Peeved

Really if the death of 48 people is not a big enough news for the MSM in India, then what is? Bloody buggers you've one person gunned down in Bombay and keep running the same news for days together but something happens in Northeastern part of India, not a peep about it. I guess coverage would only be given to incidents that take place in cities or depends on volume based interest. Seriously we and our priorities.

Update: 66 people killed and 470 Injured.

Finally!!!

One good reason to buy TOI, with which I agree.

Unfortunately, even Laxman’s presence wasn’t enough for me to continue with my daily ritual of passing the paper onto the raddi-wallah after that one brief moment of homage. For a while, I continued to take it because I was rearing kittens — it was absorbent and useful for little misunderstandings during the house-breaking phase. Once the cats became civilised, I stepped aside from that value-chain.

No cats, and still you read TOI, then you need to increase that dosage lest you become completely insane.

Illustrations done by Shridhar of Eenadu then daylight next comes You Said It of R K Laxman.

P.S: People Down Under get to have all the fun. Now need to find out if this event is covered live on some network?

P.P.S: 2008 Batiat Finalists and their entries. FYI, Barton Hinkle won it this year. Maybe within 3-4 years I'll be shortlisted and 5 years down the line I will be a winner. That's the whole plan.

Ingenuous

Thought I was jobless and try to find subtexts in everything. Gotta give credit though for relating the class and urban-rural divide that exists in India with of all things, pornography.

Desi Vito Corleone

Interesting Read. And the irony, of all the publications, Wired a tech magazine doing this kind of a story.

END of LEGACY

Time to move on, at the very outset let me thank you for being with me for the last 4 years, be it at times of boredom or at times of me engaging someone socially. You have comforted me when I was lonely and made my experience of being entertained better.

In return all I did was over work you but still you answered to every demand I made and went ahead doing them without even a small bit of complaint. Only now do I realize how big a part you played in my life. There has been such a huge void in my life for the last couple of days that I've no words to explain that sense of loss, feel so powerless at the moment. Feel like some one is pulling me or pushing me into an abyss with no return.

For others you might just be a materialistic thing with a serial number: CND4070FDZ but for me you are the closest thing that ever understood me completely and behaved accordingly. A replacement which can perform the functions you did will be found but it'll not be as good as you for sure. Thanks for the service you've provided me for the last four years my friend, time for you to rest easy. You've earned it.

Alvida/Adieu/So long buddy.

Business as usual

Another animal on the verge of extinction.

What can you expect when you have idiots like Sri^3 Ravi Shankar giving their takes on global warming like this ;

During an evening satsangh, there were some planted questions put to Ravi Shankar. Still, his responses were pedestrian at best. One of the questions was about the new burning topic of global warming and climate change and what he (Ravi Shankar) thought about them.

“At first, he ridiculed those who are worried about such things and proceeded to give the example of the Y2K phenomenon. Ravi Shankar dwelt on how foolishly people worried about Y2K, about places exploding, about the world coming to an end, etc and how nothing of the kind took place. He was suggesting that Y2K was not a problem and so also global warming. Little did he take into consideration the elaborate precautions taken by the world to prepare for Y2K and how India became the world capital for IT and outsourcing as a result.

Guys got a great sense of humor don't you think?

And this idiot has been campaigning heavily for the Nobel peace prize for the past 3-4 years.

Fuck spirituality shit and get real people, because whether you believe in it or not, Global warming is for real and it'll change a lot of stuff we take for granted. Now, is this change going to be devastating for us or not is altogether a different question. No one wants to venture into unknown. As the saying goes be prepared for the worst. A glitch in the matrix is never good for the present, for future it maybe or maybe not.

Oracle of Omaha Speaks'

Buy American. I Am.

In other news, A.I.G. to Help Cuomo Recover Millions in Executive. Pay
About time they did that.

Go girls!!

12000+

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar becomes the first batsmen to make 12,000 runs in test cricket. Rock on lil champ!! Long live the only GOD I know.

lol

As soon as the topic list was circulated, i quickly scanned the topics and the very first topic on the sheet of paper was about "Who am I" and as soon as I saw that, it got ne thinking as to who really I am and that's not the first time either, but the difference being this time I was determined to come up with a proper answer. But came up with so many answers that rather then answering that simple question, i was left with more questions than answers. At one point I thought I was like Howard Roark, the perfect man but again if I were him, am forgoing my individualism, originality and not recognizing my creativity, which makes me an antithesis of him. I am what I am and no matter how much I try to identity myself with some other living, imaginary or dead person, it still won't answer the question of who I am. While I was doing this, I couldn't help but draw a parallel with the Douglas Adam's series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where they try to find out the answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. So to answer this ultimate question they specially build a computer called deep thought, and it takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Unfortunately, The Ultimate Question itself is unknown, suggesting that it is more important to ask the right questions than to seek definite answers. So like the reoccurring question of " who is John galt" that keeps popping up constantly in Ayn rand's Atlas shrugged this question of " who I am" will keep haunting me till an opportune moment presents itself and the real me emerges, till then it's best to leave the question unanswered and frankly I myself don't know "who I am"

That's the outline of the speech I prepared for my public speaking exercise.

Sheesh....

T.N. MPs to quit if Centre fails to ensure ceasefire in Sri Lanka.

Let them resign, it'll be a good riddance. Whatever is happening in Sri Lanka is the internal matter of that country. On one hand you say that LTTE are freedom fighters while you paint the Kashmiri separatist groups as terrorists.

Yay!!

Paul Krugman wins this years Nobel for economics. Used to follow his articles/columns right from my engineering days, first in Hindu, and now in NYT.

4 Minutes- All it takes to get the message across

XDR-TB kills 3 people every minute in 49 countries, and approximately 18 people would have died because of this pandemic by the time I do this post. Spread the word. Stop the Disease. It's preventable.




