Samrat Sharma

gamer/geek/dreamer

Namaste

Sam' house of a thousand mindfscks welcomes you. What I do here is none of your business, but derive as much pleasure as you will.

Archive for the 'books' Category

Long Ass Post

Saturday, February 7th, 2004

Long Ass Post
Its been a long time since I wrote with reckless abandon, the kind of thing that would have made any web page recognizable as my handiwork. Careful, measured prose is all fine and nice, but writing like I treat my vocabulary as a wherewithal to form a bulwark against the withering sanity that [...]

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Hush

Monday, October 13th, 2003

Hush
So this weekend was huge fun. Schumacher won the championship, with more than a little help from Barrichello. Valentino Rossi defended his championship by winning his seventh race in Sepang. Beautiful races, both. I met Bushbush after a long time, had a few drinks, chilled with the rest of the gang. Then went out and [...]

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Smartly, Me Lad!

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003

Smartly, Me Lad!
A great article on HardOCP confirms most of our suspicions: The Phantom console seems to be an elaborate construction of lies and half-truths, an outright scam to defraud investors unfamiliar with the gaming industry.
We live in an age where technology has provided us with tools read and cross-reference any record you want. [...]

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I know this is pretty late…

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

I know this is pretty late…
…but I had an eventful weekend. I finished The Da Vinci Code, excellent, excellent book that it was, I finished the layout of my new site design, I saw the final cut for my movie, the one that Arun is editing…and I bought a cell phone. And that is the [...]

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Cyberspace

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003

Cyberspace“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation…A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…” William Gibson, Neuromancer

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