quadruplex telegraph

bye bye blogger !

2006-10-18T22:50:00.000-07:00

am closing this blog. i have had enough with blogger. thanks to everyone who visited regularly and the few who felt like commenting. please visit my new blog at www.theanalogkid.net. please update your blogrolls and bookmarks too.

2006-10-13T21:24:00.000-07:00

scram.. run.. slide.. glide.. "hey jamun !..".. "get the hell out of my way !" screamed the icecream as it shot past the slow jamun into the comfortable corners of the stomach.. faaar away from the terrible lunch music.

trek pics

2006-10-11T11:25:00.000-07:00

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just saw ..

2006-10-10T21:53:00.000-07:00

Ratings :
Scarface - 8.5
Duck Soup - 7.5
Irreversibe - 6.5
La Haine - 7.5
Modern Times - 9
The Conversation - 9
The Hunt for red october - 8
The Lion King - 8

70mm

2006-10-09T08:49:00.000-07:00

netflix business model ripoff.

-s

only 10k titles compared to netflix's 65k. and the 10k includes regional movies as well
site movie search sucks since it searches for words like "of" "it" etc. too.
they have a genre called tragedy. and its only for regional movies. wtf?
only one movie of kubrick ( barry lyndon ), none of godard, and only one by kurosawa ( "ran" ), no truffaut, no bergman, no bresson. lame.
bad data. when did de palma make "asambhav lakshya"?
the 90s called, they want their vcds back. most of the goldies are available only as vcds. yuck.
It takes 1 business day to deliver your movies and 2 to take them back. And max 2 at a time ( both at once btw ). Doing a small math, you would be lucky if you can get 4 per week and hence about 16 per month ( consider yourself very lucky ). So unlimited == 16.
No you cant return the movie directly at their office. This is answer to Q 31 in their FAQ. So no room watsoever for greed. such good souls. gotta learn to appreciate them.

seventymm sucks porcupine testicles. I waaaaaaant netflix as-is in india.

short tale - 6

2006-10-05T08:25:00.000-07:00

"i should finish off this ugly radish curry first. god its sooo repulsive, atleast i could've thrown up if it was mom. hmmm.. poor aunty will feel bad if i say i dont like it. lemme finish it off first so i can enjoy my piping hot aloo curry and eggs with this steaming hot rice....".. raghu thought to himself while stuffing his mouth with the yucky radish. "he must be really loving my radish to be hogging it like that.. poor boy.. i think his mom doesnt make radish much.. " thought aunty at around the same time. "here raghu, very tasty isnt it? i learnt to make it from tv you know..." said aunty with her big colgate smile as she served raghu a monstrous helping of the radish curry.

2006-10-04T03:31:00.000-07:00

please leave me alone in my gutter,
i like the view of the stars best from here.

over the hills and far away

2006-10-02T07:53:00.000-07:00

leeches are fun
and so is the rain
dont forget to run
or you'll end up in pain

( ogden nash would be proud of me )

2006-09-29T03:18:00.000-07:00

am off to the mountains. i can rid myself of my tin-foil hat for some time now.

just saw ..

2006-09-23T21:56:00.000-07:00

Update

Ratings :
Pickpocket - 9/10
Sideways - 7.5/10
Before Sunrise - 8/10
Deliverance - 9/10
El Mariachi - 7.5/10
Manhattan - 8.5/10
Before Sunset - 9/10
Hana Bi - 7/10

the trees

2006-09-19T05:41:00.000-07:00

There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.

The trouble with the maples,
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made.
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade.

There is trouble in the forest,
And the creatures all have fled,
As the maples scream "Oppression!"
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"The oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."
Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.
--
rush
(hemispheres)

short tale - 5

2006-09-19T02:40:00.000-07:00

he would get the first choice to choose a pen from the pen set their aunt gave them both, the last piece of a tasty cake, better bedding on a trip, a geared bicycle, more pocket money and an unquestionably better education. he would then make a job that sends him abroad while she would be married to someone whose horoscopic grids matched with hers. years would pass and he would be a dutiful loving son and call them up from seattle once a week while she would take them to the hospital every week as they age and visit them everyday and weep bitterly.

2006-09-18T21:54:00.000-07:00

To the poor cockroach which was in my breakfast today,
I swear i did not know how you landed up in my box. My mom dint mean to hurt you either. i feel bad that you have to be thrown into the garbage bin and not given a decent burial. I'm sorry.

