I have very few idols in this dreary and hollow world. However, there is one man I can place atop a pedestal, with nary a pause.

I speak, of course, of Chuck Norris - the man, the machine, the mahatma.

Some little-known facts about the man:

• Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris ( Read more... )

An excerpt from a newspaper article about a Jonas Hellborg concert in Bombay:

"Grab a Seagrams whisky while we play our butts off," he suggested to the audience, a motley mix of page 3 celebrities - like singers Roopkumar Rathod and Vasundhara Das, bassist Carl Peters, etc - and average Rahuls.
Average Rahuls? Where did heck that come from? ( Read more... )

While doing some research earlier this week for a presentation (on Face Recognition using Eigenfaces), I ended up following a strange sequence of links and found this:


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You know you need help when you're catching a quick nap, and you dream that the 5/3 reversible integer wavelet transform is leaving messages on your phone ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure the only person who'll find this interesting will be my good friend satej_sirur (and perhaps Khadiya) - but ah, heck.

I just bought the new Cryptopsy album, Once Was Not and I'm giving it a first listen - and it just kills. It's been five years, I think, since they released new material - but it's been worth the wait. Flo is absolutely ( Read more... )

Here's the link to the Daily Show interview with Bill O'Reilly. Every time I watch John Stewart's reaction to O'Reilly calling him a 'pinhead', I just crack up.

PS: The "French guy" that O'Reilly's mentioning is Stephen Colbert, who used to be on the Daily Show, but now has his own half hour following it, called the Colbert Report (the tagline ( Read more... )

Just watched Bill O'Reilly on The Daily Show, tonight.

Most. Fun. TV. Ever.

And by the way - all you Simpsons fans (especially ggollerkeri) - you're going to love this. One of the letters O'Reilly responded to on his show a while ago, was from a certain "Jack Mehoffer" (Read that aloud, heh heh). Skeptical? Well - and this is good - Jack Mehoffer is from ( Read more... )

Finally, a new discovery.

I present to you, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

Technical and utterly chaotic, with the sweetest breakdowns I've heard in a long, long time. Add some killer riffage, nice chuggy sections and counfounding time changes, and you've got one super slab of tech-metal.

Yes, it's good.

[Bonus link: Flying Spaghetti ( Read more... )

Muhahaha, Ephel Duath release their new album, Pain Necessary To Know, on October 17th. I can't wait - especially after I read the Studio Diary. Some excerpts ( Read more... )

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