Author Archives: Nikhil

Q. who would want to buy SquirtJet Printers or LeakaLot pens, etc.?
Ans.
LeakaLot Pens:
1. FBI Agents/Spies2. Pranksters (You need a pen? Sure! Or even Here’s your holi gift)3. Government officials (ghapla hain. Or Jab pen nahi kaam kar raha toh hum sign kaise kare? Nahih nahih. Hum sirf apna pen use karte hain. Ab naye pen […]

Links from Sunday

Well, my connection has been iffy for a while, thanks to Sify. Here’s what I read on Sunday:
This comic from Badmash. Inspirational, really.
The Humour Formula, from the Dilbert Blog
Reading resources (all bookmarked): Complete works of Oscar Wilde and George Orwell. Haruki Murakami’s writing(not complete). Classic Horror Short Stories (quite a few there).
Fifa World Cup groups, […]

Freak Kitchen blog

Mattias IA Eklundh, who had played at the Jazz Utsav, has blogged about his Indian trip; several posts in fact, from here to here. This last link is about an impromptu street concert at Furtados in Mumbai. Coo! Nosferatusan is here.

Fiction: The Haircut (Part IV)

Note: I’ve only written 500 words of part I, and they need to be rewritten because the tone of narration has changed. Part two and three will be thought about when I visit TC next. The ending, as you shall see, is cringe-inducing and possibly ‘in bad taste’. It will gross you out and for […]

Lest we forget #3: AG

This one’s just for you, Mungo Jerrie. :-)
I should add, though, that the insect obsessed girl also knew AG, which is quite a co-incidence. Small world. We’ll leave it to her to tell about AG, if she wants to. Just for clarifications sake - the people I am blogging about are from a distant past, […]

Links! Get your links here!

In the interest of our rather large regular reader base of 6 (or is it 8?) we, at Mixed Bag Dot Blogspot Dot Com have decided to, once a day, post links that we feel our readers (8, is it?) might find interesting.
The links are likely to be as whimsical as this blog is. We […]

Liked Tetris? Read this…

…about the man who created Tetris, at Businessweek’s innovation portal: here
I found the bit on gamer motivation quite interesting:
Players don’t like a game’s appearance to change drastically in the midst of play. They also can’t remember more than seven game elements at a time, which is why a typical first-person shooter offers the choice of […]

Issues. Writing issues.

Sometimes I wonder about how much of what I write is my own. Sure, the thoughts are mine (are they? See this and this), but the diction usually depends on whether or not I have been reading, and often on what I have been reading.
If I’m reading Hemingway then my sentences are likely to be […]

Do not press the red button

You’ve probably done this before, but what the hell. :D
(From: Scobleizer
Remember not to press the red button.

New year resolution

I guess this one didn’t last long. Went through all those articles again, though.
Hmm…is there’s any way I can maintain a list of links online, and just Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V and then ’save’? Don’t want to manually maintain a list