chronicles of a slacker

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tasty balls

something fishy

Eggcellent

Rize! Rice! Rize!

you've been spooned

Mr. Prawn

There's a fly in my ice-cream!

iReader

Martin's corner

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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:14:32 +0530

Garage Sale

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:47:37 +0530

My room is filled with a lot of crap - fantasy books I haven’t read since I bought them, comic books that I bought just because I had money lying around, DVDs with scenes cut out by the Indian Censor board or some other crap board of idiots.

The point is - I own a lot of crap.

Twelve days ago, at the Kala Ghoda arts festival, I had the opportunity of getting rid of all this crap for money. A friend of a friend had a spot at the festival where he was selling some of his stuff. I got to squat next to him and sell all of mine.

Having people pay me money for things I didn’t want anymore was an exciting experience.

It’s a pity there aren’t too many garage sales happening around here.

typewrittenword: “Black Sheep” by Metric

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:25:22 +0530

typewrittenword:

“Black Sheep” by Metric

"Time isn’t an orderly stream. Time isn’t a placid lake recording each of our ripples. Time is..."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:47:57 +0530

“Time isn’t an orderly stream. Time isn’t a placid lake recording each of our ripples. Time is viscous. Time is a massive flow. It is a self-healing substance, which is to say, almost everything will be lost.”

- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

DOS Games

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:41:00 +0530

I was fifteen when I got my first computer. It was an Intel 386 (yes, I’m that old) and the first few games I got my hands on were - space invaders, pong and Wolfenstein 3D. Playing Wolf gave me a headache and induced nausea so I played a lot of space invaders and pong. I got pretty good at both of them after a while.

Over time, I got more games, I upgraded to better computers, played even more games, and eventually forgot all about pong and space invaders.

That was until a few months ago.

I think I was reading Scott Pilgrim when I remembered how incredibly satisfying old DOS games were. A few minutes later, I was downloading pong and getting ready to kick ass.

The adrenalin rush lasted for all of five minutes.

The damn computer beat me. Over and over again it humiliated me. I briefly consider switching to easy mode, but quickly dismissed the thought. I didn’t want to risk losing in the easy mode as well. My ego wouldn’t be able to take it. So I kept at it until the margin of defeat wasn’t all that bad; compared to what I started off with anyway.

I quit, because I’m a quitter, and I downloaded space invaders. Surely it wouldn’t turn out to be as bad as the pong incident.

I was - for lack of a better word - wrong.

The bigger, badder, meaner games had made me stupid. Cheat codes had made me stupid. I was used to pointing a gun at things and blowing them up. These skill based games were showing me what an idiot I’d grown up to be.

And I began to wonder what else I’d forgotten to be good at.

No man is more powerful than his morning wood - american chai

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:32:37 +0530

No man is more powerful than his morning wood - american chai

I wonder if there’s a surgeon who holds up a human heart during transplant and secretly whispers to...

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:17:31 +0530

I wonder if there’s a surgeon who holds up a human heart during transplant and secretly whispers to himself - FATALITY!

Ant-mimicking spiders hold their victims ‘tween themselves & large groups of ants to avoid being...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:05:15 +0530

Ant-mimicking spiders hold their victims ‘tween themselves & large groups of ants to avoid being attacked-reminds me of that scene in Hitman

lookit - Neil Gaiman’s library: http://ow.ly/oERU

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:25:09 +0530

lookit - Neil Gaiman’s library: http://ow.ly/oERU

My games find new ways to insult me. This week it was “Easy mode is now available”

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:25:09 +0530

My games find new ways to insult me. This week it was “Easy mode is now available”

Good? Bad? I’m the guy with the gun - Ash, Evil Dead

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:34:15 +0530

Good? Bad? I’m the guy with the gun - Ash, Evil Dead

Devil May Cry - Nothing beats being mildly drunk, getting lost in labyrinths and killing off demons

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:28:20 +0530

Devil May Cry - Nothing beats being mildly drunk, getting lost in labyrinths and killing off demons

Zombies - anarchists of the horror world

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:28:16 +0530

Zombies - anarchists of the horror world

my shoes make funny lady shoe noises

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:16:36 +0530

my shoes make funny lady shoe noises

Good evening, concupiscent wolves of impending doom. #TalkLikeWarrenEllis...

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:00:08 +0530

Good evening, concupiscent wolves of impending doom. #TalkLikeWarrenEllis http://talklikewarrenellis.com

RT @adityab: Fantastic. There’s a half-hour gone. ‘Too Many Zombies’. Zombie...

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:35:27 +0530

RT @adityab: Fantastic. There’s a half-hour gone. ‘Too Many Zombies’. Zombie cartoons drawn on an iPhone: http://is.gd/2DAXJ

is it rude to read what’s written on a woman’s t-shirt?

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:35:26 +0530

is it rude to read what’s written on a woman’s t-shirt?