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Ideas & Lost Opportunities
Today, YouTube came out with a new feature that allows users to embed annotations in videos. It was quite a rude awakening (literally as Amit told me about this soon after I woke up) to get this piece of news. Annotations in Videos was the topic of my Masters thesis. It was a subject I…
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Back from Shasta
Phew! What an experience. Pain and pleasure at their best and worst. Mountaineering is surely no walk in the park – while that shouldn’t come as a surprise, you don’t realize how intensely grueling it can be until you’ve gone on a difficult climb. I didn’t summit. I topped out at 13,200 ft, about 900…
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Prelude to Shasta
My first major mountaineering experience is coming up this weekend. I will be climbing Mt. Shasta, a 14er (14, 179 ft or 4322m) peak in Northern California. It will be a 3 day climb, complete with full mountain gear, crampons, ice axe, and a 2 am alpine start on summit day! Summit day is expected…
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The Spirit of The Marathon
UPDATE – The movie is simply terrific. Very inspiring. I need to watch it again. I’m not sure what it is about seemingly impossible challenges and lofty goals that attracts me. The other day I happened to watch the trailer of the ‘Spirit of the Marathon’ movie ( http://www.marathonmovie.com ). Watching the trailer was so inspiring…
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(my) 1000 Travels before I die…
In no particular order… 1. Crete, Greece2. Machu Picchu, Peru3. Galapagos Islands4. Kashmir5. Rain forests of Borneo6. Andalusia, Spain7. Italy8. Jungles of Gabon, Africa9. The Himalayas – the far reaches and the high peaks10. Antarctica11. Mongolia12. Papua New Guinea13. Amazon Rainforests14. Grand Canyon15. Alaska16. Summit of Kilimanjaro, Africa17. Serengeti, Africa18. Santorini, Greece19. Prague20. Mykonos, Greece21.…
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Travel, move, wander – even the Rigveda suggests it!
Beautiful quote from the Rigveda… There is no happiness for him who does not travel.The fortune of him who is sitting sits, it rises when he rises, it sleeps when he sleeps, it moves when he moves. Therefore, Wander !
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We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place.
I love listening to this spiel delivered by Brad Pitt in the movie Fight Club. “….Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great…
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The Thing About Luck
Luck is probably one of the most commonly used words when people talk about success or failure. Some people try to be modest by attributing part of their success to luck, while there are the ones who downplay any role that luck played in their victories. Many blame their failures and defeats on bad luck…
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