A couple of weeks ago I was at Happy Endings bar with one of my really good friends from college Sean and some of his friends.

Side note: Me and Sean met at South Quad where we started an underground poker ring that grew to ridiculous proportions. People would come up to me and Sean in the street asking about our poker game, random older non-students would show up to the games, and at one game we had over $1500 in the pot. Luckily we got out of the game right before it got busted by all the RAs.

So anyways while Sean was talking/dancing with some girl I was talking to his friend Jen. She was telling me how a lot of times guys will purposely brush against girls in the bar. I disagreed and we decided to set up a little social experiment. She stood with her back facing the “walking lane” and I was watching to see if any guys actually did what she claimed. At least 5 guys walked by with nothing happening. Then she said that it was because I was watching. So I sort of turned a bit and pretended not to be looking, but was still talking to her.

Then, this guy walked past her while we were talking about something else, and I heard her say, “that was really bad!” I thought she was referring to the guy grabbing her ass. Being a lover not a fighter, I decided that the only logical course of action was to grab his ass as a sort of punishment. Obviously if she did it back to him, it would be good for him, not a punishment, so I figured I’d take one for the team. Keep in mind that my judgment was somewhat impaired by alcohol. So I grabbed his ass and he turned around and looked at Jen with an interested look. That was when I said, “no buddy, that was me!” His look of shock was pretty hilarious. That’s when Jen pulled me away and said, “it wasn’t him!”.

A wave of shock, sadness and regret washed over me. It was definitely a “what have I done!” moment. I looked around for the guy so I could apologize and explain, but he was gone.

So now I’ve got bad karma for a while. If you’re somehow reading this guy whose ass I mistakenly grabbed, I’m sorry! Let this be a lesson to everyone else – avoid vigilante justice!

I would want the power to be able to learn and understand any concept/idea instantly and remember it forever. So if I happened to be going to Hungary I could learn Magyar just by picking up a book on it. Or if I wanted to learn everything related to game theory I could.

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My friend Apoorva just put up this sweet rap song about the Brown Jug in Ann Arbor. Check it out! I met him freshman year of college and then we randomly ended up in a mechanical engineering class together. I took the class not knowing that it was sort of a weeder class for ME, and Apoorva helped me get through it.

Definitely Larry David. Although instead of volunteering with him, I’d pretty much just ask him to help me come up with a set of rules to avoid awkwardness.

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I would say that for every year of life that was stolen from each of the dogs on his property, he should spend a year in jail.

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I just got this slew of messages from my cousin Anil:

[17:47] [hisimname]: I am iming you from my ps3
[17:47] [hisimname]: are you impressed?
[17:48] [hisimname]: I turned my ps3 into a linux computer
[17:48] [hisimname]: try it with the wii
[17:49] [hisimname]: I am sure it might get to the boot screen for linux before it explodes
[17:49] [hisimname]: I love you
[17:49] [hisimname]: good day
[17:54] *** “[hisimname]” signed off at Wed Aug 01 17:54:09 2007.

Oh man, he cracks me up. He’s basically as big as me and my cousin Sharat put together.

Drunk driving is terrible, but drunk spaceflight is even more ridiculous. Although I guess there’s not really any people to hit up there….

I’d be Krusty the Clown so I could have children’s toys made in sweatshops overseas that could cause the Hanta Virus. Laziness is counterrevolutionary!

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A few of us at the office went to go see the Simpsons at midnight on Thursday. We only saw about an hour’s worth until the power in the theater went out. The movie so far has been awesome though, definitely worth seeing already if you’re a Simpson’s fan. If the rest of the movie is as good, then I’ll be very happy =).

The movie theater over at AMC on 42nd street where we saw half of the movie was totally lame and only offered us free passes to come back and see the movie later instead of refunding our money. So we made sure we played the line game and got two free passes each.

My favorite childhood memory is playing in front of the apartments in summer where I grew up with my little sister and my cousin. We used to eat those cheap “Icee Pops” that came in sheets and you had to freeze yourself.

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