Life, Raptoral atavism and Everything

2007-05-21T22:10:00.000-07:00

Nicotine, a rather strange strain of insomnia and a really bad psycho thriller kept me awake till two past midnight.

But that's not the point.

The point is that there are way too few psycho killers in India, and I see a whole lot of potential to make an industry out of it. Here's the plan in all its concise beauty - Abduct kids and torture them for a few years. After making sure that they'd become psychotic killers, ask them to sign an exclusive contract and release them on the world. Record their stories, write a best-seller, make a movie and become rich.

All in a life's delusion

2007-05-07T23:30:00.001-07:00

world
Originally uploaded by Kapil Karekar.

Not long ago
I used to think that I'd like to think that I didn't like jazz
And then you happened

My Dronacharya
In tie-dyed indigo wraparound, you were
My private little phenomenon

Or so I'd love to believe
For then the delusion is complete
True though it is

Close on Goldilocks' heels

2007-05-02T22:13:00.000-07:00

Curtsy to the Queen and her fancy cohorts
Curtsy to the arguments of design and teleology
Curtsy duly to corporates, conglomerates and their confounded rationale

Curtsy verily to family, kinship and society
Curtsy sometimes to all those things that make us unhappy
And curtsy eventually to the fell virtuous human mind.

P.S: Go figure!

You and I

2007-05-02T00:11:00.000-07:00

We exist, you and I, as inexorable experience collectors, sometimes individually, often collectively; intertwined in our quest for experiences.

We're a rare breed, you and I, for we believe in gathering experiences sans judgements, sans pain, sans hatred. We wish to be like a sandstorm, indifferent to the dust we gather, yet growing strong with the same dust; atleast we wish to be, for sometimes, the storm falls in love with the grains, not willing to let go. We begin to love the grains, hate them, wish they'd be less abrasive, or more. The grains are what gives us strength, will and reason to sustain the storm. Without the storm, the grains needn't exist, and without the grains there'd be no storm. What matters - the grain or the storm?

We're funny, you and I, for in the course of our quest, we forget that the course is short, that the course didn't have a past before it started, and no future after where it stops abruptly. Millions and millions of paths had the million quests taken, strengthening each other, bitching, groveling, snarling, smiling, existing.

We're wise, you and I, for we realise that the course is ephemeral, and in a cosmic scale, is hobbesian.

2007-04-09T23:43:00.000-07:00

Soon, HIV will be an assimilated parasite.

2007-03-23T00:56:00.000-07:00

Location: A conf room
Occasion: An engineering meeting to discuss architecture for the next generation of our product.

Person 1: yada, yada, ...
Person 2: So, yada, yada ...
Person 3: Re-architecture is costly. So, when we do re-architecture, we must make sure that we don't need to do another one for at least five to ten years. Let's design our schema in such a way.

Person[4-6] nod their head vigorously in agreement. Person 2 had a hearty laugh, excused himself and walked out.

Random crib

2007-03-16T01:36:00.000-07:00

You indhi boy, listen up. Transliteration rules aren't sacrosanct. There're no universal rules driving the shining path of transliteration. They're driven by local inculcations, and yours is as funny(and illogical) as the other one that you find funny.

2007-03-14T05:08:00.001-07:00

After much soul-searching, I realised what made my life fall short of quintessential completeness - a farewell kiss.

It all makes sense now.

2007-03-13T05:00:00.000-07:00

Yes, I consider Mr. and Mrs. Iyer as one of the most inanely overacted movies of the millennium. Do you have a problem?

Apocalypto reeks of racism

2007-03-09T21:54:00.000-08:00

Opening quote: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." — W. Durant

Need I say more? The opening line stopped short of swearing by "White man's burden".

2007-03-09T00:29:00.000-08:00

Michael Crichton has something to say on why politicised science is dangerous.

What is he advocating - Separation of the lab and the state?

2007-03-07T23:41:00.000-08:00

Order of the day: Institutionalised spirit.

2007-03-04T19:32:00.000-08:00

I deserve nostalgia in full measure.

Remember the nostalgia of the old - gramaphone records and stained glass, fondly clearing layers of dust from the gramaphone record, each layer of dust signifying an excess of happiness, one ember of happiness for each track; running your hand over each track igniting the memories?

Listening to Geeta Dutt singing Meri Jaan on xmms is not the nostalgia I wanted.

