The Lost Pages

Well first of all, Happy Onam to all the mallus reading this. Enjoy folks! After reading Sankar's blog I too have signed up for Google's Adsense. Got approved for it. Lets see how long they are going to put up with me. Other than that, accompanied my roommate Venkat on his shooping trip to Old Navy. Alas!got my temptation got the better of me and I ended up buying more stuff than he did. Realised that clothes here can get real cheap during sales. Then went to the Atlanta Bread Company and had a veggie sandwich there. Lately me and my roommate(again Venkat) have been discussing psychology. Our main area of discussion has been counselling people. We almost came to an agreement that the foremost thing you need is patience. When the guy is confused, disturbed you need to let him speak and you need to listen!( atleast you have to act that you are!) When finally he gets tired, speak out. If its girls that you are counselling then JUST LISTEN! Don't talk. Was staring at the night sky today. Ever tried counting stars on a clear sky? Its fun if you have time to waste away. My top score has been 350 till now. But you start getting a little dizzy after a while. And talking about stars, if you have seen the movie "A Beautiful Mind", you will know this. Think of any shape - a horse or an umbrella or something and you can find stars in the sky that outline the shape. Sounds psychingly wierd to do, even more if someone else is watching you doing it, but its fun I guess. Planning to put my Clemson pics online sometime tomorrow. John Kerry is looking really strong. Expecting him to win. Have an early morning class tomorrow and have to go. Ending of with an interesting anecdote I came across In January 2003, enigmatic Wall Street wizard Andrew Carlssin was arrested by Federal investigators and charged with insider trading. Suspicions had been aroused at the Security and Exchange Commission by Carlssin's uncanny success in the stock market. "With an initial investment of only $800," investigators explained, "in two weeks' time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can't be pure luck. The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information [about mergers or technological breakthroughs which were supposed to be secret]. Carlssin, however, had another explanation: He claimed to be a time-traveler from the year 2256. "It was just too tempting to resist," he alleged in a mind-boggling four-hour videotaped confession. "I had planned to make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn't look too perfect. But I just got caught in the moment." In a bid for leniency, Carlssin offered to divulge such "historical facts" as the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS. However, he refused to reveal the location of his "time craft" or to discuss its design, out of fear, he said, that the technology would "fall into the wrong hands..." [Though officials were dubious about Carlssin's claims, the SEC did admit: "No one can find any record of any Andrew Carlssin existing anywhere before December 2002." Nonetheless, they added: "He's going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers Island until he agrees to give up his sources."]

posted by Vithal @ 11:06