Color Doldrums: Fail Whale?

I hope to someday live somewhere dense enough to see someone else's pictures on #color. #disappointed_by_NYCless than a minute ago via Tweetbot for iPhone Favorite Retweet ReplyKevin Slavin(public)
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@slavin_fpo Ha ha! That is a fail whale for #Colorless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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@paramendra the great white whale of the south sea bubbleless than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyKevin Slavin(public)
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The Color Social Graph Might Work Better For Books, Movies, Music
Google Images, Facebook Photos, Twitpic, Instagram, FoodSpotting

Internet Week: Day 1

Meeting Kevin Slavin: Tumblr's Brilliance http://goo.gl/fb/vOE2Oless than a minute ago via Google Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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@ Metropolitan Pavilion for Internet Weekless than a minute ago via txt Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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Someone else picked up my paid for #iwny pass. That's what you get for blogging about your having bought a pass. They gave me one anyway.less than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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Tweeting from location at #iwnyless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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My immigration court date got postponed, weird. http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2011/06/questions-prepared-by-my-lawyer-for.htmlless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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Doing Gmail on location at #iwny Need to go attend events.less than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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@ Listening to Arianna pontificate.less than a minute ago via txt Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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Front row seat. AOL stage.less than a minute ago via txt Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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@ Union Square Farmers Marketless than a minute ago via txt Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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Meeting Kevin Slavin: Tumblr's Brilliance

I have been following Slavin on Tumblr for months now. I have known him as one of the most prolific of all the 100 plus people I follow on Tumblr. Him, Mike Hudack, Anthony De Rosa (soupsoup - why do you have to say it two times?), vruz, these dudes are prolific. And these are hard core politicians pretending to be in tech.

I started following Slavin because he was on David Noel's list of entrepreneurs and VCs to follow. I am not on that list. That explains why I have only 70 followers on Tumblr. I do better on Quora where I have 1,000 followers. And I am not much active on Quora. But I am on Tumblr every day.

One Location, Camping Out

These decisions have a tendency to change. I was planning on doing one, then two, then most three events during Social Media Week in February, I ended up doing seven. But for now my decision for Internet Week is to camp out in one location and do as many events as possible in that one location, and to spend more time in the hallways wildly shaking hands than sitting obediently in halls as panelists pontificate.

Monday is my oh so important immigration court date, and that takes priority, and since my hearing is scheduled for 1 PM, and I am meeting my lawyer at 11 to prepare, and court hearings have a tendency to start late and drag on, I have no Internet Week plans until 3 PM Monday, and I am at peace with not even showing up until 4 PM, maybe 5 PM: no soup for you. But once I am done with the court stuff, which might be in the late afternoon, I hope to drop by and inaugurate my Internet Week. I am seeking refugee status, kind of like Einstein.

My Plan For Internet Week
The Internet Week: The Thing To Do
The Internet Week Is Mumbojumbo

Monday, June 06, 2011

Rallying to Restore Sanity in the Digital Age
03:00 PM — 03:45 PM AOL Stage

Yahoo! Presents – The Thread
03:00 PM — 03:30 PM Internet Week HQ

Will Tweet for Food: Writing Your Own Ticket in the Digital Age
03:00 PM — 03:50 PM HQ Classroom

The Onion’s Team of Three
04:00 PM — 04:45 PM AOL Stage

Yahoo! Finance Presents: Cross-fire: The Daily Ticker and Breakout!
04:00 PM — 05:00 PM Internet Week HQ

How to Survive Internet Week: Using Social Media to Make Offline Connections
04:00 PM — 04:45 PM HQ Classroom

Idiots From The Future

Here's a quote from an idiotic article in The Boston Globe. If they had called it comedy, I might have let them go. But this dude is peddling the piece as punditry.

The Boston Globe: Bubble? What bubble? Things are great. Unless ...: November 2011: Y Combinator, a “finishing school’’ for promising start-ups in Silicon Valley, announces a partnership with Wendy’s. Every Wendy’s restaurant will designate two booths near the bathrooms for tech start-ups. Y Combinator will supply $30,000 to each start-up, with Wendy’s providing unlimited baked potatoes and Frosties, in exchange for a 5 percent equity stake. ....... At the end of the program, Nigerian investor Dr. Hassan Dagogo promises (via a polite-but-urgent e-mail) to support each start-up with a follow-on investment of $500,000, wired directly to their bank accounts. Things go awry, and most entrepreneurs in the program end up living in Wendy’s parking lots.

Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap: Title Song: Dur

(Via Amitabh Bachchan)

Mindrelic: Manhattan In Motion

Mindrelic - Manhattan in motion from Mindrelic on Vimeo.

(Via Adam Ludwin)

Black Dillinger: Better Tomorrow

(Via Fuck Yeah Africa)

1200 Micrograms: Shiva's India

(Via Courtney Bolton)

Santana: Black Magic Woman

(Via Yael Morowati)

Questions Prepared By My Lawyer For Immigration Court Date Tomorrow

Image via WikipediaImmigration Court Date: June 6, 2011: Prepared Statement
June 3 Immigration Court Date

1. What is your name?

My name is Paramendra Bhagat.

