mumbai university, he does not get any respect from me ‘coz I know he is trailer park trash walking on God’s green Earth.

True engineers are an anomaly in the system, one which I am thankful of. Pat yourselves on the back you deserve it.

NOTE: The 2 links are not broken but are hidden posts till I complete my engineering, don’t want to get into controversies. For those who have been reading my blog, the 2 posts are the College Professor Volumes I & II.

PS: I am born to be an engineer, happy birthday to me.

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Happy Engineer’s Day