Back when I was in college I had a very unhealthy addiction to my cell phone and used to want a cell phone on my wrist, because I thought it was too time consuming to actually look at the phone. Trust the good ol' people at Sony Ericsson to make it.

On a completely unrelated note (or not), my birthday is coming up in a couple of months and Christmas is a just a few days away. Let me know if you need my mailing address ;).

Cheers
Happy Holidays everyone !!!

When I started this PhD program I thought I was leaving my geekiness behind. And now I vehemently claim to have joined the tech-savy group (as opposed to the uber-geek), but then I see things like this list of 'what code doesn't do in real life and realize that I am nothing if not a closet geek. What makes me saddest is that I was aware of #10.

This
is actually quite concise and appropriate synopsis of the film. Don't watch it if you haven't seen the movie, in which case stop fannying about on the Internet and go watch it right now.

It is official, Scrubs has peaked! They featured an Audioslave song in the first episode of the 6th season. And it is not just any song, but Be your self, from Out of Exile, one of the most awesome songs ... ever. Does it get any better than this? I think not (unless Audioslave actually showed up in one of the Episodes, hmmm... must email Zach Braff and/or Bill Lawrence).

Anyway, it was a really treat to end of what has been a spectacularly stressful and tiring week.

They are back!!! Have a reason to get up in the mornings again!!! Huzzah*!!!

* The Huzzah is inspired by Pirates (which I have watched one ten times too many) instead of the usual Hurray. Which makes me want to replace all rs with zs and ys with hs. Watch this space for how that turns out or zather how it tunzs out ;)

I just found out all by myself that Bob Dylan has a radio show on XM called the Theme Time Radio Hour. These are hour long shows that play songs with a certain theme and is just awesome. A long time ago, I used to collect songs about rain for some reason, and this is kind of like that. And it is fucking amazing. The songs are a really neat mix, made up of old classics that I know pretty well and then some really old blues and jazz numbers that I have never heard but sounds quite lovely. And to top it all is Bob Dylan hosting (and for once being quite comprehensible) and being v. eloquent and poetic with wonderful pronunciation and enunciation.

Why has no one ever told me about this? Why? I am mad at everyone. *toddles off to listen to vintage radio*

And while we are on the topic of radio, Ricky Gervais has another short free podcast series going. Go listen to it. The Thanksgiving episode is extremely hillarious !!!

*geekiness alert*

Did you hear about this? I am so converting!!! For more information, you can go to the "Official" Jediism Website.

*extreme profanity alert*
Hinder is the new Nickelback. And I hate them both. And no, I will not fucking look at that fucking photograph, and no one fucking wants to be a fucking rockstar like you (though I won't mind the drug dealer on speed dial), and so she called you, get fucking over your fucking self. She probably just wants her stuff back, you loser.

die pop rock die !!!!!!

Since I am posting about lots of the cool stuff that I am coming across these days, the Ocean's 12 soundtrack deserves a very special mention. It is some really trippy music. God! The movie totally sucked, but it was so bad that I loved it. Actually I really did like it, except some of the parts with CZJ, which was not so good. Most of the dialog was also pretty awesome, "Do I look 50 to you?" "Yeah, but only from neck up". hahaha. Anyway, back to the music. It really caught my attention while (or whilst) I was watching the movie, and my favourite one was during the intro to the NightFox, "Crepuscolo Sul Mare - Piero Umiliani" just totally rocked. I have to totally get some more Italian Pop Music. The (in)famous "NightFox Lazer Dance" sequence music kinda annoyed me at first, but it grows on you. Really. And it's not on the OST, so you have to download the MP3 off the Internet (it's legal and free, so HA). Other highlights: "Faust 72 - Dynastie Crisis" (can't find any other songs/albums or information by this band on the Internet) and "Yen On A Carousel" (which gets extra points for the most excellent song title). The Omella Vanoni song (track 1) is also pretty awesome, definitely going to look into that some more. And to conclude David Holmes is a genius.

OK, this is one of the most excellent things that I have come across on the Internet: The Sitayana: Sita Sings the Blues. which is the meeting place of vintage jazz and the Ramayana via animation, clearly a combination that just can't miss the mark. And it's got a little of everything and something for everybody. Check out the latest episode which is just awesome, and in addition to the jazz, hilarious animation and gory violence, it has parts that have been inspired by the original batman series, but of course with a desi twist. And if everything else fails to amuse/entertain you, Sita has gynormous boobs.

So, I am currently listening to
Norwegian Wood ad infinitum. It is my new favorite song. Something about the guitar or mandolin and John Lennon's voice seem to have struck a chord in my head/heart/left knee and I can't seem to get enough of this song.

Now, listening to the same song on repeat for hours on end is something that I tend to do once in a while. Most memorable was when I put Bohemian Rhapsody for at least five hours in my office. I didn't get any complaints because of the lateness of the hour and the absence of other people around me.

Also, just as an update I am going to start seriously blogging about my new discovery: Life Hacking and/or Productivity tools. This is the shit man. More links etc. to come.

This is a public service announcement (i.e. for the public with a sense of humour) and/or command.
Who ever you are, where ever you are, go and somehow get Dane Cook's HBO special and watch it. It will be one of the best 1.5 hours of your life.

Due to the curse of poverty, I am forced to use Windows machines. And I really don't like (according to my 2.5 year old friend, I am not supposed to say "hate") browsing the crappy start menu (what I really can't stand is the XP format double column one, and the multiple column thing that pops up in programs on computers where the program folders are not organized), even the "classic menu". What I loathe even more is cramming the desktop with shortcuts. When I was young and naive and trusted google implicitly, I used Google Desktop and found a way to run it like an intutive dos prompt. But obviously, that luxury didn't last long. So I have since then been using a customized toolbar with my shortcut programs organized by category. But today, I found Launchy via here. It is completely awesome, and does everything I want it to. Don't have to use the mouse to get to it either, just press alt+space, and there it is. Another cool app that I found and love is Rainlender, which is a non-intrusive desktop calendar that even loads events from my Exchange calendar (which I have to use for school).

Also, I am loving the Web 2.0 btw. Sites that I am currently in love with at the moment:

1. meebo
2. netvibes
   

EDIT: So, Launchy manages to index .url files (for Internet shortcuts), but Firefox save your bookmarks in an html file not as separate .url files (like our good friend IE). So to get Launchy to get to my links to open by just typing in the first few letters of website’s name (I don’t store any of my history, and god forbid I have to click on my bookmarks). I am using deskcut to create the .url files. Ha! I rock! Also found this Firefox extension to synch with del.icio.us, called Foxilicous. Don’t know what it’s usability is going to be, but seems like a good find.

Comedy Central: Shows - All Access: Middle Ages:

Audioslave is not touring this year, according to Rolling Stone. Je suis v.sad about that. I was looking forward to it :(

Also, anyone who is reading this and is in the US, go ahead and get a copy of this week's Rolling Stone magazine (the one with Christina on the cover), just for the Weeds ad. It is most awesome. Also awesome is the full page artwork of AudioSlave Nation :).

My current place of residence i.e. bum f*ck Indiana made it into the Daily Show. Now is that cause for celebration or what?