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Entries from January 2008

The Lost Supper

January 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Last night, I was lying idly on my couch when I heard a knock at my door. I answered, and found my roommate standing there with his hands full, unable to fish out his keys and unlock the door himself. I got out of the way as he hobbled in carrying his laptop [...]

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Snaps

January 28th, 2008 · 8 Comments

I’ve been wanting to learn photography for a while now, so I splurged and bought myself a new digital camera a couple weeks ago, a Nikon D40 Digital SLR. While the verdict is still out on whether dropping a few hundred bucks on a fancy camera will actually make me any better of a [...]

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Piramal Prize

January 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Thought I’d take a break from narrating my usual shenanigans and help promote a pretty interesting project a close family friend Naman is currently working on. He’s spending a year in India doing a fellowship through Indicorps. One of his main projects is a social entrepreneurship competition called the Piramal Prize. In [...]

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Late Saturday Night, Illustrated

January 13th, 2008 · 9 Comments

In case you need explanation (though with those drawings, how could you?), the story goes: I got home from the bar at 4am. Was talking on the phone (blackberry) and held it to my face with my shoulder so I could use my hands to open my window. Phone slipped out, got a [...]

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Varm It

January 10th, 2008 · 6 Comments

In the absence of anything meaningful to blog about right now, check out this video, which had me laughing the hardest I’d laughed since, well… since earlier this evening when I caught up on the most recent America’s Funniest Videos. (Yes, I still watch - and DVR - that show. What can I [...]

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Bye Bye Beardie

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

I left my main beard trimmer attachment thingee in Florida by accident, so I tried to use a different one this morning to clean up my beard. Naturally, things went wrong. Way wrong. I spent 15 minutes adjusting settings, the vibrating metal scraping my face raw but unable to give me a [...]

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Something To Remember

January 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I want to write something lengthy about the Capital One Bowl on Tuesday, but I’ve been doing a lot of non-blogging, non-work writing lately and don’t have the energy for too many words.
That game was incredible. Possibly one of the best ones I’ve seen as a fan, if not the best one. Remember, [...]

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