February 2012
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December 2011
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What's the catch?
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he...
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November 2011
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Oh Yeah? Yeahhh.
Mr. Mohra: So, I'm tendin' bar there at Ecklund and Swedlin's last Tuesday, and this little guy's drinkin' and he says, "So where can a guy find some action? I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake." And I says, "What kinda action?" and he says, "Woman action, what do I look like?" And I says, "Well, what do I look like, I don't arrange that kinda thing," and he says, "But I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake," and I says, "Well, this ain't that kinda place."
Officer Olson: Uh-huh.
Mr. Mohra: So he angrily says, "Oh I get it, so you think I'm some kinda crazy jerk for askin'," only he doesn't use the word "jerk."
Olson: I understand.
Mr. Mohra: And then he calls me a jerk, and says that the last guy who thought he was a jerk is dead now. So I don't say nothin' and he says, "What do ya think about that?" So I says, "Well, that don't sound like too good a deal for him, then."
Olson: [chuckles] Ya got that right.
Mr. Mohra: And he says, "Yah, that guy's dead, and I don't mean of old age." And then he says, "Geez, I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake."
Olson: White Bear Lake?
Mr. Mohra: Well... Ecklund & Swedlin's, that's closer ta Moose Lake, so I made that assumption.
Olson: Oh sure.
Mr. Mohra: So, ya know, he's drinkin', so I don't think a whole great deal of it, but Mrs. Mohra heard about the homicides down here last week and she thought I should call it in, so... I called it in. End o' story.
Olson: What'd this guy look like, anyway?
Mr. Mohra: Oh, he was a little guy... Kinda funny lookin'.
Olson: Uh-huh. In what way?
Mr. Mohra: Oh, just in a general kinda way.
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September 2011
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August 2011
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“I remember at school, and indeed, up until now, I was thought to be very...”
– ~ Douglas Adams, from Ian Johnstone’s interview of Douglas Adams, 1999.
“I must have loved her, I thought. She must have loved me. You think you knew who...”
– Zoe Heller, “Everything You Know’ (via lavanya)
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The 'Darius
Apostate bourgeoisie celebrate
death energetically, feeling
greatly high. Ingrates;
jettisoned killers, lowborns!
Militant nationalists, ostracized.
Praying quietly, reminiscing…
Seeking transcendence.
Unrepentant Veterans -
wasted xenophobes yearning zealously.
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Wake up fast
[This article appeared in the anniversary special of The Week, dated December 26, 2010. In a guest column, Shri. Shashi Tharoor, former Minister of State for External Affairs, rightly diagnoses what is wrong with the way politics is practised in India. I strongly believe this is something to ponder upon, this Independence Day. I couldn’t find an online version to link to, so I’ve...
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Rage against the Macchinar
Too good to resist reblogging! (via tambrahmrage)
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Freude Schöner Götterfunken
For those who have marvelled at the lyrics to “Ode to Joy”, from Beethoven’s “glorious ninth”:
http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Ode+To+Joy+freude+Schoner+Gotterfunken+/3PlvXz?src=5
Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt,
Alle Menschen werden...
July 2011
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“They’d been keeping him in the basement of a farm house. For how long, I...”
– ~ The Gun Seller, by Hugh Laurie.
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June 2011
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Yevan?
Oftentimes, the universe drops hints.
I knew something was up when, hardly after two weeks since opening, the folks at Dhanya replaced Aaranya Kandam with some other movie. But I brightened when I saw Bala’s new movie, Avan Ivan had released recently. The punchlines on the wall posters of the movie promised “competition, under the valiant charioteering of Bala”. (Btw, since...
April 2011
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Anthem of the Dauntless
As clarion calls sound all around you,
hear in them the exultations on top of heights unconquered,
spurring you onward in their prenatal frenzy.
Having grasped the fleeting instant,
planting it safe in the fecundity of memory,
Strew vignettes to light your path ahead
And nurse the cup of life, knowing
Every mile that led you here today
Built a little of you everyday.
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
Truth. Thanks for the advice.
