Ghee Happy

‘Ghee Happy’ Web series

Sanjay Patel (Pixar, “Sanjay’s Super Team,” “Divine Loophole”) makes a twee Diwali music vid for kids: It’s part of his new “Ghee Happy” YouTube series, which basically an animated “Little Book of Hindi Deities”: A rather cuter interpretation of Durga vs. demon Mahishasura: Twee Kali, Ganesha, Krishna, Saraswati:

debate

Flow debate

Re: Gerry Lopez getting into flow state on big waves, I used to enter it in high school debate’s 1AR, the first affirmative rebuttal. You’re at a 3:1 time disadvantage, 4 minutes to cover 12 by your opponent. In prep time you need to zoom out, think

Thirsty Suitors

Scott Pilgrimage

“Thirsty Suitors” on Steam: Sri Lankan-Am skater girl returns to US hometown, fights off aunties, suitors and feelings of inadequacy. Desi “Scott Pilgrim” :) [wired.com] Cooking combat with mom Disappointing her dad Ma’s sandal fends off mulleted ex Sergio Gameplay: youtube.com]

Winter King

Dragon king

Sagar Arya 🇮🇳 (Love Aaj Kal) as “Tewdric,” king of Gwent (Wales), in The Winter King series, yet another King Arthur tale. Says “tin” with the soft “t.” Scepter, kamarband and flashy hashtag vest, as was the style of the time. San Shella (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) 🇮🇳🇬🇧 as “Lohilt.

Kingo

Kingo was his name-o

Kumail Nanjiani’s Kingo poster in Loki, via Reddit On set: In Guardians of the Galaxy 3:

Pain Hustlers

Face, off

They made a John Kapoor / Insys movie and race-swapped the villain :D At least it’s the great Cuban-Am Andy Garcia and not, like, Cumberbatch. “Pain Hustlers” (Blunt, Chris Evans, Amit Shah on Nflx). I’ve long said desi-Am crooks and hustlers in tech / finance / pharma are

baking

Kerala plum cake

Made vegan Kerala plum cake with dates, walnuts, shredded coconut topping. Modded recipe with molasses, ground ginger, cloves, half wheat, soy milk. Turned out great. [cookingandme.com] This is the Kerala Christian adaptation of a Christmas cake: dates, no plums.

constitution

Accelerating the constitutional crisis

Young Earth, abortion and gay marriage are not live issues for most Americans anymore. House Speaker’s living in the ’70s. Go one-person-one-vote and move on from these Jeebus freaks. Electoral Count Act was finally reformed after a coup attempt. What will get us off the planters-

Kolchak

Demon hunter

Full Kolchak ep “Horror in the Heights”: reporter chases a rakshasa (Indian demon) in NYC. Where’s Durga Ma when you need her? In 1974, NYC Jews wouldn’t go out for Indian food :D Lakshmi Restaurant in a horror font Beef curry = not a typical Indian place Is this

EV

Glass cockpits

Say your car had a touchscreen with fixed climate buttons which never move or change. What’s the difference? Physical buttons give you tactile feedback for location and activation, but are more expensive and unreliable. Soft buttons can be updated, improved, usability fixed. They can be overloaded to control more

Mike Johnson

Primitivism

Mike Johnson is yet another panderer to “I rule, you drool” rural white male loser primitivism. He might even believe it. It is of course a chip on the shoulder: insecurity masquerading as supremacy, because the modern world disproves it. We’re blowing tax money on a House circus run

constitution

The US constitution was a plantation owners’ agreement

As designers of the Constitution… Federalist leaders like Adams and Alexander Hamilton… viewed their own interests and the nation's interests as one and the same… recoiled at the thought of yielding power —“Tyranny of the Minority,” Levitsky & Ziblatt Hamilton: we must… prevent an atheist… from getting possession

political parties

Hard-coding the racket

Republicans and Democrats are part of the government (hence things like state-run party primaries, or party balance requirements in various agencies) and serious third parties are effectively legally prohibited. [American Prospect] Dem, Republican parties, and only those parties, being formally part of fed gov is so crooked. It’s

Elmo

First principles of materials

The typical auto body panel is 0.7 mm thick. Cybertruck’s are 3 mm, 4× thicker for no good reason. Current electric trucks are limited mainly by range. They often tow loads and are shaped like unaerodynamic bricks. Door dings don’t figure in the top 10 selling points.

recipes

Native platform

Need a search recipe filter for native chefs. There’s a place for Kayleigh from Mill Valley’s take on Oaxacan mole or Peshawari naan, but not in the first 10 results. Lupe and Swati, up your SEO game.

chai

Chaayos

India’s Chaayos chain, Sbuxy vs. funky betika customer care

Elmo

Elmo comedy

To everyone mystified why Elmo’s ranting against Wikipedia… … he’s dumb, so *it’s always hilariously personal* :D “Why does a nonprofit need money” is the exact same line he used when OpenAI became a unicorn after dumping him :D

Hasan Minhaj

The next ‘Daily Show’ host

When Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah left the Daily Show, both times I suggested Hasan Minhaj as the next host. It was tongue-in-cheek since desis are 1.3% of the US. That Hasan actually got the offer makes sense re: his career trajectory, but mind-blowing re: pop

Bill Maher

Yo no soy Maher-inero

Bill Maher just made a crack about vax boosters being a scam. Fourth strike after “Hindus must kill their Muslim spouses,” “most Muslims want to kill kaffirs,” soft antivax. Not to mention the corny, right-wing shtick end segment I skip. Guy’s just dumb, I’m out. Pharmas being

Dickens

Miss Ravish-ham

Charles Dickens on Indians: I have said to Ladies, spirited enough and handsome enough and clever enough to have known better… ‘what on earth do you see in those men to go mad about? You know faces, when they are not brown’ Look at the dogs-low, treacherous, murderous, tigerous

Cybertruck

“No one wants a weird-mobile”

Here comes the rake-stepper. #Cybertruck [arstechnica.com] Most of the reasons for this weirdmobile Elmo gave at his Kickstarter / stock pump years ago were fake. Exoskeleton. Bulletproof. Radically simpler to make. Stainless is hard to bend. It’s hard to bend consistently because of variations in stainless rolls. Flat,

cooking

The chemistry of cooking

It surprises me how much of cooking is openly just chemistry, doing weird science in a corner instead of roasting veggies. For fluffy muffins, you add vinegar to milk and set it aside to curdle. For pizza, you awaken yeast with lukewarm water and feed it sugar, like microscopic gremlins.

T••••

Forging ahead

appraiser… was taken aback when told on the stand that he was repeatedly cited… [pbs.org] … for T•••• property values he never appraised. The guy who forged an accountant’s signature, property appraisals and steaks, was always going to forge electors :D We know how to deal with low-end

Tesla

Dawn of the Goobertruck

Cybertruck’s not just ugly, its name is unbelievably poseur. Guy pretending to be an engineer named it “cyber,” which is nails on a blackboard to techies :D That prefix is used by DOD, old guys in suits, and ’80s fakey hacker flicks. It’s not just Elmo being déclassé,

Reddit

Social sites are aggressively mid

Reddit’s aggressively mid. Social filtering means you can distribute the work of clipping trolls, but you also clip anyone a minute ahead of conventional wisdom. Post that ICE automakers will get ruined by EVs, you get a hail of downvotes. When Wired posts the same a week later, it