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I beleive in everything and I beleive in nothing. I suspect everyone and I suspect no one. I take all the facts into consideration and I solve the case !

Newspaper comics in 1945

I can’t believe they allowed comics with jokes like this back then!

This is from The Deseret News. - Aug 11, 1945, a couple of days after the second atomic bomb was dropped on Japan (in Nagasaki).
Skip to page 8 for the comics.

Posted 06 October 2009 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) °

Currently reading: The Complete Maus

The graphic novel that won the Pulitzer prize.

Artwork- Kickass!
Storyline – compelling, gripping, and generally brilliant.
The story is about the concentrations camps during WW II.  Quoting from The Times review,
Spiegelman portrays the Nazis as cats, the Jews as mice, the Poles as pigs and the Americans as dogs. They’re all terrifyingly human.
Did I say the artwork [...]

Posted 08 September 2009 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

The unending to-do list

It took me 2 hrs to prepare a to-do list of everything I need to get done.
And looks like the list is reproducing with itself and the content just keeps growing. On and on. Next few weeks are going to be busy. I hope I can find some time to breathe in the meanwhile.
Priorities, options, [...]

Posted 08 September 2009 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Orkut India Zeitgeist ‘09

Some interesting trends. Orkut for the first time released a Zeitgeist for Orkut India property.
http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/press/pressrel/20090825_orkut.html
Quotes:

Photo uploads are the new ’scraps’: while millions of scraps are exchanged everyday, photo uploads have increased many fold
Rahul and Neha are the most popular names on orkut
Women and Men meet half way for ‘chats’. Women care more for [...]

Posted 26 August 2009 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (4) °

Just read: Corridor

Quick half hr read. Then I read it again to appreciate the artwork, and I have to admit, I love the style.
I’d recommend, to go to a book store, sit and read it off If you like it, buy it.
Oh, in case you haven’t read Issac Asimov’s short story The Last Question, you’re [...]

Posted 05 August 2009 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) °

People, and their worries

Talking about people, Neal Cassady says (from the book, On The Road by Jack Kerouac) :
But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won’t be at peace until they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it [...]

Posted 03 August 2009 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) °

Why are Indians

What the web asks Google about Indians. Funny stuff.
idea from #

Posted 28 July 2009 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (13) °

Currently reading, On the Road

by Jack Kerouac.

The book, has no paragraphs. It was originally written on a scroll of paper, instead of the regular sheets of paper, and has no paragraphs. It’s like one long memory  typed in one long paragraph.
Wikipedia entry:
On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by [...]

Posted 22 July 2009 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) °

Google Internet Bus

I was on the Google Internet Bus (a unique project in India), taking Internet to small towns in a customized Bus.
From Anantapur to Kurnool and back to Hyderabad. The GBus was in the Google Hyderabad office for a couple of days, before it took off for Karimnagar. You can see the schedule for the bus [...]

Posted 22 July 2009 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (8) °

I know why I’m angry

I am angry right now.
But I know why I’m angry.
It’s these situations that get me angry,
situations with people I care.
Places that I’m put myself into,
And my fear that gets me angry.
But I know why I’m angry.
Drink, smoke, and dance,
I can see how it plays out.
Success, values, and lifestyle.
Acheivements. Choices one makes.
I know why I’m angry.
My [...]

Posted 22 July 2009 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °