Aug 9, 2009

Get out of the box

I'd never seen this ad-film before on TV. Seems like Hero Cycles wanted to target the urban cubicle-dwelling, Santro-driving, overpaid programmers IT professionals to take up cycling.

Not a great ad, but not bad either.

Jun 23, 2009

SanjooBaba fan

SanjooBaba on a motorcycle (probably a Harley). Notice the colourful combination of sunglasses and jacket. Nice intricate work.

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Apr 13, 2009

Not bound by spellings

Freakonomics has a post where the authors try to trace the origins of popular quotations. One of the quotes was:

“It is indeed a dull man who can think of but one way to spell a word.”

The Yale Book of Quotations notes that this is frequently attributed to Mark Twain, but the earliest occurrence found in research for the YBQ was in Marshall Brown’s “Wit and Humor” (1880): “A man must be a great fool who can’t spell a word more than one way.”

This auto rickshaw owner and a SanjooBaba fan is just super-cool.

Mar 26, 2009

Suspended for flatulence

From this story
LAKELAND, Fla. - An eighth-grader was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas.
[...]
The teen, Jonathan Locke Jr., said he wasn't the culprit.
"It wasn't even me," Locke told The Ledger newspaper. "It was a kid who sits in front of me."
If they had an English version of आदा पादा, the issue of the wrong kid being suspended would never have occurred