December 3, 2000

Well the technical difficulties have been overcome. It was not a viral problem as previously suspected, it was a "Windows crashed and didn't come back so I blame Microsoft" problem. Anyways, we're back...

November 20, 2000

I've been doing some thinking about this and, as much as I want Al Gore to win the election, I just can't stand by the suit to disqualify the ballots in south Florida because they were "confusing". In the end, I just can't condone stupidity. If the people who filled out the ballots were too dumb to realize that 2 holes would invalidate a ballot or they lacked the good sense to doublecheck their own ballots then should not be allowed to vote! Manual recounts are a very reasonable reaction to an election this close however. BUT, my coworkers and I have come to the conclusion that it is pretty silly to be splitting hairs over a couple hundred votes. We think that if the election is closer than (say) one one-hundredth of one percent (a 900 vote difference in a population of over 9 million), it should be declared a statistical draw and the votes either split down the middle or discarded.

October 28, 2000

If you are planning on voting for George "dubya" Bush, don't.

August 15, 2000

I want to give a big congratulations to my brother Abizer who is in the Air Force. Today he made it into the track for fighter planes and will soon live every guys' dream of flying fast planes and blowing stuff up!

July 19, 2000

There are 2 things about the highway system on the east coast that I wish California would emulate: East coasters number the exits. It is REALLY convenient, it lets you know if you are going in the right direction and how far you have to go East coasters mark all of their highways with directions (GA400 North and GA400 South). In California we have this ridiculous notion that many are marked with landmarks - CA163 to Downtown and CA163 to Escondido (instead of south and north)

May 28, 2000

I've been seeing this ad around at local San Francisco Shell gas stations for a while now. Maybe my mind is just especially warped, but this phrase does not remind me of getting gasoline. In fact every time I hear it, I think that this is what I would tell a hooker if I was in a hurry. Am I so wrong here...??? And while we're on the topic... a while back I had been seeing ads on busses for a Lake Tahoe website - GoTahoe.com. The billboard said something to the effect of: What are you doing this weekend? GoTahoe.com. Except that they didn't write it like that, they wrote it like: What are you doing this weekend? gotahoe.com which every time I looked at it, I saw "What are you doing this weekend? got-a-hoe?"

May 9, 2000

I know I am not one to talk, but there are just certain people - people that we should take seriously - whose names make me laugh... Charles Quackenbush, Bruce Babbit (not Bobbit - nobody ever took them seriously) and my third grade teacher, Mrs. Onderdonk. Speaking of taking themselves seriously, how can Rush Limbaugh wake up and look in the mirror and take himself seriously? Does he really swallow all of the cow dung that he spews? Just wondering...

April 12, 2000

Regarding the stock market, why is everyone surprised that companies that make no money, have no plan to make money and have no idea how they could make money who are shoveling money into large flaming bonfires stock's are getting hit. What is the big mystery here?? I was doing my best to not comment on this because it really is pretty silly. How many people have seen the billboard for Gazoontite.com on 101 North a little ways past SFO? For those of you that don't have the fortune of leaving 'round here or for those of you that do have the fortune of not having to drive on 101 - the billboard has a big display that says: "Pollen count: XX%" where XX is always above 80. Now let me ask you, what the hell does that mean?? Pollen is typically measured in grains per cubic meter not as a percentage. According to pollen.com "Pollen grains average between 20 to 40 micrometers in size". Let's take 30 micrometers as average. Assuming that pollen is cubical with 30 micrometers on each axis, this means that each grain of pollen is 27*10-15 m3 in volume. This means that you could fill one cubic meter with about 4*1013 grains of pollen, this is what they must mean by 100% pollen count. An 88% pollen count would then be 3.5*1013 grains/m3. I did a little poking around on the web and found the AAAAI who is a semi-official pollen measurement authority. The nearest station they had was for San Jose. The measurements they had for today was: Trees: 479, Grasses:7, Weeds: 4, Molds: 1958. All numbers are given in grains per cubic meter. This gives us a pollen count of 2448 grains/m3 in San Jose. This means that the pollen count in San Jose is 2448 grains per cubic meter and the count 35 miles to the north is 35 TRILLION grains cubic meter. Gazoontite.com is reporting a 14 MILLION percent increase in pollen over the course of 35 miles! Before you say anything - yes, I realize that this is a stupid thing to get worked up over and I know that the board is not actually measuring the pollen count in the air...

May 1, 2000

Rant of the day Elian Gonzales GO HOME!! This incident has now officially claimed the second spot from the Ramsey's for the most annoying overplayed TV specter of the week. First place still, and probably always, belongs to Orenthal. A great quote from the Onion... The Elian Gonzales situation has sparked much controversy. What do you think of this situation? "First those immigrants come and take our houses and our jobs and now they want to come take our immigrants?? Well I say that we just send them all back to... wait, what was the question?"

March 25, 2000

So I have been driving the length of Silicon Valley (from San Francisco to San Jose) twice daily for a couple of weeks now. Of the around 115 billboards that I pass (on the round trip), only about 35% are for non-high-tech/non-dot-com companies. Of the high tech companies, only 35% of them are legitimate organizations - the rest are pure dot-coms. See the billboard page for a more complete analysis...

February 28, 2000

In the course of constructing this site I went through many different purposes it could serve and eliminated most of them. I am not expert enough in any one area to start a reference site for anything and generally don't have enough free time to start a fan site. I was thinking of hosting online games, but I bought this computer in 1996 and am not capable of running any software that was created in the last year. I don't know enough people to run a chat server and because of hardware limitations (and access to the materials) I can't run a porn server! So, in the end, I settled this site being a place to express myself and provide a place for people to come by, amuse themselves, engage in conversation and generally blow off a little steam. I hope you enjoy yourself. I took most of these pictures on this site during my brief stay in Atlanta. Compared to the rest of the US, the South is a different world! Anyways, none of the pictures on this site were fabricated or doctored in any way and most of them come from or around Atlanta, GA and Columbia, SC. If you have any suggestions for this site, any content that you think would be neat to see, anything that is cool, let me know.

Scary facts:

• Go to Infoseek and do a search for salim tyabji. Look at the second link to find one of the groups that the Disney corporation thinks I run
• None of the pictures on this page were fabricated, they are all real... there really is a bar in San Francisco "where good friends and girls meet", there really is a store called Piggly Wiggly, the flea markets in South Carolina really feel it necessary to ban snakes and Bubba really looks like that (at least in Vegas he did).

Go sign my Guest Book or I'll send my man Bubba to your house to beat you...

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