So here I am in New York (not the city, unfortunately and fortunately). It’s another project, and I have been here for a few weeks now. The culture out here is very different from where I worked before this, and I must say I have been having some fun here – the work is right [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Travel’
February 29, 2008
Musings about Greater India
I don’t want to be made out to be a political person, because I am apolitical. However, the concept of a Greater India or a culturally homogenous set of states which bear affinity to the ideas we can call Indian ideas, is an interesting concept to me. I for one have maintained for some time [...]
February 27, 2008
Moon X-Prize
Nice idea. But the engineering is not worth the effort. How I would love to sit down, not be interrupted by anything, learn how to design a spacecraft. The experience of designing an airplane is exhilarating and sometimes painstaking, and overall quite rewarding.
Google knows about as much about spaceflight or lesser than John [...]
February 26, 2008
300
Sparta is over-rated. Leonidas was cool. The queen was hot. Hoplites are under-rated. Bronze armour rocks. Age of Mythology rocks harder. Xerxes was spelled wrong. Darius was spelled wronger. His name was massacred. Pururuhas (aka Purushottama aka Porus) was a god-level warrior. Alexander was spelled wrong as Sikandar.
Come on, I can do better than this. [...]
January 6, 2008
A Man In The Wrong Place
I think again about how Sven Hedin, the renowned archaeologist, who discovered many of the lost trading towns of the Taklamakan, was drawn to the Third Reich, despite its eventual failure to dominate Europe and the world. Perhaps the second part of that sentence should have had “evil” inserted before “Third Reich” and in many [...]
