December 2007
1 post
Ta ta bye bye...
I’m leaving Tumblr and switching to Blogger.
So, here’s the new blog :
http://rakshan.blogspot.com/
and the new RSS(atom actually) feed :
http://rakshan.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
November 2007
17 posts
Who needs youtube when you have iDesktop.tv →
OMG!WTF!LOL! Ahmadinejad has a blog! →
Tsk, tsk! If he has a blog, what else does he have? WMDs?!
On another note, the Dems have taken over www.georgebush.us which redirects to www.democrats.com. Bah!
Loins of Punjab presents....
This movie “Loins of Punjab presents” played at the Castro theatre today (part of the 3rd-i festival) and was absolutely hilarious throughout. When I saw the trailer I thought this was going to be another american-desi movie with some boring plot and no concrete story. But it turned out great. I was laughing from the beginning to the end.
[spoiler alert] The movie even got a...
Presentations: Stop Death by PowerPoint →
VectorMagic →
VectorMagic takes raster images and traces them into a vector graphic (that can be resized and will not blur).
Very cool webservice!
“Re: heriditary personality types..
Mom is an ISTJ. Sis is an INFJ. Dad is a...”
– heriditary personality type..? - INFP personalities - tribe.net (written by someone on a forum regarding Myers Briggs Personality types)
October 2007
10 posts
'Dodgy' is such a silly word
It makes me giggle everytime i hear it. Especially when a Brit uses it or pronounces it. Dodgy. lol.
“I was an Atheist, until I realized I was GOD”
– tee-shirt
can I have $46 billion more?
President Bush asks congress for $46 billion more in funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Reportedly, it is costing us $10 billion a month to watch our young men get shot and killed. Meanwhile, 300,000 people are evacuated from Southern California because of seven wild fires that have burnt a lot of homes and neighborhoods. And then there’s the flooding in New Orleans. How bout...
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard →
A nice series that I caught on PBS. Mixed feelings. Joy at all the uplifting speeches and moments, fear at all her unsure and fickle moments. Is America ready for a woman president? Is Hillary fit for the job? No and no. Is America ready for a black president? Is Barak fit for the job? No and maybe, but with a middle name of “hussein”, he can kiss his chances goodbye. So, where does...
Who ya gonna call? →
This is an OFFICIAL LOGO at www.cia.gov . The designer should be fired.
When life rains on your parade....
Downtown San Francisco on a monday morning. People are getting their coffees, crossing the streets, talking on the phone and are constantly on the move, going somewhere (to work). Outside the Montgomery station, on Market street, stands a man, dressed to the nines, everyday. With a clean suit and a gentleman’s hat, he stands near his stall and beckons customers. He is a black man. His...
September 2007
11 posts
Suicidal Teens Welcome! →
Yes, Enlist! If you want to die anyway, we’ll show you how its done. (fineprint: However, If you’re suicidal because of sexual identity issues, then you should just kill yourself) What sort of advertising genius came up with this one ?! Anyway, apparently, this is a hoax. The Army does not want suicidal kids. It wants healthy strong young men and women, who can undergo the rigor...
My Granny is a racist!
Warning: This post contains racist remarks. So, I was reading some desi blog entry about how a brown indian actor in an upcoming movie was made white fair-complexioned, by a lot of painstaking CGI/color-correction for each frame of that movie. Bah! The allure of whiter flesh! A lot of Indians prefer fair skin. (I blame the brits, or the migratory aryans). Yes, Indians are racist, self-derogatory...
Men are from mars, women are from venus.... →
A perfect example of why men are from mars and women are from venus. Watch this guy apologize to a girl for calling her a slut. The last line absolutely kills. http://www.glumbert.com/media/worstapology
Watch1967 looking at computing in 1999(via Google Video)
Forgotten children...in the backseat of your cars
I was listening to the news today about yet another child who died in a locked car, after being mistakenly left in the backseat by her mother. The video of the devastated mother, crying frantically and guilt-ridden about what had happened, really moved me to think about a solution to this. Was there a way that technology could step in to remind people to take the sleeping kids out of the car...
The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your... →
lol.
Foreign Policy: Condom Nations →
Interesting statistics. India and China have the world’s highest populations, but lower STD rates, lower avg of partners and lower occurence of having unprotected sex.
QDB: Random Quotes →
August 2007
5 posts
“Alberto Gonzales is the first Attorney General who thought the truth, the whole...”
– from Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) via Talking Points Memo
June 2007
15 posts
GrandCentral: The New Way To Use Your Phones →
Sounds like a cool thing to try out.
The Little one
I’ve become a mama! (mother’s brother). Chotu (little one) was born at 8:32 and is doing splendidly. :-)
Going Dolali/Doolally
BBC - WW2 People’s War - Going Deolali 1939-41 “I was sent to the military hospital at Deolali and became personally acquainted with the place that gave a well known expression to the Britrish Army! Even today many will know that ‘going dolali’ signifies someone who has a mental illness. The reason for this is that before the war the hospital at Deolali was where such...
Health (s)care
I was in chinatown,SF on friday (trying to finish up some immigration medical requirements) and was hurrying up a street, when a woman from a temporarily parked car called out to me saying “excuse me, can you please help that man? He is trying to goto the doctor up the hill”. I looked towards the direction she was pointing, and saw an old man who I had just passed by, with one arm...
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music →
If you’ve ever felt confused about some music genres or what “death trance” sounds like.