Babe Ruth vs Tendlya

Babe Ruth or the Sultan of Swat was an American baseball player in the 1920s who is still regarded as the greatest baseball player ever and often ties with Jordan and Ali on polls regarding America's sporting greats. Before someone gets annoyed with any perceivably projected dudeness on my part, let me clarify. I did not know any of this until yesterday.

It was the last class of the week and I found myself in an environment that I wasn't entirely comfortable with - the insides of a classroom. Our good natured Professor had tried his hand at waking us out of our stupor - he'd even called us 'Land of the Sitting Dead' which did evoke a few chuckles.

He'd just finished his cup of coffee and then tried to shoot his empty cup into the trash can only for it to rebound. He smiled sheepishly and said something about a player he follows, who had shot as bad as him in last night's game. Basketball trivia and friday fatigue - not a great combination and there was awkward silence all round.

But then he said, "Anyway. That wasn't all the sporting action yesterday. India man! Beating Australia!!", sporting the rock-on sign. 

"How bummed were you guys, when Sachin Tendulkar didn't get his 100th century?", he continued. Now we were all up!

 And then a dude in front asked, "Sachin Who?". To that he said, "Sachin Tendulkar man! Only the greatest cricketer EVER!!"

Just to explain further he also gave a baseball metaphor. No, not that baseball metaphor! He called Sachin - the Babe Ruth of Cricket.

Greatest. Class. Ever.

And then I left class thinking, "Oh! So Babe Ruth was the Sachin of Baseball".

This is madness

Nope.


This is Sparta Grad School.


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I have to do this for this

Answer any/all of the following

1. Match the following (5 marks)

Things you should never ask

Where/Whom	What
a. Lady	1. Bill for Jam Bun
b. Grad Student	2. Chillrai
c. Naayar Kadai Bakery	3. Extra Chutney
d. McDonald’s	4. GPA
e. BMTC Conductor	5. Age

Blog title is a tribute to my computer science teacher who gave questions like,

2. Java is a/an (Notice how we give nothing away by being indefinite with our indefinite articles. Classic Tamil Nadu State Board)

a) Programming language

b) Object oriented language

c) Natural language native to Indonesia

d) a & b

e) c or d

f) b implies a

and her obligatory addendum appended at the end of every such multiple choice question

g) all of the above

h) none of the above

i) any of the above

Seriously.

Aunty Trust

The thing with puns for captions is they can help lure unsuspecting readers. Or at least they can make you think that they are doing that. I just realized, this does not make the cut either way.

So to clear the pun-ridden air, lets just assume you've gotten the idea that we are indeed going to be talking about Microsoft and its very serious relationship with Antitrust issues in the past, and about how its now trying to repay the favour to all its favourite people in the world.

To summarize what happened in the Microsoft vs USA case, Microsoft was sued for trying to include its web browser into its bundle of products that it shipped with its operating system - thereby locking out competition in the web browser market using its foothold in the OS market.

My question - and I'm not sure if someone's already asked it - is this,

If there were no bundled web browser along with your OS, how would you download your open source fix? Wait for the CD in the mail? Somehow I don't see that happening. Again. I'm not sure that Microsoft's plaintiff did not argue this point. He did have a law degree.

I just keep wondering, if Microsoft had not turned so bitter because of this case, would Steve Ballmer and Eric Schmidt be golfing buddies? And would this man still have made 500 million friends?

I am neither Pro nor Anti-Microsoft. In fact I love the current standoff. I think its healthy. Quite similar to the Mexican Standoff, except it feels more like an Indian Standoff.

Its like - Microsoft, Facebook and Google are water starved women in some small sowcarpet street in Madras. Metaphorically speaking that is.

I guess that would makes us the tanker lorry that spills more than it holds onto the narrow rickety road.

PS: I'm considering the idea of getting sued for flouting some immigration law.
I kinda like how pompous such a suit would sound like - Manigandan vs USA.