I recently read the wildly entertaining book, Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. It’s a fiction book, but semi-autobiographical, based upon some of Roberts’ real life experiences as a fugitive from an Australian prison who flees to Bombay and has a wide range of experiences there including living in a slum, joining the Indian mafia, fighting [...]
Archive for April, 2009
The Power of the Indian head wiggle
Posted in Book Review, India, Travel, tagged Gregory David Roberts, Head Bobble, Head Wiggle, India, Indian Head Bobble, Indian Head Wiggle, Shantaram on April 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
NFL Draft– are rookie contracts holding back losing teams?
Posted in Sports, tagged Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions, Losing NFL Teams, Matthew Stafford, NFL Draft, NFL Draft picks, Peter King, Rookie Contracts on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The NFL Draft was held and completed this weekend, highlighted by # 1 overall pick Matthew Stafford signing with the Detroit Lions for a 6 yr, $72M contract, with $41M guaranteed. This continues the escalating, record setting trend for annual rookie contracts and is a sizable increase from the contract signed by last year’s # [...]
Baseball’s performance enhancing surgeries
Posted in Sports, tagged Baseball, Elective Surgery, Laser eye surgery, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Steroids, Tommy John Surgery on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After the revelation of steroid use by Alex Rodriguez, I wrote about why it made perfect sense to me that the majority of baseball players would take steroids (in the posting — Steroids and Game Theory, also re-posted at Draft MVP.) But the next discussion I’d like to have is about the phrase ‘performance [...]
Could the wrist watch industry be growing?
Posted in Consumer Products, India, Technology, tagged Cell phone, India, Long term planning, Watch, Wrist Watch on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is it possible that wrist watch production and sales could actually be growing? Conventional wisdom is that the always with you devices such as cell phones and ipods have driven down demand for watches, particularly in the younger generation who have grown up with cell phones. Data from 2003-2005 supports this premise– here are some [...]
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