Random Thoughts

Don't have anything to write about, hence: random thoughts.

• People are always asking me, "what are you doing?" This is what I am doing these days. Go ahead and click, its an improvisation of a blogger template. It is Work-In-Progress and there's more where this came from. So whenever you need a different looking blog, catch me on Yahoo! IM.


• Joblo gave it 9/10 and Arrow would butcher his family to see this again. And they saw it at the Cannes. It's my most awaited movie this year. Much awaited than Superman Returns. And I know it won't be released in India/Hyderabad. It's mucho-gloomy and uber-creepy. It's Guillermo del Toro's "El Laberinto del Fauno" (Pan's Labyrinth). Download the creepy trailer, already.


• Next in line is Richard Linklater's live-action, rotoscopic-animated sci-fi, A Scanner Darkly. Three Words: PHILIP K. DICK (shame on you, ignoramus). It stars some of my favorite actors, Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., and Winona Ryder and Woody Harrelson. I believe I don't have to repeat the trailer line from above.


• Year's biggest disappointment, Southland Tales, courtesy, Richard Kelly. I had hopes. Damn you, Richard. Please give me a Darko, again.
  


• I am back on to music real hard, courtesy: iPod Nano. It's:
  
  
  
  • The Who's Baba O'Riley
  
  
  • Elton John's Tiny Dancer and My Father's Gun
  
  
  • Helen Stellar's Io (This time around)
  
  
  • Fleetwood Mac's Big Love (Acoustic)
  
  
  • Pearl Jam doing the Who's Baba O'Riley (live)
  
  
  • Wheat's Don't I Hold You
  
  
  • Lindsey Buckingham's Shut Us Down
  
  
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird
  
  
  • D-Mode's remix of Starsailor's Four to the Floor
  
  
  • Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker
  
  
  • Beck's Guero
  
  
  and more movie soundtracks and scores. I DIG MUSIC. (whoever got it, comment. hint: tiny dancer)


• Got nothing to read. Going for book-shopping tomorrow. Looking for Harper Lee's To Kill A Mocking Bird, David Vise and Mark Malseed's Google Story and anything minimal (spanbauer, hempel, palahniuk, coupland, camus, lee). Meanwhile, enjoying The Lord of the Rings for the don't-remember^th time.


• I am also going back to my web devlopment basics. Learning CSS again. Learning Modularization in XHTML 1.1. Trying to learn JavaScript for the n^th time. I even have a CSS Reference on my iPod. Thanks, Westciv.

That's all folks! Will return with more thoughts in the near future.

Apple Sweeeeetness!

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Spankin' new Apple iPod Nano.

This happens to be my first ever Apple product and I am hooked for more. The finesse, the eye for details, and Steve Jobs is evident in the iPod Nano. And the interface is sooooo smooth.

My brand new iPod, in all its sleek-black goodness, holds upto 240 songs. That's near-about 1 gig. I also get a USB cable for downloading music from my PC. A soft leather-like case. A CD with iTunes 6 + Quicktime 7. And it is a gift from a great friend. Thanks man. You are making my day, every day.

iPod Flickr Set

FP Biking

First Ever Video Post!

Here it is some nice First Person Biking experience. I took this with my cousin. There's one more like this, a bit more aggresive. Will post later.



P.S. You'll need some Flash power for this video.

Why the Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

Check this out, Four Reasons why the Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth.

Quaking on 10240 x 3072

Surfing around on the Hip Tech Blog I came over this awesome article about these guys at Virginia Tech’s GigaPixel Facility. They linked up 24 LCD monitors each running at 1280 x 1024. Now that's truly huge. Go ahead and check it out.

First Look: MacBook Pro

Apple says its up to four times the speed of the PowerBook G4 and eight times the graphics bandwidth. The MacBook Pro is here and I just read the First Look over at Macworld.

The MacBook Pro is the first Intel-based Mac and is just raring for a hit. When I heard about the Apple-Intel collab. I was like, "intel inside on a mac, aw!" but hopefully it won't be there. Although Jason Snell at Macworld has his hands on 2GHz models he hasn't mentioned about the "Intel Inside" logo. I hope he does that. Apart from that, I am gonna add the MacBook Pro to my wishlist over at I Want Doesn't Get as soon as Macworld reviews the beautiful machines.

Read more at Macworld.