staying.cool

a year and 60 days after my warranty expires, the nvidia 8400GM graphics card on my hp laptop has fried. no matter that i have pointed out to HP more than once that the laptop does get pretty warm, and i have been using a  cooling pad/table since. no matter that graphics cards should only get fried if i really abuse them. no matter that hp’s solution to all problems is to have me send it to them, so that they can do nothing at all. maybe i should have done it earlier. maybe i should have lived without a computer for 15 days while finally tell me i need to use a cooling pad. the support team was pretty nice though, and very helpful. i am just pissed at the quality of the laptop build. $1250 for this ?

what does matter is that this laptop has been pretty jinxed from the word ‘go’. i wonder if this is a hint to move to a super-powered desktop. maybe this one. or, even better, this one.

i sad

why does did google currently have a gay.com ad in the sidebar down there ?

it is just disturbing for me. its supposed to be content-based, so that is even more disturbing..

however, that should not stop any of you from clicking it. Please do. I’m begging you.

i have decided that i’m going to blog about my not blogging for a while, every few blog posts.

this is the first of these.

start unnecessary commentary. i have not been blogging for a while. the blog is dying. etcetera. i really need to blog more. etcetera. i may have time now. i will try to post more. end commentary. go back to ignoring blog, reader and wonder whether people will tire of reading this stuff.

end.

soundarya rajnikanth believes

Animation abroad is considered as important as live action. For example, Shrek and Mission Impossible were appreciated and welcomed there. But this is not the case in India. I told myself, why don’t I make one? Someone has to take the initiative and do it.

m:i is animation ! i knew tom cruise was acting weird with the whole acting bit. then of course,

Appa is God to me. He is known for his style, mannerisms and gimmicks. If he could do so much in live action, imagine what he could do with animation? The sky is the limit. In Sultan too he does a lot of gimmicks.

hence, sultan: the warrior, written by rajnikanth, based on troy and gladiator, will go berserk at the box office.

according to this, the next adi-srk film to hit the marquee will have

The female lead will be a newcomer, to be chosen by a talent hunt competition

prepare for the madness, india. especially in terms of SMSes. here’s an idea. the first person to send 20000 SMSes to the pre-verified number(at rs. 5 an SMS only) shall be awarded the part.. by dint of having financed the film.

in fact, that sounds like an awesome idea for a film financing scheme 2000 SMSes in exchange for you appearing in the film for your requisite 2 minutes of fame. c’mon people. lets make this happen. all your dreams can come true !

how the fuck is india supposed to win with umpires who refer decisions to the captain of the opposing team? in exact sequence: delivery is nicked by batsman, balls hits ground before entering fielders hand (who is, incidentally, ponting clarke), who then grounds the ball while catching it. the appeal is referred to the umpire. who then asks ponting whether it was out.
who obviously agreed it was, and hence another indian wicket fell. of course, this had to be the wicket of ganguly, who had barely set a foot wrong since he had walked out in the middle.

jesus fucking christ.

then of course, dravid’s pad is nicked… the appeal seems doubtful, but is given out anyway.

chanderpaul made a very true statement in saying australia probably gets most doubtful decisions in their favour. add to these three decisions the decisions in favour of australia through the remaining innings.. and one wonders whether the match was the umpires vs. india, or australia vs. india.

india didn’t help matters though, with sickly fielding, and very very uninspired batting. the indian attitude is summarized by ishan sharma. who should be lauded. the final wicket, 7 deliveries to go, it’s obvious australia will appeal for every delivery. first ball up, huge appeal, celebration, the umpire is unmoved… and ishan sharma walks.
thats right. he walked. he has no idea which end of the bat he’s holding… and he walked.

winning in australia is hard as is, india is not performing in a manner that points towards winning either, the umpires have pretty much managed to make this less a match, and more a farce.

and we have last men who walk.

cricket? gah.

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According to the consumer action handbook, it is hard to get cheap flights to Australia during the test county. Finding New York flights as well as flights to Boston has never been this hard. This is why people take connecting flights to Amsterdam instead.

as of 30 seconds ago, i have been convinced to get the ‘learn english at home in 30 days’ course from either TVS or star networks. i don’t know which, but watching the quandary of the little boy who knows no english as compared to his compatriot.. or even the stuttering sales talk of the UP-bhaiyya salesmen in an office; really makes one think. it may have been the stuttering apology of the waiter that slowly brings a smile to the face of his customer. who obviously lets him go with a big tip. then, of course, there is the most convincing “skit” of all. the geeky college kid that kept silent, and was called ‘bhaiyya’ by the girls, by his own admission. of course, the issue was that he could not speak ‘ingliss’. people thought he was a serious boy, who was studious… which he wasn’t - by his own admission, again. such is the hard life of college today.

all these people benefited by this unique cd and book combo (with an ayurvedic medicine bottle for free!), which uses proven scientific techniques of concentrating brain power to specific areas, and indeed.. uses no reading, writing, or anything else to teach you english. i’m guessing somewhere in all this there is a wire on a spike, a la the matrix, and stuff is piped right into the “concentrated” part of your brain.

of course, one cannot forget the advanced dictionary that you get as well.

and finally the in-chorus final endorsement by the people i spoke about earlier. “get de lurn ingliss en tirty das, todayyyy !”

i so need this.