I saw three cities

2006-09-18T05:52:00.000-07:00

--
Kay Sage ( 1944 )

2006-09-14T22:11:00.000-07:00

the doubly loooong vestibule bus fully stuffed now, resembled a huge caterpillar which had swallowed hundreds of people and was heading along to the terminus to defecate.

short tale - 4

2006-09-14T10:08:00.000-07:00

the pink bikini was flashing in the late evening sunlight. a pair of not so nice and hairy legs were running through the sand in slow motion like a sequence from baywatch or maybe a cliched playboy video. the waves wash down the shore and die at the running feet. a thick, groomed moustache adorns the face of the person running.
he laughed loudly to himself when about 10 people in the restaurant turned and looked at him to see what was wrong. he always pictured guys he dint like, wearing pink bikini running down the beach in slow motion. he had had his revenge.

short tale - 3

2006-09-13T02:12:00.000-07:00

after having played tt for 40 mins, i was tired as usual. sweating profusely, we went for lunch as always. we usually manage to find a table near a tablefan to cool our skin. today our usual places were taken so we had to find an alternate table which was near a fan. we found one occupied by just two people and so we ( 2 of us ) moved there. i put my plate on the table after asking him if someone was coming and after he said "no", i went on to switch the fan. my friend had come by then and he had put his plate next to mine and sat there. i came to know later that he had told my friend that "he had switched off the fan" to which my friend had replied "ok". i came to the table after switching it on and turning it towards the table facing me, and my friend sitting next to me. i was hungry and immediately started attacking the bad rotis. this guy turns towards me and says "i switched it off". i continued attacking the food and mumbled "ok" under my breath. he repeats "i switched it off" still staring at me eating. i have a problem if people stare at my mouth when i eat, so i looked up and looked blankly at him wondering what his point was. and when he said it for the third time "i switched it off", i was wondering if it was a joke or just a day for making pointless statements. so i said "ya, and i switched it on" and i smiled at him. but now, he was looking as if he was gonna eat me alive for lunch. he says "i had a problem with it". i said " oh! ok. i have turned it away from you so it should be fine". he obviously was pissed by now for god-knows-what reason and he says, "take your chairs away and sit somewhere else and turn the fan towards you". i found this impossible since, you cant just eat sitting on a chair without a table to put your heavy plate on. and finding we dint have an option, i told him politely, "ya but we are already seated here, we would just finish our lunch and go". he then says "i can go and switch it off now". not wanting to pick a fight at a lunch table, i said "ok, switch it off if you want". he found this offensive, can you believe it?? he stares at me harder and i get the impression as if he has a spoon and fork in hand and i am really gonna be his lunch. i dont like confrontations so i said, "ok cool buddy. i will switch it off" and i went and switched it off. i came back and continued eating and he says "thats not the way you talk". i had had enough by now and i looked at him and asked "what ?", he takes a really aggressive stance and speaks rudely "thats not the way you talk. which team do you work for?" i found this was going overboard for no reason at all. i hate confrontations and i really dint want to make a big scene at a lunch table so i jus said "LS" and continued eating. i felt i would be very uncultured and stupid to be fighting with someone in a workplace, and so i dint say a word and finished off my lunch and left with my friend. it was later that i found who he was and apparantly he was a senior project manager. i realized he was just being a egomaniac and took me for a ride since he probably felt he was superior for whatever reason. what do you think i should have done? should i have thrown a stone into the sewer and stood there?

short tale - 2

2006-09-12T02:48:00.000-07:00

he was busy taking mental snapshots of the bench by the lake on which they sat. he did that everytime he felt it was going to be a moment to remember. one shot from that tree across the lake, one from behind and one from the surface of the water and one panaromic view from where he sat. he felt he had captured enough to be cherished 10 years later with a bottle of wine. he wished the night would never end. meanwhile, she was wondering what colored curtains their house would have and how many dogs and babies they can support. she wished the night would never end. they had shared their first kiss 10 minutes back. "what are you thinking?" she asks, just as he sits up and brings his gaze down from the summer sky now fast filling with stars building a shimmering celestial highway."Nothing" he says as his gaze shifts from the stars to her eyes. "You?". "Nothing" she nods and shrugs with a smile. the comfortable silence continued.

just saw..

