\n1) Big-time frustration. The Deadly Debug Blues strike again, when it was found that something that was supposed to work did not work at all. Much hasty patch-building was done, and lots of tests and test-scenarios were revamped. All this without the Big Guy around…..<\/p>\n
2) Tried playing Age of Empires II<\/b> for the first time. The actual intent was to install Baldur’s Gate II:Shadows of Amn<\/b> from a four-cd pack, but my cd-writer, which also doubles up as a reader belched and burped and refused to carry on with the install. (My resolve to buy a new PC therefore grows stronger.) Caesar 3<\/b> was more of a lark, compared to AOE2, but this game is getting to me. Three unsuccessful nights in a row – I predict I will win a campaign tonight and Priom will bust a gut if he reads this. We had such<\/i> hangups about these “sissy, tiny-critter, point-and-click” games, once upon a time.<\/p>\n
3) Two green-reads in progress. Zadie Smith’s White Teeth<\/i>, and William McGivern’s The Big Heat<\/i>. The first happens to be a East-meets-West kind of pastiche with a load of laughs thrown in. There’s no coherent storyline as far as I can make out. Just a series of episodic hilariousness, with occasional, equally-funny flashbacks. Not that the book isn’t good, it just doesn’t make me want to go too fast. I started The Big Heat<\/i> because I hadn’t read too much Crime fic in a long while. I am not touching my remaining Vachss novels until I have the time to buy them.( Yeah, I haven’t bought them yet, Dead and Gone<\/i> and Pain Management<\/i>, but they are available in Odyssey, so I just have to strengthen my will and my bank balance.)<\/p>\n
4) Conducted a quiz yesterday at K-C. Hastily prepared, though well-received. I think. I seem to be getting really disenchanted with quizzes. For one, I am not interested in knowing oddball stuff about everything anymore. I don’t seem to have the time to think of good questions anymore. Actually, the definition of a “good quiz question” still escapes me. (My personal definition of a “good” question happens to be one whose answer matches my first guess. So you see….) And yes, I think the topics that turn up on quiznet<\/a> are boring and pretentious and repetitive. The whole format needs an overhaul. But that’s just my<\/i> opinion, of course.<\/p>\n 5) I needed some laughs, and Guddu Dhanoa delivered. Three more movies like Hawa<\/i>, and that guy can get himself admitted to the Forbes list of Top Ten comedians of the century. (By the way, is<\/i> there a Forbes list of Top Ten comedians of the century? )Subhash K Jha actually has the nerve to say that Mr Dhanoa makes “Slick action thrillers”. Yeah, right. Like Ziddi<\/i>. Throughout the movie I was hoping some random ghost gets the little imp who plays Tabuu’s elder kid and shuts her up for good. In my nightmares, I can still hear the kid screaming “Tramp. Tramp<\/i>.” over and over again, like chalk squealing on a blackboard, or trying to chew on a dry strand of wool. Yeuugh! <\/p>\n And over the third viewing of Matrix Reloaded<\/b>, I found out that I could lip-sync the Architect’s dia…umm…monologue in perfect harmony. <\/p>\n 6) My mother’s coming to Hyderabad tomorrow. Along with my elder brother. Well, not exactly my elder brother, but close. I am going to meet him after a long time. After 10 years, in fact. And I am scared, kind of. What if he has changed so much that I don’t recognise him at all? <\/p>\n I find this<\/a> funny. Also this<\/a>. I draw a parallel between these and my lust for Brit-American comics, and it’s really …ummm…funny and ironic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}