Paresh’s Blog

so i thought i’d share photos of my ongoing project: drywalling my buddy’s garage. the work we’re doing is by no means perfect but its very good for a couple programmers and a lawyer. all told, we’ve spent less than 2 full days working on it over the last 3 weeks and nothing’s fallen down (this, of course, includes the garage which had me worried for a minute when we started). its about time i actually used some of the stuff i keep watching on this old house. i tell you, one day i will build a house. the measurements may not be “precise” and i may not used all the “correct” tools, methods or materials but for the small period of time that its standing, it will be a sight to be marveled.

well, inspired by chris’s disasembly of his old hard drive, i thought i’d take a crack at one of the old hard drives i’ve had sitting around my room. i had two drives that i yanked from my old 486 before i took it in to be recycled. one is a 200mb drive and the other is a 1gb drive. i decided to start with the 200mb drive since it was the oldest and, therefore, the most fascinating for me. the drive itself is huge yet the capacity is so small. yet, even with just 200mb it was able to store/run windows 3.1 and a bunch of other programs. we didn’t even need the 1gb drive until windows 95 came out. anyway, the surgery (or post-mortem depending on how you look at it) started out pretty well, i managed to get the case open but it got significantly harder when i realized that the screws i needed to remove were smaller than any screwdriver that i had. well, i would go into details, but i have the whole thing documented faily well over in the photo gallery. oh yes, i wasn’t lazy about this. i have pics with full descriptions.

here’s a teaser though to whet your appetites:

Save Dustin Diamond’s House!

i think rather than t-shirts, there should be some unnecessarily complicated scheme to save his house. someone call zack morris. we’ll meet at the max.

now i admit that my only journalism experience was the four years i put in on the school newspaper in high school. it was hardly a “professional” operation. our biggest goal was to minimize the number of typos (as opposed to actually eliminating them). but, i did learn a thing or two about professionalism and this included proper attire for interviews. where am i going with all this? two words: matt lauer. and another two words: without socks. anyone who watched tv in the last week was bound to see something about this whole boo-hoo interview matt lauer does with britney spears. i had only seen the commercials and from the short snippet they show, matt lauer was pulling his best 1980’s yachting with muffy and heath on the bay impression by sporting his topsiders without socks. between this and spears’ general elly-may-clampett-but-skankier appearance, i had very low expectations for this interview.

i was at the gym on thursday night when it first aired, but i’l be damned if my dad didn’t decide to watch the re-run on friday night. so i tried to watch it and it was hard to even pretend to take this thing seriously. i mean, when a guy is supposed to be conducting a serious interview but he didn’t feel it’s serious enough to merit socks, its hard to lend it much credence. combine that with his shamelessly leading questions, i couldn’t watch more than 15 minutes. his attempts to make her cry on camera couldn’t have been more flagrant if he actually started showing her pictures of orphans holding dead bunnies while holding an onion under her eyes.

but then, oh but then, i saw a commercial for that new show “america’s got talent”. i’m not entirely sure how this show is supposed to work, but apparently there’s a panel of judges consisteing of brady (the singer), some guy i’ve never seen before, and….wait for it…david hasselhoff. what exactly does he kow about talent? the commercial showed him talking into his watch as if he were talking to kitt. what’s he gonna do next? take his shirt off and starting running though the studio in slow motion? or perhaps he will put on some leather pants and re-enact singing on top of the berlin wall. yeah, this should be quality. would someone explain to me again why nbc thought west wing should be cancelled?

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Superman ‘not gay’ says director

boy, am i glad to hear that. now we can focus on the all too chummy relationship between batman and robin. and more importantly, we can focus on the upcoming lesbian batwoman, is this something the american people will accept?

and, in all seriousness, i really hope bryan singer was forced to clarify superman’s position at gunpoint because its probably the dumbest thing i’ve heard in a long time. according to the article, he made the statement in response to an article in the advocate which theorized this new version of superman is gay and there was some concern aomng studio exec’s that people would avoid watching the movie as a result. let’s think about this logically: anyone who would avoid a movie simply because a character is gay is probably too busy burning copies of the advocate in their backwoods tent revival or protesting military funerals to have actually read any of the articles. plus, as we all know, superman is a dick and i find it quite hard to believe that he is both a dick and gay. (i would use strikeout on all those words, but i’m lazy. so may the gay pr0n comment spam onslaught begin).