2006-09-11T21:51:00.000-07:00

Update

Ratings :
Dog Day Afternoon - 7.5
Suna No Onna - 9
A History of Violence - 7.5
The Holy Mountain - 9
Heat - 8.5
Eraserhead - 8.5
Amores Perros - 8
Blue Velvet - 8

2006-09-11T09:50:00.000-07:00

finishing the anniversary edition of calvin and hobbes that runs about 260 pages in about 4 hours is like drinking a bottle of haut-medoc fine wine bottoms up by the bottle.
definitely possible but infinitely stupid.

short tale - 1

2006-09-10T07:23:00.000-07:00

you are standing before a class full of 9 yr olds after having struggled hard with the management, for providing creative computer education. there are people everywhere who would discourage stating the stupidest of reasons even if you discover something that would take you and your dog from point A to point B 10000 miles away in 0 secs. the stupid reason to disparage here could vary from "but i want to have my wine 5000 ft above sea level while having a pleasant flight" to "i could get a date with a hot airhostess in a long flight". with all these thoughts swirling and wavering you setup your computer to give instructions to the kids. here you are before a class full of innocent 9 yr olds to teach geography through Google Earth. the kids seem to be totally amazed by the software after fiddling with it and you are really happy you have done something worthwhile though it meant a squabble with the school management. the kid in the corner waves at you. you move to him to see if he has any problems. after using the software for hardly a minute, the kid scoffs "Where are the other planets?".

2006-09-08T10:42:00.000-07:00

if matter cud co-exist in space, there would be no traffic jams.

religion (superstition) vs science

2006-09-07T11:33:00.000-07:00

hindu milk miracle
seawater turning sweet at mahim creek

ganesha immersion

2006-09-07T11:23:00.000-07:00

see this . photos and videos of vinayakar (ganesha) immersion into marina beach after vinayakar chathurthi.
i have been wondering since i was 5. if we love ganesha so much, why do we drown him so many times every year in the sea ?

stray birds - 13

2006-09-07T11:22:00.000-07:00

the little flower lies in the dust.
it sought the path of the butterfly.
--
tagore

2006-09-03T22:30:00.000-07:00

want only what you need
want only what you can get
seek only what you want
you could then get everything
you need,want and seek

the holy mountain

2006-08-26T09:14:00.000-07:00

fanstastic, weird, grotesque, surreal, sci-fi, spiritual, sacriligeous, extremely symbolic, fantasia cannot sum up holy mountain. it is definitely not like anything you would have seen. will go down as the most tremendously underrated and remarkably bizarre movie ever made. alajandro jadarowsky fills the movie with limbless midgets, minotaurs, cyclopses, religions, solar system, lots of jesus, futurism, alchemy, mysticism, latin american history ( depicted by a chameleon and toad circus where toads enact the mexican war ), nudity, eccentric symbols from various religions,bald lesbians, etc. i found the movie very ironic and symbolic with a christ-like figure being a theif, the limbless midget (christianity?) kicking german soldiers and the roman soldiers getting the christlike figure drunk ( the limbless midget cries in this scene, so he must be representing christianity ) and use his body as a mold for making christ replicas to sell. the movie has no plot but who cares, the surreal imagery has made my saturday afternoon worthwhile. i have to see this again. this movie is old (1973) and not so famous, so if you dont get this movie in your dvd store ( i guess you wont ) i can get it for you.

2006-08-24T22:31:00.000-07:00

Joke ->
You -->
|_____/|\ O
|_____/If you got it

2006-08-24T22:30:00.000-07:00

Joke ------------>
You --> O
|_____/||_____/If you dint get the previous post

2006-08-24T22:18:00.000-07:00

Joke ->
You --> O
|_____/||_____/Get the pun
or get none

dead tissues and caste system

2006-08-23T04:31:00.000-07:00

make a wish on a fallen eyelash,
scowl at a withered dandruff flake,
and you say untouchability is a sin ?

chennai day - today

2006-08-22T05:49:00.000-07:00

aol data leak

2006-08-16T22:44:00.000-07:00

36 million+ search queries of 6.58 million+ users between 01 March, 2006 - 31 May, 2006.
w00t. i know what you were searching for last month.
the folder on my desktop feels very very heavy (over 1GB of raw raw search queries).
Dear God,
can i get 10 hours per day for research ?
please.. pretty please.

degrading music

2006-08-14T23:37:00.000-07:00

where is the music industry heading ? i have this weird feeling that music is degrading with each passing year. i am sure all of you will agree. is it just that everyone kind of gets stuck to the songs/genre they liked first (maybe in their teens or in college) and expect everything else to be like it and they discover its not and then automatically start having a hate toward everything which isnt their like? though outwardly sounds like a plausible explanation, its far from true. most of us are open to genre shifts at various points in our life. like a teenager discovering rock n roll, then moving on to country, classics and classical as he ages. so its not our rigidity with a genre/era that is making it look like music is degrading. the truth is that it actually is.

