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I am at level 7 . Where are you ? What are you doing ?
Addictive ! Extremely addictive !
Tapan

Last night I sent out this listing to my friends and my tribes on www.tribe.net .

Company:
www.indiancomedian.com
Rate: About 300$ max for the whole website redesign
(contract)
Type:
Contract
City:
Everywhere
The website is www.indiancomedian.com
1) Need to have a different funny / Indian look and feel for the website
2) Get a better page of Photographs
3) Get a better page of Clips Put an online store

This morning I came to see about 30 messages – make that proposals in my tribe messagebox. About 20 of them were from actual web designers. Now I have to make a spreadsheet with the respective quotes and the evaluation criterion! It gets better .

Tapan Trivedi

I need the following to be done

1) Need to have a different funny / Indian look and feel for the website
2) Get a better DVD made
3) Get a better page of Photographs
4) Get a better page of Clips

* Sell T Shirts after getting them made .
* Sell Bumper Stickers after getting them made.
* Sell DVD – Get merchant stuff on the Website .

If you think you can do this DO let me know at
tapan@indiancomedian.com

How to Switch from Yahoo Mail to Gmail
Tired of Yahoo and want to try Gmail? Here’s an easy guide to a hassle-free switch!

Steps
1. Read how-to get a Gmail account
2. Export your contacts from Yahoo mail: Go to >> Address >> View Contacts >> Import/Export >> Yahoo CSV.
3. Save the file on Desktop.
4. Log into Gmail.
5. Click on “Contacts” in the left hand sidebars.
6. Select “Import Contacts” from the options.
7. In “Browse,” select the file on your Desktop. It will import all your contacts.

Tips
If you want to abandon your Yahoo account, go to “Mail Options” in Yahoo. Select “Vacation Response.” Write a short note to announce to correspondents to send all emails to your new Gmail address, which you specify. This email will be sent to whoever emails you on your Yahoo. If you want, you can also send a quick email from Gmail to your Contact Book addresses informing them of your change.
If you’re willing to pay the $20 per year for Premium Yahoo mail and want to auto-forward your email from Yahoo to Gmail, go to “Mail Options” in Yahoo. Select “POP and forwarding.” Choose “forwarding” from the list and enter your Gmail address. Press “send.”
It’s possible to take your mail with you as well! Details are beyond the scope of this how-to, but check out http://mrpostman.sourceforge.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepops/

Warnings
Remember to check your Yahoo account occassionally in case you have received an important message which the sender has not forwarded to your Gmail.
A key reason to log on periodically is that Yahoo will deactivate any account that has not been logged into for four months, as it will be deemed a “dormant account” (http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/access/access-04.html)
Beware – gmail does not provide a way to Export your contacts ( though they make it easy to Import them). So if you want to back them up or transfer to another mail service you will be stuck. Google Don’t be evil!

This means that combined together with TimesTen Oracle will definitely get ahead of its realistic technology competitors like DB2 , PostGres etc . Don’t expect returns anytime soon though – the benefits we reap will be about 1 to 1.5 years ahead.

I ain’t kidding. CNN did a report on this yesterday and both me and Mandy saw it. My jaw dropped when I heard that. People are actually saying that this is a diet. This is how it works .
When you get hungry you pray ! Its brilliant in its simplicity. You don’t eat – you pray to NOT be hungry! As opposed to the REST OF 60% of the world that is praying to EAT when one gets hungry ! God Bless America !

Now all those of us who have seen fire spinners for about a 100th time – there is nothing new to watch. Its the same poi, same spinners, the same patterns, the same drum music, the same atmosphere, the same people doing the same things over and over again – YET we watch it . With amazed faces akin to what a dog makes when I put him on the phone we watch. With tired eyes which are burning with the fumes of the fuel so carefully discarded from the dripping poi, with ears that are screaming for something other than the drums and the silent whooshing of the poi as it goes so near the body, occasionally touching it lightly , oh so lightly , and then leaving a welt – very much like a gentle but dedicated dominatrix. Why do we watch it ? Why do we listen ? I ponder . I lay awake at night watching my beautiful fiance’s naked body as it gently rises and falls with each of her beautiful breath. Staring at the ceiling as it gently calls me. Staring at the full length mirror to see nothing but my ugly face ! And then BAM – just like that – it hits me.

The answer lies in quite the culturally opposite redneck phenomena called NASCAR. It has been around for decades. It has the same cars running the same circles and yet we watch. WHY ? BECAUSE ONCE IN A WHILE A REDNECK THINKS HE SAW A RED BREASTED WARBLER IN THE STANDS – THE ONE THAT HIS DADDY COULD NEVER (Translate NE’ER) SHOOT AND TRIES TO SHOOT IT WITH HIS OH SO EVERREADY AND LOYAL 12 GAUGE THAT HE KEEPS WITH HIM ALL THE TIME . AND AS HE GALLANTLY TRIES TO MULTITASK DRIVING THE VEHICLE AT 140MPH AND TAKING A DECENT SHOT AT THE WARBLER (Which in reality is a TShirt on an octagenerian who is fulfilling her last wish by coming to the track – courtesy of the Make a Wish foundation!!) HE FLIPS. HE FLIPS AND TAKES WITH HIM FOUR OR FIVE MORE OF HUMANITY’S CHEESIEST DISPLAYS OF MACHISMO AND EMPTY HEADS !! OH GOD ! DEAR GOD ! HOW WE ALL WISH AND PRAY FOR NASCAR CRASHES – WHICH PUTS AN END TO THE INCESSANT FARTING NOISES THAT THE CARS MAKE AND THE CULTURE THAT GOES ALONG WITH IT.

Now take a flip back to the counterculture. Talk about the fire dancers / spinners. Now fire spinning is not a sport YET. But I wish when I will have to pay $6.50 for a hot dog at an “ALL OUT FIRE OUT” in Davis, California where the star attraction is the final performance where everything goes awry and 20 odd people catch on fire with limited safety equipment (some things never change) and go running haywire , like a bad Lucy skit or something that we are more akin to see on the Simpsons and we laugh our degenerate stupid asses off till the fire spinners are cooked al dente.

God Bless America !!

Tapan Trivedi
www.indiancomedian.com
Tue, June 7, 2005 – 11:30 AM – permalink – 2 Comments

So we are back from Flipside. After starting late on Thursday we reached on Friday afternoon . The event was a non stop roller coaster of fun ! We camped with Wonderlounge. Reverend Keith, Angelique, Atomic, Melody, Sensei Strange etc etc etc are ALL wonderful people who embody the burner philosophy fantastically. LOVE THEM ! I think next year going to Flipside is a lock because the venue is changing and tickets should be easily available.

Here are the photos of the BURN to start with…..
http://www.howhowhow.com/jaime/flipside2005/index.htm
http://www.nobear.com/photos/dave_and_his_monster.jpg
http://www.oneflameinthefire.com/liftoff/
http://www.plasmator.net/jj/ or http://www.plasmator.net/jj/
Album: “FLIPSIDE 2005″.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2125869238&code=16385000&mode=invite&DCMP=isc- email-AlbumInvite
password: burn05
http://www.weid.org/Burningman/BurnAustin_2005/Flipside-2005.htm

more on the way.

Peace,
Token Indian and Miss Taken