This just in: Nasim Ashraf, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, has had his resignation rejected by General Musharraf. Ashraf, you recall, is completely incompetent and clueless, not to mention unqualified, and his appointment was based on the fact that he is a friend of General Musharraf. Infuriating. It would be simplistic to blame Pakistan’s [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Conversation at The Dorchester
28Mar07Situation: I’m on a chair, sitting across a table from my friend. His sofa is arranged back-to-back with another sofa occupied by a party of extremely high-pitched people. Him: …and then after the revolution, obviously they addressed those issues… Me: Dude, no, after the revolution there was a political void, and that meant more bloodshed. Him: …and that’s [...]
Sardines in a tin
27Mar07Dang, I wish I’d had my camera with me today. I was in Canary Wharf for the thousandth day in a row, for (hopefully) my final interview, and I saw the most interesting thing at the Canary Wharf Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station. Canary Wharf itself is situated east of London proper, and the DLR and [...]
Natalie Portman’s craaaazy
26Mar07Hilaaaaaaarious. I’m guessing Andy Samberg, the dude who created “The ‘Bu” and the hilarious ‘Chronicles of Narnia’, is behind this (he’s certainly in the video). Dailymotion blogged videoA Day In The Life Of Natalie Portman On a different note, I’ve now posted to the blog on 5 consecutive days, a Kobe-esque streak. Let’s see if I can [...]
Ooh, I might be able to make a series out of these :) Charley Rosen, basketball analyst and grumpy old man, explains in his latest mailbag why Rasheed Wallace isn’t a superstar on the scale of Kevin Garnett or Tim Duncan. His analysis is pithy and hard to argue with: Besides talent, there’s a huge difference between [...]
Roland Lazenby, Lakers in-the-know guy, wrote this great piece about Kobe Bryant. For those who don’t know, Kobe has just scored 50 or more points in 4 consecutive game, a feat matched only by Wilt Chamberlain (who did it in 7 straight games and averaged 50 over the season). That’s just plain ridiculous, given the [...]
Pakistan Day Mubarak!
23Mar07I might go for a flag-raising ceremony at the Pakistani embassy this morning. Or not. Anyway, SAA sent me a really nice video featuring rarely-seen pictures of Allama Iqbal (courtesy the folks over at All Things Pakistan), so check it out:
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23Mar07Here’s the ‘They Say Vision’ video: I LOVE THIS SONG. It sucks that she hasn’t released any albums since 2002, and the fact that her website hasn’t been updated since the beginning of 2006 can’t be good. Wikipedia suggests that she’s prepping another album, so that’s hopeful. Interestingly, she’s doing supporting vocals for Gnarls Barkley right now [...]
Protected: HR interviews
23Mar07There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
The Devil whispered in my ear…
22Mar07This is a must-see for Karate Kid fans. I know Johnny was an idiot, but you had to feel for him in the end, when he said, “You’re all right LaRusso” (and then got his ass kicked by the sensei). Another question: is this the first Jack Black/Tenacious D derivative band we’ve seen? You knew this [...]
7kg of whey protein powder…
20Mar07…that is, 5.81kg of pure whey-derived protein, have been consumed. In just under 8 months (probably closer to 6 months, given I didn’t take it for a while). Maybe pictures would help understand this… Here it is as it was when I first got it (milk bottle only to put the size of the damn thing [...]
Advice to young men…
15Mar07…from an old man. The best of Craigslist is pretty good. And that advice is good stuff, and at times quite profound. For chuckles, read this. I haven’t been able to successfully explain why it’s so funny to LS, but it’s hilarious. There’s a lot of other funny stuff on there…but most of it is NSFW.
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