{"id":255,"date":"2003-02-25T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-25T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/tick-tock-goes-the-clock\/"},"modified":"2003-02-25T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-25T09:59:00","slug":"tick-tock-goes-the-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/tick-tock-goes-the-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Tick-tock, goes the clock&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too many things happening all at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The high points:\t<\/p>\n<p>1) My keyboard is fixed. Nearly. Yippee. Now I can safely go back to ignoring it in peace.<\/p>\n<p>2) Finished off a Conan novel &#8211; &#8220;Conan The Magnificent&#8221;. Still have to complete &#8220;Conan The Triumphant&#8221;, &#8220;Conan The Destroyer&#8221; and &#8220;Conan The Indestructible&#8221;. Yeah, yeah, that&#8217;s actual names of novels I am talking about&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>3) Mr and Mrs Iyer. Thank you, Mrs Aparna Sen, for renewing my faith in Indian cinema. Thank you, Mr Zakir Hussain for making me buy one more cd.<\/p>\n<p>4) <i>Rhydhun<\/i>, by Taufiq Qureshi is so, so, SO brilliant. Thank you, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/psasidhar\/\">psasi<\/a><\/b>, for lending it to me for such a long time. Wish you would never ask for it back, but of course you will, so I am gonna copy it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>5) Best Book Stall. The place that never lets me down. Anybody wants a copy of Umberto Eco&#8217;s &#8220;Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum&#8221; for 80 bucks? What about a first edition of RK Narayan&#8217;s &#8220;A Tiger For Malgudi&#8221; for Rs 75? A hardcover sixteenth printing of &#8220;The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich for 200 Rs? These are the stuff I didn&#8217;t buy because I already have them&#8230;..imagine the stuff I actually bought. >:-)<\/p>\n<p>6) Spy Kids 2. Red Dragon. Explosions. Yippeeee!!!<\/p>\n<p>The low points:<br \/>\n1) Discovered on Sunday that I have this <i>major<\/i> caffeine addiction. There was this timpani beating in my head that refused to stop until I had two cups of coffee&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>2) Brand Equity. The deadline ticks closer. And I still hate Business\/Corporate quizzes&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>3) The load-balancer code. Over the past couple of days, I have encountered everything from NumberFormatExceptions to NullPointerExceptions, and it&#8217;s only the first 90 lines of code, goddamnit!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>4) Livejournal &#8211; This happened n times, where n is a positive integer tending to &#8230;well, not infinity, but a very high number anyhow.<br \/>\n<b>ERROR<\/b><br \/>\nThe requested URL could not be retrieved<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nWhile trying to retrieve the URL: http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~beatzo\/friends<br \/>\nThe following error was encountered:<br \/>\n\tConnection Failed<br \/>\nThe system returned:<br \/>\n    <i>(110) Connection timed out<\/i><br \/>\nThe remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again. <\/p>\n<p>5) The Filmfare Awards. Morons, you give ARR the best Composer award and conveniently forget Sadhna Sargam&#8217;s ethereal &#8220;Chupke Se&#8221;. You make India&#8217;s biggest ham the compere and forget to switch off the mic when he opens his mouth. You take the cowards&#8217; way out and give both Kavitha and Shreya the same award and on top of it, you don&#8217;t let them speak a word on stage. You <i>actually<\/i> think Vivek Oberoi in <i>Company<\/i> was better than Amitabh Bachhan in <i>Aankhein<\/i> or Jackie Shroff in <i>Devdas<\/i>!!!!! And to think I respected your magazine!!!!<br \/>\nActually, I still do, but I don&#8217;t trust your powers of judgement. (yeah, as if that matters, right? )<\/p>\n<p>6) Spy Kids 2. Red Dragon. Explosive Trash, but Trash all the same. Not that I mind.<\/p>\n<p>5 more days left for the next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many things happening all at the same time. The high points: 1) My keyboard is fixed. Nearly. Yippee. Now I can safely go back to ignoring it in peace. 2) Finished off a Conan novel &#8211; &#8220;Conan The Magnificent&#8221;. Still have to complete &#8220;Conan The Triumphant&#8221;, &#8220;Conan The Destroyer&#8221; and &#8220;Conan The Indestructible&#8221;. Yeah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}