Superheroes

Some superheroes i’ll always remain a big fan of:

Sabu – For those of you who remember Chacha Chowdhary’s sidekick, each time this goliath lost his temper, a volcano would erupt on Jupiter. How cool is that!

Cohen the Barbarian – As barbaric as his hollywood alter-ego, but also loaded with sarcasm, thanks to Prachett’s genius. Now, a barbarian who can kill with sarcasm is a true menace.

Jayan – What? Don’t agree that he was a superhero? All I can say is “pathu-iruvadu truck tyresum, oru valiya parambum, naalu pottu-kinarum kittiyurengil, carommmsss kalikyamayirunnu!”

Wonderwoman – drool :-p

Snoopy - Now he’s the real superhero. A sportstar, lawyer, poet, world war II ace pilot, all rolled into one.

And last, but certainly not the least, a superhero with a really great sense of humour – Captain Super Swift of the Boston Duck Tours… if you haven’t had the chance to run into him, definitely recommend that you do sometime.

Sour Grapes, continued…

Cheenti mailed in a sequel to that story… as always, love ur perspective cheenti!

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The story continues…

….the dear fox  one fine day was passing by the same
vineyard…surprised to see another fox relishing away the bunch of
grapes…quite astonished he interrogated…hey buddy aren’t they sour? No
they are the best answered the oth fox…The best? That’s
surprising…cause I found them very sour….

Well buddy…answered the oth fox…the first time I had them found them
sour too…but I sat below the vine and thought to myself…Grapes are
my favourite..cant do without them…should do something to make them
sweet! Then I started caring for it…protected it..made it feel
secure…gave it my heart… then realized all this CAN make a
difference…n see today I am enjoying on the sweetest of grapes I’v
ever had….u give in and you get is what I believe in…

But why did you give up soon?…was it jus a temporary temptation?…

Well..all the best with chasing the rabbits…

Sour Grapes

“Sour Grapes!”, shrugged the Fox, as he made its way out of the vineyard…

But he wasn’t convinced. As he trotted through the edge of the woods, he knew deep within that what he had left behind were the sweetest grapes he would ever find. Pangs of anguish gripped his heart, and he found himself wandering aimlessly through the woods. All he could think of were those sweet grapes, the sweetest of grapes! These woods that were his home, and had been his home for years now seemed alien, hostile even – he felt that in losing the grapes, he had lost the very meaning of his existence.

 The Fox did not sleep that night. All attempts to lose himself to torpidity were disturbed by troubling dreams. By the break of dawn, the Fox knew that he must have those grapes, or peace as he knew it was lost forever. With a sense of renewed determination, desperation some would say, the Fox made his way back to the vineyard, and found himself standing in the verisame hallowed ground, right under the luscious bunch of heavenly grapes. It was then, that the Fox felt the smile of God fall upon him. It fell in the shape of tiny dew drops, which had been falling all morning, and in the process weighed down upon the vines, so that the grapes now drooped a few inches lower than they had the previous night. This was just the kind of luck the Fox needed. With the vine a few inches lower, and with his own determination spurring him a few inches higher, the Fox, in one mighty leap snapped the entire bunch off the vine. And, then as he bit into the bunch with one greedy snap, it was like a moment of Nirvana! It was indeed a true moment of enlightenment, as the Fox realized – the damn grapes were sour!!

Foxes since date have pretty much stuck to rabbits and such…

Disaster Recovery

Far far away, and a few thousand light beers ago, there lived a novice System Administrator named Baja Dey. Baja was in the process of being initated to the world of System Administratorgiri by Dr. Root, his guru and mentor, and an expert from the world of Kyu-nix systems. One fine autumn afternoon, a not-so-innocent bystander evesdropping upon our Kyu-nix expert and wannabe, would have observed Dr. Root educating Baja on the intricacies of Disaster Recovery.

Dr. Root: So Baja, I’ve run you through the works. Now you tell me… how do we setup a DR plan for this critical development server?

Baja: Guruji, first we’ll do a weekly tape backup of the server, followed by daily incremental backups. Then we ship the weekly tapes offsite, and the daily tapes to a remote lab onsite… blah blah blah…

Well, don’t have to bore you will all the details. You probably are aware of how a Disaster Recovery plan works.

Anyway, Dr. Root liked Baja’s plan. Even though a rookie, this boy showed promise, Dr. Root thought to himself. Satisfied that the Disaster Recovery Plan was in good hands, Dr. Root walked away and buried himself into the world of core dumps and kernels that needed a debugging.

Things were peaceful in System Administrator world until one day, when the development server finally crashed after months of abuse. This was it… this was the moment when the Rookie’s Disaster Recovery Plan would be put to test!

Dr. Root: Baja! This is your day of reckoning! Out with those tapes my son. Show them your magic.

Baja: Roger that Guruji! Should I call for the offsite tapes right away?

Dr. Root: Absolutely! And, while we are waiting for them tapes, let’s backup all the disks that are still accessible and send them offsite. Just so we have redundant backup.

Baja: Aye Aye Sir!

One hour later… A petrified Baja is seen running to Dr. Root’s desk.

Baja: Er, Guruji, we have a problem.

Dr. Root: Out with it my boy!

Baja: Er, the van carrying today’s backup offsite crashed with the van that was shipping the offsite tapes back!

Dr. Root: Oops… we seem to have got ourselves in a bit of a tangle.

Baja: er, yes sir… to be precise, two magnetic tape lengths of a tangle…

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p.s. While this is not relevant to the story, a conversation that Dr. Root had with the lead developer later that day went like this:

Dr. Root: Er, we lost the backups. Can’t restore your code.

Lead Developer: Thanks!

Dr. Root: Yeah sure! Be sarcastic!

Lead Developer: No Really! I mean it!  Did you really think we wanted all those disasters we’d coded in recovered! Thank god for small mercies! Phew!