Sunday, April 25, 2010

Overheard, Misheard & Unheard offs-II

This post is a collection of a few unrelated lines so I’ll just group them into two sections with no clear, coherent narrative binding any of them together unlike the last one.

OMUs 5

Heard the phrases on the left but then realized what was actually said on the right:

Thank you Dharmesh! –> Thank you Very much!

Are you a girl? –> Are you enrolled?

Heard someone say to his friend (I guess!): You can marry someone you know, but you are not doing that, are you?

Saw a car’s license plate labelled: HECK 1

OMUs 6

Long-awaited scanlations of Sketchbook Volume 6 have started. Not many people in my near vicinity read or understand this subtlety (or nuance, if you will) of a manga known as Sketchbook. Someone great has conferred upon Sketchbook the title of ‘The Purest Manga Ever’. That was why I was left flabbergasted when one of my friends suggested that I may be thinking of Sketchbook during a conversation which was let’s just say ‘not that pure’! Obviously, ‘nobody’ understands the precise definition of what ‘pure’ means in this context (or in any context for that matter!) because one cannot say something is good before specifying (or implying) what constitutes as bad (or vice-versa)! So just for the heck of it, I’ll pretend to compare ‘Sketchbook’ with ‘Hidamari Sketch’:

Sketchbook
Sketchbook
 
Hidamari Sketch
Hidamari Sketch
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So that’s all. For a much ‘better comparison’, check out the one minute (~18:00-19:00) of

Sketchbook ~Full Color’s~ Episode 13*

*The audio & video seem to be out of sync, so mute the audio and concentrate on the subtitles!

Friday, April 2, 2010

Happy April Fool’s Day

I was going to put up a link to a paper on this auspicious day but unfortunately arXiv.org didn’t co-operate and the paper is ‘on hold’. So, this now turns out to be a ‘bogus’ post.
Well, that paper was more or less woven around these videos, so just have a look at them and do take a note of their titles:
CG of E8xE8 Part-I
CG of E8xE8 Part-II
+ - Shaped Billiard Table
BECs
Teleportation
Star Formation
4-Point Scattering
Well, hope you enjoyed these videos… You can also have a look at the paper below, though :)
Parody Paper