The pub as a sign of freedom-City City Bang Bang-Santosh Desai-Columnists-Opinion-The Times of India
Did this Santosh Desai guy even go to school? What is the point of this article? It's so poorly written that it makes me want to scream
Monday, February 09, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Google News -- Cricket Scores -- Go Away!
Google News
How do I make this crap go away?
Everything else is configurable, but someone at Google thinks that everyone in India cares about cricket scores?
So stupid. So typical...
Are they really that "smart" at Google... ;-)
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Helping Hands Orphanage, Bangalore, India
Helping Hands Orphanage
I went to this orphanage with a friend and my daughter this Saturday.
It was stunning. 52 beautiful, happy healthy children living in a house about the same size as ours. 20 children to a bedroom. 17 girls, and the rest boys. No real beds, just floor covers that the spread out. It must be a scene at bedtime...
The vibe was energetic, and the kids were really well-behaved. The owners were really putting themselves out for these kids.
My daughter raised some money with her birthday last year, and we gave 1/2 the money to this orphanage. We'll probably give more in Feb when we're back and can spend more time there.
If you're looking for a place to send some cash, these folks will make sure it goes to good use.
I went to this orphanage with a friend and my daughter this Saturday.
It was stunning. 52 beautiful, happy healthy children living in a house about the same size as ours. 20 children to a bedroom. 17 girls, and the rest boys. No real beds, just floor covers that the spread out. It must be a scene at bedtime...
The vibe was energetic, and the kids were really well-behaved. The owners were really putting themselves out for these kids.
My daughter raised some money with her birthday last year, and we gave 1/2 the money to this orphanage. We'll probably give more in Feb when we're back and can spend more time there.
If you're looking for a place to send some cash, these folks will make sure it goes to good use.
Bengaluru International Airport Sucks
Bengaluru International Airport
I'm sitting on the floor at the ONLY working power plug in this whole damn place.
There is one pole in the middle with 6 power plugs, all of which are broken. When I asked why, the guy tells me "they were turned off because people were using them."
But I found an ATM in the corner (out of order of course) that had working power. It's probably out of order because everyone unplugs it to use it.
There is a guy manning the Airtel booth next to me whose feet smell so foul I thought the bathroom had overflowed.
The "security" here is pathetic. They have this ridiculous outpost as you drive in, complete with men in black bandannas holding antique rifles behind a sandbag bunker. I swear it looks like a scene from a cheap kung-fu movie. A really cheap one.
Once inside, you are offered the privilege of paying 150 rupees for a breakfast that would cost you 30 outside the airport.
September 09. It can't come fast enough.
I'm sitting on the floor at the ONLY working power plug in this whole damn place.
There is one pole in the middle with 6 power plugs, all of which are broken. When I asked why, the guy tells me "they were turned off because people were using them."
But I found an ATM in the corner (out of order of course) that had working power. It's probably out of order because everyone unplugs it to use it.
There is a guy manning the Airtel booth next to me whose feet smell so foul I thought the bathroom had overflowed.
The "security" here is pathetic. They have this ridiculous outpost as you drive in, complete with men in black bandannas holding antique rifles behind a sandbag bunker. I swear it looks like a scene from a cheap kung-fu movie. A really cheap one.
Once inside, you are offered the privilege of paying 150 rupees for a breakfast that would cost you 30 outside the airport.
September 09. It can't come fast enough.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
t r u t h o u t | India's War on False Antiterrorism
t r u t h o u t | India's War on False Antiterrorism
Why is it that writing in India is so poor?
I mean, just read the first few paragraphs of this rant and tell me what the guy is trying to say.
The entire Times of India is full of this writing. I had to cancel my subscription because it was just making me angry to have to read it every day.
Why is it that writing in India is so poor?
I mean, just read the first few paragraphs of this rant and tell me what the guy is trying to say.
The entire Times of India is full of this writing. I had to cancel my subscription because it was just making me angry to have to read it every day.
Chicken Gift
Riding through the village, my daughter saw some chicks cross the road and pointed and screamed.
Stopping to look at the baby chickens and their parents, the owner of the house came out and offered us this juvenile chicken to take home. Pet? Dinner? I wasn't sure, but I was sure our neighbors wouldn't approve of the squawking.
