pranks 4

It began in our second year at IIT Madras (1993). Shiuli Ganguly was an M.Sc. mathematics student, and Anand Thomas Lee was my classmate. And Lee (along with a lot of other people) had a rather high opinion of the lady in question. (He still maintains it. I got a mail in December 1996 saying that he’d tracked her down). However, the same opinion was not held of my computer abilities (understandably so). He bet that there was no conceivable way I could get a photo of Lee and his sweetheart together - by means fair or otherwise. Actually, I lost the bet due to the time constraint, but I did have my revenge. ...

Nandu, Tangi, Jani and myself (four IIT-M guys, class of 1996) went for a seminar (Ripples) at Vishakhapatnam. Nandu lives in Vizag, BTW. On our first day, we went in and registered, and couldn’t help noticing the gorgeous tall bespectacled dame who filled our forms. We thought no more of it until Nandu walked in to register, and coolly struck conversation with her for quite a while. It bothered me to no end. ...

The contents of this page are recollections of the author. The author humbly apologizes for any factual error - they are unintentional. The author also apologizes to anyone whom this page inadvertently offends. All of it is in the interest of fun, and the author hopes you will magnanimously forget and forgive. He also thanks you in advance. Having said that, I must add that I’ve fully enjoyed all the pranks I’ve played, including many that I haven’t documented below. I hope those that were the butt of them didn’t mind too much. ...

Neat prank on the RIAA. Intruiging, though, about their contact address being hard to find. So I tried the same, by Googling RIAA First hit: www.riaa.org/index.cfm -> The Page Cannot Be Found Second hit: www.riaa.org. No contact info on 1st page. Tried “About us”. No luck. Searching for “contact” on the site gave 704 useless pages. Google search for “contact” in www.riaa.org gives www.riaa.org/contact.cfm -> The page cannot be found I give up. But this guy John Hargrave is good.