Shahryar Rizvi

Author: Shahryar Rizvi

  • Summer Movie Review: Simpsons

    All of us who grew up with the Simpsons always heard and dreamed about a Simpsons movie around the corner. The movie is basically everything I dreamed about when I imagined a Simpsons movie. This movie could have held on it’s own without the gratuitous promotion, including the completely horrendous 7-11/Kwik-E-Mart tie in. I am […]

  • The sound of machines

    Sound is a great thing. sound can affect one’s mood in many ways. Most computer users tend to neglect  the noises their operating systems interfaces make as granted. More experienced uses just remove the noise for memory reasons. Because I’m a media junkie, I need the noise. I need my computer to sound less like […]

  • Spoiler Alert!!!

    I was sickly amused today as I was teasing my co-workers who were reading the last Potter. Is it too much to hope that people who have only read Potter books up to this point will look for some other literature after this? Maybe those of us who read fervently should call those that don’t […]

  • E3 Report 2007

    I might not be able to catch everything immediately like last year because I have class and work this week. Microsoft Conference Impressions: Xbox 360 is the system I imagine myself owning. My computer is pretty old, so I may not be able to experience most of the PC games covered like the PC Gears […]

  • Amateur

    I guess since I am a hostage to the “cult” of web 2.0 Amateur discourse. I should put in my two cents on Andrew Keen’s postulates from Cult of the Amateur. I am a ware there are millions of opinions similar to this, but that is not the reason it is valid. Many writers who […]

  • The Dark Fifth-Element Angel

    The late nineties to early 2000 was an exciting time to be alive.In the latter half of the nineties, everyone was pondering what the next millennium would be like, especially the teenagers, who always look forward to the next decade with exciting expectations. The most memorable media of the nineties: Techno music, Dark Angel, Strange […]

  • Summer Movie Review: Ratatouille

    Pixar has another well-deserved breadmaker in it’s hands(mind the cliche) I liked how the realistic details meshed with the cartoony images. There is so much to see, and a lot which you won’t soon forget. I could basically smell the ingredients and dishes. I also liked how the actors’ voices blended into the characters’ (I […]

  • Summer Movie List

    Knocked Up < >Impression: I really enjoyed Freaks & Geeks and 40 Year-Old Virgin. I think I will enjoy this Superbad   < >Impression: The director did a couple of Arrested Development eps. There is potential in this movie. Ghosts of Cite Soleil < >Impression: I will watch this knowing that it has a strong bias […]

  • We should learn the language.

    In the discourse about immigration (the main demographic concerned being those that belong to hispanic nationalities). The most “reasonable” argument concerning immigrants is that they should learn the language If they come to a foreign country. I consider myself as multilingual. Since I learned English first, I think in English. From my experience, I can […]

  • Today is Caturday!!!