Twisted DNA

One of the things I like about living in the US is that I don’t have to meet anybody I don’t want to meet. Almost. No neighbors dropping by unannounced. No visiting long lost relatives, who one wishes remained long lost. No casual acquaintances getting too friendly. I may be […]

The Mad Momma, with a cruel sense of humor, tagged a bunch of parents to talk about their sex lives. The tag is going around the blogworld as “How do you have rocking sex after a baby.”
If you are thinking, “Huh, what’s the big deal,” let me spell out the two implicit rules of […]

Pri tagged me to do the “favorites tag.” I am supposed to write down my favorite things. When I got down to writing it, I realized that, like everything else in modern life, my favorites have fine-print too. So read carefully.

Wife’s sweet voice - when she is telling me to go out […]

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Chandni wrote a piece on men and their limbs adorning unexpected shoulders. That reminded me of something that happened when I was in college.
It was a hot summer afternoon. I was doing justice to the good money my parents paid to send me to college by contemplating on my education and college. […]

God created man. Then he created teeth. Then he created dentists and told them, “Go and wreck havoc on Earth. Create imaginary gum deceases. Endorse tar-tasting toothpastes.” Dentists were happy for some time. Then they all went back to God and said, “Dude we can’t seem to find enough […]

Chat is my primary means of communication with friends, colleagues, family and annoying cousins who don’t have internet access. Half the people I befriended in the blogworld are on my chat too. As a result, I chat all day.
There are downsides to chatting all day, apart from Carpal-Tunnel Syndrome. I tend to […]

When you receive some management training, and consequently lose some common sense, you tend to think like a manager every waking minute. If the sight anybody not working makes you wince, imagine the pain it causes to see a resource run around naked without any task assigned to him. Yes, I am talking […]

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OK, you got the point. Technorati used to call them, very appropriately, “links.” Now they are […]

If you have the refined art, you can turn every little pleasure in life into a business opportunity where you can save a buck, make a buck or be an absolute cheapo.
Take, for example, group lunches. These days any tiny reason is good enough for some workless co-worker to pipe up saying “Wow, we […]