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Wow. Real life; guaranteed to be stranger than fiction. :) From a fwd in the original post here The temple priests admiringly inspect the rear armour slats on their newly acquired Abrams M1A2 temple tank. The mix-up apparently occurred when a wealthy NRI devotee had misunderstood a request from the temple trust, asking him to donate a new tank to commemorate the annual temple 'Thiruvizhaa' this year. “We had sent a letter to the devotee, Mr. Shankar Sundaram of Cleveland (which is in 'States'), indicating that our temple needed a tank for many years. He has very kindly and promptly responded to our request. Sadly, it's the wrong kind of tank. Heh heh.”, said the temple head-priest Aravind Adigal.

Amazon bought Zappos ... Apparently this is a good move. Zappos' interesting hiring practices were pretty interesting for me to read about. There's a Bezos video that I liked, and a letter from the Zappos CEO to his team that I liked even more. However, it was a great section at the end of the letter (pasted below), that sparked off a thought in my head. It surprising because its naturally funny, and consistent with the writer's style. I'd heard a remark at work a little earlier in the week about having a sense of "whimsy" as you designed products and you go about your work. I think its done well really rarely, and as companies become larger, humor and whimsy (in communication and in product design) becomes either discouraged or something attempted to be done my committee (and hence not that funny.) ----------------------------- Q: I'm a business/financial reporter. Can you talk like a banker and use fancy-sounding language that we can print in a b...

I used to crack these jokes all the time before B-School. Thanks for the pointer, Chris Looks like the dilbert site has been completely re-designed since I've visited. Umm...some good, some not so good. They've tried to look very "Web 2.0", but site interaction and usability isn't quite there yet.

I'm kinda kicked about something that happened a couple of weeks ago. Someone wrote me an email asking if he could adapt an article I'd written for ChiBus for something he was planning. My reaction was, in order : "Hell, yeah!" ...and "Thanks". It inspired me to revise Carol and Klaus (A) one more time. I'd written the original article in a terrible rush, but it was one of my favorite articles for the school newspaper. I think its funny only if you've been to through the special weirdness that is business school and the case-based education format (i.e. its funny because its kinda true.) But still, if you feel like a laugh give it a try. The episode also got me thinking: "What if lightning strikes twice?" and someone else wants to do something with this again? It was nice of this guy to ask, but I should make it easier. I've known what Copyleft and Creative Commons is for a while, but have always thought about it in the context of...

I've been playing golf quite a bit over the last two weeks. Its strange how I've avoided playing for such a long time despite having the opportunity (my dad has played for ages), and now when its reasonably inconvenient (don't have a car or golf clubs and golfing in the US is so much more expensive than Africa) I'm kind of getting in to it. Is it an age thing or a post-MBA thing? I suspect its more a peer thing. I have enough friends doing it, that it seems like fun. Anyway, this makes me want to re-read P.G Wodehouse's golf short stories . I remember reading this when I was 11-12 and loving it. I haven't read Wodehouse in quite a while. There was a stage a while ago, when I hardly read anything else. That stage has long passed, but I still haven't come across a modern author that quite matches his humor or I've enjoyed as much. My mother once said that me giggling uncontrollably at regular intervals was a sure sign that a Wodehouse novel was being rea...