Category Archives: life
Rice Killing KTRU: A Perfect Crime?
On a recent visit to New York, I had the opportunity to watch a play titled Perfect Crime. This play claims to be the longest running product on- or off-Broadway and has utilized the same actor in the leading female role for all those years. However, this piece is not a review of that theatrical [...]
RIP KTRU… Rice administration has screwed themselves
As anyone who cares would have known by now, the Rice administration has okayed a $9.5 million deal for the sale of KTRU radio frequency (specifically the license and the tower) to the University of Houston, so that they can set up a classical music channel (KUHC) and convert their current KUHF frequency to a [...]
the fake con
If you’ve ever had to purchase a product in India that requires at least some level of continued customer interaction, you’ve probably come across what I’m labeling here as a fake con. What exactly is a fake con? It is something that, throughout the process of the event, feels like a con but ends up [...]
traveling on the job and my life’s shortest flight
Last week I had the opportunity to travel to Chicago and Wisconsin for National Instruments’ LabVIEW Developer Education Days. This is basically an event that NI holds throughout the country in several different locations to spread awareness of a few new features in the LabVIEW environment and how users may use it. There are two [...]
taxes and technology
I don’t think I’ve griped about my iPod Touch potentially dying last week. Apparently my iPod freaked out when I plugged it into my entertainment center last weekend to play some Ke$ha (yes, this was probably my mistake). The iPod was unsyncable through iTunes for some reason and since we had people over and I [...]
the customer ain’t king
This is a rant directed towards NBA League Pass. A few weeks ago I complained about ridiculous blackout restrictions that prevented me from watching the Rockets here in Austin, just about 200 miles away. Since people had been complaining for ages without the NBA or anyone who could do anything giving a shit, I decided [...]
ready, set, rant!
It has been a bloody long time since I have made an entry into this blog. My French Euro Trip series has been abandoned with 3 days to spare. Any enthusiasts can see the rest of the photos in my Facebook album. If you’re not my Facebook friend, then I probably do not want to [...]
blast from the past
I was looking through the desktop and my backed up files today, looking at all the literary content I had generated in high school. This reminded me of my college application process, and I gleefully began reading the essays I had written. This essay, titled “The Bathroom”, was unequivocally my favourite one. It was written [...]
a few notes
I don’t have time for a long post now, but here are a few slices of information as to what will be coming up on sohummm. There will be some spectacularly long overdue food memories–especially of mangoes, meat and some of my cooking escapades. There will be a couple of movie reviews, namely of Angels [...]
weird, weird dream
I just awoke from a totally wacky dream and decided to document it before it was lost forever from the depths of my mind. This dream began in ASB (my high school)–or rather that’s the earliest part of it I remember. I was back as an alum, but for some reason I was carrying my [...]