Introducing Kunjan Shah and Paul Singh

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Batman has Alfred Pennyworth. James Bond has Q. Jack Bauer has Chloe O’Brian. Sidney Bristow has Marshall Flinkman.

…and now Sepia Mutiny has Kunjan Shah and Paul Singh.

We put out a call for help recently so that SM could continue to grow and improve. Many of you answered our call and we thank you ALL sincerely. We have decided to add two people to help with site administration and also to help improve this blog with lots of new features over time. Like Lexus, we here at SM are in the relentless pursuit of perfection. So far we have been handing out the equivalent of blog cocaine. Soon we will flood the blogosphere with blog crack.

Kunjan is only 22 and lives in Kansas City. We needed some young blood in our North Dakota bunker. Everyone around here has been going around using the phrase “when I was young,” way too often. We knew things had to change. Around the bunker we refer to Kunjan by his codename: The Keymaster.

Paul is a bit of a mystery. He is currently in New York although seems to be a Californian originally. We picked Paul for his years of experience and also his great aesthetic sense. We want to give SM a bit of a makeover and he seems to be the right person for the job. Around the bunker we refer to Paul by his codename: The Gatekeeper.

Please join me in welcoming Kunjan and Paul.

We are also in the process of moving our site to a new dedicated server. SM reader Krishnan has been instrumental in helping us secure the new server and we would really like to convey our thanks to him for all the time that he has put into it so far.

Because so many readers have offered to help and seem so capable, we are going to try and create a space in the near future whereby readers can offer technical suggestions to help improve the site. Think of it as open-sourcing. Right now we use Moveable Type but we may eventually switch to WordPress. For those of you who have offered your help, look for a post about this within the next month or two and we may contact some of you by email.

21 thoughts on “Introducing Kunjan Shah and Paul Singh”

  1. YAY!!!!! Thank you Kunjan and Paul for saving the mutiny! Now you have to live up to the high expectations that Abhi has set before you. As Keymaster and Gatekeeper, I have no doubt you will succeed. Welcome and thanks!

  2. Welcome to the party, guys! A small question though: what exactly will your roles at SM entail? Purely on the tech side or are you also going to blog, from time to time?

  3. Kunjan is only 22 and lives in Kansas City.

    22! Wow, if he blogs here, I might not feel so out of place commenting. Yay!

  4. Use WordPress. It rocks.

    Now that I’ve made a meaningful contribution, do I get a nickname too? Please?

  5. Welcome, Kunjan and Paul! And thanks to Krishnan as well!

    I think it’s safe to say that we’re all excited to see what’s in store for the Mutiny.

  7. hi everyone and thanks for the notes of welcome – i’m glad to be on board, and to be placed in such esteemed company as chloe and marshall. i’ll do my best to affect the most socially inept, yet strangely endearing, manner possible.

    masale.wallah – i can’t speak for kunjan, but there’s a lot of work ahead in terms of implementing all the great ideas everyone has for expanding sepia, so i imagine we’ll be so busy that there won’t be much time for blogging, though we will be posting with updates as new features are introduced.

    of course, if i keep rambling off with run-on sentences like that last one, the bloggers may well strike down and remove my posting privileges completely.

    • Paul (the Gatekeeper)

    p.s., i happen to be reading haruki murakami’s “hard boiled wonderland…” at the moment and if you’ve read this great novel, you’ll see how this new nickname strikes with a certain resonance…

  9. Thanks Kunjan and Paul! And welcome to the Jungle. I look forward to see how Sepia Mutiny will now evolve….Its great that we have a ‘brown based’ forum to share views on everything trival to everything that matters..SM has definately given me exposure to different POV and thanks for volunteering to sustain this education for all.

    On a completely different note,

    Batman has Alfred Pennyworth.

    Speaking of Batman and evolution, check out what DC Comics are coming up with next…

    Its interesting how everything is unfolding/evolving….

  12. Hey Everyone!

    Thanks for a warm welcome!

    Like Paul said, we will be busy for a while, when we are moving the server. There are a lot of new ideas that we will be implementing once the server is moved over. We will keep you posted!

    Thanks again! Its a pleasure to be part of the mutiny!

  14. We needed some young blood in our North Dakota bunker. Everyone around here has been going around using the phrase “when I was young,” way too often.

    oh Abhi..these young bloods were all born after Ghostbusters. They just might miss your genius.

    ps- does this make the intern Slimer?

  16. Gozer,

    “Well I’m sorry, I’m just not getting any reading.” 😉

  17. “This is great. Either we have an intern in our kitchen or I’m completely crazy.”

  18. “Generally you don’t see that kind of behavior in a major appliance.”