http://amit.asaravala.com/ en-us amit@asaravala.com 2008-07-25T09:04:56-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001101.php Is everyone allotted a finite number of strange coincidences? If so, I feel like I should be running out of them soon. For instance, the other day I got a message on the answering machine from an old friend... 1101@http://amit.asaravala.com/ life 2008-07-25T09:04:56-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001092.php At the pediatrician's office, one of the questions on the form asks if my child can shoot urine more than a foot in distance. Yes.... 1092@http://amit.asaravala.com/ life 2008-06-27T20:35:02-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001079.php First, I'd like to say that the Wife is pregnant and we are having a boy. Yes, thank you. It's true. We are quite excited about this. But that's not the story I wanted to tell you. The real... 1079@http://amit.asaravala.com/ life 2008-01-20T23:23:34-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001070.php I gotta say, I always thought this was just an urban legend: NYC Woman Finds Python in Her Toilet... 1070@http://amit.asaravala.com/ oddities 2007-10-17T21:30:03-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001068.php 1068@http://amit.asaravala.com/ oddities 2007-10-01T17:05:29-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001066.php Is there a reason why computer keyboards still have Caps Lock keys? Is there some powerful lobby of FORTRAN 77 programmers that I don't know about? At the least, can we move the Caps Lock key somewhere else --... 1066@http://amit.asaravala.com/ technology 2007-09-06T22:12:30-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001057.php Do not get your head caught in the television. If your head is severed, do not use the supplied bag to reattach it. Sleepy astronauts not allowed.... 1057@http://amit.asaravala.com/ oddities 2007-07-26T21:50:13-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001054.php Why do the express lines at the supermarket still allow people to pay by check? Do Safeway executives really think I'll be a more loyal customer if their clerks mispronounce my last name while they hand me my receipt?... 1054@http://amit.asaravala.com/ life 2007-06-17T21:29:41-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001051.php Energy saving light bulbs are great for the environment and all, but what's with wrapping them in a gigantic plastic blister pack that's not even recyclable?... 1051@http://amit.asaravala.com/ oddities 2007-05-20T21:12:27-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001050.php Sure, "lost in translation" instructional text is old news. But damn, it's funny -- especially when you come across a "trouble shooting q&a" for a wooden tissue box that you just received from Japan. That's right, it's just a... 1050@http://amit.asaravala.com/ oddities 2007-05-09T22:16:03-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001042.php I've started moderating the incoming comments on this blog -- yes, yes, all three that I get each year, I get it, you're funny -- because I wasn't able to delete all the comment spam fast enough. So this... 1042@http://amit.asaravala.com/ oddities 2007-01-18T07:10:26-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001040.php Ah, San Diego. One of the few places where you talk about "summer car care tips" in late December.... 1040@http://amit.asaravala.com/ life 2006-12-22T21:45:43-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001039.php 1. Now, I don't know much about things that end in "Faire," but it seems to me that if one were to find one's self in the apparently embarrassing position of having shown up to a Renaissance Faire wearing... 1039@http://amit.asaravala.com/ life 2006-12-14T20:50:56-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/001002.php Buried at the bottom of an article about the University of Pennsylvania's commencement ceremonies: Comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who earned a master's degree in positive psychology, was among the approximately 6,000 graduates. "In America, Jodie Foster speaks at your university's... 1002@http://amit.asaravala.com/ oddities 2006-05-15T19:55:39-08:00 http://amit.asaravala.com/archives/000997.php From an article about magician -- er, endurance masochist -- David Blaine and his little accident last night: As early as on the second day of his challenge, Gunel said, there was evidence that Blaine was suffering liver failure;... 997@http://amit.asaravala.com/ oddities 2006-05-09T10:47:13-08:00