An obituary and another one

2007-03-04T19:26:00.000-08:00

Two deaths in a day - one very real, of existence; eighty nine years of it, of it, eighty years of a marriage; another very real too, this one of a relationship - a year of it, but of one that feels a lot longer, one that gave me much more than I could ever give back to it.

I can only wish it all works out for the best. Thanks for everything.

Geek talk.

2007-02-28T05:58:00.000-08:00

Two physics geeks talking in the cafeteria:

Physicist 1: Dude, did you see the interference patterns that I produced from Cherenkov radiation? T'was cool man.
Physicist 2: Whoa dude, seriously? How did you do that?
Physicist 1: Simple dude. I redirected the cherenkov radiation from the nuclear reactor, passed it through the Young's double slit experiment.
Physicist 2: Awesome dude. You rock! Now, let's listen to some daler mehndi.

A solemn plea

2007-02-19T00:11:00.000-08:00

Sirs, madams, eunuchs, dolphins, assorted intelligent dromeosaurids and corvids out there, here's a plea; one that manifests a deep longing.

Somebody please ship me, a poor man of meagre means, a couple of XKCD t-shirts.

2007-02-16T02:53:00.000-08:00

I was told this in jovial earnesty: 'You're not into anything. Had it not been for software, you would've been a total bum'.

I take it as a compliment.

The miracle of senility

2007-02-15T09:52:00.000-08:00

As seen on television:

Present condition: Couple growing old.

Woman woos man: She buys an anti-aging cream, and gets her yesterday's husband back.

Man woos woman: He gets a can of low-fat oil, gives it to her and tells her to cook.

Bastard!

An appeal to women

2007-02-15T08:21:00.000-08:00

High heels are humanity's only hope for digitigrade locomotion. Go girl,go!

Women, you gave humanity language and the boneless penis. Now, give us the new cool - digitigrade locomotion.

Wisdom

2007-02-15T03:44:00.000-08:00

All I need is a CFG for a mail from a desperate spammer. That's next on my todo list, right between regex for English language and a push-down automata for an internal combustion engine.

2007-02-15T03:35:00.000-08:00

Every normal painless senile death increases the possibility of you experiencing a particularly painful, young death.

2007-02-14T01:15:00.001-08:00

State since birth: Hosting parasites.
Current state: Hosting parasites.
State after death: Hosting parasites.

Is this the point to life?

On why I love Yahoo! Answers

2007-02-14T00:57:00.000-08:00

Move aside all other forms on entertainment; we have a new winner - "Religion" section on Yahoo! Answers.

[snip]
"Science" offers a method by which the universe, and all the beings therein, may be examined to discover the artistry in God's creation, thereby communicating it to mankind. Religion, therefore, encourages science, adopting it as a tool by which to study the subtleties of God's creation.
...
Religion not only encourages scientific study, but also permits that, supported by the truths revealed through Islam, scientific research be conclusive and expeditious.
[/snip]

And then the killer...
The reason being, that religion provides accurate and definitive answers as to how life and the universe came into being.

Priceless.

2007-02-13T22:22:00.000-08:00

Ok, I've declared my undying love and affection. Now what?

The fossils aren't responding. Love is complicated.

2007-02-12T23:34:00.000-08:00

Three hundred lives of wasps I've walked the earth, and now there is no time.

2007-02-11T18:23:00.000-08:00

[snip]
Nothing to feel happy about. IMO, _bandh_ should be the last stop, to be resorted to when other forms of civil disobedience have been tried and failed.

This is what trigger-happy-_bandhs_ do ... dilute the seriousness, resort to violence to assert the seriousness and encourage people to suggest feeling happy about it.

--
Ishwar.

[/snip]

2007-02-05T06:27:00.000-08:00

Debonairblog gets more hits than wikipedia.

New product idea - debowiki. Any interested VCs?

I graduated to a power searcher

2007-02-03T20:58:00.000-08:00

2007-02-02T11:05:00.000-08:00

Creation is an act of spontaneous erection

2007-01-29T00:39:00.001-08:00

I sought
I sought
I sought
I so...

Search consultant

2007-01-18T22:41:00.000-08:00

At Chacha, you have search experts that help you find what you otherwise can't.

2007-01-17T01:04:00.001-08:00

Judea Pearl, in my opinion, needs a nice long Jewish bath, immersed in his own bayesian diarrhea, and thrown nose-first down the path of righteous dogmation.

This, undoubtedly is one of the most hypocrisy-ridden articles to come out of a secular media in a long long time.