For more info Visit: http://www.xdrtb.org

Logic Isn't their Forte

Women, whosoever, labelled as a ‘witch’ by the villagers has to pick a silver coin from a tank filled with boiling oil, with both her hands. If her hands are burnt, her witchhood is confirmed, otherwise she is declared innocent.

To this day people believing in superstitions like witch craft, black magic etc etc is one thing but the process which they use to arrive at it is even the more stupid. Everyone from that village can be given this years Darwin award for Excellence for their shear idiocy.

Reality bites

Abhi-shake things that his Drona is better made than Hrithik's krrish but still can't understand why it bombed at BO. Maybe Abhi-shake it's got something to do with you not being in the same league as Hrithik, you think otherwise then may Amar Singh save you.

Body of lies

Body of Lies is an adult thriller with such a high narrative density that even a brief trip to the restroom may result in key plot points being lost. The film is the antithesis of a slick, superficial feature like Eagle Eye. It both demands and rewards thought.

@#$^& Man I gotta wait another week to watch this movie in India. Caprio's Career is finally back on track. Russell Crowe can't do anything wrong and when it's a Ridley Scott movie, even the better.



P.S: D.J Caruso take a cue and stop fucking up Hitchcock's work and come up with something original, ya I know criticizing is easy but as is coming up with something original and someone has to do it, so why not that be you and prove your critics wrong.

Chiru promises free power to ryots

Praja Rajyam president Chiranjeevi on Friday promised 24-hour free power supply to farmers, at least in backward districts, if his party comes to power.

Gee that's next to impossible, if you go by the prevailing power scenario in the state. Suppose his party is voted to power, what is he going to do? Just like any other political party go back on his promise. Instead why not assure them that Power will be supplied for free or given at some subsidy for 12-15 hours with proper wattage. Am sure most of the farmers would be happy to pay for their electricity than for getting their burnt motors (happens a lot due to fluctuation in the voltage supplied) repaired. Being a new political outfit and having some sensible people around in the party, thought at least these guys won't resort to these kind of cheap populist schemes. Which ultimately either help in development of the backward districts or empower people over there.

Hilarious Read

How Indians would have saved Lehman Brothers.

One of the funniest stuff I've read in a long time.

Sarah Louise Heath Palin

SAT scores don't lie. Dumber by 17 points compared to the national mean. And what's with all that dropping out from colleges? Did BA in communications but when asked can't even name one newspaper she reads regularly, has the gall to say that she reads "all of them". Palin saga keeps getting murky by the day.

TDP's Volte face on Telangana

Is nothing but an opportunist election gimmick. Won't be surprised if TDP along with the grand alliance of TRS & the left parties are voted back into the power, they take the same Congress & TRS way out of the situation, like the last time around. This makes it next to impossible for Chiranjeevi's Praja Rajyam to make some impact in Telangana unless they come up with some populist scheme. Congress has everything to lose with the formation of this unholy coalition but then again funny things happen in politics, one can't count your chickens before they hatch.

P.S: CBN termed this shift from their party's core agenda as historic necessity, who is he kidding?

Red Necks

Epic Fail!!

Ingenuity at it's best!!

This one's for all you drunks out there, who get completely sloshed on weekends & in general.

P.S: Maybe we should have something like this for our mobiles too. Vodafone I'm looking at you.

Ganguly to retire

'Just one last thing, lads'

A fighter he was, a fighter he is till the end. Last time an Indian player went out in a dignified manner was way back when Sunil Gavaskar retired.

I have been one of his harshest critics and hate him to the core but at some level that hatred is born out of respect I have for his never-say-die attitude.

For me three things stand out in his career, that century in Brisbane against Australia in 2003-04 series and that in your face impromptu celebration on the balcony of Lord's after India won the Natwest trophy. The last, who can forget the way he announced himself onto the cricketing arena with back-to-back centuries in England, in 96 which to me looks like just yesterday.

If Sachin is the God of cricket then Ganguly is the God of the Off-side for me. The cover drives or the way he treats spinners by stepping out are something which I'll miss and will always cherish those memories along with Sachin's straight drive or Rahul Dravid's forward defence or Laxman's flick on the on-side through mid-wicket.

Thanks for the memories Dada. Hope you have a great farewell series and really do hope that you end on a winning note.

WTF

Banned this Navratri: Backless cholis, low-waist ghaghras in Rajkot

We and our priorities.

No Guns

Mouths Sanjay Dutt when offered one in the movie, Kidnap. Really Sanju baba did I hear it right? Wait that's not it, he then goes on to say that only two kinds of people in the society carry guns, one the police and the other being criminals. Hearing that from his mouth was a bit rich and also ironic. The question is will he ever do his time in Jail or not? Sanjay maybe you can give an answer to that question in your next movie.

P.S: Will post the review in the next post.

Can I Eat My Cake too?

You vote for the bill, take credit for it then attack your opponent as being on the fence and the very next moment you ask the president to veto it? Does this guy suffer from MPD or what??

Religious

With George Carlin no more, Bill Maher has his hands full taking on the religious nut jobs and what better way than to make a movie about their stupid beliefs. Can't wait to watch it.

P.S: Some gems from Bill Maher

CALLER: "Hi. Well, my question is, the Lord spoke to me approximately three years ago, and if the Lord spoke to you [Maher], I was wondering if you'd become a believer."

MAHER: "No, I'd check into Bellevue, which is what you should do..."

You [a Scientologist], like all religious people, have a neurological disorder. And the only reason why people think it's sane is because so many other people believe the same thing. It's insanity by consensus.

Straight From the horse's mouth

Enuf said.

White Sox FTW

Twins are gonna get smashed out of the field today.

Edit: Central winners baby, Rays here come the White Sox.