Decision making FAIL!

What caused the “today” to suck!

Sharing the love of comics

I have been tripping on quite a few comics for the last six to seven months and my love for them have been on the rise. Sharing the love

My pitch: I have a short attention span. Can’t sit through a movie, Can’t sit through a book – Love music though and can sit through it for a long time. Comics gets you, takes 10 – 15 seconds, tell a story, laugh, frown, cry etc. and moves on the next. Saves time, saves energy and stimulates grey cells. FULL ON!

1. Ctrl + Alt + Delete

This is the ultimate Gamer Geek comic with a great touch of humour to it. A must read for gamers and people who enjoy games “over shoulders”. This comic used to be kick ass some days back since the lead character got married, started looking at finance and stuff.

Do watch out for stuff called “sillies” in CAD. This can bowl you over on a daily basis.

2. Gaping Void: Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards

Web 2.0, marketing, culture, silicon valley – all on the back of business cards. Run by a dude called Hugh McLeod at Texas. Highly thought provoking and heavily borrowed by bloggers, tweeters and so. Good cool quotient.

3. Overcompensating

Jesus Christ on beer, Office guy on weed, Osama on cocaine and your pet cat on a full bottle of vodka plus the latest news presented in true urban fashion. Do check out for the footnotes on the comics too.

4. Softer World

Comic runs entirely on real life photographs and small captions around it. Has the capacity of going extremely dark especially with romance (gone bad), work (gone bad) etc. The creator should be going through a bad patch and this is helping his creativity in a major way.

5. Unofficial Calvin and Hobbes

calvin, hobbes, dad, mom, baby sitter, susie, teacher, captain, t-rexes, whales, snow – Calvin and Hobbes!

6. Dinosaur Comics

One set of pictures (panels), thousands of cool ideas. Told through a T-Rex wrecking some cars and speaking on everything under the sun. Sells well with techies, engineers, computer enthusiates – hell, that could be you, me or our friends.

7. Cyanide and Happiness

Adult rated comics – got sex, lots of drugs, lots of violence and hell lots of humour. Safe for work too. Pictures are not that “usafe” – what can you do with stick figures with a t-shirt on anyways?

8. Garfield minus Garfield

Remove the cat. The comic seizes to be funny. It becomes DARK! A must read.

9. Indexed

Ideas through Set Theory and Venn Diagrams. Truly awesome. Any idea across the planet and outside could be represented mathematically. You could have flunked math in school and still enjoy this one!

10. Wulffmorgenthaler

Remember the danish cartoonist who got bashed in the middle east??? Do you?? Well, these guys are KINGS man! Go with an unbiased mind though. Don’t get hurt unnecessarily. World unfurls in a different way.

11. XKCD

If you have ever enjoyed Physics or Math this is a sure kill!

12. Wondermark Lite

19th century pictures, 21st century ideas. Imagine a guy sitting in a steam engine and talking about Google!

A lot lot more actually. Do leave your comment if you come across some.

Bondsurance – viral video – Bond, Hema Malini, bad ass bike and unshaven villains

A new viral has come out for IDBI Bonds. This one comes from Contests2win.

The idea is pretty cool. The execution is neat and very Bombay.

Yet, is viral the real way?
Could bonds be sold though humour?

1. Bonds are known for their less return and serious target audience. One may laugh at the ad, think about the hawaldar joke and then move on. Good from an awareness perspective. (We have the coconut dealer with the thick Tamil accent talking about the returns and riches at the end).

2. Ideal solution for selling products which require more thought and research from the audience should be some other form of advertising rather than a viral. Makemytrip virals by Webchutney have clicked as buying air tickets involves opening a few tabs and then booking it. FTW! FTW!

3. Looking at the viral from the contests2win perspective, this is a complete win. They get the eyeballs, they get the creative appreciation and maybe a few awards to put up as testimonials for their competence. However, as an ad agency, they should really look for other means of selling the bonds. Get down to the basics – get more people to buy their client’s stuff.

Awesome effort though. Guess its time to move on from Tamil accent bashing. It ceases to be funny after 25 years!

Chutney with the new viral – Ghajini, Aamir Khan and BTL jokes

Webchutney viral Ghajini

I like it. Yes. Sure why not. Seriously.

The idea is well told though. www.Oktatabyebye.com

Outsourcing blues

In line with the previous post, I stumbled on this comic below. Too neat, couldn’t help share it. Here goes-

And Christmas seems to be catching up. Choir and all were happening in the neighborhood yesterday

Interview for a web developer

I hate interviews which tells you – “Hey dumb ass. We need a dumb ass to run our dumb ass company. So how fucking dumb are you? Oh cool. You are as dumb as me and I could still pretend to be your smart boss. We will keep the dumb part between us. Oh hell! Lets be open. We are all dumb”

Courtesy: Ink Tank Comics

Got it. My calling!!!!

Calling. Lets fuck the world

The comic search on web is turning out to be real kick ass these days. Half an hour of comics a day is sure to keep me living for a few more years. Yeah I smoke to death now!! (Plan to quit too.)

Would like to call the above one – My calling! Well Thanks Tim for all the good work. Stand up and take a bow!

I grow up to be Superman. Super fucking shit!

super power deal

Almost there. A few more steps and HOME!

A day in the life of a fly

Angry fly

Shambho Mahadeva (translates “Peace!!!” in a weird way)

Been on the ‘Shambho Mahadeva’ mode for quite some time!

This mode calls for the following – if not attained, efforts needed in these directions –

1. Try to be on ‘auto-pilot’ mode of life

Take life as it comes. Get philosophical on a Gita sort of way – All that has happened is for good, all that is happening is for good and all that will happen is again for good!

2. Try to be on ‘formula – one’ mode of life

You keep milestones, aims, progress cards, aspirations, dreams, hopes etc. and all time sober should be spent on reaching these aims.

3. Get your hands dirty

Try anything and everything – no matter how dirty or nasty it would become. Experience and Exposure are natural by-products.

4. Look before you leap

Evaluate, Evaluate, Evaluate

5. Work hard, work smooth, work mad

Toil your ass out like a mad man – no matter what the outcomes are. Good results – nice. Bad results – Oh shit! should have done it the other way round. Nice anyways. Now I know how not to do it

6. Fuck it! It ain’t worth it

No matter whatever you do, there are always fingers pointed at you. No one realizes the undercurrents. Why worry then. Go take a vacation, smell the flowers, follow the eagles, listen to the sounds and all that blah!

7. Sleep less

All the names we seen on history textbooks – not the ones on the prehistoric ages – slept less! They took a lot of time awake tripping on stuff that could make them another chapter in an eight standard textbook. Full on!

8. Sleep a lot

Keep your head in peace. The only result of sleeping less is more time awake. Dream! Your life is worthless without dreams!

9. Work out!

A healthy body houses a healthy mind!

10. Chill out!

Well – chill out! Keep it cool baby!

So, every odd number takes you to the right and every even number takes you somewhere else! So much for principles and ethics – Shambho Mahadeva!