Am feeling let down, like I felt when Shyamala Balaji, the very toight physics teacher from ninth standard shook her pretty little head from side to side and with a deft swoosh of her adorable hands and a salubrious blush, very guiltily dismissed me from her room when she realised I was paying her too much attention than I was supposed to.

After all the people that I chanced to come across...

2007-01-11T10:18:00.001-08:00

After all the people that I chanced to come across, not this person; Short Messaging Service from Hutch. Life just became a self-completing haploid,

2007-01-10T21:36:00.001-08:00

The range of possible human experiences is limitless.

I don't like this.

Adding dino description signature on thunderbird

2007-01-08T01:54:00.000-08:00

Here's something I've wanted for a long time now, and was too lazy to write one - a script that adds random dinosaur descriptions as your signature to thunderbird mail.

Before you go on to accuse me of blasphemy for not using perl, here's the reason - I didn't want to. Why perl when you can bash :D

1. Get the list of dinosaurs from wikipedia.
bash $ wget -o /tmp/dinolist.txt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dinosaurs;

2. Strip off html tags
bash $ cat /tmp/dinolist/.txt | grep "<li> < i> < a href="%5C%22/wiki/%22" | cut -d"\"" -f 2 | cut -d"/" -f 3 | tee dinosaurlist.txt

3. Generate the signature

bash $ vim gen_signature.sh
#!/bin/bash
count=`cat dinosaurlist.txt | wc -l`
random=$RANDOM
let dinonum=$RANDOM%count
xyz=(`cat dinosaurlist.txt`)
dinoname=${xyz[$dinonum]}
echo $dinoname
lynx --dump http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/${dinoname} | egrep -A 20 "\[[0-9]*\]Binomial name" | sed 's/\[[0-9]*\]//g' > "/home/ishwar/.thunderbird/signature.txt"

text=`cat /home/ishwar/.thunderbird/signature.txt`

if [ -z "$text" ]
then
lynx --dump http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/${dinoname} | egrep -A 20 "\[[0-9]*\]Species" | sed 's/\[[0-9]*\]//g' > "/home/ishwar/.thunderbird/signature.txt"
fi

4. Change the signature once every five minutes.
bash $ cat /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
*/5 * * * * ishwar /home/ishwar/.thunderbird/gen_signature.sh

Accepted, this is not the most elegant script. But it makes me happy.

2007-01-03T21:50:00.001-08:00

Person 1: Now at last, the world will realise that India can have serial killers too, and desis will realise that serial killing is not a "western" thingie

Person 2: And you want seventeen kids to be killed to prove that?

WTF! The world needs a lesson in logic.

2007-01-02T07:45:00.001-08:00

Currently watching Barkha Dutt wearing a sincerely pained expression, discussing the Noida serial killer. A little over-done, but it'll feed the emotions of teeming millions of beanbag-fabindia-humanists celebrating life.

Life's good.

Toight

2006-12-29T00:19:00.001-08:00

Preshenting de very shekshy and the very toight chrishtmash tree's fazher* at my housh.

* Those that haven't seen Austin Powers, this is the time when you promptly defenestrate yourself.

2006-12-27T19:17:00.001-08:00

Ok, no more self-deprecatory, depressing posts. Doctor's orders :)

Math foo

2006-12-27T07:28:00.001-08:00

Will somebody explain the logic behind two negatives making a positive.

In other words, can you give me a real-life example of -2x-2 = 4, something along the lines of You have two apples, and your friend has four....

Please, this is driving me crazy.

Extinction mojo

2006-12-27T04:51:00.001-08:00

Ever wondered why the giant panda and the indian one-horned rhinoceres are headed for extinction? Here's why!

Maslow's hierarchy, or something like it

2006-12-27T02:44:00.001-08:00

Level 5 to Level 3 in thirteen months.

2006-12-25T23:08:00.001-08:00

And, now what?

Merry christmas and a happy new year

2006-12-25T20:09:00.001-08:00

A victorious roar from a well-camouflaged t-rex after it just bit off the stegosaurus's head.

Bloody gory mess at Hell's kitchen.

2006-12-22T19:35:00.001-08:00

And
you run and run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking

And
racing around to come up behind you again

The
sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older

Shorter
of breath and one day closer to death

Unfairness, like gravity, is fundamental to the fabric of the universe. You fall, gravity or otherwise, good or bad. There is no escaping the laws.

