<12/06/2004 11:01PM> Well, had enough of those "I wanna comment directly on your blog" snide remarks. Moved to blogspot.com. Really painful process. The servers are real slow today and the going is at a snail's crawl. Hope you like the new content.
<11/28/2004 10:57PM> Whoo! Long time no update. Exams. Nuff.

And ... forced/coerced/politely asked (take your pick) Mr. Vedantam to take me to the Spongebob movie. The end blew (well, not entirely the movie's fault - Mr. TV would rather watch National Treasure so bummed me out a bit). Ima hear about this from Mr. TV soon.

Project deadlines all this week.

Thanksgiving sales: WOAH! Really didn't believe it until I saw it. Really long lines (half of them Desi's anyway). Huge piles of the free stuff. Rebates are gonna be completely utilized. People start looking for new addresses. (One rebate per address ... smart move).

And EVERYone needs a bit of music in their life. So? Here's my source of musical freedom. Party!
<11/21/2004 09:48PM> Any views on the movie Equilibrium? Anyone? Anyone at all? Tycho thinks it's a good movie. Not a Matrix rip-off. Anyone out there watch it?
<11/21/2004 09:09PM> Never even in your most feverish hazes (poetrofeverish hazes to wit) wish me into your family. I never remember birthdays. I need the calendar on my palmtop to help me remember my own mother's birthday. I'm that lame. So, no surprise I forgot my sister's b'day (not my own sister - cousin sister - my dad's brother's first born). Very very sorry.

Congrats to my uncle. Him and aunt have gone emerald. Starting their diamond qualification soon. That's equivalent to millionaire status in the Quixtar/Amway universe. No, no, NO! I'm NOT Promoting that "chain marketing" shtick. I was never a part of it and don't plan to be either. But, I love my uncle and felt I should support him when he has achieved his dream. Way to go.

On a totally unrelated rant (yeah right!) he tried to get me into the "It's-not-pyramid" marketing scheme. My sister was into it briefly, but I guess I depressed her into giving up on it. That's one of my guilty secrets. But, anyway, can't take all the blame, she couldn't get too many people (wait - I mean NO ONE) to sign up (that's basically how you go up in the chain). So, anyhoo, Congrats again and hope you have the great life you worked so hard to build and dreamt about no end for so long.

Totally unrelated again, Uncle... could you pass me a tenner? *puppy dog eyes*
<11/19/2004 05:59AM> And... Oh Yeah! Before I forget. The whole deal with the Nicolette Sheridan and Terrel Owens thing. They're definitely pushing it this time. We've seen far worse on and off the TV screen. YOU DON'T NEED TO PROMOTE YOUR TV SERIAL THIS WAY! Try keeping the script consistent. That's all you need to do. Outrage? My left toenail.
<11/19/2004 05:37AM> Jesus Fscking Christ! These cartoons are just down right disturbing! OMG! Whoever came up with this stupid vile crap. Cute and cuddly and horribly, horribly wrong.
<11/19/2004 04:09AM> More the merrier. Always works.
<11/19/2004 03:22AM> More DOMMAGE! NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Despite the Cydonian's repeated warnings and beside my better judgment, watched the crap-fest that is vAstushAstra. Nuff said.

And, the other RGV movie - Naach. A tribute to dance or RGV flipping off Bollywood. You decide. I'm extremely skeptical about an Indian audience's reaction to a movie made in that manner and released with the mainstream crap. And he does call the rest of Bollywood just that. Gets Abhishek Bacchan to say it too.

Performances - wooden (Antra Mali), interesting attempt (Abhishek) and decent support (Ritesh Deshmukh).

I mean you can do those "oh I'm so limber I can make my foot touch my head" stretches so many times before it gets friggin boring. The interpretive dance that she's obviously trained her butt off to learn (seriously - nice buns :) - no offence intended) is weirdly repetitive and gets old before the stretches do. Thankfully, Abhishek learns pretty early into the movie he just can't dance and shouldn't try - director agrees too and they settle for him just standing there looking ummmm... well I can't say pretty can I? I mean... look at him. And now to the real character behind it. RGV. Shouldn't have quantized his loathing for certain existing filmmakers or choreographers into the movie so blatantly. He could have done it by actually spending more time getting the movie into shape and devoting a lot of time to editing the extra long parts.

