Eggs, beans & crumpets!!!

What was your first car?

An old 1985 (?) Honda Accord that I bought from a departing grad student (I was a second year grad student at Syracuse at the time).  Paid $1500 for it and double of that to fix it during it's lifetime.  So much for that

There are things to be proud of and things that make you feel giddy.  Here are a couple of links that fall into those categories.

One of the features of my grandfathers house in Delhi where I spend a few years as a kid (well on the floor above) and a year when I was in college is a stainless steel olympic torch.  Recently, the Delhi edition of the Indian Express talked to my dad about simpler times and you'll find out how the torch ended up there

Simpler Times

On a more recent and personal note, one of the people, someone I call the original alpha geek is Jon Udell.  A couple of weeks ago, he interviewed me for his podcast, which went live today.

Muxtape - How is this thing legal?  I have no idea but it's kinda cool.  Here's mine

Another is hypemachine.  Haven't really tried it, but it seems to do a great job of tracking music blogs, etc.  Let's see if it works for my tastes and interests.

All the desis on here will love this

http://www.badmash.tv/dishoom/

All you Americans ... you should watch this too.  For context ... read this first

The Indian crowd here might appreciate this more, but here's a book I would love to read.  I have always had a fascination for stories from Indian and Greek mythology, and this one, about an heirless king who drinks a potion for his wife and ends you pregnant himself, sounds much too tempting.

The Pregnant King

Devdutt Pattanaik

Jai Arjun Singh had a great review on his blog, but it seems to have disappeared.  Luckily I have it in Google Reader.  Here's a section from the review

There’s some healthy irreverence on view: when a messenger arrives with the momentous news that the war is over, no one in the kingdom is particularly interested, being more concerned about internal matters. When the hero Arjuna makes what amounts to a guest appearance and is asked about a story Bhishma narrated to the Pandavas before he died, his reply is a curt, “I’m sorry but I remember no such story. He said so many things” – a neat dismissal of the ponderous Shanti Parva, Bhishma’s long deathbed discourse about a king’s duties.

Hopefully I'll get a chance to read it soon

Keep reminding myself to post my weekly music charts and forgetting.  Ah well.  Here you go

And here are my all time top albums (as per last.fm listening)

Show us a photo of somewhere you want to go.

Ngorongoro1

Picture: herr_hartman under a CC license

Always wanted to go to Ngorongoro crater, ever since my dad described it.