On cobain, gym and mammals

2006-12-21T08:53:00.001-08:00

A young woman in pretty blue workout outfit walks up to the treadmill next to mine and started running with a steady hindu growth rate when I was high on Cobain, singing out Come as you are.

A minute later she stops running and gives me a look usually reserved for Sitaram Yechuri and Sagarika Ghose. A few seconds later, she walks away in indignation.

A few minutes after the reason dawns on me. Repeated reference to what was misinterpreted as a mammalian characteristic.

Believe me, it was funny.

2006-12-20T22:19:00.001-08:00

Seriously, what's with corporates and shoving philanthropy down your throat?
Why do people feel guilty to have money?

2006-12-19T20:31:00.001-08:00

Give me a thagomiser or give me a sweet fucking christmas tree.

2006-12-19T20:00:00.001-08:00

Delhi puts me of in a way no other city ever did. Perhaps it's its history; perhaps it's the sights and smells of delhi streets, the food, the picteresque delhi university area, or the breathtaking mughal architecture; but then, these aren't. These are reasons to love, not to hate.

It's its people, rather their passion that puts me off. Give me a break, all ye delhi folks, and grow up. That includes you and a few people from my past. It's a city. Write poems about it, love it, feel nostalgic and home-sick, talk about it, but then, stop when the person next to you can take no more.

Carpe diem

2006-12-18T19:32:00.001-08:00

Memories are disturbing

More so if they aren't yours.

Tiny strands of squiggly wiggly memories,

Each full with their own independent shades

of love, pain, lust and smiles

Memories that make little sense,

having passed through sieves of hypocrisy

And lives constructed

uut of these proxy memories

make you feel you haven't lived.

So, fuck you all

It's my life

and I'm going to Carpe Diem

2006-12-13T23:05:00.001-08:00

Tea has mellowed me. Death to all gaboors.

Excited

2006-12-02T06:42:00.001-08:00

Am off to see the Kaziranga national park, Shilong and Cherrapunji for a week, and yes, take a few interviews in a college in Guwahati.
Really hoping to see the great Indian rhinoceres.

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The unbecoming of science

2006-12-01T19:40:00.000-08:00

It's strange that I get this link from Sudha. It talks about the "unbecoming of science".

Only yesterday, I was telling how more and more, physics feels like religion. Now, before ye asses pitch in and say But physics and religion are manifestations of the same entity, let's make it clear. They aren't. The only way in which they're related is that they aren't. Get that straight.

So, what is this unbecoming of science that we're talking about. Put literally, it's the semi-pseudo mysticism that has come to surround physics, making it sound like one of those verses from the vedas that sound really deep, but don't mean a shit.

When was the last time you were able to visualise anything in physics to a satisfactory degree? Electromagnetic waves? Gravity? Fluid dynamics? Uncertainty principle? Well, welcome to 20th century science. When you talk of the universe folding upon itself, of universe in twenty three dimensions, of tiny squiggles of energy making up the universe, and the way these things squiggle determining what particle it is, you get more lost than you were the first time you gave oral sex. It's not what you had imagined it to be.

Strong anthropic principle is another way of saying Don't ask questions. That's how things are. This is what all bad-breathed uncles tell their neices and nephews when they're asked - Is it tortoise all the way down?

Maths is the new tortoise

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Yet another Orkut bleah

2006-11-30T20:17:00.001-08:00

Did anybody notice the "our mutual friends" div on your orkut page?

The orkut programmers need to get their grammar sorted right!

Holy crap!

2006-11-29T00:18:00.000-08:00

If you can see this, your browser doesn't
understand IFRAME. However, we'll still
link
you to the file.

The next time somebody says s/he wants to have a child, show her/him this.
On second thought, why the fuck should they care.

2006-11-28T01:37:00.001-08:00

Citizens, you can't believe or not believe in evolution. It's not Big foot.

You can either accept it or not accept it.

2006-11-27T22:29:00.001-08:00

Suddenlee officially endorses XKCD

CToD

2006-11-23T02:34:00.001-08:00

Here's your 'Conspiracy theory of the day'

ISI has setup a camp in Colombo and is splurging money to promote linguistic jingoism in TN. The *kazhagam* parties are all funded by ISI - culturally, ideologically and monetarily.

Ok, am too bored to continue.

2006-11-23T02:09:00.001-08:00

Today, I fainted out of sheer boredom.

Woke up later. Cannibals are interesting.

