actuality.log

When you’re Indian, and in grad school (or anywhere else in a foreign country for that matter), people can come up to you and ask you the most annoyingly-cluelessly-hilarious things. Case in point, last afternoon I was lunching with a bunch of guys […]

And I.

When you’ve been in grad school long enough, like some people I know (hint hint), certain things become extremely clear. For instance, it is obvious that beyond a point, the ability to cope with intellectual challenges that crop up has nothing to do […]

There was some confusion earlier as to what I was trying to say in those plots, so here’s an explanation. This acts as an answer to comments and e-mails, and is part of a series of posts where I delve into aspects of […]

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It’s funny. If you don’t find it funny, you’re not smart enough.

I’m staring at my potential schedule over the summer, and I’m tired already.
- Sometime end April, my “Preliminary Exam”, where I officially become a PhD candidate
- June 1 - […]

Like I’ve been mentioning at points, I have a bunch of ideas toward a new comic series. Unfortunately, I can’t draw. I thought I could fix it by reading a little as to how the real artists and animators do it, and it […]

(This is a guest opinion piece. Whose? It doesn’t matter. I may or may not agree with the words that follow. If you find them offensive, you have no concrete reason to hate me, because I probably didn’t agree with anything said. All […]

Filtering out the noise, so you don’t have to.TM
2004 has been gone for about two weeks now, and rather than bitch about the things I absolutely hated last year (which is […]

I beg to differ; I am a sociophobe. I don’t hate social events or gatherings or people in general, I FEAR them. I fear awkward social situations, I fear groups of people I don’t know, I fear… pretty much everything that’s pertinent to […]

Today, I got my hair cut. And this time, it was “for real”. Here it is, err was. I’ve never plaited my hair before, but the hair-dresser lady thought it would be hilarious if it was before she cut it. I concurred.
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During this recent break, you know the one we had for winter, I saw a ton of movies. As usual, I enjoyed making fun of most of them. A lot of people relate pictures I take with movies. For instance, when people see […]

Stuff I wrote elsewhere. And rationale behind stuff I wrote elsewhere. Semi-interesting reads for people interested in my extremely slowly growing photography skills. Speaking of photography, a couple of new people are looking into using delineate’s code/style for their site.
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Not to be ignorantly insensitive about the N. Korean scheme of doing things, but hey, that’s what I am going to be.
Guess where yours truly would probably put to death in […]

It recently dawned on me that I am not a kid anymore. Bluntly put, I’m rather old, and have been around a while. With minimal deductive logic, I realised this meant my parents have been together for an even longer time. November 11th? […]