Archive for April, 2007

Incompetent Cricket Council

The World Cup is over. Australia are the champions! Huge congratulations to them. They were brilliant through the entire tournament. They won every match by a huge margin. They were never challenged. They are they first team to ever win the World Cup three times and they have done it consecutively! Wow - they are […]

Random stuff

Sorry, it has been busy. Here are couple of little things though -
- Today I was briefly introduced to someone in an academic environment. She asked me “Did you just graduate from undergrad?” I was stunned for a moment and then blurted out that I had graduated from undergrad well over a decade ago! Once […]

Fatasmagoric Florian

Several weeks ago, I saw The Lives of Others. Bloody brilliant. I was riveted to every single scene. And since then, I’ve thought about it every day…
A movie about the horrific and desperate times in the GDR before the Wall fell, it follows the lives of the theater community who are under constant scrutiny by […]

Originally posted on Tatvam Productions (Comment @ Tatvam)

What does the audience know?

Two sentences.
1. If the audience knows more than the character, they get emotionally involved with the character.
2. If the audience knows less than the character, they get intellectual about things and try to figure things out.
So simple and stated like this, so obvious. But also so insightful. With just those two sentences, you can figure […]

Originally posted on Tatvam Productions (Comment @ Tatvam)

Jeff Jarvis on the brouhaha

I’ve been reading Jeff Jarvis’ blog for years and have always found that he has the rare ability of being pithy while hitting the nail on the head.
Here’s a perfect example — he was on CBS being interviewed about the Don Imus brouhaha and more specifically the reaction in the blog world. Apparently there is […]

Market-driven religion

In the fight for the world’s population, the CEOs (heads/pontiffs) of major religions need to listen to the market in order to win the greatest number of customers (practitioners/believers/converts). It appears that the Catholic Church understands the business quite well -
In the 5th century, St. Augustine declared that all unbaptized babies went to hell upon […]

MyBlogLog - brilliant customer support

I’ve used MyBlogLog for a little over three months. I love the product - so well executed! In addition to the community features, I also use it to view the stats on my blog - it is very quick and easy.
I recently had cause to write in to their customer service. Immediately I got an […]

Feedburner email footer

I recently turned on the ability for people to get my blog posts delivered to their email, through Feedburner.
I just noticed footer at the bottom of the email that gets sent out -
Notice the last line. How… quaint!

Recently on Tatvam

I’ve been getting slightly better with writing on my Tatvam blog and I promise that things will only get better. Really! I already have a ton of posts in my head.
With that said here’s what’s recently been on Tatvam:

Acting for directors: my first, formal, acting class - what I learned and the crazy things I […]

An emergency landing

This past week, I got on an Air Jamaica flight from New York to Grenada. I had barely slept the previous night so right around take off at 7:40am, I fall asleep. I awake to hear the captain telling us to start preparing for landing.
I groggily look at my watch. I can’t possibly have been […]