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I think this keyboard would drive you totally insane. I’m hoping my coworkers don’t notice that it’s way louder then the keyboards they are typing on. (That, or hopefully they think my keyboard has always been this noisy.)
Posted by ramanan (Clackity Clack)
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You better not even think about bringing it home! I would be so mad! 8o|
Posted by sh!ma (Clackity Clack)
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Turns out those ads are from Bell ads. Is the Samsung Instinct really an Apple Eater? I have my doubts. I wonder what their phone plans are going to be like though.
Posted by ramanan (IllegalSigns.ca Gets Billboard Taken Down Less Than A Day After It Went Up.)
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The cliff jumping one seems crazy. The guy made the jump with only 1 free hand!
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Her music is really awesome. When she first game out her support for the LTTE was a lot more apparent. She has toned it down a lot with the latest album. Lots of Tamil people support the LTTE. It’s not an uncommon position to take in the Tamil community.
Posted by ramanan (Backlash to Terrorist Chic: MIA Gets Dissed With Her Own Song.)
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I’ve been listening to her a lot lately, but I’ve never seen any videos or pictures of her or anything and had never picked up on her apparent endorsement of the Tigers. That makes me really ambivalent about her, because her music is really great. This guy has certainly made a powerful and compelling argument.
Posted by ben (Backlash to Terrorist Chic: MIA Gets Dissed With Her Own Song.)
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I wish Ikea would have a complete office. Work would be so much better in slow motion.
Posted by tiff (The Complete Bedroom.)
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re: hotness.
Seconded.
Posted by ben (Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran.)
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I know my darling. I’m just making fun because the Persians’ are awesome shtich gets tired. If we’re talking about hotness on the otherhand…
Posted by ramanan (Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran.)
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Hey, I’m still awesome and so are all the other Persians I know.
Posted by sh!ma (Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran.)
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Maybe your tourism industry can use this slogan I thought up:
Persians: we were awesome 2000 years ago; now, not so much.
Posted by ramanan (Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran.)
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One of the reasons I am so intensely proud of being Persian is because I feel its my duty to show people, who really only know of modern day Iran with all the idiots running the country now, that there is so much more to the most awesome empire in the world and I’d like to spread that awesomeness to everyone I know. Also, I don’t think you can point me to anyone in history that can be as great as Cyrus.
Posted by sh!ma (Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran.)
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That is one amazing story, I’m sure you’ll use this story to hate on the US some more lol
Posted by ahilan (The girl in the window.)
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Is there any meaning to the sign saying er? I would have assumed they would put a more constructive message considering they are putting up a sign they know will be taken down shortly.
Posted by Krishna (IllegalSigns.ca Gets Billboard Taken Down Less Than A Day After It Went Up.)
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man, thank god i’m white.
Posted by matthew (Travelers' laptops may be detained at the US Border.)
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Bigups on the Timezone link.
Posted by rishi (Rolex watches for Allied POWs.)
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Just don’t take anything with you.
Anyways, when was the last time you went to the States and they hassled you? I bet I have gotten detained at the border WAY more than you will ever have to deal with in your whole life time… and not just at the American border, try getting back in to Canada and having to deal with Canadian Immigration officers! Yeah. Suck it up Ram. You’re lucky you’re not part of the ‘Axis of Evil’.
Posted by sh!ma (Travelers' laptops may be detained at the US Border.)
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Wow! Well done!
Posted by Matt (Uncle Bobby's Wedding.)
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This has got to be the definition of bad luck.
Posted by stashuk (Bus passenger decapitated in Manitoba.)
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man, what in the fuck is wrong with people?
Posted by Redford (Bus passenger decapitated in Manitoba.)
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I get that same impression as well. The whole melting pot thing I suppose.
Anyway, my only issue is that it’s an obnoxious question to ask if you aren’t going to be comprehensive. You can’t identify as being Middle Eastern either so Shima and I would both identify as “Other”. Other is the best word they could come up with? Fuck you, A List Apart.
Ned: Homer, God didn’t set your house on fire.
Reverend Lovejoy: No, but He was working in the hearts of your friends and neighbors when they came to your aid, be they Christian (Ned), Jew (Krusty), or … miscellaneous (Apu).
Apu: Hindu! There are 700 million of us.
Reverend Lovejoy: Aw, that’s super.Posted by ramanan (A List Apart: Articles: The Survey, 2008.)
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I’d say in general that minorities in the US identify with being American more than whatever-else-they-might-be. Or at least, this is true of “East Asians” as well — the cultural character of an ABC is vastly different from that of a CBC.
Posted by Weiguo (A List Apart: Articles: The Survey, 2008.)
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“Hi my name is Raj, i’m from California … dude.”
Posted by ramanan (A List Apart: Articles: The Survey, 2008.)
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American cities in general are ram-jammed with infiltrators from the sub-continent, but none of them identify with being South Asian. =)
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Best…Film…Ever…I saw it in IMAX and it really did blow my mind
Posted by Ahilan Sivaranjan (The Dark Knight)