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Leave the vegetarians alone I say →
(Reblogged from) localparty:
All you non-vegetarians and non-veg eating vegetarians, what you are doing is simply too much. Why you are joking about vegetarians? You want means you eat hen, cow, pig, goat and all. Why you are simply asking vegetarians “Why you are not eating the animals?” Arey, I know ki, if you eat the animals you will not die. But that is not the point. If you eat the animal,...
March 2011
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Phado iski!
You know what they say about shit getting over, right? Yeah, it ain’t over till it’s over. Yesterday’s show was apparently just a prelude to today’s Uncut and Uncensored.
“Very funny”, I said to Subodh, who had grabbed my face from behind and rubbed his palms on my cheeks. He was jus’ playin’ and hence I flipped him the birdie and continued eating....
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February 2011
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January 2011
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Ormakal
This article in The Hindu’s Open Ed brought back fond memories of a Utopia I lived in for thirteen years.
I was not brought up with a scientific temperament. Somehow, questioning the very basics of what I was studying never occurred to me. Given the constraint of a few formulae and a few neat, challenging practice problems, I found it pretty easy to score well in exams. The gratifying...
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Sidvee's Twitter Year →
To all those people who don’t get Twitter. By the founder of @kweezzz, @sidvee.
Couldn’t have asked for a better piece.
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I love my India, therefore I criticize →
Let me just echo this sentiment once (From The Hindu’s Open Page)
An unsettling trait was people’s tendency to settle for mediocrity. In outwardly nice office buildings and homes, we would find frayed interiors, and messy bathroom facilities in urgent need of repair and cleanup. In fact, finding a clean and adequate toilet became an urgent challenge for us! But those who worked or...
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Enormously Fascinating
It’s that time of the year again, when semester timetables go viral, and consequently, expressions of collective shock or smugness make the rounds in hostel corridors. The cause is of course, the number of vacant periods in a week, or the number of subjects that have a Lab period.
As it turns out, quite clearly, I have nothing to cheer, or jeer, about. Zero vacants, with one Lab period...
December 2010
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Rangam
More often than not, one falls prey to writer’s block. Of course, by ‘one’, I mean myself, and by ‘writer’ I’m indulging in wishful thinking. It is, therefore, a marvellous feeling when one finally finds the old creative juices trickling onto the notepad window, forming sentences that do not fall prey to the Shift-Home-Del after five seconds.
I’m back...
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Possibly
One of the things that could possibly transform an unremarkably normal photograph into a stride-stoppingly brilliant one is picture resolution. Adding a few cunningly chosen dashes of colour, a bit of perspective and an open-to-interpretation theme, it might just come across as one of those things people rave about just because other people are doing it. Speaking for myself, I can’t pass...
Down the rabbit hole →
Beautifully written. I could claim one sentence in this article, t
Even though I managed to grasp what it meant on a cursory level simply through the context of its usage, I was still unclear on precisely what it meant.
to be the story of my life, as far as a few words are concerned. I am terribly envious of the clinical style of writing employed. Let the osmosis begin.
It’s hardly been two months since I was here last, and four days have passed already.
Nostalgia is pointless. Change is permanent.
Where are my answers?
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Six Animals that just don't give a fuck →
November 2010
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It’s really been quite a long time since I wrote anything substantial. Things I’m doing now:
Studying
Listening to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Playing Counter Strike Condition Zero with bot_kill every few seconds
That’s just about it. I’ll be home for the month of December, but will have to leave on New Year’s Eve.
It was raining all day, and the...
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Of Hinduism and its influence on the West
I read in an Economist article that there is no word for “irony” in the Sanskrit language. Intrigued, I tweeted for help, and it arrived in the form of @Sajesh, who pointed out this essay to me, which, incidentally has been written by the person whose obituary is the first hyperlink.
Agreed, Sanskrit is one of the most oldest languages known to man, but not having a word for...
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Hyper
Don’t you wish, don’t you wish there was someone real special whose side you’ll rush to anytime she wished so;
whom you’d scoop up in your arms embracing her from behind just as she’s pouring the coffee everyday after work?
whose eyes you would gaze into, in bed, whose beauty you would admire everyday sitting back and stroking the side of your mouth with...