The Great Ganesha

An article from two weekends ago in the WSJ talks about what happens to a marriage as technology gets more and more programmed for individual use. If you’re married, you know where this is going. He likes techno, she likes rock. He likes sci fi, she likes romantic comedies. And that leads us to some [...]

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Picture Source 19th century bazaar in Calcutta Today’s WSJ has an article about the Indian retail baron Kishore Biyani who founded Pantaloon Retail (currently the largest retailer in India, in terms of revenues) and owns the supermarket chains Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar. For the supermarkets, he initially tried to emulate the Western model of [...]

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Spartans! Prepare for glory! The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant. That few stood against many. And before this battle was over, that even a god-king can bleed. – Spartan King Leonidas I’m just kidding. This post has nothing to do with the movie 300 other than the geeky fact that [...]

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The people at Improv Everywhere describe themselves as causing “scenes of chaos and joy in public places” by executing “over 60 missions involving hundreds of undercover agents.” Their last mission: Raising awareness of The Redhead Experience. Redheads, they say, make up less than 1% of the world population and “Agent McCarthy” suggested, “What would it [...]

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If you’re single, and have an iPhone, then there’s hope for you. You can go on an iDate. What’s that, you ask? It’s speed-dating with a techno-twist. You mingle over drinks, you speed-date and then, in an election-booth like enclosed area, you elect your President-to-be at the after-party (and this party definitely surpasses the two-party [...]

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‘Nuff said. (via)

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San Francisco is cold and foggy again and I’m loving it. We had quite a scare last week, when it was sunny and hot. I thought the heat would never end. I could actually walk outside in shorts for extended periods of time. We had to open all the windows in our apartment, it was [...]

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We are in sunny Puerto Rico this week. I’m chairing a session at a conference here (and giving a talk). We got here on Sunday and had a little, shall we say, “adventure” on the way to our hotel. Having recently been introduced to the wonders of the navigational GPS, we decided to get one [...]

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Was reading the news this morning and I came across the following quote: ?It?s just the most fantastic thing to be free. It was an appalling experience…occasionally quite terrifying.? ?It became hard to imagine normal life. I dreamed several times of being free, but always woke up in that room.? [link] It’s from BBC journalist [...]

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Nirali Magazine recently published an interview with Chef Manju Malhi who’s planning on bringing British food to India. When I read it I had a vision. It went something like this…

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