Monday, 11 July 2011

9 Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime



Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come. 


1. The Post Office
Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.


2. The Cheque
Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with cheque by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process cheques. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the cheque. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.


3. The Newspaper 
The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.


4. The Book 
You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.


5. The Land Line Telephone 
Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes


6. Music 
This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalogue items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."


7. Television 
Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV.Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.


8. The "Things" That You Own 
Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.


9. Privacy 
If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits. "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again.

Saturday, 9 July 2011

Saturday, 10 October 2009

2% or 98% & its trick

There's a mail going on around quiet sometime now, and almost all were in the 98%. The trick goes like this


Think of a number from 1 to 10

Multiply that number by 9

If the number is a 2-digit number, add the digits together

Now subtract 5


Determine which letter in the alphabet corresponds to the number you ended up with

(example: 1=a, 2=b, 3=c etc.)


Think of a country that starts with that letter.
Remember the last letter of the name of that country. Think of the name of an animal that starts with that letter. 

Remember the last letter in the name of that animal. Think of the name of a fruit that starts with that letter.


Are you thinking of a Kangaroo in Denmark eating an Orange ?


If you like most, you would have thought of Denmark, Kangaroo and an Orange only… let me tell you the trick.
Its basic 2nd grade arithmetic that the sum of all the digits of a multiple of 9 is always 9.
So no matter what number you choose, the sum of the digits of the product is always 9… from there, its compulsory that you land up at the letter "D".

D is the one of the alphabets in English, with least number of countries starting with it. And Kangaroo and Orange follows.

But there are some typical people whom I know, who thought of Dominican Republic, Cat and Tangerine

Thursday, 8 October 2009

... Jacuzzi


Wet and wild, all the rules can get broken when you and your friend are soaking in a Jacuzzi. It’s the closest many of us get in an old fashioned roman decadence.

Developed by Roy Jacuzzi in 1968, this fun filled bath was originally designed as a one person tub. But a Jacuzzi soon saw the potential of a party sized affair. If you go into a Jacuzzi with your partner, its shocking to see what happens under surface layer of bubbles, you are sitting with your partner, you are a sort of groping, and they are reaching your arms legs and you bet are not sure if they are going to respect your personal space.

But heads up, the Jacuzzi is the best place to indulge in foreplay and lots of other kinds of play, but this is one space where you cant go all the way. for her skin is all heated up and dilated, entry of an air bubble can be really devastating,. that is not the kind of one we want. Keeping it safe means, you can do everything else, wet and up close.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the top ten list of sexiest things aroud..love letters, guitars, silk, perfumes, candles, sports cars, bananas, long hair, tango and the Jacuzzi..

They are hot, they are romantic and they turn up the sexual heat….

Tango




Not disco, not the foxtrot, not ballet, no other dance has captured our sexual imagination like the Tango. It started off at the end of the 19th century in Argentinean brothels. But even though it gone mainstream, the tango still shimmers with the sexual delight. The way the hips can attach, the way the arms move across her body tracing the outline..its like he is exploring her, it is like he is seeing what is gonna happen underneath those beautiful clothes. It feels like if man can feel like if a man can do this when he is dancing, my gosh! how beautiful he is going to be horizontally.

Lucy and Alberto, one the worlds best tango pair, feel that they make love with clothes on. They feel they are a different world when they dancing tango.

When you generally dance, you should sort of act. Act in a way of showing the audience how much you love your partner, how much you want each other, pretty much making love on stage. But in tango, you don’t have to ACT.

And when two bodies get locked in the harmony, the magic of dance takes over. Dancing for two is number two in the in our top 10 list.

This leaves us with only one more item, the sexiest of them all. It’s a modern invention that takes advantage of ancient pleasure. It can make you strip down in seconds. All the way, it’s the number one.. its the

Long Hair


You can cut it or shave it, but if you want to turn heads, grow it long and lush. Our next in the list is Long Hair: one of the most powerful sex symbols, we get to play with.

Long healthy lush hair always a turn on. First of all it represents health, youth and vitality. Our infatuation with long shimmering tresses is nothing new. Hair has mattered since we started writing down what we like to play with.

Hair is also an accessory of thoughts in the bed room, and the parts of the body with hair are most responsive. Just the hair brushing against the skin is very sensual, its gentle, its soft but not as soft as a feather. if you are looking for a partner, go for one with the long hair.. Believe me, you are gonna have a good time.

We now dance away to an Argentinean specialty

Banana


Next is more than anything its interesting, delicious, nutritious and designed to go deep… the banana.

Banana, you don’t have to use your imagination why it’s sexy. Its simple. But forget about the curves, the banana contains more sexual sizzle on the inside. Bananas have a chemical called befotenine. And that increases happiness, self confidence and sexual drive. So, it’s a great flirting and seductive food.


If you want a good time, share a banana with a friend. That’s the number four in our list.

We now move into our the top three in the list of our most sexual things in the world. Its hairy, bouncy and wet.