The scars of happiness

2006-11-23T01:19:00.001-08:00

...

Damn, I'm getting old.

yblr - Time to rethink

2006-11-22T22:04:00.001-08:00

yblr - Time to rethink

1. This guy at work walks up to me and says, I remember only interesting mails on yblr, and I don't know who you are.

2. Two new kids are taking yblr[1] to abymssmal depths.

Will unsubscribe after breaking into the top 5.

P.S: If you don't like dinosaurs or evolution, or if I don't get to sleep with you, the chances that you'd find me interesting are as bad as my coding skills.

[1] Yahoo Internal mailing list

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In search of the elusive Indian root (repost)

2006-11-22T21:30:00.001-08:00

Something I posted a year back. Wondering what'll it be this time...

It is "finding the roots" time again. Every year in November, India
goes mad searching its roots. Men, women and children from all parts of
the country single-mindedly throw themselves at the noble cause of
root-digging.

Today is ethnic-wear day in my company, and someone composed a poem that says

Let's get back to our roots

We are all Indian offshoots

Sounds creepy to me.

Every year people find their roots in November only to lose it again. And the hunt spills over to the next year.

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Dream up a dinosaur

2006-11-22T09:43:00.001-08:00

1. Did life decree that you live to the south of the equator in a land ruled by marsupials or avians?

2. Does your pick-up line repertoire have only dinosaur jokes?

3. Did you replace your door knob with latches for the fear of raptor attack?

4. Do you hate Julia Roberts

Then, this contest is for you. Write up your most fantastic ideas of fossil finds that'll shape palaeontology.

Here's mine:

Formiphagosaurus ishwarensis member of Therizinosauridae, with long, strong forearms, specialised in breaking down anthills.

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Depressing

2006-11-22T01:37:00.001-08:00

"Humans can't write thread-safe code. It's simply beyond us"

-- Rasmus Lerdorf

Depressing stuff.

Technorati Tags: suddenlee, depressing, rasmus, tech

2006-11-20T21:51:00.000-08:00

The problem with science is that it doesn't give a shit about your theories. Pray your arse off or speculate to the point of dialysis, you came from apes, and your species will go extinct.

My search history

2006-11-20T21:41:00.000-08:00

Holy crap, this guy stole my search history. Or, wait... I use the *other* search engine.

2006-11-20T19:02:00.000-08:00

Am writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings.
Apparently, the ring was BCP-compliant, and Sauron had hid the backup ring under the tree at Minas Tirith and that's the real reason why he attacks Gondor, not to believe in some silly old man's tale of conquering middle earth. He wanted to get his lady, the spider :| , the ring. That's what the story is about - it's a passionate love story about a man who has lost his corporal existence(read, his dick), and a frigging huge spider.

Meanwhile, Sauron had quite sadly forgotten his BCP-certification and promptly dies after Frodo drops gollum into the volcano, after somehow being unaffected by its noxious fumes. The last I saw, hobbit women had breasts, suggestting they are mammals, and mammals breathe.

Anyway, Arragon finds this out and gets hold of the ring and goes back to sleeping with the elvish woman with background lighting. Little does he know the Gandalf covets her too, and they start fighting. Meanwhile Legolas and Gimley turn gay. The plot also involves special effects in New Zealand and grunting orcs.

2006-11-20T02:51:00.000-08:00

I aspire to be slightly less boring than a super-sized hay ball.

2006-11-13T21:30:00.001-08:00

This is my life after death.

2006-11-10T04:03:00.000-08:00

Wish I was born a bottlenose dolphin. Protected and cute, with a lifetime of frolicking; and I don't have to hear people spew their misunderstandings on evolution.

2006-11-09T03:17:00.000-08:00

After I die, I want my corpse to be dropped off on an asteroid.

Dravidian dino to kick aryan arse

2006-11-07T06:07:00.000-08:00

My fellow repressed brothers,

They can take away your land,
But not your souls,
Shove their language
Up your arse holes.

Fear not, dear separatists
for the mighty dravidian dino
is all set to rip aryan arse.

May I present Dravidosaurus.

Dravidosaurus (meaning "Dravidanadu lizard", Dravidanadu being a region in the southern part of India where the remains were discovered) is a genus of prehistoric reptile which was once thought to be the last surviving member of the Stegosaur or "plated dinosaurs". With an estimated length of 3 metres (10 ft), it would have also been the smallest member of the group.

P.S: Obviously written in jest

Life, or something like it.

