SKYP will be back. Shortly.
Working on a script. Day job is hectic. Been traveling a lot these days. But, SKYP will be back to active blogging very soon. In the mean time why don’t you check on some old stories?
Blast from the past: B M Reddy
On November 11 1990, the PVKN Arts College Cricket team created history. We won the inter-college tounrament for the first time in the history of the college. I don’t think the college repeated the feat. Our captain was B.M. ‘Chilka’ Reddy. A drill master, leader, and one of the finest batsmen that the town produced. He played for the state but was not lucky enough to break in to the big league. During the run up to the inter-collegiate, we practiced twice every day. Practice included fitness training and the notorious fielding training, in which each player (all alone) would pick the ball that Reddy would hit, and shoot an accurate throw into the irreverent ‘Kombu’ our keeper. If you misfielded or if the throw was wayward you had to do a lap on the ground.
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Smart Ass Reporting
Duh!Don’t you guys just love that George Khoshy? She is so cute!
The Monsters That We Feed
The Gujrat fake encounter news may have shocked quite a few of you. But it doesn’t surprise me at all. It wouldn’t surprise anyone from Andhra Pradesh in fact.
Back in the 90s when I was a college student, there was this sub-inspector who used to carry a whip. He used to crack his whip on innocent by standers and once he chased us with his whip; why? Because the four of us were having tea on a roadside shop. The inspector, ‘Jaati’ Naganna later was involved, allegedly, in the rape of a woman in police custody. Back then in Chittoor, I was scared to go out for night shows at the movies, for I was scared of bumping into beat constables: they beat you up any way, whether you show them the counter-foil of your movie ticket More...
How-To Turn your iPod in to a Universal Infrared Remote Control
…take an iPod and turn it in to a universal infrared remote control which can be used to control all your home electronic equipment, or just about anything that uses a remote control, for example in our place we have our iPod controlling our TV, DVD Player, Direct TV, Ultimate TV PVR, Media Center PC, Xbox, XM Satellite Radio, Roomba and a few other random things like a Robot.
Interested? Go to Engadget for details.
If you were to make a Tamil movie…
…something that’s based on the theme of vengeance, what would be your storyline? Leave a comment.
Un Sirippinil…
Beautiful song. Timeless. I don’t care too much about the lyrics but the music is cohesive, stirring, and evocative. Listen to it. Now. Pay attention to the Sax piece and the groovy guitar riff that follows. Harris Jeyaraj! Are you okay?
Chevy Spark’s Warning Lights
I want to buy this car. I probably will. But Spark has a usability issue:
The Spark has a ground-breaking interior design with ergonomically advanced controls. In the driver’s direct area of view is a semi-circular display of control and warning lights.
The semi-circular warning lights. I could see lights of at least three colors. I am sure it is more than that. Pray tell me, given that traffic in Indian cities demand all the attention that a driver can muster, do you really think a driver will pay attention to those lights? I don’t care but here is the bitter pill: the lights increase the cognitive load on the driver and probably will contribute, at least at a minor level, towards a bad driving experience. Picture this: 1) You are driving on M.G. Road and bikers are More...
When Govt Asks. You give. Period!
India’s female civil servants are being told to provide details of their menstrual cycles in a new job appraisal form.
Women in India’s sprawling bureaucracy have been angered by the new form sent out this year which asks, among questions about their goals and skills, “when was your last menstrual period?” and “give details of your menstrual history”.[read more on Guardian]
Thanks Madman!