Simply put - I liked it. Always a RGV fan. Don't care much for his attempts at horror flicks but anyway, that's just me.
<11/13/2004 05:20PM> Oh yeah, keep forgetting to link to Metlin's blog. He already linked to mine. Gotta return the favor right?
<11/13/2004 04:40PM> If you're gonna cut off the water right when I'm in the middle of my shower, fine with me. I'll just towel off and finish my shower at my friends place. But, if I went to all that trouble, you'd better have a good reason for it. Like: Angel was fighting demons and he's afraid of water. Or, there's a mutant worm in the system and could come out of anywhere and Mulder was cutting off the escape routes. All good reasons. But, if you cut it off again the next day, right when I'm brushing my teeth and had just emptied out all the old water from the cans to clean em, just because you needed to do some unscheduled repairs, then you're frigging playing with your lives. I'm gonna KILL YOU ALL!

Speaking of conspiracy theories, you know why they make video games so realistic? It's a government conspiracy. They've got the robots, now they're training the geeks to master the controls so that they can lead the robots into actual combat. Too much time, too much time.

Got an idea for a great story (all my story ideas are great). Will jot it down sometime today. Right now, need to work on the exams coming up.
<11/11/2004 07:18PM> What the hell is going on? This is just stinking terrible. The biggest religious leader in the south. And he's arrested? That just won't do.
<11/11/2004 02:24AM> Get the book "The Tipping Point" and read it. It'll do you good. If you're at UTA: I've returned it, so now you can borrow it. Do it _today_.

Picked up the following:

  1. Linked: The new science of Networks
  2. Chaos: Making a new Science

The Cydonian thinks 9o0|) |3o0|<5 i$ teh dE 4R7.
<11/11/2004 01:59AM> Thees ees vary haaribul seetuation baabaa.

No updates in quite a while. Not even about The Incredibles. Woot. Awesome movie. It's got this sixty's spy flick feel to it which is eternally appealing (especially to me). Not a real children's movie if you ask me; everyone can watch it and probably relate. I mean how many people really can relate with a super-hero forced to go under voluntary retirement after he is sued for ruining a man's spectacular suicide off a big building and causing bodily harm in the process (guy's all decked out like he's at traffic court - neck brace and all - with sleazy lawyer attached). "What do you mean he saved his life? He ruined my client's death. And sprained his neck in the process too!"

Well, that's how the movie starts off with. The attached features included with the movie are - tararantaraa... Star Wars III - The Revenge of the Sith - teaser trailer. "Arise Lord Vader!" *Hiss phooooo hiss phhooo* That's my Vader impression - get over it. Basically the preview sucked. It's going to be a goddamn kids' movie like the previous two. Lucas is simply milking the situation. I'm not the first one to say it, and I won't be the last.

The other attachment is the animated short "Boundin" everyone seemed to like it. And there was the Spongebob trailer again. Already been there. Waiting to see if roommates are brave enough to endure that experience with me. I'm guessing "Hell NO!"

And... Some people are just idiots. I mean look at it this way. Here's how moronic I am. Now if _I_ judged them to be idiots, you can probably estimate how asinine (thank you dictionary.com) those people must be.

And... deepaavaLi Subhaakaankshalu and stuff. Droool.
<11/06/2004 02:37PM> Sweet. You say it once and it comes true the next day. Despite the US election results, there is a Gawd!

Trying hard to get a comments engine into the site. But, what can I say? I am a noob with this stuff. I tried to get blogspot.com to directly publish to the ftp server of this site, but it seems to fight me every which way. I'll probably delete the index.htm file and try again. Here's to experiments.
<11/05/2004 08:01PM> OMG! That "joke" apparently is near about as old as I am. I am getting terribly behind the times.

My Fingers are on FIRE! The tips especially. Made Mirchi ka Salan yesterday and to do so you need to deseed a lot of peppers. These were the long green peppers and just as it so happens they secrete a juice which turns the nerve endings on my fingers to burning hot solder drops. The feeling just won't go away. I need medication! Get me my morphine drip woman!

