This is a really cool implementation of Google maps. Since a lot of buildings in the world look like letters it is possible to create a message using these buildings. So Jesse Vig went ahead and created geoGreeting.com. Its a cool implementation and I love it.
Check out this message I created as a test and then try it yourself
Thanks to Userfriendly.org for the link.
– Suramya
Ok, now I know you can buy anything on eBay.
Earlier I spoke about paying a company so that ‘cool’/pretty people leave messages on your myspace page so that you look more popular than you are. Then Michelle pointed out that you can pay another company that calls you on your cell so that you sound more popular than you are.
Now I just found this auction on eBay where this girl is promising to be the winner’s MySpace girlfriend for a month.
Do people really care so much about looking cool/popular? Are they really that shallow?
– Suramya
How desperate are people to look cool and popular on social networking sites? A lot it seems… Check out this site called: Fake Your Space
From the site:
Welcome to Fake Your Space. You have found a new and exciting service which offers help to all the men and women out there who don’t feel like they are popular enough on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. If you are tired of seeing everyone else with the hottest friends and want some hotties of your own, then this is the place for you.
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You can pick the hottest looking friends to leave you messages. We have a wide selection of men and women of all ethnic backgrounds.
So for $0.99 a month you can have your profile populated with a lot of hot looking men/women.
Whats next? A fake calender that shows you going out on a date with a hot girl (With links to fake photos) when you actually spent the evening watching re-runs on TV?
God, some people are so unbelievable..
– Suramya
As some of you already know my birthday was on the 3rd of Dec and this time I had a lot of fun celebrating it. Since Aarti’s birthday is on the 2nd we decided to have a joint party on the 2nd evening so that we could celebrate her birthday on the 2nd and the celebrate my birthday at midnight.
We (Reema, Pranav, Sarang and me) arrived there at Aarti’s place at about 8:15 pm and we were one of the first to arrive, we were soon followed by Amit and Anu, so they decided to pass the time by playing Uno (I was busy eating…as I was starving). Then we remembered that Amit and Anu had gotten cake so Aarti cut it. It was a really good cake (I think it was called the banana split cake or something like that…) Below is a pic of Aarti cutting the cake:
After the rest of the group joined us slowly we started the party with food, followed with shots:
Taking Shots
Cheers!!
then dancing. (A lot of dancing… We started at about 9 pm and went on till almost 3 am or maybe a bit later… not to clear on that part) Below are some photos taken at that time.
Group photo
At 12 am both me and Aarti cut another cake this time to celebrate my birthday. The cake cutting was followed by a lot more dancing, singing and basically us enjoying ourselves.
Group photo taken at the party
Once most of us got tired we decided to leave and got home at around 4:30 am or so at which time we all went to sleep. Got up at 11 am and got ready as we had planned to go for lunch in the city. Because everyone had a late night we decided to postpone the lunch till 2 pm, but by the time we got seated and everyone ordered it was already 3 pm. We went to this mexican restaurant called La Palapa located in the east village. We were seated in this heated room with a glass ceiling. The food was awesome and the service was great.
After lunch we went to this desert place but since all of us had already eaten so much only Vinit and Surabhi ordered anything (They both got hot chocolate). Then we came home where we relaxed and watched a bit of TV (Saw the first two episodes of Sliders).
As usual I took a lot of photos (143 on my camera, plus photos on Aarti’s and Madhur’s camera’s) and will be sharing them soon. Actually Aatri posted the photos from her camera online, you can check them out over here
This birthday was a lot of fun so a big thank you to all my friends who showed up and even bigger thanks to everyone who called/emailed/messaged me to wish me.
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.
– Suramya
As some of you might know I took a four day trip with friends to Lake Placid, NY and I just got back. This was one fo the most fun trips I have taken in a while. Lake Placid is an awesome location with great Ski trails (They held the winter there in 1932 and 1980). I have been there earlier and loved it so we decided to take another trip there.
There were 10 of us on this trip: Me, Vinit, Surabhi, Pranav, Aarti, Sarang, Sandeep, Pradeep, Amit and Anu. All of us except Amit and Anu left from Newark, NJ (We had to leave the cars in the NJIT parking deck) at 4:30 am (so that we could miss all the traffic) in two cars. It was me, Sandeep, Pradeep and Sarang in one car and Surabhi, Vinit, Aarti and Pranav in the second car. The drive up there is beautiful and we were there in Lake Placid by 9:15 am. The cabin was really nice, it was located right next to the Ausable River and was really beautiful. Below is a pic of the cabin from the front.
We basically lazed around during the day. The cabin had a fireplace so we relaxed in front of it; played Uno, Vollyball and Climbed trees (That was just me) and slept (Some of us hadn’t slept the entire night before).
At night we had a bonfire and we fried Paneer (Cottage Cheese) and onions at the bonfire and had them. They tasted amazing. It was freezing outside and till we got the fire going it was literally a pain to stay outside inspite of all the jackets and gloves. But once we got the fire going the temperature became a lot more bearable. We were outside for a couple of hours atleast. The best part was that the bonfire area was near the river so if everyone stopped talking we could hear the river flowing and nothing else. There was absolute silence in the area. The night sky has never looked so awesome before.
Once the food was done we came back in and started talking about various horror movies we had seen, basically to scare Aarti, Vinit and Surabhi. We talked for a couple of hours and just as we were about to goto sleep Amit and Anu arrived and we talked for another hour before finally going to sleep.