Reminds me of Rush's song "spirit of the radio" where the lines go like.. "...all these machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted, not so coldly charted.." , ".. one likes to beleive in the freedom of music, but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity.." and "..for the words of the profits are written on the studio wall, concert hall-- echoes with the sounds of salesmen." the song hits it right on the head. point one is that even in 1980, geddy lee feels that music is rotting. point two, he blames it on the marketing and the music labels associated with the musician. I would also like to cite another example in the book "the clockwork orange" where alex likes ludwig van ( beethoven as referred by alex ), mozart, rossini, schubert etc. and thinks that the modern music of his era ( pianos and blues ) is all cal ( nadsat for crap ).

which contemporary band do you like the most ?
i tried answering and i really cant come out with more than 2 or 3 (tool,u2?,coldplay?) all of whom have been better earlier actually. i really cant stand most of the albums that have been released in the last 10 years.

it sends shivers through my spine to think of how music will be when i am 40. if we let the marketing managers of record labels dictate our music taste, we are going to be fueling someone's greed and also end up spoiling some great, talented, yet greedy and foolish bands. think of what happened to metallica. Do we want load, reload and St. Anger? encourage indie labels and start digging for your music and dont pick up anything from the "hot new" or "rocking new releases" from your supermarket. did you know that supermarkets employ people to crowd next to "new releases" and to pretend picking up the cds with zest like they were normal shoppers. so stop buying or listening to commercial music. you are doing your future generations and music a gargantuan favor.

2006-08-14T09:31:00.000-07:00

i will present you
parts
of
my
self
slowly
if you are patient and tender.

i will open drawers
that mostly stay closed
and bring out places and people and things
sounds and smells,
loves and frustrations,
hopes and sadnesses,
bits and pieces of three decades of life
that have been grabbed off
in chunks
and found lying in my hands.
they have eaten
their way into my memory,
carved their way into
my heart.

altogether
- you or i will never see them -
they are me.
if you regard them lightly,
deny that they are important
or worse, judge them
i will quietly, slowly,
begin to wrap them up,
in small pieces of velvet,
like worn silver and gold jewelry,
tuck them away
in a small wooden chest of drawers
and close
--
john t. wood

stray birds - 12

2006-08-14T09:19:00.000-07:00

a mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
it makes the hand bleed that uses it.
--
tagore

jus saw..

2006-08-12T23:56:00.000-07:00

2006-08-11T23:41:00.000-07:00

they held hands and got on a ride in the amusement park embarked by few. they have gone round the sun once with big smiles and arms and legs flailing about like mad children and the ride continues to get better.

2006-08-11T10:23:00.000-07:00

men will be men.
i vow to kill any man who says that in defence.
fscking hypocrites.

pestilence

2006-08-10T10:45:00.000-07:00

orkut sucks.. yea that next big thing ( isnt it a big thing already? ) that google bought sucks porpupine testicles. not as much as myspace does though.
with the innumerable requests that i received thru mail from friends, i decided to sign up only to find out what a roach motel it actually is. sorry i dont have to find my friends thru a social networking portal filled with rodents, roaches, ticks and leeches.
whatever happened to privacy?
shouldn't people be talking a bit less? yea yea i understand free speech, but i do understand the excess of it too.
i would wait calmly till one of these guys at orkut or myspace becomes a CEO of a renowned organisation or a president of a country or just someone holding a prestigious position to dig up his orkut/myspace page and show him how he licked whipped cream off someone's ****.
i just got a bit curious and ran a google search. check my results for myspace. Dont say that the same thing doesnt hold true for orkut. orkut doesnt yet have a blog like myspace and it hasnt caught on like myspace. i bet it will soon be soaring over myspace in terms of immature content.
If you notice, the search doesnt have any vulgar keywords. yet, see the 704 search results i ended up with (all from myspace.)
where are we heading ?

2006-08-08T02:15:00.000-07:00

where are the endless lazy summer afternoons where you wont even remember which month of the year it is?

the man who knew infinity

2006-08-07T23:32:00.000-07:00

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 ..... = -1/12

gonna read..

also being made into a movie by benegal and stephen fry

2006-08-07T03:30:00.000-07:00

the roti came a close second as always but the dal at lunch definitely deserves an oscar for acting tasty.

reflection

2006-08-04T21:57:00.000-07:00

I have come curiously close to the end, though
Beneath my self indulgent pitiful hole. defeated i
Concede and move closer. I may find comfort here
I may find peace within the emptiness. how pitiful.

Its calling me
...

And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping.
The moon tells me a secret. my confidant.
As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own
A million light reflections pass over me
Its source is bright and endless.
She resuscitates the hopeless
Without her we are lifeless satellites drifting.

And as I pull my head out
I am without one doubt
Dont want to be down here
Feeding my narcissism i
Must crucify the ego
Before its far too late
I pray the light lifts me out

Before I pine away.
...