The Incredibles seem to be getting some good reviews. Hope I get to see it.

There was something else I wanted to post on but "cell-phone-talker" destroyed my thought process. People talking on cell phones in a quiet lab ought to be lined up and shot.

*Cut to: Sankar turns back and looks at roommate staring angrily after reading blog: He's holding the latest Sprint PCS phone and is talking with his parents in India: Sankar books tickets on Southwest airlines (Tickets because Sankar is FAT!) and southwest requires obese passengers buy two tickets*

LOL. Couldn't find it online but there was a CNN report last night about how the airline industry spent round about $250million in the year 2000 alone because of extra fuel required to carry heavier passengers. Ididnotknowitwasthatbad.
<11/05/2004 02:53AM> I didn't care much for the book, but Robin Cook's Seizure did have an afterword pleading for the safe passage of Proposition 71. Well, booyah etc etc.
<11/05/2004 02:11AM> Lol! Read the best joke (well a new joke atleast - for me) I've seen in quite some time when randomly searching profiles on blogspot.com.

Was trolling on Mr. Chava Kiran's blog. Say hello everyone. Take a bow sir. Take a bow. He goes in the links.
<11/03/2004 03:46PM> Happy B'day Mr. T. Vedantam. Where's my goddamned PARTY? X(

Bush won. :| He actually won. :O

Like Khanh said, as soon as Florida was declared to have gone to the GOP, the mood in the "Spin room" out here just plummeted.

Picked up the book at the library.

The Cydonian is a Connector. I've just got to that part. Don't know what I am.

But from personal experience, there are two types I can identify with. The pisser-offers and the mood-uplifters. I'm definitely the former. I have this terrible habit of correcting everyone. I mean everyone on everything under the goddamn sun. Even stuff I have no idea about (that's pretty much everything in the world). Most inexcusable among them all is the constant correction of people's pronunciation. I do THAT A LOT!

The mood-uplifters: This random guy just told me he voted for Jesus, so all three candidates are losers. That kind of childishness and lack of respect for social responsibility I can totally identify with. These people make me smile.
<11/01/2004 02:14PM> Some people just don't deserve to be treated with respect. You try to be civil and understanding and friendly and they'll just end up reaming you up the (insert expletive).

AVOID "EK SE BADHKAR EK". It is the pestilence which will bring about your doom. You thought watching the Chronicles of Riddick drove your to the edge and that Torque pushed you over? This will make you punch yourself in the eye with a number 2 pencil (preferably blunt).

Watched The Transporter twice. It was that bearable. The first time was ok. The second time, you get to sit there smugly commenting on how well you had analyzed the movie's plot. Luc Besson WAS good. (Please note past tense)
<10/27/2004 01:20AM> However you look at it, you ain't lived until you've told a friend a FoB story. It always gives you a kick; ridiculing your own for not being able to ooze into a foreign culture as slimily as you have. Now you're really cool.
<10/24/2004 07:25PM> Filthy agrees. Do not waste your money watching Team America in the theatre. Wait for the Comedy Central airing. But, gotta admit. I did laugh out loud at each and every joke.
<10/24/2004 07:19PM> Apparently, Harry Rex Vonner keeps coming back in every book of John Grisham's based in Clanton, Mississippi. He was even there in A Time to Kill. How did I miss that? Hmm. Clanton will always have Harry in Grisham's world I guess. But he keeps changing the character's habits/habitats in each book. Interesting.
<10/24/2004 05:26PM> After that excessively long rant yesterday, went home, to find the roommates watching "Flavors". Very well done. I'd recommend that you watch it.

Harry Rex Vonner strikes again. John Grisham repeats this particular character for his own reasons.

Read this a few weeks ago. Mixed feelings. People recommend that I read Rushdie to appreciate what the book really has done.
<11/04/2004 12:09AM> Hmmm. Something's missing here. Why's the timeline screwed up?

Glad you noticed. Previous posts in The Vault Series. Major Revamp on the site today. Was taking too long to load and looked terrible. Bug reports greatly appreciated. Think this looks terrible too? I'm experimenting with color schemes. Help me out here.
<07/17/2004 10:50PM> Hi,

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