by SI Blog Reader AC The wife and I just got back from an exhilarating 10 day trip to Ireland. Unlike our previous holidays together, we decided to not stay in any place for too long and to just drive around the island. Moving in a clockwise direction, we visited Dublin, Waterford, Dingle, Galway, Belfast […]
No marriage is happy after it happens. It’s only before, thinking of it, that it’s happy. – Manju’s drunkard father in Behind the Beautiful Forevers p.183 I can’t swear it’s all non-fiction. But Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo is a devastating indictment of what is […]
In India, teachers in medical colleges and high schools are using Apple iPad tablets to teach anatomy to students. In America, the Incredible SI watches Bollywood movies on the iPad and iPhone, reads the Times of India on the iPad and responds to comments in bed via the iPhone. All these are, of course, made […]
In an effective declaration of war on on tens of thousands of poor Americans, the Obama administration today shut down 26 low-cost Chinatown buses alleging safety violations. The U.S. Department of Transportation boasted that it was “the largest single safety crackdown in the agency’s history.” Besides shutting down the 26 Chinatown buses, the Federal Motor […]
In the rest of the world, people travel inside trains. But as with most things it’s always a different story in Incredible India. People clamber on top of trains, ride alongside trains by hanging on to the doors or windows and, yes, they do travel inside trains too. Watch the below video to see how […]
Comcast, Cablevision, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks have launched an initiative to allow each other’s high-speed Internet customers to access their WiFi hotspots. This means if you’re a Comcast customer in Los Angeles, you can get free access to Time Warner’s WiFi hotspots in New York for free and vice versa. […]