2006-11-06T19:28:00.000-08:00

Life, discounted inexorably. Now at 60% off.

Rush, if you want to. It doesn't make a difference.

2006-11-06T17:19:00.000-08:00

Somebody once said, 'The wordless is verbose'. He then went on to write 'Life, Raptoral Atavism and Everything'.

Thou shalt fight vada mozhi tyranny

2006-11-06T02:42:00.000-08:00

America has 'astronauts', Russia has 'consmonauts' and China, its 'taikonauts'. And now, India is planning to send 'gaganauts' into space.

India is searching for a Sanskrit-based word for a spaceman as its top scientists draw up plans for the country’s first manned mission into the cosmos.

I say, why not vinvelinaut or champanaut. Gaganaut isn't representative of indian sentiments

:P

The Buffet Intellectuals

2006-11-06T01:39:00.000-08:00

We'll all be called by a name now - you and me, and the nerdy little girl with mushroom glasses, the bearded man with bleary eyes in koshy's, pushing aside his carefully unkempt hair. We, the nation, shall henceforth be called - Buffet Intellectuals .

A Buffet Intellectual is a less disparaging term than the more cynical pseudo intellectual, which has seen far more use than required. The term does not make any kicks about the actual intellectual's ability, but in the dilettante attitude of the individual. The random samplings of life that such a person goes through leaves him (or her) a veritable gold mine of random conversations but very little to seek them out for.

To identify a buffet intellectual is very easy - just start talking about something in the abstract and watch the classical allusions roll by. But the easiest way is, of course, to peek into the bookshelf. In the midst of all the professional books, you'll find books about Evolution and Dinosaurs. Or half a shelf of books about Quantum Physics and the Universe. Look more closely and you'll even find books about Economics and Social orders. Heck, you may even find a couple of books about Human Psychology.

A nibble here, a nibble there and not a mouthful anywhere. Such intellectual butterflys are curiousities who rarely achieve anything by such half-hearted dabbling. What is needed is focus and perseverance - not two days' worth of everything.

foobar and SNAFU

2006-11-05T21:17:00.000-08:00

Unlike what the american army wants you to believe, foobar and SNAFU aren't derived from american military slang. Here's the true etymology, as true as they come

1. FOOBAR
Comes from the Dead Sea Scrolls[1] that starts
"Phu, Bar, Mitzvah...".

2. SNAFU

This is a difficult one. Comes for the Zoroastrian exclamation, who, as you know, are a pious lot.

" Snahr-ah(f)ura "

that loosely translates to "What, by the scat of the divine beings is this?", or roughly, "Holy shit"
The american army picked it up from the second world war refugees.

2006-11-03T23:12:00.000-08:00

Ever read a treatise that necessitated a jaw replacement and a new table? Here's one - All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet.

Suddenlee's talisman

2006-11-03T22:42:00.000-08:00

I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test:

Turn on the television and switch to CNN-IBN, just in time for Face the nation by Sagarika Ghose. Tell yourself that life hasn't been so bad. For starters, you weren't born as dumb as her. In case you were, atleast it wasn't so cruel as to place you in limelight for a billion people to see your dumbness on screen. In the extremely improbable improbability that life indeed had done this to you, atleast you didn't make a GODDMANED FOOL of yourself.

Then you will find your doubts and your self melting away.

2006-11-03T13:12:00.000-08:00

What's common to Styracosaurus, Gorosaurus and Vastatosaurus rex.

Loser, don't search for the answer.

Being a Cling-on

2006-11-02T04:33:00.000-08:00

I didn't belive when they said I was a cling-on.

But, holy mother of mofo jesus, I am a klingon.

Language, it seems, is not without its sense of irony.

Jai Kannada

2006-10-31T21:15:00.000-08:00

Originally uploaded by mojosaurus.

So, Karnataka turns fifty. Kannada will soon be recognised as a classical language. Yayy! Woo hoo! and stuff like that.

And btw, here's a glass-saving measure in one of the shops here - the name of the shop written hastily on a piece of tissue paper.

Jai Karnataka.

Happy halloween

2006-10-31T03:25:00.000-08:00

Happy halloween, dinophiles

Link, courtesy DML

2006-10-29T07:31:00.001-08:00

Another pointless debate on the hijab/burqa issue, with an exceptional point.

Without the cross, the burqa, hijab and the turban, we'll let the politicians at the helm to decide our morality.

Brilliant.

