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Chicken Soup

Just thought of this: “Find out why you crossed the road” :P PS: Im vegetarian. UPDATE: Gallery down temporarily, will upload pictures again soon.

42, the New Yorker way

As mentioned in my previous post, I lived for seven days in the Grand Hyatt in New York which was located on forty second street. Of course, this means that every road sign/street sign/other notice I saw around that area excited me to the very balls. [As in the baseball balls i carried around in my hand, to get autographed by president Obama if I met him which I was  [ Read More ]

Gallery is Here!

After 2.5 hours of perspiration, and a watermellon and maggi powered morning, I have managed to produce what I have been putting off since the day I opened this blog: A gallery. Inspired by Ankur’s, I knew I would need a gallery because I would be uploading many original pictures. And here it is: URL: http://gallery.akshatb.com/ I have used Gallery 2, and the theme Carbon, which I didn’t want to  [ Read More ]

Kapil ‘Wormtail’ Sibal

This is dumb, agreed. But Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal bears the most striking resemblance to Peter Pettigrew (a.k.a. Wormtail-Harry Potter, remember?) I have ever seen before. (I see people who look like this very often, trust me on this). I guess this character has not been played by Timothy Spall, as wiki tells me, but Kapil Sibal wearing make-up and a long, flowing blonde wig. What a startling revelation! I  [ Read More ]

COD Modern Warfare 2: Videos

I was using FRAPS for taking these  two very short clips. But the problem is that I took them at 1600×1200 resolution at 60 fps. The result? The 17 second clip turned out to be 300 MB and the 6 second one was 100 MB. O_o Now this is what I would call HIGH Quality. Except that now I regret not taking longer clips :p It feels really, really shameful publishing  [ Read More ]

The Sony PSN Blackou

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Happy Towel Day

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The Skullcandy Skull

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My 'phone Story - Pa

I'm holding in my hand a pair of blue and ...

Amazing Mapped 3-D P

It's been a week of irritations for me, with both ...