Fastest ever production road car
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About as quick or quicker than the quickest (0-60mph) production bike:
About as quick or quicker than the quickest (0-60mph) production bike:
A recent conversation with a friend made me look up this old article on driving under the influence. The author makes quite a compelling case for legalizing drunk driving. He argues that by arresting a person for driving under the influence, you’re not punishing his or her actual crime, or even the potential for crime, but rather the physiological datum of blood-alcohol content based on an arbitrary government-mandated scale, and that this is against the basic principle of law. I know this issue raises passionate feelings, and would be interested in knowing what my fellow rantlusters think about it.
Now we can take comfort in going to the bathroom in the same toilet that the late, great Jerry Garcia once did. And who knows, maybe the snakes won’t come out of this one…
I am not that much into country music but always had a thing for Johnny Cash’s music. He was cool, tough, and an outlaw singing in his unique gruff voice. My favorite album of Cash is also his most famous: “At Folsom Prison”—one of the greatest live albums of all-time. Hence, it seemed appropriate to me that the new biopic “Walk the Line” starts with a scene at the Folsom prison.
So much has been written about this movie and most critics have given it glowing reviews. I agree wholeheartedly. This is the year’s best movie so far. And would somebody please give Reese Witherspoon an Academy Award? This is her best performance since “Election” and I would be very disappointed if she doesn’t get the award this year. When Joaquin Phoenix’s Cash falls in love with June Carter as played radiantly by Witherspoon, we can’t help but fall for her as well.
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It’s a “switcher” which caused the X mark to appear on Dick Cheney’s face, according to CNN. Yeah right.
This book by Kazuo Ishiguro (of Remains of the Day fame) is one of the most disturbing things I’ve read or for that matter seen. 
It is hard to talk too much about the book without giving it away, so I won’t delve into it at any length. The reviews at amazon.com reveal too much and in my opinion also seem to miss the point. The book uses very simple language, which belies some amazing character development. The narrative has a unique style. Pretty brilliant stuff.
The story is told through the reminiscences of a 31 year old woman, who is some kind of ‘carer’ of people. She talks about her life to that point and about her friends. From the start, things seem odd, and the circumstances surrounding the characters slowly unfold. Just a note that the book has no gratuitous sex or violence and strangely, it is precisely the absence of these that make it unnerving.
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For those who are not into video games, this is the first in the next wave of video game consoles - which should include the Sony Playstation 3 next year. All the games are required to be high definition capable. The promotional videos are eye popping. Woe is me though, I simply don’t have the time these days for video games. I await the day that my kid is old enough that I can buy one - for her, of course.
The thing that I find funny about the story is the guy who is holding up the Xbox 360. He is a Microsoft employee who “took time off from work to line up for over three days to get the first Xbox 360″. Also seen in the picture is Bill Gates applauding. Wonder what our dear friend’s next performance review will look like?
A friend of mine sent me this recent story about the abuse that call center operators in India (and probably elsewhere) have to endure from irate callers in the US. While anger and frustration at the outsourcing phenomenon are understandable, it’s impossible to condone the kind of gratuitous rudeness mentioned in the article, especially when it’s directed at some poor sap at the lowest rung of the corporate food-chain merely trying to do his or her job. Thanks to such incidents, sitcoms in India are now depicting the typical American as “comically rude”, which I find amusing because Indian society is not particularly polite either.
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