So crucify the ego
Before its far too late
To leave behind this place so
Negative and blind and cynical

And we will come to find
That we are all one mind
Capable of all thats
Imagine the unconceivable

Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill thorough
Just let them pass right through,
Bringing out our hope and reason.

Before we pine away.
--
tool

exaGGGGGGGGGGGeration

2006-08-03T03:57:00.000-07:00

on the phone..

........
he : you know they have 10 cars in their house with two drivers for each one.
he : they have 4 maids for each person in the house and they only fly in their mercedes.
he : the maids that is..
other end : hahaha... they drive so fast eh? or they fly in the sky.. ?
he : ya really, they fly in the sky only.
other end : in their car ?
he : yaa, in their mercedes.
other end : phone clicks

hehehe... he loves to exaGGGGGGGGGerate.

2006-07-31T21:57:00.000-07:00

i am invisible

thirukkural and tagore

2006-07-14T02:48:00.000-07:00

yaanokkum kaalai nilanokkum nokkaakkaal
thaanokki mella nagum.
--
thiruvalluvar ( 31 BC )
kural : 1094
adhigaram : kuripparidhal
inbathuppaal

translation:

when i look, she looks down; when i don't,
she looks and smiles timidly.

find it toooooo beautiful and very similar to some lines from tagore's "the gardener"

if it sets your heart aflutter, i will
take away my eyes from your face.
--
tagore ( taken from "the gardener" )

react os

2006-07-13T09:47:00.000-07:00

have you heard of reactOS ?. if you havent, then check it out here.
coming to think of it, its a really noble concept. reactos is a complete re-write of the windows kernel. all windows programs would continue to work on reactos. ooooh and its free (as in beer) and open under GNU public license. not stable yet and requires a lot of work.

2006-07-13T07:42:00.000-07:00

some words/phrases i hate; a lot :

register
sign up
click here
login
advertisement
learn more
try it
buy now
download ( its a love hate reln. )
windows version
.exe
what is this?
All New !
welcome xyz,
get started
submit
preferences
change settings
add
edit
delete

godawful

2006-07-13T04:00:00.000-07:00

bright lit by the early morning skylight of summer were the big black framed photos of saraswati, ganesha, lakshmi, venkatesa and his wife along with a few small, maybe less powered photos of gods. the oldman had finished his bath and also bathed his grandson and made him collect hibiscus flowers to offer his gods and goddesses like he had done for decades before this day and more than a decade after that day. he stood and prayed under the warm morning light coming through the skylight with just a towel wrapped around his waist right from the bathroom as always. he still does.
the gods never had the courtesy to ask him to sit as he stood there amidst them in their courtroom after offering his flowers.

self-dicovery and monoamine oxidase

2006-07-13T02:12:00.000-07:00

more about the exess monoamine oxidases A (mao) in my body. Not only am a neophile, but i also seem to have adhd ( attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ) which again is due to MAO. i have each and every one of these symptoms for adhd listed in the adhd wiki page. well, there is an explanation now for my seemingly unattentive nature and brashness. excess mao also explains my love for depression (does that answer you question autogato?) and also my social phobias.
looks like i have cracked my life open for me to manipulate.

neophila

2006-07-12T08:14:00.000-07:00

i have excess of monoamine oxidase A. i just found that i am a neophile. hmmm.. that explains my gadgetry.

some math

2006-07-12T00:06:00.000-07:00

migraine = f (weather, time_of_year, sleep, iScream, stress, karma )

where
weather = rainy or not
time_of_year = this time of year
sleep = lack of it
iScream = my laptop
stress = morons around me
karma = an integer which affects the left side of the equation when -ve

graphs coming soon.

migraine = f(graphs) ?

yahoo IM sucks.

2006-07-11T05:41:00.000-07:00

am i the only one facing this problem or do i have company? recently i am being pounded with messages from total strangers on my yahoo messenger. i use adiumx on my mac for connecting to yahoo. its been a total puzzle for me. these people claim that my id "flashed" on their screen. no i dont browse pr0n or loaf around yahoo chat rooms if thats what you are thinking. i tried to find a solution and i found that all these people use yahoo messenger with voice 8 beta. apparantly yahoo has screwed up something very recently according to this.
i am off yahoo and its services if this is gonna persist.

