Category Archives: Humor

Ads that suck: Tax Masters

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: June 23rd, 2010
My wife often jokes that the ads here in the US are extremely complimentary — half of them entice you towards more and more (junk) food; the rest sell you medications that seem to create more problems than they solve. In honor of the remarkably consistent bad ads on television, I’m starting an “ads that [...]
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My experiences with Apple: A poem

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: March 17th, 2010
I’m a Linux guy; Windows was never my thing honey Apple seemed interesting, but required too much money I have ideological problems with Apple too, What with all the DRM and hardware lock-in they do. But people are crazy about Apple, and I used to wonder why, I had a dream: to own Apple products [...]
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Irony

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: July 9th, 2009
Computer science is comprised of many many different areas such as theory, graphics, vision, AI, systems, databases to name a few. Naturally, one can not expect to master or even grasp the basics of all the different areas. But there is a difference between not getting a chance to learn all the different areas, and [...]
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Gillette: the best a man can get?

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: April 14th, 2009
I think it is fair to say that shaving, as an activity, is critical to humans, as a species. And as we have all been conditioned to believe, Gillette is the best a man can get to address this most pressing of problems. I beg to differ. Allow me to bring to your attention the [...]
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