On nothing more substantial than pure whim, I searched for “Statler and Waldorf heckle Obama” and “Joe Biden looks like Sam the Eagle” on the Internet. I found both. In a world where 1.6 billion (supposedly) intelligent beings generate and share information via an electronic network with over a trillion unique locations, it’s becoming [...]
Archive for the ‘Nonsense’ Category
All this has happened before and will happen again
Posted in Computing, Nonsense on October 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Sights unseemly
Posted in Nonsense on August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
And here I thought injunctions against any combination of unshaven legs with skirts were part of Personal Grooming 101. Apparently I’m mistaken. At least as far as Sri Lankans are concerned. Or I should say some Sri Lankans, to be fair. It’s the sort of thing that makes you go, No. Just… No. A not-too-distant [...]
Book thief
Posted in Me, Nonsense on August 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The one and only time I stole something with premeditation, I stole a book. It was a book written in 1930 and printed in 1956. In its day, it had cost in all 32 rupees. Quite apart from the subject matter, it consisted of a 1000 pages written in a style that is lost to [...]
If tomorrow never comes, blame the Large Hadron Collider…
Posted in Nonsense, Science in General on September 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There is always an infinitesimally small probability that the Earth, the solar system and indeed this entire region of space may cease to exist at any moment. Tomorrow, that probability will be infinitesimally higher than any other day in recorded history. For tomorrow we switch on the first ever man-made device that actually has some semblance [...]
The Empire Strikes Back
Posted in Computing, Nonsense on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Begun, has the Clone Wars.
I knew the day would eventually come, but I never expected it to creep upon us so soon, like a cat burglar in the night. Microsoft has quietly begun hunting down local pirate shops. I was unaware of the goings-on when I walked into a formerly popular DVD shop in Unity [...]
