A week ago, I had to make an emergency room visit late on a Thursday evening followed by an appointment with my primary doctor the following day. Fortunately, my particular issue was not very serious but that Thursday night I certainly was in pain which necessitated the emergency room visit. Now, given my natural inclination towards observation, going to the emergency room turns out to be a great place for people watching and experiencing a system that certainly has its share of commentary, critics, and passionate pleas for change. Here are some of the things I recognized from my visit. Continue Reading »
Posted in Health Care | Tagged Medical Records Data connectivity, Medical Records Information Systems, US Health Care system | 4 Comments »
Earlier, I wrote about the many lists of top moments and events of the decade that just passed (2000-2009) and I joined in on the fun with my list of the top sporting moments of the decade. Now, inspired by the theme of my blog, I’d like to do my last recap- my favorite books of the decade. These are the books I find myself most often bringing up in conversation and referencing to others and overall have had the most impact on my thinking.
As a reader of this blog may know, my interests center around these primary categories (in no particular order): Globalization, Sports, Thrillers, Technology, Business, fiction about India, non-fiction about India, and Pop Culture. The books I’ve read also fall into those categories and since it’s often difficult to compare such different genres, I’m going to list my favorite it in each category, along with close runner-ups. Some of these books may have actually been published in the 1990’s, but I didn’t actually read them until the 2000’s. Continue Reading »
Posted in Book Review, Pop Culture | Tagged and the Cell Phone, Daniel Silva, Freakonomics, How Soccer Explains the World, Innovator's Dilemma, Moneyball, The Elephant, The Tiger, Top Books of 2000-2009, Top Books of the Decade, World is Flat | Leave a Comment »
Recently, I watched the much talked about Bollywood movie 3 Idiots, starring Aamir Khan. This movie has been getting so much acclaim and buzz, that it was showing in one of the AMC Mercado 20 screens mainstream theater in Santa Clara, right next to the mega hit Avatar. Of course, in the Bay Area, it’s not that difficult to attract a large Indian crowd for an Indian hit movie, but it is still very rare that a main stream theater will show a Bollywood movie and that movie would be generating most of their audience for those particular days. Continue Reading »
Posted in Entertainment, India | Tagged 3 Idiots, 3 Idiots at AMC Mercado Santa Clara, 3 Idiots compared to Dead Poet's Society, Aamir Khan, Maulik Pancholy, Omi Vaidya, Pragna Desai | Leave a Comment »
Earlier, I wrote about one of my fantasy football teams that was auto-drafted by Yahoo! and my efforts to transform that team into a winning team. Unfortunately, those efforts didn’t work and that team finished 7 out of 12 teams in the league— (update to that original post is here). However, the other of my 2 teams that I didn’t write about actually won the championship! Vandalay Industries took the prize in my 14 team league. Here’s my view of how it happened—the brilliant moves, good fortune, and simple luck that propelled my team to the championship. Continue Reading »
Posted in Internet, Sports | Tagged Adrian Peterson Fantasy Football, Brandon Marshall Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Championship, Jamaal Charles Fantasy Football, Yahoo! Fantasy Football | 1 Comment »
Since my wife joined the Peninsula Symphony in the Bay Area this past year as a violinist, I’ve had the good fortune to attend several of their performances. They really put on some fantastic performances, here’s their schedule for 2010 which includes performances with Taylor Eigsti playing Gershwin, a performance with the legendary Red Violin (yes- that one from the Academy Award winning film) and a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 5th. They are led by conductor and music director Mitchell Sardou Klein, who is renowned for service and excellence in his field in the Bay Area. Continue Reading »
Posted in Entertainment, Music | Tagged How Conductors Lead, Itay Talgam, Itay Talgam TEDtalk, Mitchell Sardou Klein, Peninsula Symphony, Red Violin | Leave a Comment »
Like many others, this weekend I watched the blockbuster movie Avatar with family. I had high expectations going in as relatives and friends who had already seen the movie had rave reviews, a must see. Here’s what I thought about the movie overall, what I liked and didn’t like. Continue Reading »
Posted in Entertainment, Pop Culture | Tagged Avatar, Avatar the Movie, Glyder Glu Mobile, James Cameron | Leave a Comment »
As we hit the end of 2009, I’ve seen in various publications, articles about the top games, upsets, and moments in the decade of sports (2000-2009). Looking at a few of these lists have made me reflect on what my own top sporting moments of the decade would be. My list will be colored by my personal rooting and sports preferences— I grew up in Ohio and was a youth baseball and soccer player and am an all around sports nut currently living in the Bay Area.
1. Boise State vs Oklahoma- 2007 Fiesta Bowl—The classic David vs Goliath match-up with all kinds of drama and the most unexpected of endings—even had a wedding proposal. This game had everything—the best game I’ve seen this decade. I seriously couldn’t believe what I was seeing while watching.
Posted in Sports | Tagged Best Sports Moments 2000-2009, Best Sports Moments of the decade, Boise State vs Oklahama- Best game of 2000-2009, Boise State vs Oklahoma, Federer vs Nadal, George Mason Final Four, Ken Griffey Jr. traded to Cincinnati Reds, Ohio State vs Miami National Championship, US World Cup 2002 | 1 Comment »
Last month, I watched part of Game 2 of the World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees with a colleague. While watching, it dawned on me that this was the first game of this year’s baseball post-season that I’d seen. To me, that is a significant revelation regarding the plight of Major League Baseball and its trajectory for the future. I’d consider myself one of baseball’s more hardcore fans, one who has unfailingly watched postseason baseball games for more than 30 years, even if my team, the Cincinnati Reds, are not in the postseason (which unfortunately has been the case most of the nineties and in the 2000’s). I’m the type of fan who can still recite most of the uniform numbers of Reds players and their main rivals since the 80’s and also can mimic the batting stances of most of those players as well. Continue Reading »
Posted in Book Review, Pop Culture, Sports | Tagged and Basketball and What They See When They Do, Baseball, Cincinnati Reds, Decline of Baseball, Football, Michael Manelbaum, The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball | 2 Comments »
The other day, I was watching a documentary on the 1979 baseball season on the MLB Network and the World Series winner of that season, the Pittsburgh Pirates. Those Pirates were know for its team slogan and team song, the hit song by Sister Sledge, We are Family. As they were recollecting that season and that team, several times, the man who played the team mascot- the Pittsburgh Parrot, Greg Brown, was interviewed and would comment on the intricacies of that team. Now, Brown isn’t your typical mascot as he ultimately in later years become an announcer for the Pirates which is probably why he had the clout to be included in the list of people to comment on the team, but just hearing from a mascot for the first time, made me think, what is it really like to be a mascot, from someone who actually was a mascot? Continue Reading »
Posted in Pop Culture, Sports | Tagged Greg Brown, Patrick Hruby, Pittsburgh Pirates Parrot, Sister Sledge, Sports Mascots, The Seedier Side of Fur and Fun, We are Family | Leave a Comment »
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