Narc: An interesting movie, but not as good as Training Day. 25th Hour: I did not like this movie. It did not hang together as well as it should have. Too bad since the premise was interesting. Frida: I liked the way they used the paintings for some animations and moods. The Quiet American: I… Continue reading Movies We Watched
Month: August 2003
Doing Website with MT
I like Brad Choate’s idea of using Movable Type to write the static parts of one’s website. I have been extremely lazy about developing the rest of my website and even my school web page is a few years old. Also, I don’t have FrontPage or Dreamweaver. (Aside: Should I buy such software? If so,… Continue reading Doing Website with MT
Risk of Terrorist Attack
According to a report by World Markets Research Center, the following countries are at the most risk of a terrorist attack in the next 12 months: Colombia Israel Pakistan United States Philippines Afghanistan Indonesia Iraq India [Added later — ZA] Britain Is it a coincidence that the country of my birth (and where my parents… Continue reading Risk of Terrorist Attack
Back in Atlanta
I am back in school as the fall semester starts today. For the first time in more than 3 years, I am car-less. Not the first time in my life though and I live on-campus, so lack of a car should not be a major problem. Whenever I return to school after being home for… Continue reading Back in Atlanta
Fair and Balanced
You might have heard of the Foxnews lawsuit against Al Franken. Fox News Channel has sued liberal humorist Al Franken and the Penguin Group to stop them from using the phrase “fair and balanced” in the title of his upcoming book. Filed Monday in Manhattan, the trademark infringement lawsuit seeks to force a Penguin publisher,… Continue reading Fair and Balanced
What Movie Do You Belong In?
Lord of the Rings! What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!) brought to you by Quizilla Via choco-bean.
Power Outage
You have probably heard of the power outage that hit us an hour ago. Power was gone in our apartment for 10-15 minutes. Being from Pakistan, a power outage like this can simply be ignored. Even though the places I have lived in Pakistan got very few outages and blackouts (loadshedding as they called it… Continue reading Power Outage
Happy Independence Day
To my Pakistani readers. Read De Grouchy Owl’s post (no permalinks [link edited to permalink for the post —ZA]; it’s the Aug 14 post) about moving to Pakistan from the US.
Disenvowelment
I have installed the disenvowelment plugin by Bryant of Population:One because of an abusive antisemitic visitor. This is as good a time as any to come up with a comment policy. Anything I find rude, abusive, offensive (or just dislike) can be deleted. Abusers will be disenvoweled as a warning. Further abuse will result in… Continue reading Disenvowelment
Left Handers Day
Via PhotoDude, I find out that today is left handers day. We are more artistic and more talented than our right-handed colleagues…Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were left handed. We’re not bad at sport too…Maria Navratilova, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors are only three of the many top tennis stars who were lefties. The world’s… Continue reading Left Handers Day