Name: Beatrix Kiddo Aliases: The Bride, Black Mamba Style: Crane Style Kung-fu Weapon of choice: Hatori Hanzo Sword (Katana) Finishing Move: Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique Summary: Beatrix ‘Black Mamba’ Kiddo belonged to the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, an elite, shadowy group of assassins. A formidable, ruthless warrior trained…
The next series of stories would revolve around an underground tournament pitting the best hand-to-hand combatants against each other. So far, I have chosen 4 fighters for the battle. They are : * Bruce Lee * Pai Mei * Lady Shiva * Richard Dragon (Chuck Dixon version) Please vote below to decide who among the…
Rating - 9/10 (absolute) .. 10/10 (for a Bond movie) Daniel Craig - Potrays perfectly the transformation from a rough-edged rookie into the perfect suave, cold-blooded spy. Plot - Engrossing. Despite apprehensions, the Poker game was quite engaging. Style Quotient - Departs from the gadgets, girls and cars formula…
“Yeh haath humko de de Thakur!!!!” To this day, the world remembers Gabbar Singh better than it remembers Thakur Baldev Singh, Jai or Veeru. The hero is known by the villains he keeps. Batman has Joker, Superman-Luthor, Wolverine-Sabretooth, and so on. The magical world of cinema has seen many villainous…
Been a long time since I’ve played tag, but hey, the child in me refuses to let this pass. So here goes. (btw, the child-in-me AND the bookworm-in-me) One book that changed you life Sadly, I do not recall it’s title. It was a book by Osho about…
Humming loudly to vent some of the happiness bubbling up in me, I entered the elevator and jabbed ‘10′. Wordlessly, the doors slid shut and the metal cabin slowly started making its way up the steel corridor. It stopped at floor 4. Someone entered and pressed ‘9′. I was too…
Yesterday, I lost 3.5 hours of my life in one of the most horrible ways imaginable - by watching one of the most pathetic movies of my life. I left the cinema hall feeling thoroughly disgusted with the movie and it’s director. The saddest and most depressing part…
Mashups seem like an awesome idea (I know I am a little late on the scene). Thinking of dipping my legs into the Mash(up) Sea.…
So what exactly is the difference between a class and a struct in C++? After wondering and debating internally for quite a long time, I looked around the net and found the (simple) explanation that: “The only difference between a struct and a class is in the default access.” That…
Is there a more efficient way to extract the file extensions in ruby? I currently do the following. ext = File.basename(filepath).reverse.split(‘.’)[0].reverse…