Pathik Shah

Iron Man. Thor. And now, Captain America.

All these movies have been really awesome. Comic book movies used to be a joke. But since Nolan rebooted the Batman franchise, all studios are taking comic book movies seriously, knowing that there are scores of fans waiting to watch them.

Iron Man was brilliant. Thor was good. And Captain America was really good. The Hulk wasn’t as good as the others, but then it was released way back before the studios got serious.

Scarlett Johansson is going to be the Black Widow. Guaranteed hotness.

Hawkeye seems to be the only weak link here. There hasn’t been a Hawkeye movie, and it’s unlikely there ever will be one. Because seriously, who gives a shit about Hawkeye? I don’t. Always hated him.

Combine all of them in one movie, and you get The Avengers. I can bet that it’s going to be a spectacular fucking geekgasmic blockbuster.

And that, my friends, is why I cannot wait to watch The Avengers. May 4, 2012, you couldn’t come sooner.

PS: I forgot to mention, Joss Whedon is directing The Avengers. If there is anyone after Nolan I would want for the job, it’s him.

I hope DC gets its act together, releases The Man of Steel soon, and starts working on a Justice League movie.

BTW, go watch Captain America. It’s fucking awesome.

CAT 2011 New Format And Dates

Apparently, the Common Admission Test (CAT) which is used by almost all MBA colleges in India for admissions, will have a new format starting this year.

The CAT 2011 will have only two sections
- QA + DI (Quantitative Aptitude + Data Interpretation)
- VA + LR (Verbal Ability + Logical Reasoning)

Both the sections will have 70 mins each, with a total duration of 140 mins. It will be held from October 22 to November 18.

It seems that the CAT committee has taken it upon themselves to ape the GMAT in the last couple years. The CAT which used to be the toughest, the most challenging, and hence the most interesting exam, has been reduced to a simple aptitude test modeled after the GMAT in which questions are repeated every year.

More details on this soon.

via pagalguy

It seems that DoT is forcing all ISPs to ban the major file sharing websites like Mediafire, Sendspace and Rapidshare.

This is the list of ISPs which have banned these websites so far.

MTNL Delhi
Airtel

Here’s what you see when you visit those websites.

Update: All the banned websites seem to be accessible now. Atleast on MTNL Delhi. Yayness!

The ban was due to some retards thinking that everyone was going to pirate the shit out of some lame movie called ‘Singham’. No one even knew that such a movie existed.

An excellent post about ambition, and the drive (or rather, the rush) to make it big when young.

You Are Not Running Out of Time

You know the feeling – the feeling of being left behind in the race for achievement. Of falling back in ‘the game’. For some people, the game is keeping up with the Joneses: marrying a good catch, living in a nice house, driving the right car, having a good job, kids that do well at school. For others, it is enjoying life’s pleasures – the best vacations, the most enjoyable parties, with the most exciting partiers. Then there are people who are forever pursuing harmony and peace in their lives, resolving the discordant threads one by one, and for some the game is living up to their personally defined objective definition of personal development.

For most, it is a combination with a common thread: Am I moving up in the world at an acceptable pace, or am I running out of time? Am I maximizing my potential?

What that quickly meant to me was that wasting time and opportunities were criminal, with my own potential achievements as victims that needed to be rescued from the assault of lost hours and non-productivity. It meant becoming a workaholic. Bill Gates probably felt that way once – looking back at his teenage years and his own obsessive time spent with computers, he said, “it was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so unambiguously demonstrate success.”

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