Low IQ connection

I found this post interesting, although the lack of citation means that it’s potentially meaningless. But the graphic somehow explains a lot:

What I really identified with, though, is not the fancy chart that shows how red states tend to have lower IQs, but some of the comments posted by other readers. The fact that the majority [...]

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Tea garden

While browsing through my iPhoto database I found these beautiful shots from the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate park. Thought I’d upload a few to my Flickr feed (visit Flickr to see the whole set).

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Mumbai

We recently visited Mumbai and stayed in one of the hopelessly Americanized resorts there (you know the type, tailored for corporate visitors for the most part). It was beautiful, we were waited on hand-and-foot, and I felt completely out of touch with India.

It was a wonderful visit. I’ll post a bit [...]

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Not enough travel

Well, I’ve reorganized this blog a bit in an effort to start… well, using it. Chiefly, there are more categories, nooks and crannies for me to start filling up with assorted oddments of my life.
In so doing I’ve come to realize that I spend way too much time working, much too little time traveling, and [...]

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India and back again

I imagine my plethora of loyal readers (that would be you, Frank) may have noticed the complete lack of any postings from mid-October to mid-December. So what happened? I was in India.
Thing is, I had planned on having a lot of time to write while I was there. It didn’t work out as planned — [...]

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