Personally, I have problems with the hijab. Consider me opinionated, dogmatic and a million other things I'm not; I don't care. I find it a rather barbaric practise, and the question of choice having been reduced to a hobson's choice, by indoctrination.

Personal choice is the most misused word in all of humanity. For god's sake, I can't even choose the type of condom I wear. Spotted, came the suggestion. Apparently, I wouldn't know.

2006-10-29T02:24:00.001-08:00

Tired and hungry after a weekend of hectic house-shifting, I sit pretty and tight, reading letters from long-lost girlfriends, girlfriends lost in time and letters lost in the wake of life's bueuracracy. Feels like having your brain wrapped in soft velvet and shot into space; the good part of it. Feels bouncy. Feelks like a whole lot of marsh-mellows.

2006-10-27T08:44:00.000-07:00

Atheism is unprovable, hence uninteresting.
Suggest a wilder beast to tame.

Nov 26

2006-10-26T06:02:00.000-07:00

Nov 26, 2006.

Nilu, Kuzh and I are going to Archana-Sanjeeth's wedding.

Jurassic Park - Director's cut

2006-10-25T22:56:00.000-07:00

One of the scenes that didn't make it to the movie

2006-10-18T20:57:00.000-07:00

The next time you hear people talking about playing it fair, kick your own shin so hard that you'd faint for having been in the company of such people, turn, wiggle your arse at them and get the hell out of the place.

Kuzh's serenade

2006-10-18T05:29:00.000-07:00

Kuzh sings for his thai love.

2006-10-16T22:35:00.000-07:00

Please don't use 'exactly' and 'actually' if you don't know where exactly to use them.

Happy b'day, feathered dinosaurs.

2006-10-10T21:17:00.000-07:00

This day, ten years back, the discovery of the first feathered dinosaur, Sinosauropteryx prima was announced, transforming the world of dinosaurs forever.

This fossil led to the discovery.

And this is how they probably looked.

2006-10-10T01:41:00.000-07:00

The future is... well... squeamy.

Featherless chickens could be the future of mass poultry farming in warmer countries, says an Israeli geneticist who has created a bare-skinned "prototype".

The new chicken would be lower in calories, faster-growing, environmentally friendly, and more likely to survive in warmer conditions, claims Avigdor Cahaner of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He created his red-skinned chicken by selectively crossing a breed with a naturally bare neck with a regular broiler chicken.

2006-10-08T09:23:00.000-07:00

Sometimes it's important to be wrong[1] to make mistakes. And sometimes, it feels good to have done that.

[1] Lack of punctuation marks to be noted.

Pon Mozhi - 1

2006-10-08T08:04:00.000-07:00

Barkha, the verdict is simple. There are strong, very strong reasons why the legislature is separate from the judiciary in the Indian Constitution. Read up the ninth standard civics text book. Succumbing to pressure groups kill democracy.

Why waste an hour of prime time to debate a non-argument?

2006-10-08T05:38:00.000-07:00

Watching Kuch Kuch Hota Hai on TV makes me extremely thankful that the dravidian movement occured.

2006-10-07T20:10:00.000-07:00

All ye dumbfucks that have a pet dog, keep the dog under the fucking leash. Others don't fancy getting a panic attack by your dog getting startled and baring its teeth when it pees in the pavement as much as you do.

Senility pangs

2006-10-07T00:56:00.000-07:00

Growing old isn't easy, especially when at times you stare at a person incredulously when he asks you if you want to see sunset in andamans. Isn't andaman supposed to be in the east coast? Two hours, a couple of thousand rupees later, I realised why a certain woman dumped me. Again, at twenty five, I assumed that prime numbers were dependent on the number system.

2006-10-07T00:19:00.000-07:00

Ok, here's the plan

Put aside Rs. 15k every month onto a separate account and burn the debit card for that account; the best thing to do, atleast until something like this comes up.

Sometime in January 2008, Take the 1145 flight from Delhi to Vladivostok and arrive at Vladivostok at 1900 hours

Rush to the nearest pub, get drunk and get laid

Repeat step 3 until I get bored

Average temperature in January: −13.7°C

Board the train, travel past Ulan Ude, Irkutsk, Lake Baikal and onto Moscow.

Take the flight back to Delhi

Not much of a plan. But a passable one nevertheless.

My next holiday

2006-10-05T22:50:00.000-07:00

Am taking the trans-siberian tour in Jan 2008. Vladivostok to Moscow.