Category Archives: Presentations

This is where we rant about random presentations by us or others like movie stars and music bands and stuff.

Cameo drinks on Big Bang Theory

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As many of you heard from me, The Big Bang Theory is the absolute best nerd sitcom ever! I have successfully managed to get other people hooked on the show. That said the lastest person to get hooked on it, noticed something interesting. Below you see the typical drinks that our favourite nerds order.

Cameo Drinks

The first thought on seeing this shot is, “Oh! Sheldon drinks Sprite. Lenard likes Diet Coke. Howard always drinks Dr. Pepper and Raj picks 7up”. Unfortunately, you couldn’t be more wrong. Well at least you got the message that was being protrayed, but did you realize that it makes it a mix of Coke and Pepsi products? How can that be you’re thinking? May be they finally are co-sponsoring something. But before jumping to that conclusion, let’s look carefully.

Dr Peeper

That is not Dr. Pepper.

Diet Cola and Orb

That is not Diet Coke. And though Sheldon’s drink looks like a Spirite it has no name on it.

7.on

Finally, I believe that says 7on.

Amazing, no? I actually missed it all the time, but Ruh didn’t. And once we noticed Dr. Peeper, we started paying attention to the others. Interestingly enough when Lenard picks a Vault, the name of the can is covered with a big V.

(All images courtesy of CBS)

YADM – Yet Another Dune Movie

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Most of you know that Dune is one of my favorite book series. It’s one of those books that I claim shouldn’t only be listed under Sci-Fi since they cover a lot more in them even though the story is just science fiction. Now, granted the first I heard about Dune was through a video game, and later through a movie before I even realized that it was a book, but dude the book is still so much better.

Now Variety is reporting that Peter Berg (director/producer of The Kingdom) just got rights to work on new Dune Movie from Paramount Studios. IMDB already has a page up stating a potential 2010 release.

Now, I’m both pissed and excited. Pissed since no one has yet been able to do a good adaptation of the book (David Lynch was very close, however). And excited for the vary same reason. I mean, may be, just may be they will get it right this time around?

Bollywood movies

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People who know me also know that I am not the one to willingly see an Indian movie. The predictability of the movies and the amount of “tribute” scenes just make the whole experience unbearable. That said Taare Zameen Par came highly recommended by my sister, aunt, roommate, and a couple of friends. So finally today I made some time to see the movie.

Story of the movie is nothing that hasn’t been done before. There’s a boy who is dyslexic which is causing problems at school, along comes the savior and sorts it out. But just because it is not a novel story line doesn’t mean that it didn’t do a good job. The movie as a whole was simply brilliant. The cinematography is reminiscence of the likes of Finding Neverland. The kids acting was phenomenal. Even the songs weren’t that bad.

I would confess, however, that there was times through the movie where I thanked whoever discovered the 1.5x mode on video playback. The movie is 2.5 hours long, and sometimes you just wish things will go faster.