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Handful of pictures from my first day of sightseeing around New Delhi.  Photos are of the India Gate memorial and surrounding area and of the government buildings and presidential palace.

Since I’m spending the day on the couch watching college football, I’ve decided to share in the experience.  Instead of doing a “weekend review” post, I’m going to continually update this post through the day with observations and thoughts on the games I’m watching.
11:40 – Last update.  This Sugar Bowl turned out to be completely [...]

XKCD.com is beginning to replace Wikipedia as my Internets rabbit hole.  Damn you “Random” button.

From the world of strange and bizarre.  First, its weird that someone cut off his fingers and saved them.  Second, its even weirder that someone paid, what probably amounts to, a ridiculous sum for them at auction.  Sort of reminds me of St. Catherine of Siena’s head.

The XKCD take on the iPhone vs. the Droid.  I love XKCD and I lust after the Droid.

Tell me this doesn’t scream of corruption or intimidation.

This article makes me feel a little better about my lack of affinity for Twitter.  Especially the following quote:
It’s not only Luddites who feel this way; in the last few months, a surprising number of people in the tech industry—people who fancy themselves the earliest of early adopters—have mentioned to me that they have a [...]

Is it really that hard to figure out that firing guns in the air to celebrate a win in a soccer match is a bad idea?  Really, shooting guns to celebrate anything is pretty much a bad idea.

The movie Next with Nicholas Cage, Julianne Moore, and Jessica Biel might be one of the absolute worst movies in the history of movies.

Out of the blue random quote I thought of today that I think is funny.  Don’t ask why I though of it.
“Raining down sulphur is like an endurance trial man. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, outside of soccer.”