2. Where were you born?

I was born in a hospital in the city of Darbhanga in the state of Bihar in India. I don't have a birth certificate. They don't do that where I grew up.

3. Why are you seeking asylum in the US?

I show up in Nepal and I am dead meat. My instincts tell me so. It is the same instincts that told me in February 2007 that Barack Obama was the next President of the United States.

4. By whom you fear for your life in Nepal?

There are a few different actors and groups that might want to harm me. The people who lost power in 2006, the Maoists who still dream of a one party dictatorship brought about by an armed revolution, rivals in the Madhesi groups, violent and nonviolent, who might be dead set in their own views and methods, separatist armed Madhesis.

5. Why do you think you will be subjected to political assassination?

I am high profile. I spent six months in jail in America for being the top Obama volunteer in the city of his primary rival. That was political. I was the only Nepali in America who did full time work for Nepal's democracy movement of 2006 and the Madhesi movement of 2007. That kind of visibility puts you in harm's way. If my political enemies in New York City can do what they did to me, what do you think my political enemies in Nepal will do?

Just Watched Amitabh's Deewar For The First Time

Just watched Amitabh's Deewar for the first time, I am surprised I had not seen it already.

Amitabh Bachchan: Deewar

I mean, I don't believe this. I grew up watching this dude. I am his evergreen fan. I don't think I have ever watched a full Paul Newman movie, and if I did I probably watched it when I had no idea who he was, maybe I have watched one, but I don't remember, but I have seen Americans revere Paul Newman. And recently I left a comment at TechCrunch.

Lincoln is like Gandhi. Paul Newsman is like Amitabh Bachchan, correct?

Amitabh Bachchan: Deewar

Three Generations Of Bollywood: Dilip, Amitabh, Shahrukh

Shakti (1982), Heat (1995)

End Scene from Heat

Amitabh Bachchan Might Read My Comment

Day 1142

Amitabh Bachchan Shoots For Just Dial's New Ad
Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap: Amitabh

A Moment Of Appreciating Facebook

A Moment Of Appreciating Disqus

Who Is In The Room?

Image via WikipediaIf in a city that is 60% nonwhite, when you enter a room and almost everyone is white, and you are nonwhite, of course you notice. But then the term nonwhite does not define me. I am not non anything. The very term nonwhite is Eurocentric.

Topology: Wikipedia a major area of mathematics concerned with properties that are preserved under continuous deformations of objects, such as deformations that involve stretching, but no tearing or gluing. It emerged through the development of concepts from geometry and set theory, such as space, dimension, and transformation.

Ever since I was 10 I have mostly found myself in rooms where seeking cultural overlap was not exactly an option. Part of that is liberating. You enter into topology territory fast. The essence of what makes you human is not defined by if you have a limb or not. Cultural differences are a small matter compared to someone who might have missing legs.

Fractals: Mandelbrot

"I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet."
- Indian Proverb

My Favorite Thing About America

Image by NYCUrbanScape via FlickrMy absolutely, absolutely favorite thing about America by a wide margin are biracial and multiracial people with active, vibrant ties to their various heritages. And I have been saying this for almost a decade.

The New York City Subway

I used to say number two would be broadband. Number three would be New York City. But then that goes without saying. NYC is hometown for life. I have been everywhere in America, and I mean literally everywhere. When I look at a map of the US I see what you see when you look at the NYC subway map, if you have been many places in this city many times.

Hitting The Road

Just like I have been everywhere in America, I want to have gone everywhere in the world, but I need to put a few years to get my startups off the ground, first things first. And then global travel with broadband-always is going to be how I spend a few months every year. My microfinance outfit would demand something like that. There are somethings that you just have to see. Google Earth does not quite cut it.

Trending On Hacker News?

I had no idea. I just now saw this. And this blog post is from a while ago.

Greplin: The First Y Combinator Company To Get Me Excited

Use Of Social Media Is Like Physical Fitness

You probably got drilled into you early that exercise is good for you, and most people still just don't do it. Much of the social media message is to just do it.

Just like exercise takes many forms, so does social media. You can walk, you can jog, you can do freehand exercise. You can use the machines, the weights. You can go for fitness, or for bulk. You could train for the Olympics. You could train like Rocky. And this is where the social media experts come in. There is something called heavy hitting social media. Having a social media expert in house is like hiring a trainer. The boxers don't wing it, they hire people who help them train.

Coldplay: Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

(Via Rolling Stone)

White Male Conspiracy To Drive Me Homeless

The Day I Got Called Sean Parker
Sean Parker, Billionaire, Was Really Poor Once
The Sean Parker Analogy

So I met this White Male at this NY Tech MeetUp after party months and months back. He called me Sean Parker. And I am like, now I am stuck. I have a reputation to live up to. I have not rented a place in months. I have been bouncing around.

The Proverbial White Male

I smell a white male conspiracy to drive me homeless.

Ugh, Immigration (3)
Ugh, Immigration (2)

Ugh, Immigration (3)

Ugh, Immigration (2)
Ugh, Immigration
Immigration Court Date: June 6, 2011: Prepared Statement