2006-07-11T03:21:00.000-07:00

yaagaavaar aayinum naakaakkha kaavaakkhal
sogaappar sollizhukku pattu

--
thiruvalluvar
( thirukkural : 127
adhigaram : 13, adakkamudaimai
illaravial
araththuppal)

translates roughly to :
whatever thy might fail to guard, guard well thy tongue,
for flawed words constantly invokes anguish and affliction.
--
taken from "thirukkural" written by "thiruvalluvar" in 31 BC
chapter : 13, self-control
section : domestic life
part : virtue

the ostrich

2006-07-10T22:55:00.000-07:00

The ostrich roams the great Sahara.
Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra.
It has such long and lofty legs,
I'm glad it sits to lay its eggs.
--
ogden nash

tears

2006-07-10T09:27:00.000-07:00

plastered smile on a face clouded
with deluded illusions of happiness,
rivulets of tears welled underneath;
dike after dike she built,
an exercise in futility;
reality bit her on her cheek,
and the dam broke down.

10000 days

2006-07-09T06:47:00.000-07:00

1. Vicarious

2. Jambi

3. Wings For Marie (Pt 1)

4. 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)

5. The Pot

6. Lipan Conjuring

7. Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)

8. Rosetta Stoned

9. Intension

10. Right In Two

11. Viginti Tres

Yet to digest to write a complete review, but sounds like a great successor to Lateralus from one hearing.

google checkout

2006-07-07T02:48:00.000-07:00

probably they should have named it gaypal ?
or paygal ?
(since its touted as the paypal killer)

if google launches ebay killer , they could name it gbay.
or bgay? ;)

( ebay has blocked google checkout payments stupidly
since they own paypal )

the ghost of vermeer

2006-07-04T13:57:00.000-07:00

the ghost of vermeer which can be used as a table
salvador dali (1934)

stray birds - 11

2006-07-04T13:55:00.000-07:00

the flaming fire warns me off by its own glow.
save me from the dying embers hidden under ashes.
--
tagore

back2back

2006-07-04T13:24:00.000-07:00

saw two gems back2back

nostalgia

2006-07-02T10:30:00.000-07:00


sorry that there is a trailing bit of conversation. had taken the whole chapter from the dvd for encoding

gitanjali - 4

2006-06-29T23:33:00.000-07:00

Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter; I forget that there abides the old in the new, and that there also thou abidest.

Through birth and death, in this world or in others, wherever thou leadest me it is thou, the same, the one companion of my endless life who ever linkest my heart with bonds of joy to the unfamiliar.

When one knows thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut. Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose the bliss of the touch of the one in the play of many.

must see

2006-06-29T01:56:00.000-07:00

the flower

2006-06-21T23:27:00.000-07:00

Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.

To and fro they went
Thro' my garden bower,
And muttering discontent
Cursed me and my flower.

Then it grew so tall
It wore a crown of light,
But thieves from o'er the wall
Stole the seed by night.

Sow'd it far and wide
By every town and tower,
Till all the people cried,
"Splendid is the flower!"

Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.

And some are pretty enough,
And some are poor indeed;
And now again the people
Call it but a weed.
--
alfred tennyson

is your music taste rigged?

2006-06-18T13:09:00.000-07:00

read it here

now playing..

2006-06-18T09:14:00.000-07:00

songfacts

2006-06-18T02:01:00.000-07:00

here is a long pending dream coming true out of a lazy
sunday afternoon.

2006-06-12T09:10:00.000-07:00

why do we perceive the sky to be a dome above us ?
i got an answer saying "because the earth is round".
hmm... might sound plausible but it dint satisfy me so
i went about thinking and this is what i think is the
reason :
let me first explain why i dint find the above answer
satisfying. the fact that earth is a sphere, is not
something that a person standing on earth can
perceive. the reasons are pretty straight forward. the
area of the earth visible to the human eye even when
standing on an elevated building would not even be
0.0001% of the surface area. so how can you perceive
an enveloping sphere to be a concentric sphere to
the piece of matter you stand on?
now to my explanation. when you look at a tree nearby
and an electric pole a lil' far and building between
you and the pole, you can interprit distances in
metrics known to you. but when you look at the sky,
all the objects are at distances incomprehensible
to the human brain. they are all just "far". now this
metric means, every object on the horizon, zenith
east, west etc are all just "far". so you are standing
at the centre of a sphere of radius "far". and thats
why you perceive the sky to be a dome i.e the
inside of the sphere.

2006-06-10T22:32:00.000-07:00

is james blunt the male shakira?

d3pr3ss10n

2006-06-10T09:45:00.000-07:00

why do i like it ?

iScream

2006-06-05T02:26:00.000-07:00

screamer likes to be called i[Scream]

the eel

2006-05-29T11:37:00.000-07:00

i dont mind eels
except as meals
--
ogden nash

w00t

2006-05-29T11:24:00.000-07:00

freewill

2006-05-23T00:13:00.000-07:00

There are those who think that
life has nothing left to chance,
A host of holy horrors to
direct our aimless dance.

