Oorjit Sethi's Blog

  Apple. One of the most valuable companies on earth. To their fanbase, they can do no wrong. Whether that is restricting user’s to just the App Store for their app needs, or taking a gigantic 30% cut from the app developers, Apple themselves, along with their fans, have always stood by their decisions. Until now. The infamous Crush ad. The intended sentiment being that all of the people’s hard work has gone into making the iPad. Yeah sure. Makes sense. View it from another perspective, however, and it transforms itself into something completely different: crushing the sculptures and the keyboard, as they are old news. Now, after crushing it’s competition, the iPad stands alone. The iPad can do everything those things can do. This little slip up made Apple apologize. Because they did not consider what the ad would seem like to someone who actually does play the instruments, or who makes sculptures.   There are several other examples that remain, of course, but this gives a goo...

  JEE. NEET. The most famous examples of standardized tests. These tests are shaping not only India, but the world these days, being an integral part, and in many cases the only part, in deciding the future of a student. While they are very convenient, the added pressure is one of the biggest factors for student suicides in India. It just takes one test, one piece of paper, to decide whether a student can go to college or not. That’s too much stuff to be decided by something so insignificant. One test. All it takes for one kid’s dream to go poof. I cannot stress this enough. The 2 years of 11-hour-study-session-filled days all boil down to one day. And what if that day your pen runs out of ink? You get in a car accident? You either wait three or, if you were going to give it in April, NINE whole months. Plenty of time for the barometer in your head to rise up to 100. These tests are one of the most rigorous ones as well. They are known as one of the hardest ever, and genuinely test...

  Judge : Order in the court! Who is the defendant today? VR : Virtual reality, your honor. Also known as the future of humanity. Prosecutor : Future, my foot. I think we all have seen what Mark looks like in virtual reality, and let’s just say most people prefer slender-man to virtual Zuck. VR : So the technology is still being perfected, sue me. People were sceptical about removing the home button, weren’t they? Prosecutor : That is hardly the same thing! There is a huge difference between removing a button and shifting the medium through which humanity interacts! VR : Your honor, tell me, wouldn’t it be wonderful if you didn’t have to come down to court for every little case that ends up on your desk? You could just stay in bed but still interact with everyone that should be present in the court. People won’t have to leave their important matters just for jury duty. Judge : You’re not wrong. Wearing this huge black robe at this temperature is no joke. I could get on board with j...

  Before you say anything, I already asked Bruce. I’m free to to advertise myself as Hulk’s “associate”. So, here are my anger management tips that keep even the world’s angriest man (literally) in check: Feel like smashing some things? Imagine that those things are actually those that are really valuable to those. For example, if you want to smash a table, just imagine your MacBook on that table. You surely don’t want to smash that, do you? Thor left his hammer on the toilet seat again? First of all, find a different bathroom. Then, take a deep breath. Deep breath. I know that you will be very, very tempted to defecate on Thor’s stuff. Stop. Think how Thor will react when he finds out you pooped on his limited edition Noose the Moose. Raining down lightning from the heavens? Calling Heimdall through the bifrost? Definitely. You know how boring that guy is. “I just saw a poor plant give its life just so you people could put leaves on pizza” . Oh shut up. For now, these are all the ...