{"id":490,"date":"2004-06-10T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/random-next\/"},"modified":"2004-06-10T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T16:23:00","slug":"random-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/random-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Random.next()"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bad or neat joke, depending on which end you’re at:<\/p>\n

You: What’s your mobile service provider?<\/p>\n

Unsuspecting Hutch user: Hutch.<\/p>\n

You: Bless you!<\/p>\n

or the variant:<\/p>\n

You: Hey, what mobile service does (insert name of some unsuspecting Hutch customer here) use?<\/p>\n

Unsuspecting non-Hutch user: Hutch.<\/p>\n

You: Bless you!<\/p>\n

In both cases, be prepared to run.<\/p>\n

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Alfonso Cuaron rocks. Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban <\/i>kicks the first two HP movies and grinds their noses to the ground and makes them holler “Uncle!” real loud. Much of the plot has been cut, and I still can’t get over Fred and George getting a raw deal throughout the movie (the entire series, in fact), but visually the film is stunning. I love the way the camera seems to be in constant motion, sneaking in and out of events. Great editting and direction. However, Daniel Radcliffe better be replaced by someone else –  and fast, his scenes of angst were more laughter-inducing than Hermione’s Sucker Punch was.<\/p>\n

Alfonso Cuaron rocks even more. Y Tu Mama Tambien<\/i> is a brilliant movie, which makes you forget about the fact that it’s in Spanish and makes you realise just how universal guy-things are. You know, macho talk, smoking pot together, eternal horniness etc. Splendid movie, which  I can’t write to CD, unfortunately, because the damn file is 704 MB. I also cannot edit it using VirtualDub, because the encoding is not proper. Ah, well, I shall have it in my PC until the next hard disk crash.<\/p>\n

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In other news, I have discovered that Cinema Paradiso<\/i>, Hyderabad now carries Amorres Perros <\/i>and George Romero’s original Night of The Living Dead <\/i>and Martin. <\/i>Hmmmmm.<\/p>\n
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absolut69<\/a> ‘s birthday treat at a Ghazal bar yesterday. That’s basically a bar where there is a guy singing Ghazals and playing the harmonium and there’s another guy accompanying him on the tabla, and there is a bar so you can drink ( or rather, others can drink while you can crack bad jokes *see above). Funny thing was that inspite of being a non-Ghazal following guy, I could recognise most of the songs. Which effectively means the guy was singing the same popular stuff that one hears on TV. Hoshwaalon Ko Khabar Kya<\/i> was sung twice, so was a ghazal version of Baar Baar Din Yeh Aaye,  <\/i>a birthday song that someone requested for someone else. A little more time and he would started singing a ghazal version of Kaanta Laga<\/i>, perhaps. Well, the food was good, and my no-lunch-before-birthday-dinners policy did pay off, after all.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bad or neat joke, depending on which end you’re at: You: What’s your mobile service provider? Unsuspecting Hutch user: Hutch. You: Bless you! or the variant: You: Hey, what mobile service does (insert name of some unsuspecting Hutch customer here) use? Unsuspecting non-Hutch user: Hutch. You: Bless you! In both cases, be prepared to […]<\/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-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}