{"id":1520,"date":"2005-06-16T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2005-06-16T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T00:40:00","slug":"maybe-i-should-just-boycott-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/16\/maybe-i-should-just-boycott-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I should just boycott India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a phone call this afternoon asking me to take a survey on my pizza delivery from yesterday. Annoyingly, the caller spoke some of the worst broken English I&#8217;ve dealt with. The accent was most assuredly Hindu\/Indian in origin.<\/p>\n<p>She was calling on behalf of a survey company purchased by the Pizza dealer. Yet, was unfamiliar with the product line.<\/p>\n<p>I really wish there was a way to detect, &#8220;Yes, this person is in India&#8221; and terminate the call.<\/p>\n<p>This gives me a chance to display my new icon (at least the first stab at it)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I call it Bunnythwump.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve wanted this icon for a while. The moment I saw the video, I had to eventually make the icon.<\/p>\n<p>I painstakingly made it by hand by taking frame-by-frame pictures of a quicktime movie of the flash movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.albinoblacksheep.com\/flash\/bunny.php\">Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me<\/a>.&#8221; &#8211; If you haven&#8217;t seen this work already, go view it at the previous link. If you have seen it&#8230;. Go watch again. Then look at other animation by Bernard Derriman at his website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squetch.com\/index.html\">Squetch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That is all for now. 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Annoyingly, the caller spoke some of the worst broken English I&#8217;ve dealt with. The accent was most assuredly Hindu\/Indian in origin. She was calling on behalf of a survey company purchased by the Pizza dealer. 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