How I’d look in Springfield

An amazing likeness I have to say…..

Get your own.

Colbert smacks Fox, CBS

After a long wait (and some frustrating customer service experience with Foxtel, worth recounting later), we finally have cable TV at home. The big advantage is that we can now resume watching The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on the The Comedy Channel here (yes I know, I should be geeky enough to torrent [...]

Nothing to say about the Sopranos

Never watched the show. Never had HBO and never felt like placing the DVDs on a Netflix queue. But since almost everyone in the blogosphere, from economics-/sociopolitical- to science-blogs are talking about it, I thought I would do a mandatory post.

Doesn’t add to the discussion. But then how many of my posts do ?

Oscar commercials

While not as heavily anticipated (nor as expensive) as the SuperBowl Ads, I found most of the advertisements running during the Oscar ceremony breaks quite enjoyable. For obvious reasons, if Budweiser and Coors dominated the SuperBowl, it was L’oreal for the Oscars. This allowed Aishwarya to make her Oscar appearance ! They even had [...]

SuperBowl

A day late (the day for recovery, which I will tell you - and have a large number of people agreeing – needs to be declared a holiday), but here is the mandatory SuperBowl post.
The SuperBowl is supposed to be a culmination of the ‘football’ season in the US – with the two arguably best [...]

The End of the World, as they see it

It is not me indulging in dire apocalyptic predictions, but the news-channels - both the mind-numbing cable twenty-four hours as well as the brain-dead broadcast network variety - are mighty worried. Recent world events (conflict in the Middle East, heat wave in the US etc) seems to have convinced them that the end is near. [...]

Time delay in ABC World Cup Coverage

Started watching the World Cup games (and don’t ask me which World Cup) from today (missed yesterday’s action due to a conference). After a while, was extremely fed up with ABC/ESPN’s coverage - the ‘play by play’ commentary is too inane, full of unnecessary jargons borrowed from American sports and too dumbed down, perhaps in [...]

Gandhi as a salesman: Part II

After being featured in a telecom Italia ad, Gandhi’s image has been used again in an Red Hat (of Linux fame) ad - this time in a much more sutble manner. (H/T: rkay @ Sepia Mutiny News)

The underlying theme is about fighting the non-believers and the ‘big-guys’. IMO, a very well made and clever advert.

Technorati [...]

Blast from the Past (and on the side: celebrity bloggers and basketball)

Any of you remember Yannick Noah - the flamboyant French tennis player sporting dreadlocks and sunglasses - he won the French Open in ‘83 and captained their Davis Cup side for a while. He later went on to have a relatively succesful musical career.
Anyone ? Here is a picture to refresh your memories:

I used [...]

Odds and ends

Several long posts are piling up as drafts, but I am really busy tying up some loose ends before I land up at Salt Lake City for a conference starting this weekend. Therefore more random thoughts as fillers. Read on if you must.

Post Super Bowl Thoughts

A day late, but here goes…..
Bunch of us joined several hundred million others to waste a perfectly good Sunday evening watching SuperBowl XL. For the uninitiated, the Super Bowl is championship game of the American football league, where for some reason the winner gets annointed as the ‘world’ champions in football. Now since every other [...]

Gandhi on a webcam

(From the CFS blog)
A Telecom Italia’s TV spot (directed by Spike Lee no less) shows a ‘what-if’ scenario where Gandhi is delivering his message to the whole world (from Times square to Red Square) via web-cam.
(To see a Quicktime version of the ad - check the story link. A Macromedia Flash version is here).

Btw, CSF [...]