A planet of playthings,
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
"The stars aren't aligned,
Or the gods are malign..."
Blame is better to give than receive.

You can choose a ready guide
in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide,
you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears
and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill.

There are those who think that
they were dealt a losing hand,
The cards were stacked against them;
they weren't born in Lotusland.

All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate.
Kicked in the face,
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate.

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete.
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet.
--
rush

2006-05-21T11:13:00.000-07:00

he who loves 50 people has 50 woes
he who loves no one has no woes
--
buddha

the station agent

2006-05-21T10:15:00.000-07:00

station agent portrays the behaviour of humanity towards someone who doesnt look like the majority physically. finbar mcbride is a dwarf who moves in to a silent neighbourhood after inheriting a inactive train depot to pursue his hobby of trainspotting and to be away from the madding crowd that scoffs relentlessly at his 4' 5". there is absolutely no plot in the movie and this movie reminded me of the straight story which was just as sweet and delved into human intimacies. it also reminded me of pithamagan. the movie relied heavily on the beauty of newfoundland countryside to etch the beauty of the simple but strong relationships of fin with joe and olivia. the irony of life is that fin wants to stay secluded but everyone wants to be with him and when he gets attached to them and wants them no one is around to support him. the storytelling is uncannily simple and unpretentious. dwarfism is treated almost as race, in terms of pain and misunderstanding that surrounds it.
loneliness is so much better when you got someone to share it with.
8.5/10

??? - [7]

2006-05-21T10:04:00.000-07:00

just two months into its formation, lok paritran has split already..
a known devil is better than an unknown angel ?

gitanjali - 3

2006-05-21T01:36:00.000-07:00

pluck this little flower and take it,
delay not! i fear lest it
droop and drop into the dust.
i may not find a place in thy garland,
but honour it with a touch of
pain from thy hand and pluck it.
i fear lest the day end before i am
aware, and the time of offering go by.
though its colour be not deep
and its smell be faint, use this flower
in thy service and pluck it while there is time.
--
tagore

american history x

2006-05-20T23:57:00.000-07:00

how edward norton missed the oscar for this is beyond me. american history x is a powerful portrayal of neo-nazi movement in america. edward norton plays derek vinyard, an intelligent, violent and racist skinhead. furlong plays derek's younger brother danny who follows derek in his nazi quest for colored blood. furlong leaves his t2 heritage behind and impresses. the movie starts with a flashback where norton kills two black fellas and goes to prison. he returns reformed only to find his brother and ex-fellow skinheads worshipping him and trudging down the same tracks. the story is directed and told tastefully with great flashback slow-mos in greyscale that heighten the emotions of the frames. ahx has some really stunning scenes like the opening scene of the movie with the shootout and the argument over the dinner table and the whole prison flashback sequence. ahx goes on to prove that nobody is right or wrong. this film must be made available as a part of school curriculum in racist states. i wont recommend this movie to the faint at heart, or ones easily swayed by propaganda but to ones who are open to grab the message of the movie.
life is too short too be pissed off all the time.
9/10

cc: pearl jam

2006-05-20T22:43:00.000-07:00

this has to be a major breakthru in the music industry..
pearl jam has released their first video in a very long time
under creative commons license allowing anyone to "copy,
distribute or share the clip".
this is not new but definitely a first time that a major label
has released something under creative commons.
download the video of life wasted here

bootcamp

2006-05-20T10:22:00.000-07:00

screamer dualboots now.. ;)

an equal music

2006-05-19T02:34:00.000-07:00

perhaps this could have stayed unstated.
had our words turned to other things
in the grey park, the rain abated,
life would have quickened other strings.
i list your gifts in this creation:
pen, paper, ink and inspiration,
peace to the heart with touch or word,
ease to the soul with note and chord.

how did that walk, those winter hours,
occasion this? No lightning came;
nor did I sense, when touched by flame,
our story lit with borrowed powers -
rather, by what our spirits burned,
embered in words, to us returned.
--
vikram seth

vista

2006-05-19T02:22:00.000-07:00

viruses
infections
spyware
trojans
adware

2006-05-15T22:36:00.000-07:00

i want my great grandpa back...

stray birds - 10

2006-05-14T10:24:00.000-07:00

sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.

leech

2006-05-09T23:23:00.000-07:00

for all non-geeks who dont want to go through irc channels
for hunting mp3z or paranoid androids who dont want to
use p2p clients,
here is a simple way of using google to get mp3z without
going thru all those stupid mp3 download sites and
registrations.
put this in the google search box.

intitle:index.of + "mp3" -htm -html -php -asp + "search term here

where search term here is the artist or song title or both.

here is an example,
intitle:index.of + "mp3" -htm -html -php -asp + "flack killing me softly

h499y l33ch1ng..

test title

2006-05-08T10:13:00.000-07:00

testing blogger API...

