Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity

New comment on your post #388 “Gray boxes in latex”
Author : Thomas S
Comment:
Gee, this really helped a user who’s writing his first major report in LaTeX. Thanks a bunch.

Gee, this really helped a user who’s writing his first major report in LaTeX. Thanks a bunch.

New comment on your post #435 “India 6 – A plumbing breakthrough”
Author : mrc
Comment:
reminds me of a game i had when i was small: waterworks, by parker brothers:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/152477

reminds me of a game i had when i was small: waterworks, by parker brothers:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/152477

New comment on your post #7 “A story of my incompetence.”
Author : REGANTI REDDY
Comment:
I am not surprised seening these comments. In my 32 years I had several ocations like these. If I tell you that when adopted a baby girl in Bombay, several years ago, passport officer made me wait out side the building for four days, with out giving the visa. If you wath them rking during the hours youfeel like telling that they are the parasites on the indian tax money.

New comment on your post #435 “India 6 – A plumbing breakthrough”
Author : Rafi
Comment:
Reminds me the filtration system (a marvel to behold) in Borat’s Kazakhstan national anthem :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3QVAlIfIZ0

Kazakhstan greatest country in the world
All other countries are run by little girls
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium
other countries have inferior potassium

Kazakhstand home of Tinshein swimming pool
It’s length 30 metre and width 6 metre
Filtration system a marvel to behold
it remove 80 percent
of human solid waste

Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, you very nice place
from plains of Tarashenk
to northen fence of Jewtown
Kazakhstan friend of all except Uzbekistan
They very nosey people with bone in their brain

Kazakhstan industry best in world
we invented toffee and the trouser belt
Khazakhstan prostitutes cleanest in the region
Except of course for Turkmenistan’s

Khazakhstan, Kazakhstan, you very nice place
from plains of Tarashenk
to Northen fence of Jewtown
Come grasp the mighty phenis of our leader
from junction with the testes to tip of its face

New comment on your post #435 “India 6 – A plumbing breakthrough”
Author : Negar
Comment:
no woder you got flu. I hope you will be fine now. It looks the apartment is all ready for my visit now

no woder you got flu. I hope you will be fine now. It looks the apartment is all ready for my visit now !

New comment on your post #7 “A story of my incompetence.”
Author : Anand
Comment:
Sir,

I don’t see anything here that the Indian consulate should feel sorry for or apologize. My fellow Indians have been far too quick to condemn the consulate when all they have done is to follow the standard procedure that EVERY other country follows as well (including your country of Israel). If you would like to visit India (and please do), then you should plan your trip well in advance knowing that there are government agencies to be dealt with and that governments all over the world are bureaucratic and slow – its the nature of the beast.

For example – my dear fellow Indians – Please tell me how many of you got a visa to come to the US in 1 day? I bet NOBODY even dreams of such a thing. In India we wait months on end to get a goddamn appointment to visit the lousy US embassy where we get treated and questioned like third class people or terrorists by officers who’s main job is to find a way to NOT give a visa to US. We are made to wait outside the building in the heat for hours before we get to see the office who looks at us like we are some lower form of life.

Another example – has any of you people ever applied for a Schengen or British visa when you have a Indian citizenship and you live in the US as a green card holder? Did you get it in 1 day? Of course not! The French, the German, the British, the Japanese, the Swiss – NOBODY gives you a visa to visit their country in 1 day. So, why are you all so quick to bash India for dishing out the same behavior?

I can bet you ANYTHING that if you wanted a ISRAELI visa you would not get it in 1 day. With all their security checks we would probably get rejected..

Sir,

I don’t see anything here that the Indian consulate should feel sorry for or apologize. My fellow Indians have been far too quick to condemn the consulate when all they have done is to follow the standard procedure that EVERY other country follows as well (including your country of Israel). If you would like to visit India (and please do), then you should plan your trip well in advance knowing that there are government agencies to be dealt with and that governments all over the world are bureaucratic and slow – its the nature of the beast.

For example – my dear fellow Indians – Please tell me how many of you got a visa to come to the US in 1 day? I bet NOBODY even dreams of such a thing. In India we wait months on end to get a goddamn appointment to visit the lousy US embassy where we get treated and questioned like third class people or terrorists by officers who’s main job is to find a way to NOT give a visa to US. We are made to wait outside the building in the heat for hours before we get to see the office who looks at us like we are some lower form of life.

Another example – has any of you people ever applied for a Schengen or British visa when you have a Indian citizenship and you live in the US as a green card holder? Did you get it in 1 day? Of course not! The French, the German, the British, the Japanese, the Swiss – NOBODY gives you a visa to visit their country in 1 day. So, why are you all so quick to bash India for dishing out the same behavior?

I can bet you ANYTHING that if you wanted a ISRAELI visa you would not get it in 1 day. With all their security checks we would probably get rejected..