Posted on December 19, 2008, 6:23 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Brain,
Life.
My son likes to watch Mr. Bean, which is a little worrisome for me, as I do not believe in ‘harmless and silly fun’. While good humor and puns certainly stimulate your brain-cells (aka neurons), I think that part of the reason people are amused by Mr. Bean, Charlie Chaplin (or any of the situation […]
Posted on October 8, 2008, 10:07 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
Last night, some terrorists succeeded in planting three time-bombs in the Garhi Shahu area in Lahore, an area that is 4-5 kilometers away from my house. Thankfully, nobody had died until the last update. I had to turn on the idiot box (after many months) to catch the live report, and was lucky enough to […]
I just took a look at my 'FOR BLOG' bookmarks folder and was amazed to see the number of pages (66) I have bookmarked during August, with the intention to write about them here, but never got the chance. So, in an attempt to cross that task from my TODO list, I'm posting some of […]
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Posted on July 12, 2007, 3:10 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Books,
Scifi.
I stopped watching TV more than 5 years ago, and never had a regret. A combination of DVDs, RSS Feeds and books gives a much better value-for-money (assuming time is money) than surfing 100+ cable channels, and (mostly) no ads. I have one complaint though, the life cycle of a good scifi series or saga […]