Selective Amnesia There was a point to this. But I forgot.

31Aug/063

Our gadget wet dream

Damn! Another tag! This time too, by Gaurav. (At this rate dude, We are gonna charge you for our google juice.) But since we are all jobless, and have nothing better to do, as well as have no post ideas lined up, we decided we will help spread yet another meme through the blogosphere and get trackbacks in return that will boost our technorati ranking. See, we are devious assholes, like we told you we were.

Alright, Gaurav asks us what will our fantasy gadget be. We are a technically inclined individual, and have wild dreams about that special gadget. We ogle at photos of new phones, scour the net, after dark, for hard-core technography. Therefore, this tag was quite welcome, in our minds.

Here it is – Our FANTASIES -

  1. The Wearable Digital Camera – one built into spectacles, shades and the like. When activated, it will record an image of everything in the field of vision, upload it, via a wi-fi, connection to your computer at home. Or to flickr.

  2. Calvin’s Transmogrifier. Seriously, it is a cool thing

  3. Return Journey Distance cruncher – Since we take long (and rather risky) bike journeys across our kingdom, and since we are always tired only on our return journey, this gadget will magically cut down the distance to be covered on our way back. Making us less tired and more fresh to face our loyal subjects back home

There.
We are also supposed to tag a few more people and, virus-like, cause this meme to spread. We, therefore, dub these worthies

Master Chenthilnathan
Master Shoefiend
Master Veena
Master Vatsan
Master Ammani

and, by our royal decree, we will also tag two more people

Master Krithiga
Master Anoo

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31Aug/060

3108 Blog day

Oh yeah, today’s yet another ‘make money by marketing new days’ day. Except, because it is us bloggers, it is sacred and all. And on this day, I am supposed to, as a self-respecting blogger and all, as well as one of India’s most popular, point you to 5 new blogs I discovered.
Sounds fun. So here goes.

Pigmentium – A cool new blog on pictures, by two word lovers.
What? You were expecting 5? Come on. And anyway, the above is as good as 5 new blogs. Seriously and all. (In other words, I don’t have too many new blogs to recommend. Besides, you can always check for new blogs at PutVote.com)

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31Aug/062

Dear friendly north indians

When I ask for a parotta, I don’t mean a paratha. They are two completely different things.

31Aug/060

Word Lego

  • Boy meets girl meets obstetrician

  • They became friends became more

  • Parry’s Corner became Parrys Corner became Parrys became outdated

  • Guy wants girl wants out

  • A makes B see D

30Aug/065

Pishworld Krolitics

Site caption: Where I will prove I am quite dumb, really.

Blog Warning: Wrenn and Martin and all other accepted forms of English grammar will be trashed.

Disclaimer: I spell canot, or right properly. All can I do is rant stupidly on random things. Hopefully, a woman dumber than I am will fall for it. Meanwhile, if I disagree with you, (and I disagree with everybody, even me) I will trash you. I will attempt to do political analysis, not realising that it takes some amount of intelligence to do it. I will link to pseudo sounding newspaper analysis and say I agree with it, or not agree with it. If you actually manage to read through all this crap and leave a comment, I will moderate it, and if it is even 1% more intelligent than my stupid rants, I will delete the comment and blog your IP. I hate you. I hate me. I hate everything.

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30Aug/067

Post a silly picture of me?

Dude, if you knew me, you woulda dropped the silly qualifier. It is absolutely redundant and all.

I tried hard to find the LEAST silly, just so to spite you. And this is what I got…
Why am I (not) surprised?

Trained in Self-photography

Since this is a meme and all, I need to tag a few unsuspecting victims.
Here goes:

  • Niluthemoron
  • (Since this dude is anonymous and all, I will settle for a pic of him, not necessarily silly)
  • Shivam Vij
  • (again, for Shivam, silly is redundant)
  • Krish
  • (This is getting repetitive, but Silly is possibly the only thing our dude can do well…)
  • Jace

  • Ravikiran Rao
  • (For once, please, try being silly)

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29Aug/0615

3 effing years

In true blogging spirit and keeping up the tradition of navel gazing (among other parts of the anatomy), let me inform you that Selective Amnesia, that last resort of insanity and punny headlines, is now 3 years old.

I began SelectiveAmnesia.blog-city on the 28th of August, 2003.
Other, more famous bloggers who began during August are
Ravikiran – August 14, 2002(I think)
Charu – August 27, 2003 (Just a day before I did)
Congratulations, the two of you.

As I was saying, the 3 years since then has been, well, eventful. I got to be the top blogger for a while, Blogstreet listed me as the 4th most Influential blogger, 5th most popular, and then (perhaps afraid of me) pushed me to 25. I thought I pulled the plug on this blog, I came back 4 months later, more sure about blogging than I was before the plug-pulling stunt. And stuff like that.

But, 2003 wasn’t when I started blogging. Oh No! I had this stupid, badly written web-pages on Tripod. Sometime during 2002, Tripod offered this whole new thing called Blog. Though I didn’t know what the fuck it meant, I gave it a whirl. I read up on the word, learnt about Robot Wisdom, read a little about Dave Winer and RSS, started following Indian Blogs. That’s where I made the first mistake.

Sometime in 2003, I stumbled upon FilterCoffee, Mahesh Shantaram’s blog. From there, I came to Jivha, Kingsley, and Yazad. That’s when I made the second mistake. I wanted to go mainstream. And since Kingsley was the only Tam guy who I read back then, I followed his example. I set up my own blog on Blog-City. (That’s right! My reason for choosing a blogging service was so shallow, I am proud of myself)
Commentors came and went. Chenthil didn’t. Neither did Anand, Sat and a few other commentors.

Damn, got too mushy there. So I shall stop. Anyway, you do know the rest of the story by now, don’t you?

P.S. Links. I forgot. So? Also, apparently, commentor is spelt commenter. So says Chenthil. Ha! What does he know?

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