I forget where I heard this ... probably while channel surfing ... but it made me wonder, "Do cops go after people who break the law when on the radio?"
Let me explain ...
There was some radio host who called a woman to tell her she's won some grand prize. The woman was all excited, and the radio host asked her where she was. She responded "I'm driving!"
Soooooooo ...
I'm guessing Georgia doesn't have a cellphone-use policy for drivers.
Yes, it's time for yet another shameless plug.
Scrubs is the best sitcom of the Noughties (or whatever the kids are calling this decade). Although heavily neglected by NBC, the show will be airing it's 100th episode on Tuesday night. I buy the DVDs the day they're released. I love this show. Love it. Been watching it since Episode 1, Season 1 ... way back in 2001.
To give you an idea of how much I loathe US primetime sitcoms these days, let me tell you that pretty much the only ones I watch are Two & A Half Men (in the hopes it'll return to its fine form, as seen last season), My Name is Earl (brilliant, genius writing), and Scrubs. Biggest sitcom disappointment since Friends went all "We were on a break!"? ... Joey. Just goes to show how much one is reliant on the dynamics of one particular ensemble over another. In fact, I think the only recent successful spin-off was Frasier (which came out of Cheers)
Anyway, back to Scrubs! The combination of humor (a lot owed to Sienfeld ... also, the show hired a couple of ex-Family Guy writers early on, leading to some sublime flashback/cut-away sequences), pathos, and an almost Wonder Years-ish bemusement of life's twists & turns makes this a must-see show for me.
Interestingly, the one or two folks I know in the medical profession don't like the show. I wonder why that is ...
An experiment ... next time I go to India, I go armed with a copy of Season 1 as a gift to the doctors in the family. Then, cunningly disguised as a plastic-covered sofa with badly clashing upholstery, I shall observe their reactions as they watch the show*! Mwahahaha!
*Note to self: make sure the plastic has airholes.
Yes! Damned! Sentence to spend eternity in torment for dabbling in the occult!
I just got a haircut ... the hairdresser (is barber a unisex term?) said that the hair on my head grew in circles.
That's right!
I have a crop circle on my head!
I'm going to Hell.
Either that, or little green men from Mars are preparing to move in.
...
Or a combination of the two. Lock 'n' load!
Your name is iTunes Music Store*! If you poke around further (e.g.: go to the artist views, etc.), you can see the entire list of old tunes ... the most recent (that I could see) was Kaho Na Kaho from Murder ... but the new ones seem to be few and far between.
* Must have iTunes to launch the URL.
Clarification: I'mjust thrilled that the Bollywood section of iTMS has expanded. I can't judge the queality of songs ... for that, I turn to my loyal readers Nikhil & Divya ... and anyone else who can comment on the song selection.
Update: No, I was mistaken. They have Bluffmaster! up there too. Also, Bombay's soundtrack is in tamil. I will stop now.
Search for "auf weidershen" (without the quotes). Recognize the first match?
An alert from Kartik! The end is near!
So a while ago, my project team moved to another building, a modern building. A building so modern, it features an elevator, the types of which have never been seen before!**
This elevator has the floor buttons ... on the outside. That's right ... not inside. The passenger punches some buttons on the outside and tells the fancy box in the back how high he wants to go. And is told which elevator to get into.
I actually wonder if there're any studies that show if this method of operations is faster, or more efficient. Were I able to remember my queuing theory techniques, I might have been able to solve the question myself.***
* Quote from Otis spokesperson, Steven Tyler, in a subliminal reverse dub on track 3 of the 1989 "Pump"
** By me.
*** Not really.
Family Guy is the best show on TV. 'Nuff said.
Update: Watch clips from the show. This one always makes me cry from laughing.
I was watching CNN HN just now (eh, it's something to do in the hotel room!), and there was a segment on the new word of the year, "truthiness". The segment mentioned that it had been popularized by Stephen Colbert on his "The Daily Show" follow-on, "The Colbert Report" (pronounced, Co-bear Re-por). The reporter went on to describe Colbert as a "pompous, mock news commentator" (or thereabouts ... the words are in the right order).
