June 2009 - Posts - Filter Coffee

June 2009 - Posts

Michael Jackson (1958 - 2009)

Posted by Ravi Mundoli at 
In which we discuss the dietary preferences of geese Michael Jackson died last week. It was a hugely significant moment for me when I got the news, and my life has not been the same from that point forward. Mostly because for the first time ever, I got real news from Facebook before the BBC . Facebook also informed me that in his dotage, Harrison Ford...

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Queue Cutters and Line Jumpers - A Taxonomy

Posted by Ravi Mundoli at 
Which was sparked by observation in local grocery store and is about culture, values and traditions When the Truth dawns on them and taxonomists draw up the final hierarchy of living beings, it will read (from top to bottom) something like this: Megan Fox, atheists, other human beings, great apes, some primates...leeches, objectivists , tapeworms.....

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"A Wednesday", On Capital Punishment, And On Being "Middle Class"

Posted by Ravi Mundoli at 
This post must set some sort of record in that it's partly a movie review. Except the movie was released nearly a year back! Nevertheless, regardless of the hapless plight of the reader, we plough on. While talking to a friend last night, the conversation drifted to movies, and for some reason or the other, last year's thriller drama A Wednesday...

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The Indus Script Saga

Posted by Ravi Mundoli at 
In the mad days around the elections, not too many people may have noticed a small storm in the blogosphere teacup that erupted a few weeks back. Like the old Phantom comics used to say, for those who came in late: The Indus valley civilization flourished some 6000 4000 (Thanks to Anand M. for pointing out the error.) years ago over a large part of...

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Bangalored!

Posted by Ravi Mundoli at 
When the outsourcing boom was at its peak, a new word entered the global lexicon - "Bangalored". An American (for example) is said to have been Bangalored if her company "restructured", terminated her, and moved the job overseas because it was more cost effective for the company. But Bangalore itself had shown up in the lives of...

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Upon My Word

Posted by Ravi Mundoli at 
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. - Douglas Adams Words have a way of creeping insiduously from the places where they were born into "mainstream" language. The interesting thing about Douglas Adams' quote above is the word 'deadline'. It's one of those words that we use almost unthinkingly...

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