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Tomorrow I’m flying to Bangalore, India via Seoul, South Korea and Mumbai, India:

I’ll be visiting Yahoo! India and giving them some training on MySQL. I’m hoping for nice weather and really nice food! I’ll be sure to take plenty of pictures for the gallery.

Here’s my itinerary:

From San Francisco to Bangalore:

Depart San Francisco  Mar 30 @ 13:20        Korean Air 24
Arrive Seoul          Mar 31 @ 19:00        (12h40m)

Depart Seoul          Mar 31 @ 20:50        Korean Air 655
Arrive Mumbai         Apr  1 @ 02:10        (8h50m)

Depart Mumbai         Apr  1 @ 06:15        Indian Airlines 105
Arrive Bangalore      Apr  1 @ 07:45        (1h30m)

From Bangalore to San Francisco:

Depart Bangalore      Apr 11 @ 22:30        Jet Airways 2412
Arrive Mumbai         Apr 12 @ 00:45        (2h15m)

Depart Mumbai         Apr 12 @ 04:00        Korean Air 656
Arrive Seoul          Apr 12 @ 14:45        (7h15m)

Depart Seoul          Apr 12 @ 18:15        Korean Air 23
Arrive San Francisco  Apr 12 @ 12:35        (10h20m)

Today, when discussing dual LCD monitors versus one larger LCD monitor:

Bala: When it comes to toys, size always matters.

No comment.

This weekend I found a truly entertaining and enlightening read: The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose on the Gutenberg Project. Some nice excerpts:

BASKET-MAKING. The good old trade of basket-making;
copulation, or making feet for children’s stockings.

BED-MAKER. Women employed at Cambridge to attend
on the Students, sweep his room, &c. They will put their
hands to any thing, and are generally blest with a pretty
family of daughters: who unmake the beds, as fast as they
are made by their mothers.

DUTCH FEAST. Where the entertainer gets drunk before
his guest.

HOPPER-ARSED. Having large projecting buttocks: from
their resemblance to a small basket, called a hopper or
hoppet, worn by husbandmen for containing seed corn,
when they sow the land.

MARRIAGE MUSIC. The squalling and crying of children.

OYSTER. A gob of thick phlegm, spit by a consumptive
man; in law Latin, UNUM VIRIDUM GOBBUM

RUM DOXY. A fine wench. CANT.

SHITING THROUGH THE TEETH. Vomiting. Hark ye,
friend, have you got a padlock on your arse, that you shite
through your teeth? Vulgar address to one vomiting.

Read up and enjoy!

The Yahoo! Sunnyvale campus lost power today at 12:22 for a bit less than a minute. Apparently PG&E reported an “event” in South San Jose and our power was affected.

So, in any case, the generator works, and all of our desktops have been reboot-tested. The generator is really loud.

Well, it turns out, sometimes I just have to be a follower instead of a leader.

Jeremy Zawodny recently mentioned that he really liked the Weber Baby Q grill, and I looked around a bit at that point. I really like the concept of the Baby Q, being really portable and quite a good grill.

It got almost completely 100% positive reviews on Amazon, and everyone seems to love it. It’s only $130 ($127.95 on Amazon, $129.99 at Sears) so I figured what the heck, I should get one. We happened to go by a Sears, so I picked one up yesterday. I’ll have to say, people were right, it’s really nice.

I’m looking forward to many trips this summer to “picnic” with a portable grill. I still need to pick up the adapter hose and a 20lb tank to go with mine, but I think one of the stronger points of this grill is that you can use either the big tank, or the super-portable 1lb tanks.

California has a lot of freaks. I wouldn’t say that I’m the most normal guy in the world… but if you’re ever feeling abnormal, just move to California and all your fears of abnormalcy will subside. Tonight, while at the local Safeway, Adrienne and I saw the following:

1. A drunk guy crashing his bike in the parking lot, then screaming and cursing at passing cars while he was trying (unsuccessfully) to get up.
2. By far the weirdest thing of the night: There was a guy, whom we estimated to be around 35, with two girls that must’ve been maybe 18 at the most. He was taking them around the store and they were choosing food together. He was very friendly with them both, and they were giggling a lot. Sugar daddy? Nutritionist? Threesome? Father? I can’t figure it out.
3. There was a homeless lady who had taken up camp at a table near one of the exits.
4. Near the same exit with the homeless lady, we saw a completely done-up Elvis impersonator wandering around. He was cool.
5. When we got in line to check out, the people behind us had spaghetti noodles and a container of sauce. We overheard the woman saying something like “should I put it up my shirt?”. When they got to the checkout, they paid for… just sauce. Spaghetti thieves?
6. A guy renting a carpet cleaner, paying cash. Who rents a carpet cleaner at 10pm on a Friday night? A murderer?

Yesterday, Adrienne and I drove down to Monterey and took Highway 1 through Big Sur, down to San Simeon. Around San Simeon, we stopped at a Vista Point where there happened to be a large seal observation area, which was quite cool. In total, the day’s driving was around 350 miles, but quite worth it!

I posted plenty of new pictures in my gallery: Big Sur and Seals.