Notice anything odd?
No?
Well, consider the title of the post - a reference to the most excellent, and dare I say it, must-read book* by Lynne Truss.
No? Well, here an explanation of the hint:
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?", asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I’m a panda", he says, at the door. "Look it up". The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
Panda: Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
No? Well, consider what CNN said: "pompous, mock news commentator", as opposed to what the show is really about - a "mock, pompous news commentator".
Funny what interchanging two words can do to the intent of a statement, eh? :-) ... Someone over at CNN does NOT like Comedy Central and/or Colbert.
* What can I say? I'm a bit of a stickler for good grammar. Which is rather ironic if you consider the grief I gave my parents by regularly failing English in 8th-10th standard (high school, to you Americans). I think the highest I ever made was ... 45%, I think. Definitely below 50%. Luckily, I was a late bloomer, and made 78% in ICSE :-)
Well, interesting weekend this (counting Friday in). Let's see ... where to start?
I spoke to Priya)on Friday morning, after quite a while (I'd say .. August, when I visited them). She told me that Deepti (Hey Pixie! :-) )found *my* blog, through Mike's. I'm not sure how she came across Mike's (a mutual friend? Another reader? ... I don't think she's in DC, so I'd rule out personal association). I kinda reminisced about how I found Mike's blog last year. As I remember it, I was so bored, I decided to have a look at what other people were writing about, and I noticed that Blogger had this really cool feature that listed blogs updated in the last 10 minutes. I scrolled idly through the list, until I came across "Popular Music Musings", clicked on it, quite expecting something else ... and was pleasantly surprised :-) ... I remember telling Vodka, and possibly Metal, to check out the blog ... an attempt to return to the "Macchan, what's the best guitar solo EVER?" days, I guess!
It's kinda interesting ... the complex and tangled web we weave. One of the things I can see here in TypePad is the referring address of the incoming view to this blog ... not sure if Blogger has this feature or not. A lot of people come in from Google searches, believe it or not ... and a majority of those are searches about Rammstein's Mein Teil, or Rosenrot ... or Kanye West/Jarhead (these are the links within 24 hours of this post) ... I am kinda tripped that my little patch on the net makes it to the first page of a Google search, but this might be sheer flukes. I mean, surely there are better matches, eh? As thrilled as I am, I am quite worried about the quality of Google's search results now :-p ... Oh, a couple of hits were from lists of BITSian bloggers - Wilde Vogel and Sast Wingees Speaketh ... if you want to read about current BITSians', check out these lists ... takes you back, these perpetual cribs about compres :-)
What else ...
Oh, Prithwi - the guy who helped me design my PC, etc. - lent me Doom 3. Let me say this - I have decided that there is NO way I will play that game sitting alone in my apartment at night (I turn off the lights, and turn on just the desk lamp at night). And this was after the "all hell breaks loose" level ... with God Mode* on! Nikhil, this game's available for the Xbox as well ... have you checked it out?
I was listening to a few random Queensryche tracks this weekend ... just a few MP3s and a couple of iTMS purchases I'd made ... reminded me of why I loved prog metal ... and why I liked early Dream Theater. I mean, come on ... Metropolis Pt. 2 was the best album they put out, and that was ... 3(?) studio albums ago. I was reading that Queensryche was always like early Maiden, but my only experience of them was Empire. After listening to songs like "Queen of the Reich", I now understand where such comments originated, though to my ear, it sounds more like Judas Priest (British Steel or Screaming for Vengeance era) than Maiden.
Also, it sucks that the Patriots lost last night ... I mean, part of the charm of watching the Superbowl with Metal & Divya was being able to gloat & irritate Divya no end ... she cursed my team ... matchfixing! ... only way to explain it. Sigh ... I have to find something else to gloat over this year :-(
* Ctrl + Alt + ~ for the console, god for God Mode, give all for full health, ammo, armor, weapons & ammo
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