June 27 05
I’m in the process of moving, so I’ll be hibernating for a few days, while I prepare to get roasted in the 115 degree sun of Phoenix, AZ.. but who cares, I love Arizona!
June 21 05
(via Boing Boing) An 8 year old Star Trek fan wrote his own version of the pledge of allegiance and decided to recite it in school. His principal, with a total lack of any sense of humor, decided to suspend him from school for the rest of the day. Here’s the pledge: I pledge allegiance [...]
June 17 05
Yes, that’s right.. there is a saint for beers! While checking out some exotic varieties of beer at the huge Central Market in San Antonio, I chanced upon a local Texan beer called… Saint Arnold of course! It prefers to go by the old fashioned name ‘ale’ instead of beer, but it’s a wicked little [...]
June 16 05
Joel Spolsky launches an unusually acerbic tirade against Microsoft for investing more in recruitment practices than in employee morale. (thanks Vivek!) The best recruiting department in the world can’t make people want to work at a company that’s moribund, that can’t figure out how to ship a compelling upgrade to their flagship OS, or update [...]
June 14 05
There is a paper in the current issue of Physical Review Letters with my name attached to it! PRL’s peer-review process is a tough nut to crack, but thanks to my absolutely brilliant professor Dr. Ying-Cheng Lai, and my co-conspirator Satish Krishnamoorthy, we were able to get our wicked paper past them. One of the [...]
June 14 05
ABC’s Dancing with the Stars is the latest British import on American television and while I haven’t seen the original, I doubt it if could be worse than ABC’s version. The show, if you missed the plugs during the NBA finals, is a ballroom/latin dance competition that pairs a celebrity with a professional dancer. A [...]
June 11 05
Found on Sambhar Mafia‘s Flickr photostream – a mallu wedding invitation that’s wacky as hell! (Caution: huge images) Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 Tags: humor, wedding, kerala, india
June 9 05
Surya and Vulturo have book-tagged me, so in the greater interest of the common good I’ll have to reveal the sordid details of what goes on between me and my books. Total number of books I own: Why buy when you can borrow or steal! I am an impulse buyer of books and while I [...]