Category: Odds But Not Ends
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I just spoke briefly with Ruchira a short while ago.While they are currently without power, there’s no structural damage to the home and the water is still on. It may be a few days before Ruchira gets back online, though. She said that it was a very bad storm, the worst that she has ever…
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In older agrarian and trade based societies, names often reflected people’s vocations or otherwise described their position in a place or tribe. Some South Indian and Scandinavian names derive from the father’s first name rather than the family name (a similar system existed among older Jewish cultures). Names like Smith, Miller, Fletcher, Bauer, Baker etc.…
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Dear Tony aka ‘RC’ #007 You have always stood side by side with me and I will never forget it. We will always be brothers. I always love you back All the best George Tenet (handwritten note by author addressed to Roland Carnaby or "Tony aka "RC #007" on the fly leaf of George Tenet’s…
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What would Easter Sunday be without a suitable Peep Show? Check out the prize-winning entries in the WaPo’s contest. ————————————- NASA goes gaga over goo – now there’s a headline that practically wrote itself! The goo was good. NASA mission managers were ebullient over a test late on Thursday of techniques to repair delicate tiles…
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Cross-posted from Fluff-n-Stuff —————————————————————————— Googling for something else, I found this link which purports to gauge the readability of your blog. It comes with a nifty piece of code that you can use to embed it in your page as well, and I was highly flattered when it tagged my blog as being in the…
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One of the children shown in Hillary Clinton’s 3am phone call campaign ad thinks that it should be Barack Obama.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has picked up the endorsement of the Houston Chronicle. The Chronicle also reports that despite the old and influential network of the Clintons in Texas, a huge victory for Hillary Clinton is not guaranteed due mainly to a trend of younger voters leaning toward Obama. We’ll have to wait until March…
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In early 2005 an amusing urban legend did the rounds of the World Wide Web. The story involves the city of Houston and a public toilet. It asks a question that tests the threshold of the fact / feeling barrier in our minds and our comfort level dictated by unscientific associations. Two days ago, I…
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Anna sent me a link to this article in LA Weekly from food critic Jonathan Gold, about what he claims is a rise in regional specialization among the Southern Indian restaurants in Artesia (a suburb of Los Angeles): Gold, who won the Pulitzer Prize this year for criticism, made his mark enthusiastically opting to report…
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Abbas Raza, editor of 3 Quarks Daily, recounts three tales of major and minor horror in The Smart Set. All are first person accounts; they variously involve a case of mistaken identity, a pompously pious immigration official, the unexpected outcome of making an illegal left turn on a Manhattan street and some terrifying hours spent…
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Last Sunday the Crown Plaza Hotel in the Medical Center area of Houston was demolished through "controlled implosion." Everything went as planned and the local news channels covered the demolition of the presumably "vacant" hotel. A home video has now surfaced which casts doubts on whether the hotel was indeed completely vacant at the time…
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This BBC report on a possible dramatic split in the future within the human race based on superior and inferior genetics provides an interesting sci-fi twist to our recent discussions about genetics and IQ. Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics predicts that by the end of the next millennium, human beings will fall…
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A few interesting links I picked up over the past week: Morford and the Art of Zen Maintenance The Thinking Baboons Right Brain or Left : Which type are you? JK Rowling vs. Parvati (the deity, not the Hogwarts student) Colbert ,NYTimes columnist?!!
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You didn’t hear about Nelson Mandela’s death, did you? Neither did I or the rest of the world. But George W. Bush, the president of the most powerful nation in the world thinks Mandela is dead. Not just that – but that Saddam Hussein may have killed him. How’s that for breaking news? I watched…
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