Ways to Annoy People

from: Stradmore Notes
Bold sentences are the ones that have check in the Stradmore Notebook. ;)

• Organize a bunch of people in one class to emit a low humming noise, keeping straight faces.
• Superglue coins to the floor, count how many people try to pick them up.
• End the paper with "This paper will self-destruct in 10 seconds".
• TTyyppee eevveerryy lleetteerr ttwwiiccee.
• When writing an especially long paper, put a recipe for chocolate cake in the middle and see if the professor notices.
• Ask to introduce your "invisible friend" in the empty seat behind you, & ask for one extra copy of each handout.
• Spend the lecture blowing Kisses to other students.
• Wear a cape with a big "S" on it. Inform classmates that the "S" stands for "stud".
• At the end of class, shake everyone's hand and say, "It was nice seeing you at class today".
• While taking notes, repeat whatever the teacher says as you write it down.
• Make eye contact with each classmate.
• Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeeep Bip Bip Beeep Bip".
• Speak only in a "robot" voice.
• Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.
• Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think".
• Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot".
• Insert nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.
• Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
• Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way".
• Drum on every available surface.
• Set alarms for random times.
• Honk and wave to strangers.
• ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
• Pay for your dinner with coins.
• Repeat everything someone says as a question.
• Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone's roadmap.
• Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.
• Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend".
• Make appointments for the 31st of September.
• Pay tolls with $1000 bills.
• Before exiting the elevator, push all the buttons.
• Knock and ask "How is it going?" to someone constipated in a public bathroom stall.
• Chew other people's pencils.
• Shake with your left hand.
• Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?", "What?", "Never mind, it's gone now".
• Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.
• When in a conversation, look out the window, then say "Wait, start over. I wasn't paying attention".
• When talking to someone, look at a spot about two inches to their right.
• Speak so quietly that people always have to get you to repeat it.
• Take photos of people walking down the street and then run away.
• When IM-ing, spell everything incorrectly.
• Move people's bookmarks ahead three pages when they aren't looking.
• Stand on a busy corner. Gasp, look and point up. See how many people look.
• Click your mechanical pencils or your pens during a test in school.
• While going down in an elevator, scream "AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!" for no apparent reason.
• Clear your throat every three or four words while speaking.
• When driving with companions in the car, every few seconds slam on the brakes and insist that a squirrel ran in front of you.
• Whenever anybody says anything to you. Respond by saying, "I know".
• Put the wrong date and year on the papers you hand in to your teachers.
• When talking to someone, tilt your head to the side.

Snowy Screen (Let It Snow)

Go to www.google.com, then type "let it snow", and press enter.

At the start, you can notice the snowflakes falling from the top of the screen.

 The screen is then slowly filled with snowy sight. ;)

After a few minutes, you can hardly read some parts on the screen especially on the sides.

The unique part is there is a "defrost" button. ;)

Click the defrost button, and it will look like the picture above, with little snowflakes. ;)

Have fun! ;)

December 2011 Lunar Eclipse

The world is now watching the Earth's sole satellite - the moon.
The lunar eclipse on December of 2011.

Image courtesy to @haselemon

These are the only nice shots I have found as of this moment. ;)

Image courtesy to @haselemon

Source: @haselemon
Special thanks to: @AtoZyoU for retweeting
Links: first photo     second photo

Image courtesy to Ilovejks

Notice, the moon turned red. Why is this so?
When light from the Sun goes by the side of the Earth, it passes through a long and thick layer of Earth's atmosphere. Shorter wavelengths of sunlight, like blue, are scattered by the atmosphere. So by the time the light has finished its trip to the moon, more of the longer wavelengths, like red, are left over.
Source: NASA

read more about this at NASA's website

Steve Jobs: a Wizard, Not a College Dropout

It's impossible to begin to understand the sources of Jobs's success without looking to his unusual life story. Both his heroic posture as an inspired crusader striving to change the world and his famed passion for thinking differently sprang from the circumstances of his upbringing: like the fictional Harry Potter, he was a misfit, raised by adoptive parents who ultimately discovered that he was a wizard among the muggles. Jobs was born out of wedlock to two wizards, a.k.a. graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison: Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant pursuing his doctorate in political science, and Joanne Simpson, who was studying for her master's in speech. He was adopted at birth by Paul and Clara Jobs of San Francisco. Unlike Harry Potter's guardians, the Jobses were loving, supportive parents, but they were muggles nonetheless-working-class folks rather than the rarefied breed of intellectuals and artists that the teenage Steve envisioned as his own true identity.
Four of the hallmarks of Jobs's future business career --- his extraordinary persuasiveness, his constant risk taking, his rare deal-making ability, and his fierce perfectionism --- can be traced to his teenage years. The first three are sharply illustrated by his brief episode as a college student: Jobs would become known as one of the most famous college dropouts of our times, along with Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
But in Jobs's case the "dropout" image is all wrong. He was actually a "drop-in": he matriculated at Portland's Reed College, a bastion of the counterculture and leftist artsy intellectualism, even though he knew his parents couldn't--and wouldn't--pick up the tab. When the first bill came due and went unpaid, Jobs talked the dean of students into letting him stay in the dorms and attend classes for free. That's how strongly he wanted to be at an elite school and obtain its validation that he was indeed a wizard rather than a muggle. And that's how good he was at persuasion and deal-making --- and how open to real risk...


Source: Newsweek Magazine
September 5, 2011 issue

"Can You Crack It?" Wanted: Spies

Britain's GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) is looking for web-savvy cyber-sleuths-to-be.
Enter the correct keyword, and there is a countdown timer at the lower left side of the screen.
Here's the official website:
http://canyoucrackit.co.uk/


Read these articles:
1) http://news.yahoo.com/crack-spies-wanted-174506903.html
2) http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/12/can-you-crack-it-uk-agencys-website-seeks-new-spies/

Decode and be a spy. ;)