The next day was also very relaxed and we all woke up by 9:30 am. While we were getting dressed Anu made tea for everyone (I had a soda as I don’t drink tea) and we had breakfast. After breakfast we went outside for a couple of hours of cricket.
Then once everyone was tired we left for Lake Placid and on the way we stopped by the AuSable river which had frozen (Not completely but just the top inch or inch and half) to toss stones and ice across it. It was a lot of fun. The really interesting part was that when we tossed a particularly large stone or ice piece we would get a cool echo.
After playing at the river for about an hour we drove around to the Lake Placid proper, visited the Olympic stadium and had dinner at this Italian place. After dinner we went back to the cabin and watched a couple of movies. Actually I just watched half of the first one when I got bored and left to read a book. After the first movie we decided to make another bonfire and roasted/grilled corn on it along with Yams. The corn tasted awesome but the Yams were ok. I think we shouldn’t have let them catch fire. That probably ruined the flavor. 😉 Aarti, Surabhi and Sandeep stayed inside while we were out by the bonfire. After eating we put out the fire and went back in and spent the next few hours just talking. We talked about everything from politics to cars to college life. We finally went to sleep at 4 am and that too because we were planning to go ice skating and had to get up for that.
We were originally planning on going skiing but since it hadn’t snowed yet none of the beginner trails were open yet and only the intermediate trails were open. So we went ice-skating. That also was a lot of fun. The rink was only open for 2 hours but we enjoyed ourselves a lot. After skating we went for lunch at a Mexican restaurant where the food was pretty good and the service was amazing.
Having lunch at a Mexican Restaurant
After dinner we came back to the cabin as we had a few hours to kill before we went to the Stars on Ice show and just relaxed. I didn’t goto the show as my head was killing me but everyone else except Sarang went and really enjoyed the show. I basically finished my book and then went to sleep. Got up the next day feeling a lot better and had breakfast. Then after lazing around for a few hours while everyone got dressed we reluctantly left for home.
I was in Amit’s car with him and Anu and the drive back was non eventful, we did hit a lot of traffic at first but since we had a GPS and my black berry we choose an alternative route and managed to avoid most of the traffic.
Over all the trip was a lot of fun and I took a lot of photos (About 500+) so it will take me some time to sort through them and select pics to put in the photo gallery. However I have put up a zip file containing all the Lake Placid photos up on the web, you can download it from here.
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.
This is the cabin we stayed at: Our Cabin
Update (5th Dec 2006): Posted the pics from the trip in the Photogallery
– Suramya
Really like this photo. Took this a few months ago on my cell phone camera. Just felt like sharing it. Have a few more but need permission for those before I post them 😉
– Suramya
All the best art is dirty: Where a normal person sees a dusty windshield, Scott Wade sees a canvas. This guy is good. Check out the paintings he makes on a dusty windshield. Below is an example of his art. This one took him about an hour to paint in three sessions.
Check it out: Dirty Car Art
– Suramya
A good article about how to choose a good digital camera. It talks about how people mistake higher megapixel camera’s to be better cameras.
I have actually seen this personally with photos I have taken. At Gaurang’s engagement the photos I took with my 1.3 Mega-pixel camera looked better than the ones taken with a 4 megapixel camera. The pics from the 4 megapixel camera looked blocky and the indoor photos were the worst. They pretty much looked like they were taken with a 4 year old camera. The sad part was that I used that camera more than mine as I thought that it would give me better pics.
Right now I have a Sony Cybershot and I don’t see a lot of difference between a 3 mega pixel shot and a 5 mega pixel shot. Oh, I know the 5 mega pixel has some more details and even when I crop out a particular portion of the photo I still get a good resolution on that portion.
Check it out over here: The myth of maximum megapixels
Thanks,
Suramya
Ok first a disclaimer, I am not a very big James Bond fan. I mean I liked the latest movies but I wouldn’t go back to watch the old ones over and over again. I loved the books though, Ian Fleming is one hell of a writer. This movie is based on his book by the same name which was the first James Bond book.
Me, Vinit, Surabhi, Pranav, Aarti, Tintisha and Jessica went for the first day first show today morning at 12:01 am. It was worth the time and effort. For some reason the theater for not that crowded as what I had expected (It was only half full) But I guess it could be because it was a Thursday night. We sat all the way up in the top and really enjoyed the show.
The best part about the movie was that is is completely different from the usual bond movies where Bond is this smooth character with all the cool gadgets that let him perform the most impossible mission with style. The Bond in this movie is a little rough on the edges and there are no cool gadgets involved (Q is not even shown/mentioned). He is a darker and more emotional character.
The movie started off with James Bond getting his 00 status by making his two kills, (which was a great way to start the movie) and then continued to build up on that great start. I loved the chase scene in the first 10 mins of the movie. The movie has some great action scenes and the casino scenes were really well directed. The movie kept true to the book for the most part with a few minor changes, but to tell what was changed would spoil the movie so I suggest you go watch it yourself. If you haven’t read the book and are not planning to you can get an idea of its plot over here
I didn’t like the movie theme song though, I think it was pathetic (I really liked the Golden Eye theme song).
Once the movie was over, we (Me, Vinit, Surabhi, Pranav, Aarti and Tintisha) went for a late night snack to some diner. The food there was awesome. We were there till almost 5 am. Got home at 5:30 am, went to bed at 6:00 am and woke up at 7:45 am. So a bit tired and sleepy
but it was worth it. Below is a photo that I took at the diner of all of us:
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.
– Suramya
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