YOUR AGE BY DINNER & RESTAURANT MATH

This is pretty neat.

DON’T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!

It takes less than a minute .
Work this out as you read ..
Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it’s fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat.
(more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757 ….
If you haven’t, add 1756.

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number
(I.e., how! Many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

Image experts have long tried to create technologies that would allow us to view an artificial world in a full 3-dimensional view. Computer games have gone 3D from their flat past, and now displays are available that could allow us to view movies of the future in 3D without the need to wear 3D goggles or using expensive virtual reality units. So why should still digital images be left behind?

Making it real

Enter Fotowoosh (http://fotowoosh.com). This service will soon allow you to turn flat digital images into 3D. It manages to put the real back in otherwise lifeless digital images. All you need to do is, upload a digital picture it could be any image, say of your car parked on one side of the road or of your friends standing at a distance. Next, your uploaded image is converted into a 3D image format called VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language). This 3D image can now be downloaded as a Flash widget on to your desktop.

Inner works:

This is how it works: Using VRML and Fotowoosh’s own systems in place, any flat image is broken up into different parts. For instance,
the top area, which could consist of the ceiling or the sky; the middle area which might include the subject; and the bottom part which could comprise of the ground covered in mud, tile or grass. Fotowoosh then fabricates simple ‘pop-up’ 3D models from the flat image.


The system marks the various parts of the image as ground, or sky horizontal or vertical and so on. These different parts are then popped up and finally the image is texture mapped onto the model. What the technology actually tries to determine is the area where the various vertical surfaces such as buildings, cars, towers come into contact with the ground in any particular given image. This information is used to collect details about the depth of those surfaces, thus creating a 3D model. The final result is achieved by simply texture mapping from the original image onto the model.

Coming soon:

Fotowoosh will offer its full service once the site moves out of its beta stage. But currently, you can enjoy the sample images and videos on the site. The end result a 3D world constructed with a simple flat digital image is truly astonishing.
You will require a VRML reader, like Cortona, to view the final VRML files. You can get it from www.parallelgraphics.com/products/cortona.

via TOI

A Man walks into a restaurant with a full-grown ostrich behind him. As
he sits, the waitress comes over and asks for their orders.
The man says, “I’ll have a hamburger, fries and a coke,” and turns to the
ostrich, “What’s yours?” I’ll have the same,” says the ostrich.
A short time later the waitress returns with the order. “That will be
$6.40 please,” and the man reaches into his pocket and pulls out the
exact change for payment.
The next day, the man and the ostrich come again and the man says,
“I’ll have a hamburger, fries and a coke,” and the ostrich says, “I’ll
have the same.”
Once again the man reaches into his pocket and pays with exact change.
This becomes a routine until late one evening, the two enter again.

“The usual?” asks the waitress. “No, this is Friday night, so I will have
a steak, baked potato and salad,” says the man, “same for me,” says the
ostrich.

A short time later the waitress comes with the order and says, “That will
be $12.62.” Once again the man pulls exact change out of his pocket and
places it on the table.

The waitress can’t hold back her curiosity any longer. “Excuse me, sir.
How do you manage to always come up with the exact change out of your
pocket every time?” “Well,” says the man, “several years ago I was
cleaning the attic and I found an old lamp. When I rubbed it a Genie
appeared and offered me two wishes.
My first wish was that if I ever had to pay for anything, I would just
put my hand in my pocket and the right amount of money would always be
there.”

“That’s brilliant!” says the waitress. “Most people would wish for a
million dollars or something, but you’ll always be as rich as you want
for as long as you live!”
“That’s right. Whether it’s a gallon of milk or a Rolls Royce, the exact
money is always there,” says the man.
The waitress asks, “One other thing, sir, what’s with the ostrich?”

The man sighs, pauses, and answers, “My second wish was for a tall chick
with long legs who agrees with everything I say.”

Most of the Software companies and Offices block Orkut and messengers But there is something through which u can access Messenger and chat with ur buddies. Nimbuzz is actually made for mobile use but u can use it in your desktop and chat with your Gmail contacts and MSN contacts. No yahoo yet ( the Nimbuzz guys say Yahoo thing is still under development ).

Using Nimbuzz you can have your MSN messenger contacts loaded to your Nimbuzz window but for Google talk, you have to manually add your gmail contacts whoever you want to chat with . Additionally u can add Nimbuzz buddies to chat with them no Google Id and MSN id required in that case.

From Google chat window u can see Nimbuzz buddies if the nimbuzz buddy has added u.

1. First go to Nimbuzz web http://web.nimbuzz.com/
2. The mobile version of Nimbuzz will open in your browser. Thats why its quite fast.
3. Register to have your account
4. Sign in with your Nimbuzz ID and password
5. To add contacts click manage contacts and you can add Nimbuzz or Google contacts
6. To add MSN or AOL contacts you need to go to settings and then Communities the u can provide login and password for MSN or AOL . you can have your contacts loaded in nimbuzz window .
7. Enjoy chatting with your Google ,MSN ,AOL (AIM), or nimbuzz contacts.

The only bad thing is that dont get any sound our visual notification when u get Instant message ,u need to go to nimbuzz window to check if any message has come. this is again good in office and it gives ur the privacy chat u wanted.

To access Orkut There is a pakistani site you can surf orkut full fledged .Not only orkut u can access any site .this is just a porxy server

To access orkut or any blocked site click here

Update: if the above link of Orkuch.com is not working u can try this KProxy Proxy IP http://62.193.227.221/

Amit Agarwal has written a good post about accessing many blocked site check his post here

1. The nice men are ugly.

2. The handsome men are not nice.

3. The handsome and nice men are gay.

4. The handsome, nice and heterosexual men are married.

5. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men, have no money.

6. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men with money think we
are only after their money.

7. The handsome men without money are after our money.

8. The handsome men, who are not so nice and somewhat heterosexual, don’t
think we are beautiful enough.

9. The men who think we are beautiful, that are heterosexual, somewhat nice
and have money, are cowards.

10.The men who are somewhat handsome, somewhat nice and have some money and
thank God are heterosexual, are shy and NEVER make the first move!

11.The men who never make the first move, automatically lose interest in us
when we take the initiative.

Who can possibly understand men?

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it’s our job
to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something
you’d like to have dinner with.