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beware of the blog: the fall of a typo
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Beware of the blog. Movies. music. books. raves. rants. more rants. Wednesday, November 20, 2013. The fall of a typo. Thank the world of IT to come up with zingers like. I had checked with [the IT department] for the slowness issue. They rebooted it and now the box is performing pretty descent. First things were slow. Presumably, the box was slow. Now you watch it go down beautifully. Fall is truly beautiful and it's not just about the leaves. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to this blog.
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beware of the blog: yinless yang or yangless yin?
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Beware of the blog. Movies. music. books. raves. rants. more rants. Thursday, September 19, 2013. Yinless yang or yangless yin? Employees of the corporate world are no doubt familiar with crapspeak and its unfortunate and inevitably growing influence on the English language. One of its many contributions is the innocuous (and banal) phrase. And suddenly today, I wondered, what about. Are they already anathema? Can there only be senior. Versions of such life forms? I could go on about how even. I like to ...
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beware of the blog: haider: Vishal triumphs with his third
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Beware of the blog. Movies. music. books. raves. rants. more rants. Saturday, October 04, 2014. Vishal triumphs with his third. What does one say when a man like Vishal Bhardwaj praised for his skills in writing dialogue surprises you pleasantly by becoming a scribe of visuals? Should I be disappointed not to find as many memorable utterances in. As I had in. His previous adaptation of the Bard's works? Should I not see how. Should I dispell all the little things that connect. To his previous work? The m...
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crossStyx: When I pay tribute to words
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Ingsthay oundsay ayway oremay impressiveway inway igpay atinlay. Tuesday, April 15, 2008. When I pay tribute to words. I knew about the word "amanuensis" - and like Shah Rukh Khan the race driver and Kajol, the spoilt brat in Baazigar - I fell in love with it. Instantanement. It just felt wonderful to say - that latin feel, just rolling off the tongue. I sensed the root "man-" which pertains to the hand, and guessed it involved some sort of manual work. Princeton Wordnet obliged me with this :. For those...
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beware of the blog: daemon: neuromancer for the dan brown world
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Beware of the blog. Movies. music. books. raves. rants. more rants. Sunday, September 05, 2010. Daemon: neuromancer for the dan brown world. I just finished reading Daniel Suarez's. My first lead from Facebook, and I've had a great time reading it. The elements of an artificial intelligence growing in power and strength is not unfamiliar, if you've read William Gibson's. But Suarez's writing is not as complex and intricate in its argot as Gibson's classic (or for that matter,. Subscribe to this blog.
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beware of the blog: exposition done nicely
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Beware of the blog. Movies. music. books. raves. rants. more rants. Thursday, October 02, 2014. After finding bearable exposition. With Michael Connelly and being disappointed at finding Dan Brownian exposition. In Michael Crichton's earlier books, I was relieved to find a nice sample of exposition in Neal Stephenson's. Now, standing there waiting to have his passport stamped, Randy can see it clearly. For once he doesn't mind the wait. He gets in a lane next to the OCW. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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beware of the blog: aiyyaa: mainstream meets oddball
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Beware of the blog. Movies. music. books. raves. rants. more rants. Sunday, October 14, 2012. Aiyyaa: mainstream meets oddball. Rani Mukerji goes down Vidya Balan lane and does her own Dirty Picture (with aplomb, gumption and enthusiasm). The first half works really well in setting up the oddball universe. After the interval, SSH. Kicks in, unfortunately. Great showcase for Pune and Punekars (Sambhaji Bridge, Subodh Bhave, Satish Alekar). Nice touch having the laavaNii backing dancers in. Dad, the statut...
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beware of the blog: KHEL: a game of wits (the lack thereof)/ JUNG: a war against time and an exemplar of multivariate wobbling
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Beware of the blog. Movies. music. books. raves. rants. more rants. Sunday, November 02, 2003. KHEL: a game of wits (the lack thereof)/ JUNG: a war against time and an exemplar of multivariate wobbling. Ajay Jadeja and Celina Jaitley make their débuts in. He beats people up at a discotheque (and you get some X-Ray shots of the skeletons of people he bashes up). He dodges a bullet in true Matrix fashion (he is the ONE! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to this blog. Subscribe in a reader.
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beware of the blog: bearable exposition
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Beware of the blog. Movies. music. books. raves. rants. more rants. Friday, August 26, 2011. I get the feeling that all writers churning out candidates for the mainstream bestseller lists have to deal with exposition a lot more often than writers of works that are less mainstream. Some of these writers turn this devil around and decide to take the opportunity to show off all the research they have done (Crichton did this well; Dan Brown does not). Intermission: Can you imagine Anthony Burgess writing.
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beware of the blog: drive to die another day
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Beware of the blog. Movies. music. books. raves. rants. more rants. Monday, February 24, 2014. Drive to die another day. A family rides on a motorcycle. It's not just a husband and a wife. There are two kids sandwiched between them, fast asleep while their parents negotiate the snarl that is Indian traffic. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to this blog. Subscribe in a reader. View my complete profile. Jaacrjathaa.cmas at gmail dot com. If you're going to read this, don't bother.