Monday, November 03, 2008
Gateway Drug
The Gateway Drug
$30 plus shipping is a little rich for my blood especially since I have a lifetimes supply of t-shirts already.
But it does make a lot of sense... Certainly how I feel about giving my kids a bicycle... ;-)
But no, I'm not giving them titanium tricycles. Just cheapo Indian-made MTBs that last just long enough for them to grow out of them.
$30 plus shipping is a little rich for my blood especially since I have a lifetimes supply of t-shirts already.
But it does make a lot of sense... Certainly how I feel about giving my kids a bicycle... ;-)
But no, I'm not giving them titanium tricycles. Just cheapo Indian-made MTBs that last just long enough for them to grow out of them.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
The Tricycle aimed at Wall Streeters
Lynskey Performance - Tricycle
This just in... An $800 dollar tricycle for kids who really need a titanium ride. (double butted no less)
The market for this probably just disappeared with the 4 trillion dollars wiped out of the market last week.
But you know someone is going to skim enough off the top of the 700 Billion bailout to gift their little ones with the best trike that other people's money can buy.
Me? I'm kinda disappointed in the components. I mean what's the point of titanium if you can't also put some carbon rims on it?
This just in... An $800 dollar tricycle for kids who really need a titanium ride. (double butted no less)
The market for this probably just disappeared with the 4 trillion dollars wiped out of the market last week.
But you know someone is going to skim enough off the top of the 700 Billion bailout to gift their little ones with the best trike that other people's money can buy.
Me? I'm kinda disappointed in the components. I mean what's the point of titanium if you can't also put some carbon rims on it?
Saturday, October 11, 2008
New Tranny in the old steed
Together with my two mechanics-in-training (aka kids) I replaced the rear cassette, the front chainrings, and the chain today on my old mountain bike. While I was in there, I gave it some new rubber (Dart and Mythos XC), greased up the WTB front hub, and gave the bike a decent cleaning.
The drivetrain had the original parts from when I first built the bike. The chain had been replaced once or twice, but the rest (rings and cassette) is original. They have 18 years of abuse in them. Mountain biking in Austin mud, Colorado grit, and Moab dust. A fully-loaded tour from Seattle to Guadalajara down the west coast. Rusty rain in Amsterdam. Beach riding in Zandvoort. Poor cogs.
While dismantling the poor abused chap, I realized just how much paint I have removed in the past 18 years. (Yes, this poor beast is now that old.) It could really use a new paint job. But putting real money into it for that right now just isn't going to happen. I suppose I could find a painter here to do it, but the quality is pretty bad here. I had some motorcycles painted here in Bangalore and was pretty miffed with the result.
I'm pretty psyched to get it back on the road, but unfortunately the old Rock Shox Mag 21 gave up the ghost last month. I have a new fork here but no star-fangled nut for the headset. I have a new Mag 21 that I picked up from flea-bay, but it's in California, not here, since the shipping was one day too slow last time I was there. So until I either make another trip to the US or find a nut here in Bangalore, I get to just look at the bike with all it's shiny new parts on it.
Sure looks purty.
The drivetrain had the original parts from when I first built the bike. The chain had been replaced once or twice, but the rest (rings and cassette) is original. They have 18 years of abuse in them. Mountain biking in Austin mud, Colorado grit, and Moab dust. A fully-loaded tour from Seattle to Guadalajara down the west coast. Rusty rain in Amsterdam. Beach riding in Zandvoort. Poor cogs.
While dismantling the poor abused chap, I realized just how much paint I have removed in the past 18 years. (Yes, this poor beast is now that old.) It could really use a new paint job. But putting real money into it for that right now just isn't going to happen. I suppose I could find a painter here to do it, but the quality is pretty bad here. I had some motorcycles painted here in Bangalore and was pretty miffed with the result.
I'm pretty psyched to get it back on the road, but unfortunately the old Rock Shox Mag 21 gave up the ghost last month. I have a new fork here but no star-fangled nut for the headset. I have a new Mag 21 that I picked up from flea-bay, but it's in California, not here, since the shipping was one day too slow last time I was there. So until I either make another trip to the US or find a nut here in Bangalore, I get to just look at the bike with all it's shiny new parts on it.
Sure looks purty.
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