SubCon

Omg amazing last 24 hours about 7 good stories. Go stanford!

omg rly? lol!

21 November 2009 • reblog: indian

On Internet Memes...

This is pretty cool… A friend had this as her gtalk status. I looked at it and thought, “hey, that looks like a copy of the anteater picture”. In order to find that anteater picture again, I did a google search, and the top result was actually from knowyourmeme.com. There, I learned that the anteater meme began “as a loud protest to the massive amounts of cute cat and dog pics, while many other species had largely been neglected.” So now it’s been copied unknowingly by people who like cats which makes the whole thing very ironic.

Yes, I’m a big dork. But I find things like this interesting.

20 November 2009

Patriots Lead Colts at Halftime

This was almost too easy for the Onion… but still funny. Also check out Eagles Settle For Field Goal After 260-Yard Drive

19 November 2009

you are potentially going into that wedding situation with the same gameplan as Michael Scott

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Sean Keane. In response, my only promises are:

1. I will not hook up with the bride’s mom

2. I will not sleep in the ice room. Hmm…Scratch that. Just #1

(via indian)

I predict that your game crashes before you realize it because you drank too much and you end up sleeping the ice room, Srikar gets mad and ends up wandering the streets of Dallas, and Sivram gets the room to himself and sleeps like a baby. Wait, Siv’s not going… but nonetheless.

19 November 2009 • reblog: indian

i can't wait to sell the life rights...

indian:

Right out of an Indian movie…

So my cousin sister (small family, 2 cousins on each side) just finished school in India, and came to the US to hang out while her parents tried to arrange her marriage. Little did we all know, she’s actually been “dating” this guy for a few years…except it’s telugu movie dating - they just talk on the phone, never actually have spent any one-on-one time together. [side note -in hyderabad people be sexing left and right, but in vijayawada/smaller towns it’s still very conservative]. They’ve hung out in groups and stuff, but that’s about it.

She wants to marry him…but her dad doesn’t approve! [cue intermission]

Apparently he’s not educated enough, even though, according to my mom he’s “very good looking” and “owns a factory”. And “they have loved each other for years. On the phone. But not in person.” Works for me!

Anyway, after a meandering discussion about why I’m not married yet, and some minor gossip about the relationships of all my friends (also I think my mom called me racist against south Indians), we eventually decided that my cousin’s dilemma would work out for the best. Now, off to go practice for the celebratory dance i’ll get to be a part of when everyone reconciles and agrees to the wedding. It will probably be in a field or on a mountain.

Or we could just recreate thriller.

loved over the phone but not in person? This reminds me of my best friend and this one girl…

18 November 2009 • reblog: indian

indian:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go Stanfod! Seriously, awesome pic, but where the hell was the dude with the R?

16 November 2009 • reblog: indian

15 November 2009

Modern Warfare 2 breaks sales record

Ah, the power of multi-console releases… Hans Zimmer did the music for COD:MW2 (you may recognize him as the composer of the scores for The Lion King and Gladiator). When asked about whether there is legitimacy in this as an art form (who knows what dinosaur actually brought up the question, I’m just glad he responded well):

Absolutely, that we can’t even question anymore. When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white, and there wasn’t any sound, and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater … are each legitimate art forms. And now this new thing, it’s interesting. We still call it a game. The word has a slightly sort of downmarket quality, that word. It is a trivial word. But remember, as a musician, we play all our lives, so the idea of playing something and being involved in something is actually quite powerful to a musician. The participation is the thing.

12 November 2009