Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

June 2012

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

5 Star

—devadutta @ 13:53

Awesome Guest question from %gqh% raklodramA. Thanks saar!

Identify and connect

Cracked by: Rogi, Amarendra Kumar, Jayaprakash B R, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, bhargava, Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar, Bharath, Vishnu Prashanth, Don42 and rickde

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Arpad Elo. Elo rating system for chess, which was famously used for Facemash in the movie.


Send/Receive

—devadutta @ 13:46

Humor. Microsoft style.

Identify and Connect.

Cracked by: Rogi, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Ananth, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, Bharath, Vishnu Prashanth, Don42 and rickde

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The People pane silhouette in Outlook is supposedly derived from the famous Bill Gate’s mug shot!


Monday, June 11, 2012

PC Load Letter

—devadutta @ 10:52

Borderline non-geek guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth. Thanks Saar!

What is this?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Ananth, KK, Bharath, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, Vishnu Prashanth, Rogi, raklodramA, Dibyo, mankuTimma, vinayaknp and Don42

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Jump to conclusions mat from Office Space


Sunday, June 10, 2012

Challenge everything. And fail.

—srikanth @ 23:59

A livejournal entry by this lady changed an entire industry (although not too much). Who is she? What did she do?

Cracked by: Bharath, KK, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Supritha Maiya and Shwetha Maiya

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Erin Hoffman. Created a blog called the “EA Spouse” where she described the way EA employees were being overworked. The post caused a huge furore and a few changes in the industry, and slightly better working conditions.


Saturday, June 9, 2012

./vapour

—srikanth @ 23:59

This question is more PR than quiz, but for a worthy cause :P

What’s the hullabaloo about?

Cracked by: manan, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, rickde, Amarendra Kumar, KK, Bharath, Manish Achuth, Ananth and raklodramA

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Valve’s in-progress port of Steam to Linux. That’s L4D being played on Ubuntu!


Friday, June 8, 2012

Minimalist vintage handmade question.

—srikanth @ 23:59

(1) was looking for nonsense words and picked a commonly used phrase in (2) to create (3). 1, and 3 please.

  1. Cracked by: Bharath, manan, Manish Achuth, Rogi, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Bipin Banavalikar, Dibyo, rickde, Amarendra Kumar, KK and Ananth
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Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy


Thursday, June 7, 2012

Is that a bird?

—devadutta @ 22:11

Great question from %gqh% Manish Achuth. Thanks saar!

Who wrote this telegram? And after what?

With this question, we are back on schedule! yay!

Cracked by: rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Jayaprakash B R, Manish Achuth, tanwi, Bharath, Rogi, aarjav, vinayaknp, Shwetha Maiya and Dibyo

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Wright brothers wrote this to their father after their successful flight from Kitty Hawk


Wednesday, June 6, 2012

See, Zoom, See

—devadutta @ 21:53

What is happening here?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, tanwi, Bharath, Rogi, aarjav, Dibyo, rickde and Sumanth Patlolla

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Google Streetview trekker


Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Dramatic Change

—devadutta @ 21:17

Who is he? Which very popular movie is this from?

Cracked by: Rogi, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Vishnu Prashanth, Bharath, Mayukh Bose, Manish Achuth, tanwi, KK and Shwetha Maiya

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ESR from the opening scene of “Revolution OS”


Monday, June 4, 2012

And Two Shall Become One

—devadutta @ 15:16

Awesome guest question from %gqh% Rogi! Yay!

What recent announcement connects the two facilities pictured?

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Bharath, Manish Achuth and Shwetha Maiya

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Flerovium and Livermorium. New elements on the periodic table!