Ramu was a good man. Stupid, but still a good man. Despite his brutal streak, he retained a certain childlike innocence. In a way, I’ll miss him.

Rajesh turned out to be one of those misguided, rebel-without-a-cause 20-somethings. Four months ago, he spoke of getting a temporary job after passing his exams, to make a little money for admission fees. Money, arrogance, ignorance, and a profound lack of judgment led to his ending up face-down in a pool of his own blood. I wish he had turned out better, but I cannot say he did not have this coming.

Stupid, stupid people.

This time, it was Decibel’s (Desi Bal’s?) Naagin The Lady Cobra. I seem to have gone a tad overboard this time, however. My apologies to Last.fm.

The track is available for download from the band’s website and from Last.fm.

Apparently, there’s a reworked version of this track, called “Naagin Bhaag 2,” which is scheduled to be released on their debut album in the “summer of 2008” along with tabulature.

Okay, skipping right to the Snake Xenzia cheat. Note: This works only in campaign mode.

• Select a speed/level you’re comfortable with and start a new game.
• Press one of the soft keys to go back to the menu.
• Navigate down to ‘Game type’ and select ‘Campaign’ once again.
• Exit Snake Xenzia and then go back to the game.
• Select ‘Continue’

Well, that’s about it. Doing this will get rid of the walls and/or mazes. What that means is that your snake will never become unmanageably long. It also means that you’ll also be able to accumulate a LOT of points without actually having to leave level 1 or deal with any walls and/or mazes. Just keep repeating the above steps for each level and you can’t lose (unless, of course, you have the motor skills of a sea cucumber).

I managed to get up to 37121 points before I got bored and drove my snake into its own ass. Remember, kids, patience is a virtue.

• Can you cry under water?
• How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
• Why do you have to ‘put your two cents in’ but it’s only a ‘penny for your thoughts’? Where’s that extra penny going?
• If there is an afterlife and you go to heaven or hell, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
• Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
• What disease did cured ham actually have?
• How is it that we put someone on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
• Why is it that people say they ’slept like a baby’ when babies wake up like every two hours?
• If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
• Why are you IN a movie, but you’re ON TV?
• Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
• Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They’re going to see you naked anyway.
• Why is ‘bra’ singular and ‘panties’ plural?
• Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
• If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?
• Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?
• If the professor on Gilligan’s Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can’t he fix a hole in a boat?
• Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs!
• If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn’t he just buy dinner?
• If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
• If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
• Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
• Why did you just try singing the two songs above?Why do they call it an asteroid when it’s outside the atmosphere but call it a hemorrhoid when it’s in your butt?
• Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

Then there’s something I’ve asked myself since I was a kid: When the guy finds the lamp and rubs it, releasing the genie, why the hell doesn’t he wish for unlimited wishes? That seems wiser than risking a limited number of wishes on stupid shit, don’t you think?

He is attached to his friend with dog-like loyalty. He did, at one time, receive clothes and just enough money to pay for his bus fare. Running from the police was not cheap.

She asked him to come visit her. He refused, even though he didn’t know why. Times had changed, of course. He was no longer the person she used to know, and he suspected she had undergone similar changes. Perhaps he was afraid to face the extent of these changes. Perhaps he was ashamed of how low he had allowed himself to sink in the intervening years. Perhaps he was afraid that he would, as he had earlier, fall in love with her every time he met her.

Perhaps he’s just stupid.

Anyone else had this happen to them?

• Getting Ubuntu 7.10 to work with my ATi Radeon 9250 AGP graphics card.
• Writing, co-writing, editing, and publishing FAQs, tutorials, and rants related to IRC, DALnet, #Mumbai and #Bangalore on DALnet, and the mIRC and irssi IRC clients.
• A major overhaul of my Music page (and sub-pages), since a lot of my search engine traffic is directed at these pages. I’ll be looking at expanding this category to include reviews, band bios, lyrics, and download links (the RIAA can go take a walk off a cliff), and any contribution in any form will be welcome.
• A reasonably major overhaul of the current theme.  Michael Pollock/Solostream have done a good job, but the color scheme doesn’t really do much for me.
• Apart from all that, I will, of course, have to dedicate most of my time and what little energy I have to developing and maintaining my father’s business, orionhub.com.

My hand hasn’t healed the way it was supposed to, and open reduction and internal fixation might be my one remaining option. For now, given my current work load, I’m trying to buy time from the bone specialist guy at the hospital. Wait and watch is all this eight-fingered freak is going to do for now.