2006-05-05T04:36:00.000-07:00

apple

lemon

stray birds - 9

2006-05-04T01:55:00.000-07:00

thou hast led me through my crowded travels of the day to my evening's loneliness.
i wait for its meaning through the stillness of the night.
--
tagore

mulholland drive

2006-05-01T06:56:00.000-07:00

i just viewed a masterpiece. i am not gonna stop raving about it for a very long time. this is my 3rd lynch film after the straight story and the elephant man, and the most bizarre one of the lot. its the most thrilling, visually enticing, stylish, densest plots i've ever seen in modern cinema. it is as though lynch managed to capture someone's dreams on film. the film's real and fantasy plots are mangled like spaghetti and just keeps you guessing what is real. in the end, you can find that the film has managed to keep you rivited not just for the time when you were watching it, but long long after the movie is over with the interpritive discussions you will have for unlocking mulholland drive. the film is not just non-linear but it has multiple narratives, and imagine these multiple narratives to be non-linearly schizophrenic. the output is spectacularly surreal. the cast is brilliant and so is the editing and the direction. there was something oddly creepy about this film and i realised later its the lighting. a weird thriller that deservingly won lynch the best director award at cannes. must watch. 9/10

unlearn everything

2006-04-29T08:22:00.000-07:00

"as intelligence goes up, happiness goes down.
see,i made a graph.i make a lot of graphs."
--
lisa simpson

i'm becoming dumb everyday

nostalgia

2006-04-25T10:07:00.000-07:00

nostalgia is a dry flower bouquet;
the tender fragrance survives
long after the little flowers die

dali

2006-04-24T04:20:00.000-07:00

the persistance of memory

and its disintegration

--
salvador dali 1931 and 1954

hostel

2006-04-23T22:06:00.000-07:00

i was very tired and irritated that i had to work over both days of the weekend. i decided to see a movie to make the weekend worthwhile. the choice was very tricky as i had several gems to choose from. i would normally choose some serious movie with good editing, cinematography, acting and screenplay. but today i wanted to see some light teen flick or romantic comedy or some horror movie. horror movies are fun. they either are tremendous fun to watch ( like child play series ) or trying to be scary with sound effects or just outright funny. i picked this new movie called hostel. was surprised to see the titles starting with "a quentin tarantino film" atop blood flowing down a gutter. and thats how i saw the grossest movie ever made. the idea was to put flesh on display and there were lots of it both on the outside (pr0n) and inside (violence). the first 45 mins were a like a soft pr0n flick and the next 45 mins were so gory that this movie must have had more pr0n and violence than all the movies released last year. the movie was violent to the extent of people's fingers and toes getting cut of with garden scissors, eyeballs hanging out of sockets, whole frontal regions of people open, chainsaws, hand drills, you name it, this movie has it all, blood smeared. the violence was meaningless in a poor plot. the writer has to realise putting flesh and blood on display is not horror. the background score was just as crappy. watch this movie if you are bloodthirsty.
1/10

starry starry night

2006-04-23T08:32:00.000-07:00

just as we take the train to get to tarascon or rouen,
we take death to reach a star

--
vincent van gogh
june 1889 ( painted 13 months before suicide )

earbuds for cows

2006-04-18T21:30:00.000-07:00

saw a cow which was scratching its ear
on the handlebar of a pulsar motorcycle.

mooooooooo

hotmail

2006-04-14T03:20:00.000-07:00

"print out the mail you wish to send then smear feces on it. tie it to the leg of a blind pigeon. release the pigeon then take pot-shots at it. the results are still better than hotmail."

hotmail - not hot anymore

kid memoirs - 2

2006-04-08T10:56:00.000-07:00

i ran and i ran.. it was 12 30 in the afternoon. i ran to see
my great grandpa . i was still a foot tall. i was wearing a
white shirt and shorts. i ran along streets chasing my shadow
formed by the midday sun. i loved watching my shadow when
i ran. i liked running. i took two sharp turns by steering my
virtual car with my hands. when i was nearing the house i
tripped. i fell down on some hard jagged rock. i rose up and
for no reason i started running back to granma's house where
i stayed. i yelled for granma as i walked into the house. as
always she came running to lift me up and konjify me. but this
time she was shocked and she wiped away what seemed to
be blood, dripping down my cheeks and onto my white shirt.
i remember playing with her hair as she ran to the doctor
with me on her waist.
i have the scar on my left eye brow made by the 4 stitches that
day about 20 years back