When it comes to begging, none can beat Indians. With several centuries of diligent practice behind them, Indians have honed begging into an art form. Not long ago, we were at the receiving end of one such beggar in Jersey City, NJ. We were standing on Newark Ave in Jersey City (NJ) considering which of […]
(For SI blog reader Gandhiji & his/her/their many avatars) We live in an age when the trivial, insignificant, repetitive and talentless often triumphs over talent, the original and the substantive. And never more so than in the movie business. Movie after movie (be it Indian or Hollywood) has either love or action as their raison […]
Stieg Larsson’s greatest achievement was to bring Swedish crime fiction to the world stage. Who having read Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy can ever forget the bisexual eccentric abused tattoo freak Lisbeth Salander or the journalist Mikael Blomkvist as they hunt down some of the most viciously bad guys in the icy corners of Sweden putting their […]
Our credit card has been hacked (sigh, what’s new) and bad guys are running amok with it in Texas, eating at McDonald’s, shopping at WalMart and filling up their cars. 🙁 Booh, they steal our credit card and eat at McDonald’s! Man, what’s wrong with these modern-day criminals. These motha*ckas got no class. Schade, none […]
Kabab Korner Dover Buffet – Mighty Disappointing Food Delaware has some of the crappiest Indian restaurants like Himalaya, Maharaja, India Grille, Hindu Temple in Hockessin et al that serve some of the trashiest Indian food known to humankind, perfidious places whose sole raison d’etre is to part hapless diners from their money. So, when the […]
Amazon Web Services today rolled out a new, scalable service aimed at making it easy for businesses and developers to blast out bulk (euphemism for spam) and transactional email. Amazon is promising that its new Cloud offering dubbed Simple Email Service (SES) will eliminate the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or […]