Crack!

I've been wanting to post this for a long time. This post is dedicated to Aunty

A few days back, last month perhaps, it was a hot afternoon on one not so particularly enjoyable day. Now, what usually happens on a hot afternoon? A class of course! So it was. Maiya jabbering his usual set of disjointed words which were begging to be connected. I was expectedly seated in the last bench, appreciating many fine things like Maiya's good fortune that made him a prof at IITM etc etc. Sania and Aunty were sitting beside me on either side.

Maiya went on talking. I was half asleep. Maiya then wrote some shite on the board. Who cared.
The board was a good seven meters away. Suddenly Aunty sorta wakes me up, points to the board and asks me 'Macha, what does that look like to you?'.

I turn to the board and ask him 'What're you talking about?'

He replies 'That formula written there'.

I then looked up to find a formula which was written on the board

Well, it actually looked slightly different. It was Maiya's handwriting of course that made the difference. The actual one looked similar to this (Thanks to Caesar for making this in Photoshop :D)

Now, I looked at it and burst laughing. It was an absolute crack! Brilliant! Seven meters away a professor wanting to profess some serious stuff writes a formula involving an exponential function, hoping to get a response like Oh-my-God-Where-the-fuck-did-e power rt-come-in-refrigeration. Instead, you have good engineers, with hawk eyes that can spot beauty seven meters away!

This was one of the best cracks I had ever seen.

For those who still haven't got the beauty of the pic, shame on you. Eat a rat and take a closer look.

Skd

Apart from the numerous atrocities we've had to undergo in Mech through many preposterous acts by the aged people of IITM, there are a few gems too. Sample this: Skd, who said this in one of the classes:

'I have no reason to believe in God. But when I realize that one of the most efficient heat exchangers ever made in the past or the present is our throat, I have a strong reason to believe in God'.

Yes, it is indeed true. If you were living in a cold place with a room temperature of -10 deg, the air at that temperature could kill you. In microseconds, before the air reaches your lungs, the upper respiratory system acts as a regenerative heat exchanger (similar to fluidized bed) and brings the temperature to the body temperature. Brilliance.

Dear

To:

Madarmugam

CC: Madarprasad, MadarRao
BCC: Solar

Sirs

Sub: Reminding you of your senility

I would like to introduce myself as your killer to be. Take care.

Sincerely

CB

Wallpaper

My new wallpaper - 10 MW Solar power plant in California. Beauty ain't it?
Imagine sitting on the receiver and looking around!

Ooh

Oh yes, it's been quite a while since there has been any Verbodynamics on this page. Indeed. You should really understand, it's not my fault. Circumstances have caused the same. India was out of the World cup, and for a few days my hands objected to type out any word which had the letters I, N, D, I, A, W, O, R, L, D, C, U, P, H, A, R, B, H, A, J, H, A, N, Y, U, V, R, A, J, S, E, H, W, A, G, etc etc. Don't call me an idiot. I tried my best, till my hand spoke to me one night in my not so sweet dream, telling me that if I dared to write against it's wish, it would write my Power Plant Engineering End semester exam in Hindi. Now, why would I want to take such a risk. So, I let a few days pass by, till it was all fine, when something else happened: Supreme court stay order. Now, after this news came out, I had to spend a few days understanding the Indian judiciary, and to what extent the Supreme court judges can misuse their power (for instance, their personal vengeance against men with blue turbans and revealing Kurtas, etc) , because of which, again, I could never blog. I almost understood it perfectly, and was all ready to venture out to blog when I realized that I needed something else to blog, something essential, which wasn't with me. Come on, smartie. Of course, I'm talking about time. (Haa haa, I made you bulb). It took a few days, when I finally got what was necessary - the time to blog. I started blogger and was about to start posting, when a bad habit of mine played spoilsport : Often, I suddenly get the urge to read news. So, I opened a new Tab, and clicked on IBN. And lo, what I found there was a nice front page article and video of Richard Gere kissing Shilpa Shetty. Now, I again spent some time on analyzing that video, if it was morphed, or if it was really Gere kissing her, or someone like Himesh wearing a wax figure of Gere, etc. That took a couple of days, and I again lost time to write. Then my hand came to the rescue again. Yesterday night it again spoke to me in my dream, and told me that if I didn't blog today, it would write my Power plant engineering exam today. So, I just had to blog.