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Dunno what these guys are trying to proove.
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Here is a forward which I got in my mailbox today.
Isn’t it strange how 2 hours seem so long when
you’re at
Temple, and how
short they seem when you’re
watching a good movie?
Isn’t it strange that you can’t
find a word to say when
you’re praying,
but you have no trouble
thinking what to talk about
with a friend?
Isn’t it strange how difficult
and boring it is to read
one chapter
of the Bhagwad Gita, but how easy
it is to read 100 pages of
a popular novel ?
Isn’t it strange how everyone
wants front-row-tickets
to concerts or
games, but they do whatever
is possible to sit at the last
row in Jagran?
Isn’t it strange how we need to
know about an event for
Temple
2-3
weeks before the day so we can
include it in our agenda, but we can
adjust it for other events in
the last minute?
Isn’t it strange how difficult it
is to learn a fact about God to share it
with others, but how easy
it is to learn, understand,
extend and repeat gossip?
Isn’t it strange how we
believe everything
that magazines and newspapers
say, but we question the words in the
Bhagwad Gita?
Isn’t it strange how everyone
wants a place in
heaven, but they don’t want
to believe, do, or say anything
to get there?
Isn’t it strange how we send
jokes in e-mails
and they are forwarded
right away,
but when we are going to send
messages about God, we think
about it twice before we share
it with others?
IT’S STRANGE ISN’T IT?
You know you're an astronomer when…
1. You see a bright star and know that it's actually Venus.
2. You know the names of specific craters on the Moon.
3. You know the significance of the phrase "Oh Be A Fine Guy/Girl, Kiss
Me" or as we knew it in my high school astronomy class… "Oh Boy, A Fat
Girl Kicked Me".
4. You know the difference between an asteroid and a comet.
5. You have a personal vendetta against the TV-weatherman.
6. You know that Olympus Mons is the tallest peak in the solar system
and which planet it's on (not Earth!).
7. You've spent the night with your wife/husband/significant-other alone……watching a
meteor shower.
8. You've changed the lyrics of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" to make
them factually correct.
9. You know the phrase "a mere billion years" is not an oxymoron.
10. Someone mentions Jodie Foster and you think of Eleanor Arroway.
11. You've been in a debate over whether Pluto is a planet.
12. You know that Pluto really isn't a planet and shouldn't have been
considered one to start (as sad as it may be).
13. You can give the mass of the sun, the average distance between the
Earth and the sun, and the value of the gravitational constant off the
top of your head (in multiple units !!!).
14. You know the exact value of the speed of light.
15. You've decorated your room with a reproduction of your favorite
portion of the night sky.
16. You've used Polaris to find the Big Dipper.
17. You know what NASA stands for.
18. A friend of yours thought you were studying Astrology.
19. You can pronounce Betelgeuse, Uranus, Charon, and Cassiopeia at
least two different ways each.
20. You know the actual pronunciation of Uranus is "your a nus", not
"your anus".
21. Someone casually wonders aloud how many planets out there might be
able to support life you immediately think of the Drake equation.
22. You think the purpose of life is to study the sky.
23. You've ever wondered how much you'd be fined if you blew out all of
the streetlights on your street so you could see the stars better.
24. You ask for a telescope for Christmas/Hannukah/Birthday/any other
gift giving holiday.
25. You pronounce "Maria" with the emphasis on the first syllable.
26. While observing in the middle of the night in an open area,
policemen come up to you and want to know what you're doing.
27. You race to the bookstore when the new issue of Astronomy Magazine
or Sky and Telescope comes out.
28. You have Astronomy podcasts on your ipod.
29. You know every line to Apollo 13, and have possibly read the book.
30. Your heroes include Galileo, Isaac Newton, Albert Eistein, Johannes
Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Carl Sagan, and many others.
31. You're incredibly proud of your 3rd place medal in the Science
Olympiad Astronomy competition!
32. When you see a list of the zodiac and you get annoyed if they're not
in the right order of procession.
33. If it's clear out and the seeing is good, observing takes priority
over sleeping, eating, and even tomorrow's exams!
34. You pack more observing equipment than clothes for a two week vacation.
35. You'll stand outside for hours in 18 below zero weather to watch the lunar
eclipse.
37. When shopping for a car, you measure to see if your telescope will
fit inside.
38. You think of East as "left" and West as "right" (if you live in the
northern hemisphere).
39. You HATE Daylight Saving Time!
40. When planning a trip you consult a Dark Sky Map.
41. You know where Mauna Kea is and can't wait until you go there. The
main attraction of Hawaii is its coldest place (Mauna Kea).
42. You use calendars mainly to check the phase of the Moon.
43. You clear your calendar around the time of New Moon.
44. You switched from glasses to contact lenses not for the gals rather so
it would be easier to use telescopes.
45. Your most important body size measurement is your dilated pupil size.
47. When you hear a tornado warning, you hope it will blow down some
trees in your yard.
48. Most of your flashlights are red.
49. On calendars that don't have new moons indicated, you color your own in.
50. The song "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" bugs you because it's about bad seeing.
51. You have a pair of binoculars in your vehicle and you don't birdwatch.
52. The warmest clothes you have are ugly because they were bought to be worn in the dark.
54. You have installed half-steps on a ladder.
55. Yo u know how long it takes f or the floaters in your eyes to sink out of view .
56. If your primary reason to purchase a bottle of Crown Royal is that your secondary needs a new cover.
57. You use [the lack of] lighting as the primary criteria for selecting a campground.
58. You know at least one person whose telescope is worth more than their car —
And it's you — And you don't see any problem with that.
59. It takes less than a year to convince your spouse to build a shed in
the backyard…that is not for yard equipment…has a sliding roof…and is to be
used only on clear nights.
This is a test post from 
, a fancy photo sharing thing.
nowadays I am enjoying my new car, regularly go to village area near my residence.
somedays back I heard a term 'Ego searching' from my colleague, means searching your own name on popular search engine.
So I tried my name name on verious search engines, I found many of my site, personal pages on first page itself. At the top it was my personal blog, then there is entry of my flickr account (shared pics), results changes engine by enigne though. I amazed with crawling of search engines.
Now I am waiting for my Posterous blog to come on first page on google.
nice article on how to embed things in your web site…. nice one.
