they’re all toes… all five of them
hindustan times was a fairly decent paper until recently. and i’m only judging by the standards of its rival, the times of india. one thing that pisses me off is that they’ve started selling the front page to advertisers. not ad spots on the front page, the entire front page.
that’s crap enough on its own, and then they create mutants, like the guy who met with an accident and lost his “toe and fingers” of his left foot.
the digits on your foot are called toes, retards. yes… all five of them. unless you’re sithandra, in which case they’re all fingers. yes… all five of them.
pin codes getting longer? but why?
i don’t know of too many people or companies that still use the postal system. the only time i see the postman is at diwali, when he comes for his dues. and now, to make that postman’s life easier, they’re upgrading postal codes to a pin+2 system, where the last two digits tell the postman which exact colony the recipient lives in. are pin codes that important anymore? we have house numbers. pocket numbers. sectors. phases. and so on… will the new system ensure that the postman/courier guy actually delivers my bills, or will he just throw them under the nearest staircase?
the united nations is even more ambitious: giving each address/person a url under .post using which the postman will find us. good luck with that dream. at domaintools, there was a better idea: just use your own domains. and let the postman do a whois, and deliver accordingly. not that that would ever happen, either.
semi-related anecdote: when i first shifted to delhi, i sent my dad a letter with just my last name and the pin code. it reached. kerala is convenient that way, unless you’re a generic nair or menon. anyone wants to try if it works in delhi? send me something with pottenkulam/110025 on it. if it reaches, the man’s getting his diwali bonus.
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i should read more carefully.
i consider myself fairly open-minded. but i thought this was taking the whole “pamper your employees” principle a bit too far when i read about the “introduce a girl to an engineer” programme. and middle-school girls! i thought there were laws against that sort of thing.
and just yesterday, there was this article almost half the girls in our country getting married before turning 18. was wondering what the world’s coming to.
but seriously, that google post was kind of wink-wink they way they said it. or is it just my subconscious thoughts?
i don’t really care. new template here on my blog! great success!