This post does not deserve a title. I just had the worst weekend possible. You know the whole soul crushing bonanzas.

I was looking forward to something fun to watch. Everything I watch/read regularly is on break. WTF.

Uni starts next week, something I really am not looking forward to.

Now how the hell would anyone want to write in such conditions.

Random String of Numbers: 49 32 77 69 6C 6C 32 61 6C 77 61 79 73 32 6C 6F 76 65 32 79 6F 75 2C 48 69 6D 65 2E

Old Spice!

Of 27.28.4

You know how some people get their brilliant ideas while in the loo? I get mine when I talk to you. I even came up with this analogy while we were talking last night.

Of Things You Don’t Want To See

While Handling Acid with your Bare Hands

Where the heck did the white power come from.

Of 27.28.3

Name this object correctly in Urdu and English and never again will i flaunt my linguistic superiority in front of you

(i.e. I won’t make fun of you when you say something really stupid)

(Hint: Look Carefully) 

Of My Awesome Webcam (R.I.P.)

People, hailing from the land of Skype (map can be found here) often ask me to turn on my webcam. Not because they’re interested in seeing the person they’re talking to, but rather to confirm I am really a 15 year old blonde Eurasian girl who’s like, totally new to the net and stuff.

For the last year and half, I’ve been using an awesome Creative PC-CAM 900

She’s a beauty isn’t she? It is a multi-purpose cam that had been discontinued for a couple years now. Hence I got it for cheap.

Turns out it was discontinued for a reason. It is terribly glitchy. You literally have to play Dance Dance Revolution on the selector keys just to take a decent picture. So naturally I stuck to the webcam thingy.

First the selection knob gave out. It came down to a point where the slightest pressure would change modes. Scotch Tape to the rescue! Then the USB jack got loose.

So naturally it was time to open it up. This, I did last august.

Since then, I’ve been using it in the following condition, fixed to a Pringle’s can, weighed down with coins. Sadly by the time I got the idea of making a post for this, I’d been trying to fix the camera for a week so you, dear reader, won’t get to see it in it’s natural environment. Sorry.

 

The actual camera. The lens is like a knob. You have to turn it for it to focus properly. How old school yeah?

 

That little bit of copper wire is what kept my awesome camera permanently in webcam mode. Don’t worry, it’s jammed in there, with superglue sealing it in place.

Did anyone notice that the Batsignal is poorly designed? How do you call Batman during the day? Do you dial 1-800-BATMAN?

Of The Most Awesomest Prank Evar!

So, I had a brainstorm today.

Ingredients:

• Administrator Access to the computer lab PCs.
• WallpaperSlideShow or similar program that automatically changes the wallpaper after a certain time. Windows 7 already has this.
• Know-how to take screenshots.
• Flash drive to store a few images in.

Fortunately, our engineering department uses certain software that refuse to work on a multi-user environment so admin access is naturally granted to everyone. This however means each system has a plethora of viruses. Certain are smart enough to make you smile. Like this one I got infected with yesterday. It creates duplicate copies of your USB contents, hides the originals and turns the copies into viruses. That way when you try to open a folder it spreads…

Sorry, got sidetracked.

Step 1. Get Admin Access. Check.

Step 2. Take a screenshot of the desktop. Make sure you:

1. Close all bubbles, error messages, and random shit.
2. Place the Recycle bin in the lower right corner.

Step 3. Save screenshot in a folder in your USB.

Step 4. Repeat Step 2 and 3 for at least a dozen times, on various computers.

Step 5. Select everything on the desktop and delete it/hide it/throw it into a random folder. My Documents and My computer need to be removed from the Start Menu. Right Click on their respective entries and uncheck the “Show on Desktop” box.

Step 6. Copy the folder of screenshots on your USB to My Documents\My Pictures\

Step 7.  Time to create havoc. Install WallpaperSlideShow on PC.

Step 8. WallpaperSlideShow will ask you which folder to use as source. Show it your screenshot folder.

Step 9. Right Click the screenshot folder and hide it.

Step 10. Set the wallpaper change time to something random like 27. Make sure it’s long enough to trigger once per session.

Step 11. Create a shortcut for WallpaperSlideShow and throw it into Start\All Programs\Startup.

Step 12. “Infect” a few more computers by following step 5-11.

Step 13. Sit on an uninfected PC and watch chaos unfold.

So there you have it. I know when you read it, it sounds long and risky. It’s actually quick enough to get done with it in 3 minutes tops. Helps if you have minions or equally insane friends.

Of Awesome in Meaningless

You’ve all, at one point or the other, lied down on your backs and looked up at the sky. Now, if it were cloudy you’d engage in a timeless activity of making sense of cloud formations. This is something like it…

Doesn’t this look like a wolf howling at the moon/bouncing a ball on it’s head? AWESOME isn’t it?

Of 27.28.2

Yeah, I’d write something here. Fact is, I’ve already written it.

Just hope this guy seems more reliable than he looks.

Of Ringa, Ringa . . . Electron

SEE or Students Engineering Exhibition is a huge event made by the students for the students of my uni.

I was tasked with making an electron model. . . basically the SEE’11 logo.

• Took me a week.
• Took me 14 sheets of green chart paper.
• Took me 3 sheets of light blue chart paper.
• Took me 6 sheets of dark blue chart paper.
• Took me one entire reel of super nylon string (even an elephant can’t break it).
• Took me 3 large rolls of scotch tape.
• Took me one large roll of double tape.
• Took me one sheet of Styrofoam.
• Took me one giant tube of UHU glue
• Took me 4 tubes of super glue (even drank a few drops by accident – tongue still feels strange)

But it’s done. And it’s falling apart. FML

Picture time:

 

Now I will go sleep. Big day tomorrow (SEE day – 1)

By the way, the logo’s 5 feet in diameter.