I don’t know what happened. For several weeks, when the phone had been in my pocket for a while and I’d take it out to use it, it would occasionally assert that it didn’t have a SIM card inserted, though, in fact, it did. However, this happened infrequently enough that I thought I’d have some time before I would be forced to replace the phone.
Yesterday, though the phone was indicating that it had 2/3 of its full charge in the morning, it had shut itself down to conserve power by the early evening. So I charged it overnight, and when I checked the phone today shortly after noon, it had again shut itself off. So when I returned home from my errands later in the afternoon, I plugged it in. Still plugged in, it rang about a half an hour ago, and I just missed getting to it before the voicemail picked up.
I flipped open the phone and hit the button to redial the caller I had missed. And the phone rebooted itself. Thereby letting me know that it had totally and completely given up the ghost. This phone has passed on. It’s hopped the twig. It’s shuffled off this mortal coil. It’s run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible. It’s stone dead. I’d say RIP, but I’m too busy dancing on the grave. With a rose between my teeth.
Now, of course, I’ll have to get a new phone. Any suggestions?
It seems like everything these days—internet presences included—is being chopped up into bite-sized, easily digestible pieces.
A bunch of my friends have started a mass migration toward short-format blogging or messaging services like Twitter and Tumblr, likely because the barrier to entry and activation energy of those services is much lower than those of the now-traditional blog.
Links to those friends’ Twitter & Tumblr accounts:
Enjoy!
As for me, I’m going to stick with the longer-format medium, because I am nothing if not verbose. And besides, you’ve got to get your fiber from somewhere, right? 
shopping spree this weekend. This is why I should never window shop. It’s all “shop” and no “window”.
Anyway, one of my more major purchases was a second pair of Onitsuka Tigers, this pair grey with orange accents:
My second, entirely impulsive (the Tigers were intentional) purchase was this pair of beautiful but exorbitantly expensive teacups, complete with ceramic infusers:
Nice, eh?
Phew. I did some domain reshuffling and site reorganization tonight, to hopefully make URLs on my domain a little more sensible. Long story short, the URL for this blog is now http://richa.avasthi.name/blogs/tepumpkin/. The old address (http://blogs.ravasthi.name/tepumpkin/) will still work (it just redirects to the new address) for the next little while. Please update your links accordingly. Thank you, and apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
Cars – 5 stars
Every time I see a Pixar movie, I don’t know how they’ll be able to outdo themselves the next time. But you know what? Somehow, they do it. Every time. As we’ve by now come to expect, Pixar delivers again with the engaging story, wonderful character development and spot-on voice-acting. What’s more, though—also as they’ve done every time—they push the boundaries of the technology, coming up with some truly stunning visuals, effortlessly mixing the cartoonish and the photorealistic. The backgrounds in this movie were just luscious; I don’t know how much work went into every gorgeous scene that was only given a few seconds of airtime, but that’s what sets Pixar apart from any 3D house out there. The details. No one else comes close, just like when Disney ruled the animation roost in its heyday. Everyone else is just close, but no cigar.
This is getting ordered right away.