Apologies for disappearing. Went to India last minute which threw everything offboard as I prepared to go. Went to Aurangabad, a small but rapidly growing town known for the Ajanta Ellora Caves , it’s where I went to school. Anyway, more on that later, this post is to announce the winners of the Superfreakonomics competition. [...]
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Superfreakonomics winners and urrr sorry
Posted in blogging, Books, tagged competition, freakonomics, superfreakonomics on November 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Competition:Win a copy of SuperFreakonomics!
Posted in Books, news, tagged book, competition, freakonomics, superfreakonomics, win on November 7, 2009 | 13 Comments »
If you haven’t read, or at least heard of Freakonomics — shame on you. In a nutshell, as put perfectly by the AP, Freakonomics is a book where the authors “crunch numbers about mundane topics to reveal interesting, unexpected conclusions”. For example: What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug [...]
Six-Word Autobiography
Posted in Books, life, quotes, thoughts, tagged autobiography, six-word memoirs on March 11, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Most of you must have heard of six-word memoirs, an idea that famed out of proportion when launched by Smith Magazine. Inspired by Ernest Hemmingway’s six-word story (the shortest story in the world) : “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” (which I don’t exactly get), the magazine ran a competition on Twitter for best six-word [...]
Post thrashing
Posted in blogging, Books, tagged Books, crosspost, rant, review, travel, writing on December 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Got a nice little slap post about something I wrote on Vagablogging. I suppose that rant of mine was unjustified. They are my unfiltered feelings, the minute I found out about the book. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, so it’s all good.
Rolf Potts new book: “Marco Polo Didn’t Go There”
Posted in blogging, Books on September 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rolf Potts book, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide To The Art Of Long Term Travel, gave me the last and strongest push to quit my job and live abroad. It’s a must must read for anyone thinking of hitting the road for an extended period of time. He remains a great inspiration to me, and I’ve [...]
Is the Western dating system flawed?
Posted in Books, thoughts on September 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Excerpt from Marrying Anita, by Anita Jain: “For years, I never questioned the Western dating system. The tenets on which it rests seemed perfectly sound: after meeting a man or woman through work or friends, one gets to know him or her, and if one likes what one sees, one continues to deepen the commitment, [...]
12-hours with Timothy Ferriss
Posted in Books, life on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The September issue of the The Men’s Journal runs a feature story on Timothy Ferriss, one of the most inspiring men I’ve come to know about lately. A must read when you have some time. I’ve read his book “4-Hour Work Week“, and was blown away. As I wrote on Vagablogging: “For those not familiar [...]
Documenting the life of phone sex operators
Posted in Books on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I’m 60 years old, have a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University, and married for 25 years. I have a son in his last years of college who lives at home. He’s a 4.0 with a double major in English Literature and Religion. Men call me for an infinity of reasons. Of course, they [...]
Career Advice From A Manga Comic
Posted in Books on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A short attention span is the main peril in the quest of trying to achieve anything these days, at least for me. My attention span these days is a whole 15 seconds; if you can’t keep my attention for that long when telling me something, I’m mentally off to Neverland. If I care about you, [...]
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